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  • Utopia and dystopia in the age of the Anthropocene

    A product of Modernity, utopian and dystopian thought has always hinged upon an assessment as to whether humanity would be able to fulfil the promise of socio-economic, political and techno-scientific progress. In this paper, I argue that the predominantly dystopian outlook of the past century or so marked a move away from former views on human progress. Rather than commenting on humanity’s...

    ... In this paper, I argue that the predominantly dystopian outlook of the past century or so marked a move away from former views on human progress. Rather than commenting on humanity’s inability to build a better society, current ...
  • The folkloric elements in the g. bashirov's works

    The article is devoted to the study of folkloric elements in the works of Tatar writer of the second half of the twentieth century, Gumer Bashirov. Verbal folklore reflects the spiritual world of the people, its ideals and dreams, values of life, centuries-old creative experience of the people, language features, poetic idea of the world. Also, folklore is unique in its form and content, themes...

    ... : The article is devoted to the study of folkloric elements in the works of Tatar writer of the second half of the twentieth century, Gumer Bashirov. Verbal folklore reflects the spiritual world of the people, its ideals and dreams, values of life, centuries-old creative experience ...
  • Urban informality in the Global North: a view from Los Angeles

    Urban informality is often discussed and debated by scholars of cities in the Global South, but the term is used with much less frequency in studies of US cities. Looking at the daily functions of American cities, however, it is clear informality plays just as central a role in the US as in other cities around the world, whether in the housing sector, jobs, or land use. This article will discuss...

    ... I begin with the emergence of formalization and land titles in an era of colonization, continuing to a discussion of early-twentieth century land rights specifically in the communities of Chavez Ravine, and end with an exploration of urban informality in Skid Row ... KEYWORDS ...
  • Legal personality of incorporated entities in russian legislation and tnc

    The goal of any branch of law is the effective regulation of public relations in any area with the goal of streamlining them. For this, it is necessary that the content of legal norms, as in a mirror, reflects the modern development of society and its ties. The past century and the current century have brought a lot to the modern world, and many of these innovations are associated primarily with...

    ... For this, it is necessary that the content of legal norms, as in a mirror, reflects the modern development of society and its ties. The past century and the current century have brought a lot to the modern world, and many of these innovations are associated primarily with the process of ...
  • Ethical pluralism as a lesson in humility for lawyers

    The paper aims at making an interpretation of the two strikingly different positions in contemporary jurisprudence, represented by Joseph Raz and Ronald Dworkin. It is stated that Raz’s and Dworkin’s positions in jurisprudence constitute an epitome of the maxim: While the 20th century was the age of parliaments, the 21st century is the age of the judicature. A claim is put forward that it is the...

    ... It is stated that Raz’s and Dworkin’s positions in jurisprudence constitute an epitome of the maxim: While the 20th century was the age of parliaments, the 21st century is the age of the judicature. A claim is put forward that it is the two philosophers’ divergent ...
  • International environmental law and global environmental governance: southern influences

    The purpose of this article when it discusses the southern approaches brought to global governance gets mixed with the addressing of the challenges facing the legal science in harmony with the others sciences to deal with the complex environmental issues of the 21st century. Thinking of a successful international environmental regulation is talking about an effort to understand the need for the...

    ... the challenges facing the legal science in harmony with the others sciences to deal with the complex environmental issues of the 21st century. Thinking of a successful international environmental regulation is talking about an effort to understand the need for the instrumental law to comply ...
  • International environmental law and global environmental governance: southern influences

    The purpose of this article when it discusses the southern approaches brought to global governance gets mixed with the addressing of the challenges facing the legal science in harmony with the others sciences to deal with the complex environmental issues of the 21st century. Thinking of a successful international environmental regulation is talking about an effort to understand the need for the...

