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Dasgupta, Suvash Chandra. "Translation as interpretation: a study of william Radice`s tagore transtations." Thesis, University of North Bengal, 2014. http://ir.nbu.ac.in/handle/123456789/1548.
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au, N. Little@ecu edu, and Nigel Ken Little. "Transoceanic Radical: The Many Identities of William Duane." Murdoch University, 2003. http://wwwlib.murdoch.edu.au/adt/browse/view/adt-MU20040510.153718.
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The thesis examines the American career of William Duane (1760-1835) in the light of his earlier, and much less studied period in Ireland, England and India. It is the study of the development of one of Americas pre-eminent newspaper editors. Although Duane is not a first-tier figure of the Early Republican period such as John Adams, Thomas Jefferson or Alexander Hamilton, he certainly fits comfortably within the second-tier with men such as James Thomson Callender, Tench Coxe, John Binns and William Cobbett. He is an important figure within the historiography on the Early Republican period which has come out in recent years. He has an important role in three recent and seminal works on the period by Durey, Wilson and Pasley: Transatlantic Radicals, United Irishmen, United States and The Tyranny of Printers.
This is a study of the identity of Duane measured against his political change and shifting sense of self. It seeks to answer the question: Who was William Duane? The thesis probes the question in depth by looking at Duanes origins and then tracing his life in 1790s Philadelphia. The portrayal of Duane found in the recent historiography and in the first academic biography of Duane, Kim T. Phillips William Duane: A Radical Journalist in the Age of Jefferson, lets Duanes version of self rest too easily, without interrogating how he constructed his identity within an American political context for an American reading audience. For example, although Duane constructed himself as a citizen of the United States by birth, the thesis maintains that he was not an U.S. citizen at all but was born in Newfoundland and was by eighteenth-century definitions a British subject.
The thesis offers a great deal more detailed archival research within the above framework. First, it develops Duanes familial relationships in his early life in much more detail than before. I have uncovered more details on his life from numerous sources, particularly letters, and a careful, textual search for any information on Duanes earlier career in Ireland and England in the 1780s which has been overlooked by previous researchers. The thesis then places this material in the context of the newspaper trade in 1780s Clonmel and London while building a narrative analysis of this period before moving on to India.
Second, this thesis demonstrates Duanes links to the East India Company army. The importance of Duanes Indian career also lies in his being part of a wider chronology of deported editors and government suppression of the press within the period from 1780 to 1799. The place of Duane within an ignored history of radical migrations to India is also dealt with as is his emergence as a pro revolutionary editor in Calcutta after the declaration of war in 1793.
Third, the thesis uncovers a great deal more archival information on the period of Duanes membership of the London Corresponding Society and his editorship of the Telegraph a strongly pro-French newspaper in wartime London. This period was a short but crucial one for Duane as he witnessed first-hand the last real throes of a British revolutionary movement and the enactment of two important bills which sought to smother the L.C.S. and the other plebeian radical groups.
Fourth, the thesis examines Duanes role in what has been perceived as a crucial turning point in American history the election of Thomas Jefferson to the presidency in 1800. The thesis seeks to understand what Duanes impact on American politics was and how his earlier career shaped his political outlook and his actions in America. It seeks to denativise the Early Republican Period by pointing out outside currents that Duane used in defining what Americanness was as opposed to his conceptualisation of Federalism and Britain.
Finally, the thesis argues that the story of William Duane is one of an eighteenthcentury editors transoceanic search for a home.
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Little, Nigel Ken. "Transoceanic radical: the many identities of William Duane." Thesis, Little, Nigel Ken (2003) Transoceanic radical: the many identities of William Duane. PhD thesis, Murdoch University, 2003. https://researchrepository.murdoch.edu.au/id/eprint/751/.
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The thesis examines the American career of William Duane (1760-1835) in the light of his earlier, and much less studied period in Ireland, England and India. It is the study of the development of one of America’s pre-eminent newspaper editors. Although Duane is not a first-tier figure of the Early Republican period such as John Adams, Thomas Jefferson or Alexander Hamilton, he certainly fits comfortably within the second-tier with men such as James Thomson Callender, Tench Coxe, John Binns and William Cobbett. He is an important figure within the historiography on the Early Republican period which has come out in recent years. He has an important role in three recent and seminal works on the period by Durey, Wilson and Pasley: Transatlantic Radicals, United Irishmen, United States and “The Tyranny of Printers”.
This is a study of the identity of Duane measured against his political change and shifting sense of self. It seeks to answer the question: Who was William Duane? The thesis probes the question in depth by looking at Duane’s origins and then tracing his life in 1790s Philadelphia. The portrayal of Duane found in the recent historiography and in the first academic biography of Duane, Kim T. Phillips’ William Duane: A Radical Journalist in the Age of Jefferson, lets Duane’s version of self rest too easily, without interrogating how he constructed his identity within an American political context for an American reading audience. For example, although Duane constructed himself as a citizen of the United States by birth, the thesis maintains that he was not an U.S. citizen at all but was born in Newfoundland and was by eighteenth-century definitions a British subject.
The thesis offers a great deal more detailed archival research within the above framework. First, it develops Duane’s familial relationships in his early life in much more detail than before. I have uncovered more details on his life from numerous sources, particularly letters, and a careful, textual search for any information on Duane’s earlier career in Ireland and England in the 1780s which has been overlooked by previous researchers. The thesis then places this material in the context of the newspaper trade in 1780s Clonmel and London while building a narrative analysis of this period before moving on to India.
Second, this thesis demonstrates Duane’s links to the East India Company army. The importance of Duane’s Indian career also lies in his being part of a wider chronology of deported editors and government suppression of the press within the period from 1780 to 1799. The place of Duane within an ignored history of radical migrations to India is also dealt with as is his emergence as a pro revolutionary editor in Calcutta after the declaration of war in 1793.
