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Pleasure
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Emanuele Senici
Published: 13 November 2019
..., constituting a form of literal “acting out” and therefore a symptom of what Freud would have termed “melancholia.” Leopardi Giacomo memory pleasure popularity psychoanalysis repetition modernism repetition and novelty originality Pound Ezra audiences consumer society repetition and Cumming Julie E...
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Dekker and Company
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Henry S. Turner
Published: 17 June 2016
... the long-distance trading companies and the theater itself. By means of acting, characterization, and other mimetic techniques, Dekker uses the resources of theater to intervene in an ongoing struggle over the right to assemble publicly in theaters, and to defend both actor and theater...
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Acting
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William Robert
Published: 18 March 2022
...This chapter explores acting as a way of interacting between real and imaginal possibilities. So acting becomes acting as if. This chapter studies roles acting as if plays in an ethic. Then it concentrates on ethical questions at play in Dysart’s decision to treat Alan. How, this chapter asks...
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Introduction
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Dana W. Logan
Published: 06 May 2022
... ritual, a function that became central to the practice of corporations. In corporations, a category that included business ventures but also charities, universities, and towns, the corporate body acted on behalf of a distant ruler but was enabled to govern on its own. The introduction shows the double...
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Reacting to the World
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Michael Hampe
Published: 01 February 2018
...This chapter picks up on Whitehead's idea that freedom and wisdom are concepts associated with the ability for practical reactions to the world. It delves into questions of freedom, acting, knowing, experience, orientation, and imagination. Whitehead Alfred N Albertus Magnus Hobbes Thomas Kant...
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What Is the Evidence that Natural Selection Maintains Variation in Animal Personalities?
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Niels J. Dingemanse and Denis RÉale
Published: 07 March 2013
... conducted in wild populations, which document selection acting on behavioral consistency. adaptation adaptive radiation and animals anthropogenic factors’ effects on behavioral ecology and ecologists behavioral syndromes behaviors “behavioral spillover” and Dingemanse Niels J environmental factors...
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The Practices of the Self
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Charles Larmore
Published online: 21 March 2013
Published in print: 15 December 2010
... thoughts. On the contrary, the book maintains, our essential relation to ourselves is practical, as is clear when we consider the nature of belief and desire. For to believe or desire something consists in committing ourselves to thinking and acting in accord with the presumed truth of our belief...
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Shakespeare’s Thing of Nothing
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Henry S. Turner
Published: 17 June 2016
... Arnold Oliver Hobbes Thomas parliaments and Parliament civil society and civil life Middleton Thomas North Thomas incorporation James I England London representation Aristotle Cicero Machiavelli corporate ontology William Shakespeare acting parts shares personation Hamlet Titus...
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“The Essence of Nine Trombones” Luigi Lablache and Models of Masculinity in 1830s London
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Sarah Hibberd
Published: 09 December 2019
... spheres. Bellini Vincenzo Grisi Giulia Lablache Luigi McCormack Matthew Reform Act Daily News Donizetti Gaetano Kean Edmund Knowles James Sheridan Macready William Charles Rubini Giovanni Battista Spectator Tamburini Antonio Bacon Richard Mackenzie Lavoisier Antoine Nathan Isaac Priestley...
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Published online: 21 March 2013
Published in print: 01 November 2006
... thinking, talking, and acting. For it, the author met with labor, church, business, and sports organizations and proposed to them four fictive scenarios: what if your senator is involved in a scandal, or your police department is engaged in racial profiling, or a local factory violates pollution laws...