    ... the challenges facing the legal science in harmony with the others sciences to deal with the complex environmental issues of the 21st century. Thinking of a successful international environmental regulation is talking about an effort to understand the need for the instrumental law to comply ...
  • The birth of the right to alterity in the city

    With the Protestant Reform and the great navigations, the consideration about the other and with the different one, goes through changes, especially against the ones considered infidels and the natives of the New World. On the other hand, in the sixteenth century, the Iberian Peninsula lived the Golden Age, with the rebirth of Scholasticism and the flourishing of important juridical universities,

    ... On the other hand, in the sixteenth century, the Iberian Peninsula lived the Golden Age, with the rebirth of Scholasticism and the lourishing of important juridical universities, with a marked ...
  • Identity, violence, reason and justice: the debate between Amartya Sen and Jonathan Glover

    In his 2006 work, "Identity and Violence", Amartya Sen addresses crucial issues for a better understanding of the social causes of violence, focusing mostly on the subject of identity. According to Sen, "many of the conflicts and barbarities in the world are sustained through the illusion of a unique and choiceless identity." Therefore, "the hope of harmony in the contemporary world lies to a...

    ... to this line of reproach, according to Sen, belongs to Jonathan Glover, who, in his brilliant work “Humanity: a moral history of the 20th century,” argues that the ideologies that supported the tyrannies of the 20th Century are heirs of the Enlightenment tradition ... In this paper, I would ...
  • Empire, class and the origins of planetary crisis:the transition debate in the web of life

    We are discovering in the era of climate crisis that the Transition Debate is a debate over the origins and crisis tendencies of capitalism in the web of life. The original Debate emerged in its contemporary form in the thick of the Cold War, assuming mature form during the world revolution of 1968. It was a historicalanalytical debate over the historical geography of capitalist origins, and its...

    ... In the 21 st century, the language of the Debate has changed, but assumed an even greater prominence in the unfolding climate crisis, captured in the debate between the ...
  • The freedom of speech in the network society: new forms of controlling information

    At the beginning of his inaugural lecture at the Collège de France, Foucault poses the following question: "What is so perilous about the fact that people speak, and that their speech proliferates? Where is the danger in that?". Soon after, Foucault advances his hypothesis, according to which "in every society the production of discourse is at once controlled, selected, organized and...

    ... The recognition of this right is linked, in the eighteenth century, to a new technology of power based on press, public opinion and mass media. In short: Is the freedom to speak or publish one’s ideas an ...
  • The freedom as subjective right in the William of Ockham's thought

    The discussion of freedom has long been presented as a problem for humanity, not being different in the medieval period. In the early fourteenth century, the English philosopher William of Ockham, also known as Doctor Invincibilis, surprised everyone when defending for the first time in the history of legal thought the ius as an individual potestas. This feat earned him subsequently the tribute...

    ... In the early fourteenth century, the English philosopher William of Ockham, also known as Doctor Invincibilis, surprised everyone when defending for the first time in the history of ...
  • The social flow of historical narratives and its many names

    This paper is a first, partial, and short exposition of a larger research project on the phenomenon of the social flow of historical narratives, which is named for the first time here. It presents a preliminary analysis of four different Western scholar traditions that arose at the end of the twentieth century to understand this phenomenon, although the representatives of these traditions were...

    ... It presents a preliminary analysis of four diႇerent Western scholar traditions that arose at the end of the twentieth century to understand this phenomenon, although the representatives of these traditions were not completely aware of it: the West German tradition called it ...
  • The means of expression of the category of admirativeness in russian, french and english
  • Transformation of the evolutionary economics theory

    The evolutionary economics was separated into an independent direction of research only after the appearance of the works of R. Nelson and S. Winter. The theory they propose is based on similar processes in economics and biology. Thus, the evolutionary economic theory was built on the inconsistency of two processes based on Darwin's theory (variability and selection). When transferring this into...