Third, the thesis uncovers a great deal more archival information on the period of Duane’s membership of the London Corresponding Society and his editorship of the Telegraph – a strongly pro-French newspaper in wartime London. This period was a short but crucial one for Duane as he witnessed first-hand the last real throes of a British revolutionary movement and the enactment of two important bills which sought to smother the L.C.S. and the other plebeian radical groups.
Fourth, the thesis examines Duane’s role in what has been perceived as a crucial turning point in American history – the election of Thomas Jefferson to the presidency in 1800. The thesis seeks to understand what Duane’s impact on American politics was and how his earlier career shaped his political outlook and his actions in America. It seeks to denativise the Early Republican Period by pointing out outside currents that Duane used in defining what Americanness was as opposed to his conceptualisation of Federalism and Britain.
Finally, the thesis argues that the story of William Duane is one of an eighteenthcentury editor’s transoceanic search for a home.
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Little, Nigel Ken. "Transoceanic radical : the many identities of William Duane /." Little, Nigel Ken (2003) Transoceanic radical: the many identities of William Duane. PhD thesis, Murdoch University, 2003. http://researchrepository.murdoch.edu.au/751/.
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The thesis examines the American career of William Duane (1760-1835) in the light of his earlier, and much less studied period in Ireland, England and India. It is the study of the development of one of America’s pre-eminent newspaper editors. Although Duane is not a first-tier figure of the Early Republican period such as John Adams, Thomas Jefferson or Alexander Hamilton, he certainly fits comfortably within the second-tier with men such as James Thomson Callender, Tench Coxe, John Binns and William Cobbett. He is an important figure within the historiography on the Early Republican period which has come out in recent years. He has an important role in three recent and seminal works on the period by Durey, Wilson and Pasley: Transatlantic Radicals, United Irishmen, United States and “The Tyranny of Printers”.
This is a study of the identity of Duane measured against his political change and shifting sense of self. It seeks to answer the question: Who was William Duane? The thesis probes the question in depth by looking at Duane’s origins and then tracing his life in 1790s Philadelphia. The portrayal of Duane found in the recent historiography and in the first academic biography of Duane, Kim T. Phillips’ William Duane: A Radical Journalist in the Age of Jefferson, lets Duane’s version of self rest too easily, without interrogating how he constructed his identity within an American political context for an American reading audience. For example, although Duane constructed himself as a citizen of the United States by birth, the thesis maintains that he was not an U.S. citizen at all but was born in Newfoundland and was by eighteenth-century definitions a British subject.
The thesis offers a great deal more detailed archival research within the above framework. First, it develops Duane’s familial relationships in his early life in much more detail than before. I have uncovered more details on his life from numerous sources, particularly letters, and a careful, textual search for any information on Duane’s earlier career in Ireland and England in the 1780s which has been overlooked by previous researchers. The thesis then places this material in the context of the newspaper trade in 1780s Clonmel and London while building a narrative analysis of this period before moving on to India.
Second, this thesis demonstrates Duane’s links to the East India Company army. The importance of Duane’s Indian career also lies in his being part of a wider chronology of deported editors and government suppression of the press within the period from 1780 to 1799. The place of Duane within an ignored history of radical migrations to India is also dealt with as is his emergence as a pro revolutionary editor in Calcutta after the declaration of war in 1793.
Third, the thesis uncovers a great deal more archival information on the period of Duane’s membership of the London Corresponding Society and his editorship of the Telegraph – a strongly pro-French newspaper in wartime London. This period was a short but crucial one for Duane as he witnessed first-hand the last real throes of a British revolutionary movement and the enactment of two important bills which sought to smother the L.C.S. and the other plebeian radical groups.
Fourth, the thesis examines Duane’s role in what has been perceived as a crucial turning point in American history – the election of Thomas Jefferson to the presidency in 1800. The thesis seeks to understand what Duane’s impact on American politics was and how his earlier career shaped his political outlook and his actions in America. It seeks to denativise the Early Republican Period by pointing out outside currents that Duane used in defining what Americanness was as opposed to his conceptualisation of Federalism and Britain.
Finally, the thesis argues that the story of William Duane is one of an eighteenthcentury editor’s transoceanic search for a home.
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Walker, Luke. "William Blake in the 1960s : counterculture and radical reception." Thesis, University of Sussex, 2015. http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/53244/.
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The study begins with an account of Blake, as voiced by Allen Ginsberg, taking part in a key Sixties anti-war protest, and goes on to examine some theoretical aspects of Blake's relationship with the Sixties. In Chapter One, I explore the relationship between ‘popular Blake', ‘academic Blake', and ‘countercultural Blake'. The chapter seeks to provide a revisionist account of the relationship between Blake's Sixties popularity and his earlier reception, suggesting that all three elements of Blake's Sixties reception – popular, academic and countercultural – have long been intertwined, and continue to interact in the Sixties themselves. In Chapters Two and Three, I focus in detail on Allen Ginsberg as a central figure not only in Blake's countercultural popularization, but also in the creation of Sixties counterculture itself. The first of these chapters, ‘Visionary Blake, Physical Blake, Psychedelic Blake', looks in detail at Ginsberg's 1948 ‘Blake vision' and the way Ginsberg later uses it to construct a Blakean narrative for the Sixties. I examine the significant differences between the versions of this event presented in Ginsberg's early poems and in his later prose and interview accounts, and Ginsberg's consequent attempts to develop a general theory of poetry in which the specific effects of Blake's poetry on the consciousness are compared to those of psychedelic drugs. Finally, I suggest that there are analogies between this ‘psychedelic' approach to Blake and the interest that Aldous Huxley had in using psychedelics to access Blake's own visionary state of consciousness. Chapter Three, ‘Ginsberg's Blakean Albion', analyses a selection of Ginsberg's poems, all linked to Blake's myth of Albion. I use these poems to examine the tensions present within the three-way relationship between Blake, Ginsberg and British counterculture. Particular attention is given to Ginsberg's poem ‘Wales Visitation' (1967), a work which I suggest is founded on the joint Romantic inheritance of Blake and Wordsworth, and which demonstrates the ways in which various strands of British Romanticism interact both within Ginsberg's poetry and within the broader Sixties counterculture. The final chapter of the study examines various aspects of the relationship between Blake and Bob Dylan, demonstrating the extent of Blake's influence on Dylan, but also tackling the surprisingly complicated and problematic question of the route(s) by which Blake arrives in Dylan's work.
