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The Nepal–India Border and Borderland Communities Under COVID-19
No full textThere is an open border regime between Nepal and India since centuries. But all the border-crossings have been closed dramatically during the COVID-19 pandemic period. The number of Border Observation Posts increased from 120 to 500 to obstruct movement. So the daily activities of borderland communities were affected
The “Frontier” According to Paul de La Pradelle
No full textEssential author on the “frontier”, Paul de Geouffre de La Pradelle is known for his original legal theory. The author distinguishes between “delimitation” (which is a boundary-line) and “frontier” (which is a zone of cooperation). He also distinguishes what he calls the “national frontier” (“object of study of domestic public law”) and the “international frontier” (“object of study of international public and private law”)
Peter Cheyne, Andy Hamilton, and Max Paddison (eds.), "The Philosophy of Rhythm: Aesthetics, Music, Poetics."
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"All These False Fowls": The Rational Language of Geoffrey Chaucer\u27s Birds and Women
No full textIn Geoffrey Chaucer’s account of a fictional English pilgrimage, The Canterbury Tales (1387–1400), andin his dream vision Parliament of Fowls (ca. 1380), anthropomorphized birds illuminate the complexity of who hasa voice, and, by extension, who is rational and capable ofself-determination. These birds often share a connectionwith the female characters in their tales—either in rolesthat parallel one another (as in the “Manciple’s Tale”) or inthe relationships they share with female characters (like inthe “Squire’s Tale”)—linking the voicelessness of nature tothat of women. Chaucer’s uncanny birds unsettle the boundaries between humans and nature, complicating genderedassumptions of women’s irrationality in Chaucer’s work
Absolutist Knowledge and Hermeneutic Faith: Hobbes and Milton on the Problem of Fallen Language
No full textI compare the conceptions of metaphor withinthe works of Hobbes and Milton. Fearing its rhetoricallyprotean capacity, Hobbes condemns metaphor as a “causeof absurdity” insufficient for the advance of science and civil order, while Milton embraces metaphor as a redeemedmode of post-lapsarian language. By reconciling the problem of reference, metaphor, in Milton’s conception, enablespost-lapsarian faith, from which follows the civil and epistemological order that Hobbes claims can only be established by the sovereign. Building on Timothy Rosendale’sdiscussion of Milton’s Reformed faith as a personal processof reading and interpretation, I explore the function of metaphor and interpretation in Milton’s Reformed conceptionof faith in light of how they shape both his politics and theology