    ... At the same time, the evolutionary ideas arose much earlier. In the XVIII century ... 1Kazan Federal University, Institute of Management, Economics and Finance, Kazan, 420008, Russia e-mail: yulyaodintsova@mail.ru , phone ...
  • Neoliberal hegemony versus social justice

    It is possible that the hegemony constitutes the finished shape, the closing of the rational paradigm in the 20th century, and that from it we have met doomed to this period of disturbances, chaos, uncertainty, a sort of tedium. Already we cannot think the power from the old devices with which the privileged classes or the capital perpetuated its domination. The analyses that were uncovering the...

    ... Álvarez , PhD 1 Abstract: It is possible that the hegemony constitutes the finished shape, the closing of the rational paradigm in the 20th century, and that from it we have met doomed to this period of disturbances, chaos, uncertainty, a sort of tedium. Already we cannot think the power from the ...
  • Neoliberal hegemony versus social Justice

    It is possible that the hegemony constitutes the finished shape, the closing of the rational paradigm in the 20th century, and that from it we have met doomed to this period of disturbances, chaos, uncertainty, a sort of tedium. Already we cannot think the power from the old devices with which the privileged classes or the capital perpetuated its domination. The analyses that were uncovering the...

    ... Álvarez, PhD 1 Abstract: It is possible that the hegemony constitutes the finished shape, the closing of the rational paradigm in the 20th century, and that from it we have met doomed to this period of disturbances, chaos, uncertainty, a sort of tedium. Already we cannot think the power from the ...
  • Acionistas de disney e fox aprovam negócio de us$ 71 bi
    Nova York Os acionistas da Disney e da 21st Century Fox, do magnata Rupert Murdoch, aprovaram ontem a compra dos ativos de filme e televiso desta ltima, em um negcio de US$ 71 bilhes. Com isso, uma ...
  • Natura brings Avon’s U.S. R&D center to Brazil
    ... &Co is continuing with its restructuring plan to get its finances in order, with the challenge of integrating operations with those of the century-old Avon. The most recent stages in this process involve the migration of Avons main global innovation center from the United States to Brazil, and ...
  • The ideas of international solidarity in the eastern cycle of poems 'two streams' and the stories of 'six columns' by n.s.tikhonov
    ... Kamran Kazimov 1 Abstract: The article discusses the series of poems "Two streams" by a prominent figure of XX century russian poetry N.S.Tikhonov. The ideas of international solidarity, reflected by the poet in these poems are investigated. The poem titled ...
  • Cade aprova fusão entre disney e fox no brasil
    O Conselho Administrativo de Defesa Econmica (Cade) aprovou ontem a fuso entre a 21st Century Fox e a Walt Disney Company no Brasil. Em todo o mundo, o negcio de US$ 71 bilhes. Para concretizar a operao no pas, a Disney fechou um acordo com o ...
  • Paleography and orthography of hankenstein codex
    ... : Hankenstein Code (Vienna Octoix) is the collection of liturgical texts dating by the XII-XIII centuries or by the beginning of the XIIIth century. Since 1804, the general descriptions of the collection appear in the works by I.A. Ganke von Gankenstein, J. Dobrovsky, S. Smal-Stotsky, A ...
  • Factual reflection of urban space in William Dean Howells's short prose
    ... are as detailed as possible, demonstrate both the author's picture of the world and the specific norms of the urban space of the XIXth century. In the stories the writer shows such power of the urban environment, which adversely affects the development of urban culture, not only ecological ...
  • Nadir targets U.S. market with large glassware
    A leader in the Brazilian glass household utensils market, the century-old company Nadirformerly known as Nadir Figueiredo, which dropped its founders surname two years agois aiming to boost its exports to the United ...
  • Sob novas condições, Cade volta a aprovar compra da Fox pela Disney
    O Conselho Administrativo de Defesa Econmica (Cade) voltou a aprovar, nesta quarta-feira (6), a aquisio da Twenty-First Century Fox pela The Walt Disney Company. A transao j havia recebido sinal verde do rgo em fevereiro do ano passado, mas entrou em reviso aps o ...

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