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Razzo, Francisco de Assis. "Consciência e experiência no empirismo radical de William James." Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo, 2013. https://tede2.pucsp.br/handle/handle/11643.
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Previous issue date: 2013-11-12The focus of this study is to analyse the relation between consciousness and experience in the extent of the North-American Philosopher William James' radical empiricism. The approach of this research is to present the notion of consciousness as a function of knowledge in the experience as from the analysis of the essays Does Consciousness Exist? and A World of Pure Experience, posthumously published in the collect edition Essays in Radical Empiricism, in 1912. Such intent aims to understand what are the fundamental pressupositions of radical empiricism and its epistemological implications, as from the definition of philosophical view of world, as a result of the application of pragmaticism, second to James, as a method to solve metaphysical disputes and as a theory of truth. That way, the result of this work is to demonstrate what in what meaning the conceptions of consciousness in the extent of the radical empiricism imposes itself as a vigorous possibility of overcoming the reductionists conceptions about subjectivity and reality. In Does consciousness exist? it is postulated, in the search for overcoming the substancialists, transcedentalists and associationits conceptions of subjectivity, the notion that consciousness is nothing but the name of a nonentity, as characterized in the context of the flux of the participative reality of pure experience. However, on what thematic delimitation is concerned, it is fundamental to consider the jamesian proposal of the subjectivity in light of a philosophically coherent interpretation of his work, that is, taking the culmination of that conception of consciousness regarding pure experience into consideration, as it traces way which is not systematic but extremely coherent on what his philosophical criteria and interpretation of both essays without taking the very course traced by William James in the building of his work, into consideration
Este estudo tem por objetivo analisar a relação entre consciência e experiência no âmbito do empirismo radical do filósofo norte-americano William James (1842-1910). O enfoque da pesquisa é apresentar a noção de consciência como função do conhecimento na experiência, a partir da análise dos ensaios A consciência existe? e Um mundo de experiência pura, publicados postumamente em 1912 na coletânea Ensaios em Empirismo Radical. Tal intento visa compreender quais são os pressupostos fundamentais e os desdobramentos epistemológicos do empirismo radical, tomado na acepção de visão filosófica de mundo, e resultante da aplicação do pragmatismo, segundo James, como o método para resolver disputas metafísicas e como teoria da verdade. Deste modo, o resultado deste trabalho é demonstrar em que sentido a concepção de consciência no âmbito do empirismo radical se impõe como uma vigorosa possibilidade de superação de concepções reducionistas a respeito da subjetividade e da realidade. Em A consciência existe? é postulada, na busca de superação das concepções substancialistas, transcendentalistas e associacionistas da subjetividade, a noção de que a consciência não é outra coisa senão o nome de uma não-entidade caracterizada no contexto do fluxo da realidade participativa da experiência pura. Entretanto, no que se refere à delimitação temática, é fundamental considerar a proposta jamesiana da subjetividade à luz da interpretação filosoficamente coerente de sua obra, isto é, levar em consideração que a culminação dessa concepção de consciência em relação à experiência pura trilha um caminho, não sistemático, porém extremamente coerente no que diz respeito aos seus critérios e compromissos filosóficos; sendo assim, segundo esta exigência, o estudo não se limita à interpretação exclusiva dos dois ensaios sem antes levar em consideração o próprio percurso trilhado por William James na edificação de sua obra
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Suprenant, Susann E. "Shakespeare re-visions : representations of female characters in appropriations and radical performance adaptations of Shakespeare's plays /." view abstract or download file of text, 2000. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/uoregon/fullcit?p9978601.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Oregon, 2000.Typescript. Includes vita and abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 180-197). Also available for download via the World Wide Web; free to University of Oregon users. Address: http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/uoregon/fullcit?p9978601.
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Lanzetta, Francesco <1991>. "Filosofia della mente e metafisica nell'empirismo radicale di William James." Master's Degree Thesis, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10579/7779.
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La presente ricerca è un’interpretazione dell’empirismo radicale di William James secondo una via duplice. Da una parte, abbiamo individuato la filosofia della mente della dottrina jamesiana, mentre, dall’altra, la sua metafisica. Ciascun capitolo è suddiviso, a sua volta, in due sezioni: la prima si concentra su un’analisi testuale del tema in questione, la seconda sviluppa, invece, un approfondimento critico a partire dalla prima sezione. La scansione che abbiamo inaugurato ha un valore, non soltanto organizzativo, ma anche filosofico e interpretativo: riteniamo, infatti, che il passaggio dalla filosofia della mente alla metafisica costituisca un elemento fondamentale dell’empirismo radicale di James per comprenderlo nella sua essenza autentica, sia da un punto di vista genealogico (a ciò si dedica la prima sezione di ciascun capitolo), sia da un punto di vista prettamente teoretico. Dimostreremo, alla fine di questo itinerario, che l’empirismo radicale non è semplicemente un insieme di teorie abbozzato da James e rimasto in germe, bensì una metafisica compiuta che abbisogna soltanto di un’interpretazione che le renda giustizia. Questa interpretazione non verte solamente sugli Essays in Radical Empiricism, ma intende comprendere l’intera produzione jamesiana, giungendo infine al lavoro, pubblicato postumo, in cui James avrebbe voluto esprimere il suo sistema filosofico: Some Problems of Philosophy. L’intera ricerca si confronta costantemente con alcuni temi contemporanei di filosofia della mente e metafisica, in modo tale da mostrare l’attualità e la possibilità di sviluppare le intuizioni di James anche nell’arena filosofica odierna.
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Silva, André Oídes Matoso e. "Para um empirismo radical: sobre William James e a relação contemporânea entre psicologia e espiritualidade." Universidade de São Paulo, 2016. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/8/8133/tde-12122016-111508/.
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William James desenvolveu no conjunto de seus trabalhos um referencial filosófico útil para estudos da consciência e da religião que permanece válido e aplicável na prática contemporânea de disciplinas como a psicologia e a antropologia. O presente trabalho é uma exploração inicial de possibilidades filosóficas abertas por James nesses campos: a religiosidade, a espiritualidade, e a busca de sentido e transcendência em um mundo desencantado. A tese foi dividida em duas partes. Na Parte I, apresentei o contexto da relação contemporânea entre psicologia e espiritualidade. Nessa parte, discuti o significado de ambas as palavras, a relação que historicamente existe entre elas, e o papel de James na constituição histórica dessa relação. Além de ter tido um papel histórico na formação de um campo de estudos no qual esses dois assuntos se interconectam, James também forneceu uma abordagem filosófica para investigá-los. Essa abordagem foi chamada por ele de empirismo radical. Na Parte II, desenvolvi uma reflexão em torno do empirismo radical, trabalhando alguns conceitos que podem ser úteis para uma prática de investigação radicalmente empirista.William James developed in his work a useful philosophical framework for studies on consciousness and religion which remains valid and applicable in the contemporary practice of disciplines such as psychology and anthropology. The present work is an initial exploration of philosophical possibilities opened up by James in these fields: religiosity, spirituality, and the search for meaning and transcendence in a disenchanted world. The thesis was divided into two parts. In Part I was presented the context of the contemporary relationship between psychology and spirituality. In this part, I discussed the meaning of both words, the relationship that historically exists between them and Jamess role in the historical constitution of that relationship. Besides having a historical role in the formation of a field of studies in which these two topics interconnect, James provided also a philosophical approach to investigate them. He called this approach radical empiricism. In Part II, I developed a reflection on radical empiricism, working out some concepts which may be useful for a radically empiricist inquiry.
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Delaney, Michael A. "Robert Franklin Williams : the making and mellowing of an American radical /." May be available electronically:, 2009. http://proquest.umi.com/login?COPT=REJTPTU1MTUmSU5UPTAmVkVSPTI=&clientId=12498.
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Algaier, IV Ermine Lawrence. "William James's Early Radical Empiricism: Psychical Research, Religion, and the "Spirit of Inner Tolerance"." Diss., Temple University Libraries, 2015. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/331881.
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In December of 1896 William James (1842-1910) penned the preface to The Will to Believe & Other Essays in Philosophy, announcing his novel philosophy of radical empiricism. Nearly one hundred and twenty years later, the metaphysical themes of his mature radical empiricist writings (e.g., his 1904-05 writings posthumously published as Essays in Radical Empiricism) continue to dominate the interpretations of the secondary literature. “William James’s Early Radical Empiricism: Psychical Research, Religion, and the ‘Spirit of Inner Tolerance’” offers a revisionist reading that prioritizes the epistemic, moral, and social elements of James’s early radical empiricism in light of his concerns expressed in the 1896 preface. By focusing on a close textual analysis that aims to historically and thematically re-situate James’s radical empiricism within the context of his major and minor work in the 1880s through the late 1890s, I argue for a supplemental interpretation that emphasizes James’s epistemic sensitivity to the plight of the perceived “irrational” other. This project demonstrates that not only is James’s early radical empiricism concerned with epistemological matters of fact and perspective, but also their social and moral implications. It suggests that an alternative narrative is uncovered if we attend to particular historical, philosophical, and religious themes that reveal themselves as focal points of James’s work in the 1890s, particularly in the year 1896. By historicizing his 1890s defense of the epistemic underdog I develop the narrative that James’s early radical empiricism embraces all experience and that this is illustrated by his genuine interest in the point of view of the believer, the marginalized, and the “irrational” other.
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Samuel, James Gribble. "The 'Radical Underworld' of the Mediterranean: William Eton, Malta, and the British Mediterranean Empire, 1770-1806." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/20065.
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In 1806, the British protectorate of Malta was engulfed in political scandal when accusations of ‘despotism’, ‘tyranny’ and ‘torture’, were made against the island’s Civil Commissioner, Sir Alexander Ball. This episode, alongside other contemporary colonial controversies, has recently attracted attention as a starting point for histories charting British attempts to construct a coherent imperial legal system across the first half of the nineteenth century. Rather than viewing the events at Malta in 1806 as the beginnings of a nineteenth-century story, this thesis however argues for the need to understand them as the culmination of a longer eighteenth-century saga. Applying a biographical lens, this thesis traces the Mediterranean career of William Eton, the minor colonial official who was chiefly responsible for the accusations made at Malta. As this thesis argues, ostensibly marginal figures such as Eton make particularly useful subjects for such an approach due to the fact that their life stories do not fit neatly into existing historical narratives, and thus cut across and connect supposedly distinct historical processes. Through Eton, this thesis connects the political scandal at Malta in 1806 to the intellectual and cultural circles of the North-German Enlightenment, to London networks of metropolitan political radicalism in the 1790s, as well as to the secret diplomacy, espionage, and foreign policy endeavours of the British and Russian empires in the Mediterranean in the late-eighteenth century. By piecing together the fragmentary traces of Eton’s transient career, with his diverse networks and multi-layered sociability, as well as his many endeavours to succeed, this thesis therefore provides a clear insight into just how interconnected British and Mediterranean trade was with diplomacy, politics, and the social and intellectual currents of European life during the ‘Age of Revolutions,’ as well as the lasting impacts these connections had on shaping British imperial governance at Malta.
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Yilmaz, Zeliha Burcu. "How Does Consciousness Exist?a Comparative Inquiry On Classical Empiricism And William James." Master's thesis, METU, 2001. http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/3/12607646/index.pdf.
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William James denies consciousness as an entity and this rejection lies in the background of my thesis. I searched the main reasons for this rejection in his philosophy. Throughout this search, I perceived two modes of existence of consciousness, that is active and passive. As James improves his thoughts on consciousness over the main arguments of classical empiricists, I explained his radical empiricism and pragmatism in relation to them. It is difficult to answer whether we are completely active or passive in the ways of our thinking and behaving. However, although it includes some problems and inconsistencies, James&rsquos philosophy presents a more plausible explanation of our thinking than rationalism and empiricism, since it can appreciate the changes of our life in an unfinished world of pure experience. Therefore, my inquiry into the existence of consciousness in James depends on this plausibility of the main characteristics of radical empiricism in connection with the classical empiricists.
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Yilmaz, Zeliha burcu. "How does consciousness exist? a comparative inquiry on classical empiricism and william james." Master's thesis, METU, 2006. http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/3/12607658/index.pdf.
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William James denies consciousness as an entity and this rejection lies in the background of my thesis. I searched the main reasons for this rejection in his philosophy. Throughout this search, I perceived two modes of existence of consciousness, that active and passive. As James improves his thoughts on consciousness over the main arguments of classical empiricists, I explained his radical empiricism and pragmatism in relation to them. It is difficult to answer whether we are completely active or passive in the ways of our thinking and behaving. However, although it includes some problems and inconsistencies, James’
s philosophy presents a more plausible explanation of our thinking than rationalism and empiricism, since it can appreciate the changes of our life in an unfinished world of pure experience. Therefore, my inquiry into the existence of consciousness in James depends on this plausibility of the main characteristics of radical empiricism in connection with the classical empiricists.
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Leclair, Marion. "Politique et poétique du roman radical en Angleterre (1782-1805)." Thesis, Sorbonne Paris Cité, 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018USPCA080/document.
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Cette thèse étudie un corpus de romans anglais, encore peu étudiés en France et jamais étudiés collectivement, publiés entre 1782 et 1805 par des écrivains et des écrivaines se rattachant par leurs idées et, pour certains, leur militantisme actif, au mouvement radical qui se développe en Angleterre dans la seconde moitié du XVIIIe siècle, s’amplifie et s’organise sous l’impulsion de la Révolution française, puis, sévèrement réprimé par le gouvernement de William Pitt, s’effondre à la fin de la décennie. Cette séquence historique laisse des traces profondes dans l’œuvre des romanciers radicaux, dont beaucoup, comme William Godwin, Mary Wollstonecraft et John Thelwall, sont philosophes ou polémistes avant d’être romanciers et prennent la plume pour défendre les droits de l’homme (et de la femme) dans le débat anglais sur la Révolution française qui oppose Edmund Burke à Thomas Paine. En croisant l’histoire des idées politiques, l’histoire sociale et culturelle du mouvement radical, l’histoire du livre et la narratologie classique, ce travail s’efforce de mettre en lumière la façon dont les romans encodent une certaine idéologie politique dans leurs formes – du discours des locuteurs au format de publication des romans, en passant par leurs narrateurs, leurs intrigues, leurs personnages, leur style et leurs silences signifiants. Un tel examen fait ressortir, plutôt qu’une idéologie radicale unifiée, une tension récurrente entre deux versions, libérale et jacobine, bourgeoise et plébéienne, du radicalisme, dont l’articulation conflictuelle revêt différentes formes d’un auteur à l’autre et d’un terme à l’autre de la période étudiée, à mesure que la réaction conservatrice enterre les espoirs radicaux de réformesThis dissertation examines a corpus of English novels which have been little studied in France as yet and never as a whole. The novels were published between 1782 and 1805 by a group of writers who, by their ideas and in some cases active political commitment, belong to the radical movement which developed in England in the second half of the eighteenth century, gained impetus and structure in the wake of the French Revolution, and collapsed at the end of the decade when faced with repression from the government of William Pitt. Radical novelists, many of whom, like William Godwin, Mary Wollstonecraft and John Thelwall, were philosophers and pamphleteers before they took to novel-writing, flew to the defence of the rights of man (and of the rights of woman) in the revolution controversy which pitted Thomas Paine against Edmund Burke – and their work bears the mark of the rise and demise of the radical movement. Combining intellectual history with classical narratology, book history, and the social and cultural history of radicalism, this dissertation seeks to highlight the way in which political ideology is built into the very forms of the novels – in the characters’ speech and the characters themselves, in the novels’ plot and narration type, in their style and publishing format, as well as in their meaningful silences. Such a study brings to light, rather than a coherent radical ideology, a recurring tension between two versions of radicalism, liberal and jacobin, bourgeois and plebeian, whose partly conflicting conjunction assumes different shapes from one novelist to the other and between the early 1780s and late 1790s, as radical hopes of reform sink under the conservative backlash
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Whittaker, Emma Louise. "Transitions-felt : William James, locative narrative and the multi-stable field of expanded narrative." Thesis, University of Plymouth, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10026.1/8646.
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This thesis is about expanded narrative, a new field of experimental narrative practices that are not represented by single subjects or by categories such as ‘interactive’. It is defined by works that present a challenge to the form, fiction or nonfiction, in terms of the content, structure, style of writing or audience engagement. Extending the cognitive term ‘perceptual multistability’, that refers to switching between interpretations experienced when we look at an ambiguous figures, such as, the Necker cube, this thesis develops the position that expanded narrative practices and specifically locative narrative, a genera of expanded narrative, hold the potential to prompt the experiential effects of multi-stability. The metaphor of multi-stability introduced here stands in for three aspects of experience: language, perception and belief. While ambiguity and misperceptions have been recognised in the literature of experiential narrative practices, further exposition is required. The thesis asks what are the conditions in which the qualities of the metaphor of multi-stability may be prompted and what framework usefully articulates the parameters of experience? Drawing upon the writings of the philosopher William James, subsequent pragmatists, cognitive neuroscience and narratology, it explores how a radical empiricist perspective can form the basis of a non-foundational experiential framework that questions the status of knowledge and the problems of translation between experience and narrative interpretation. It suggests that the subjective classification of imagined and perceptual objects can be affected by the relations between the narrative form, the environment and the participant’s beliefs. The major contributions of the thesis are (1) the development of the Jamesian experiential framework that sets up cross-disciplinary parameters for the thematics of experience to engage with the ontological and epistemological challenges of evaluating and designing for multistability presents; (2) a relational approach to interpretation and coding participants’ feedback of locative narratives; (3) that is employed in the development of a collection of speculative strategies for evoking the effect of the metaphor of multi-stability, based on the development of four published locative narrative apps and ten prototypes. While highly contingent, participant introspective accounts of experience are central here to the methodology, the process of serial hypothesis forming and the iterative development of prototypes and locative narrative case studies. This research does not attempt to draw causal connections from science to that of narrative experience or vice versa. The thesis first considers the field of expanded narrative and the semantic and pragmatic framings of the term narrative and narratological framings of language as multi-stable. It goes on to examine the antecedent and coexistent practices of locative narrative. The epistemological implications for misperception, the function of representation and intentionality in perception are examined in relation to the environmentally situated perceptual, interpretative, aesthetic and emotional dimensions of experience. This research contributes to research in narrative and creative practices. It extends the form of locative narrative with the concept of multi-stability that has a wider application with the field of expanded narrative, creative practice and narratology.
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Drumm, Thierry. "Si c'est vrai, qu'est-ce que ça change ?William James :fabrique des savoirs, fabrique philosophique." Doctoral thesis, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/2013/ULB-DIPOT:oai:dipot.ulb.ac.be:2013/209258.
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La tentative menée ici consiste à s’adresser au travail de William James (1842-1910) afin d’y chercher des moyens pour répondre à un problème qui nous concerne intensément :celui du décret séparant la connaissance et le changement. James nous rend en effet sensibles à la manière dont les conceptions habituelles avaient constamment maintenu un point de vue qui interdisait en principe qu’une idée puisse faire une différence. Il nous permet également de sentir à quel point ces conceptions ne peuvent qu’être profondément désespérantes. Cinq moments vont se succéder. Dans un premier temps, il s’agira, avec James, de nous connecter à la situation déconnectée, de saisir cette situation dans les dispositifs mêmes qui y creusent un gouffre séparant « la pensée » d’une « réalité » qui lui semble étrangère. Cette « saisie » s’efforce de remédier à l’anesthésie face à des conceptions qui produisent le désespoir et l’indifférence (« Se connecter / Situer »). Dès lors qu’est, au moins partiellement, levée la sidération qu’entraînent les versions rationalistes des connaissances, il devient possible de ré-épaissir ce que James appelle les « trois départements » de l’intelligence, ces modes d’expériences qui nourrissent les pratiques concrètes de connaissance. Pour commencer, c’est « agir » qui n’apparaît plus comme une incongruité quand il est question de connaître. La quête de certitudes indifférentes n’est pas tenable :connaître requiert la culture d’une confiance active et collective capable de rendre vraies des idées non-garanties (« Faire confiance / Agir »). Ensuite, c’est à propos des sensations que l’on s’aperçoit combien rien ne justifie de les vider de toute activité et de toute capacité. Cinq contraintes jamesiennes (épaissir, particulariser, pluraliser, relativiser, machiner) sont convoquées pour explorer les possibilités ouvertes à cet égard par un empirisme radical (« Faire le plein / Sentir »). Mais, les sensations ne se distinguant des conceptions que d’un point de vue pratique, les premières ne retrouvent pas des couleurs sans que les secondes n’en fassent autant. Les conceptions sont libérées de l’obligation qui leur était faite de seulement « copier » une réalité supposément toute faite ;prises concrètement, elles apparaissent comme pouvant désigner ces opérations délicates qui permettent aux mondes de déplier de multiples versions. C’est toute une agitation que de concevoir (« Faire des histoires / Concevoir »). Ces opérations jamesiennes (« se connecter », « faire confiance », « faire le plein », « faire des histoires ») ne visent aucunement la révélation d’une « nature » qui définirait la « pensée », mais, au contraire, elles visent l’activation de possibilités inattendues d’inventer des connaissances significatives, particulières et intéressantes. Il apparaît que ces possibilités – c’est l’hypothèse de James – avaient été tout spécialement limitées par l’omission des expériences concrètes de relation. Cette omission s’était accompagnée de la constitution tout à fait effective d’une pensée « privée » (« privée » à plus d’un titre). Il s’agit alors de relayer encore cette autre opération jamesienne – qui irriguait toutes les autres mais qui exige pour finir une attention spécifique –, celle qui consiste à restaurer les expériences de relation et à intensifier l’importance des « marges » et des « radicelles » (« S’associer / Agirpâtir »).Doctorat en Philosophie
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Graves, Paul James. "The Radical Empirical Modernism of Virginia Woolf and D. H. Lawrence." Thesis, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/37357.
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My dissertation argues that the writings of Virginia Woolf and D. H. Lawrence are animated by a shared belief that the way human beings experience and understand their worlds needs to be radically transformed. Their works expose how human experience is canalized by habits reinforced through education and custom, and they explore the ways people might overcome these limitations to expand the receptive possibilities of their experience, illustrating more fruitful ways their readers might engage their worlds. Their novels offer a radical recasting of the human subject and its situation in the environment, one that valorizes a turn away from the fixity of conceptual certainty and an embrace of experiences that trouble clean distinctions between the human being and its world. Reading through the lens of radical empiricism, this project makes the case that Woolf and Lawrence are together engaging in a similar project: they are working from a shared interest in intensive explorations of the seemingly ineffable qualities in concrete human experience and in bringing those accounts into language to suggest the relational constitution of the human being with other people and the environment. They are working experimentally to discern the extent to which the human being can know first-hand its place in the extensive world. In doing so, the authors come to understand such a human being differently, as simultaneously discrete and non-discrete. By examining the methodological and philosophical intersections of these two authors, this project serves as a first step in suggesting a radical empirical British modernism.
Woolf’s and Lawrence’s approaches to experience have philosophical implications that become more apparent when read in conjunction with William James’s philosophy of radical empiricism and the related philosophies of Henri Bergson and A. N. Whitehead. While “radical empiricist” is not a common moniker for these philosophers, my project makes the case for the consideration of several of their works as reflective of a line of confluent thought that illuminates the concerns of some modernist literature with developing a new understanding of the human situation through an inclusive attention to lived experience.
The project is organized into four chapters. In the first chapter, I establish the radical empirical philosophical situation of Woolf’s and Lawrence’s writing, revealing in their novels how the dispositions of the characters facilitate different worlds, and elaborating the attentive approaches that they valorize through their novels. In the second chapter, I explore their critiques of abstraction, elaborating their concern with fixed abstract forms while countering readings of their work as anti-intellectual or apophatically mystical. In the third chapter, I examine how in and through their novels they engage the difficulty of articulating preconceptual experience, and I explore how they productively use ambiguity towards this end. In the fourth and final chapter, I examine the relational situation of the human individual that their novels disclose and the sort of self-understanding that they champion through their work.
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Sech, Júnior Alexandre. "O empirismo radical e os estados excepcionais da conciência para uma ciência da mente em William James / Alexandre Sech Júnior ; orientador, Cleverson Leite Bastos." reponame:Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da PUC_PR, 2010. http://www.biblioteca.pucpr.br/tede/tde_busca/arquivo.php?codArquivo=1852.
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Dissertação (mestrado) - Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Paraná, Curitiba, 2010Bibliografia: f. 203-208
Esta pesquisa disserta sobre o empirismo radical de William James e suas teses acerca dos estados excepcionais da consciência. Entenda-se por excepcionais, os estados mentais de exceção à regra da consciência em vigília como a histeria, os transes hipnóti
This research examines William James' radical empiricism as well as his theses concerning the exceptional states of consciousness. By the term exceptional, we refer to mental states of exception to the rule of the waking consciousness, such as hysteria, h
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Taylor, Jeffrey L. "From radical to respectable : the declining influence of Jefferson's political thought on twentieth-century American liberalism /." free to MU campus, to others for purchase, 1997. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/mo/fullcit?p9841189.
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Khan, Peenaz. "Trans-lation, poetics and politics: reflections on Clinton B. Seely's the slaying of Meghanada: a Ramayana from Colonial Bengal and William Radice's the poem of the Killing of Meghnad." Thesis, University of North Bengal, 2020. http://ir.nbu.ac.in/handle/123456789/4243.
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Torfgård, Olof. "Short wavelength UV–LED photoinitiated radical polymerization of acrylate–based coating systems—A comparison with conventional UV curing." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Strukturkemi, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-442431.
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The present work was performed at Sherwin–Williams Sweden group AB with the objective of comparing short-wavelength light emitting diodes (UVB/UVC) with the conventional mercury arc lamp as a curing method of acrylate-based, UV-paint undergoing free-radical polymerization when exposed to UV-radiation. Due to environmental and health risks, mercury-doped radiation sources will be phased out in the near future, according to the United Nations Minamata convention, hence new alternatives are needed. Light-emitting diodes differ from the mercury arc lamp as they provide semi-discrete output intensity lines within the UV spectrum instead of a broad output distribution with several main intensity lines. The power output is also considerably lower compared to the conventional method which limits the irradiance and dose that are key parameters in activating and propagating free-radical polymerization of UV-paint. Seven different light-emitting diodes between 260–320 nm was examinedand compared to the conventional mercury arc lamp. Cured coatings were evaluated by measuring the relative extent of acrylate conversion with ATR-FTIR and micro-hardness indentation test. Both methods correlate to the relative cross-linking density and qualitatively describe the curing process for each radiant source at a specific irradiance and dose. Three different paint formulations with widely different properties were used in the experiments. All three paints were able to cure with one or several light emitting diodes at comparable doses and 10 to 20 times lower irradiance to the conventional mercury arc lamp, resulting in similar acrylate conversion and hardness.
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Melling, Brent S. "Overcoming the Challenges: Toward a Truly Theistic Psychology?" BYU ScholarsArchive, 2009. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/2202.
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Several psychologists have attempted to articulate a theistic psychology or one consonant with their religious beliefs. Unfortunately, confusion over the concept of theism and a persistent naturalism in the discipline create substantial obstacles towards achieving a serious theistic psychology. It is suggested that these challenges can be overcome through examining alternative philosophies and methodologies for scientific psychology, exploring seminal articulations of God's activity, and providing a practical example of a theistic psychological research program.
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Katchekpele, Leonard Amossou. "Les enjeux politiques de l'Église en Afrique : contribution à une théologie du politique." Thesis, Strasbourg, 2015. http://www.theses.fr/2015STRAK017.
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L'écho parvenant d'Afrique au monde, ou du monde aux Africains, diffracte en une variation de nuances un thème répétitif : l'Afrique irait mal, surtout l'Afrique politique. Parmi ceux qui accourent à son secours, l’Église catholique tient un rôle vital. Mais que fait l’Église en Afrique, que peut-elle lui faire en tant qu’Église ? Peut-on aider l'Afrique à se moderniser en occultant le fait que pour elle, la modernité a été synonyme d'oppression coloniale ? Il y a là une affirmation, une action et une question. On se proposera, prenant l'exemple du Togo, de questionner la pertinence de l'affirmation, d'élaborer une réponse à la question, pour espérer (ré)orienter sinon l'action, du moins sa lecture. On s'inspirera des études post-coloniales et du mouvement théologique Radical Orthodoxy, notamment des travaux de Milbank et CavanaughEchoes from Africa to the world and from the world to Africa seem to tell a single story: Africa fails.Especially political Africa. Among those dashing to help, the commitment of the Church catholic is to be praised but also critically engaged. Can anyone help Africa to modernize by ignoring that in Africa, modernity meant colonization? Then, a question: what is the Church doing, and what can it do qua Church, for Africa? This confronts us with a situation, an action and a critical question. This work, focusing on Togo taken as mirror to the continent, aims at challenging the way the situation is described, at elaborating an answer to the question in hoping to shed a light on the way the action is understood and undertaken. For such an end, it draws on post-colonial studies and on the Cambridge theological movement called Radical Orthodoxy, through the works of J. Milbank and W. Cavanaugh
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Youngblood, Joshua C. Conner Valerie Jean. "Realistic religion and radical prophets the STFU, the social gospel, and the American left in the 1930s /." 2004. http://etd.lib.fsu.edu/theses/available/etd-04122004-133709.
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Thesis (M.A.)--Florida State University, 2004.Advisor: Dr. Valerie Jean Conner, Florida State University, College of Arts and Sciences, Department of History. Title and description from dissertation home page (viewed 6/15/04). Includes bibliographical references.
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Kippen, Lorelee. "Gertrude Stein's cubist brain maps." Phd thesis, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10048/630.
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This dissertation explores the connections that exist between Gertrude Steins late nineteenth-century psychological studies at Harvard University, her fin-de-sicle brain research at the Johns Hopkins Medical School, and her early twentieth-century cubist writings. This study is important to neuraesthetic researchers, because it appears that Stein produced a secret series of cubist brain maps from approximately 1912 to 1935, and then published her first explicit brain map in _The Geographical History of America or the Relation of Human Nature to the Human Mind_, in 1936. The cubist brain maps that Stein produced during this period can be conceptualized as evolving, neuraesthetic writing practices that reflect her complex, scientific insights and her varied, artistic associations. One of the primary differences between Steins cubist writings and those of her literary peers is that she deploys the cubist painting strategies of Pablo Picasso, for the purpose of portraying the human central nervous system. In addition to exploring the scientific meanings of Steins multidimensional, performative and introspective cubist puns, my study examines how Stein uses color in her cubist writings, as a means of anticipating the visual effects of future scientific discoveries and connectivity maps, such as the Brainbow system, which uses the fluorescent protein from the jellyfish Aequorea Victoria to label the central nervous systems of genetically modified mice with distinguishable colors. Also, this project examines how Stein uses color words and other simple devices from the English language to illustrate the brains cellular structures, neural networks and neuroanatomical features. This studys primary aim is to explore how Steins dissociative writings function within western culture as neuraesthetic modes of masterpiece creation, brain representation and consciousness translation. Through the serial production of cubist brain maps, Stein posed important questions about the modern science of the reading brain. By developing allegorical methods of brain representation, Stein contributes to the western practice of neuroesthetics by foregrounding the role that creative writing plays in the production of imaginary, laboratory practices and imaginative, brain imaging technologies.
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Barclay, Vaughn. "Patterns Perceptible: Awakening to Community." Thesis, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10214/3656.
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This paper interweaves narrativized readings and experiential narratives as personal and cultural resources for counterhegemonic cultural critique within our historical context of globalization and ecological crisis. Framed by perspectives on epistemology, everyday life, and place, these reflections seek to engage and revitalize our notions of community, creativity, and the individual, towards visioning the human art of community as a counternarrative to globalization. Such a task involves confronting the meanings we have come to ascribe to work and economy which so deeply determine our social fabric. Encountering the thought of key 19th and 20th century social theorists ranging from William Morris, Gregory Bateson, and Raymond Williams, to Murray Bookchin, Martin Buber, and Wendell Berry, these reflections mark the indivisible web of culture in the face of our insistent divisions, and further, iterate our innate creativity as the source for a vital, sustainable culture that might reflect, in Bateson’s terms, the pattern that connects.