3,973 research outputs found
The Atlanta Opera presents Winter Journey
No full textThe Atlanta Opera production of Winter Journey: Winterreise, D. 911 by Franz Schubert features David Adam Moore, baritone and Earl Buys, pianist.https://digitalcommons.kennesaw.edu/musicprograms/1076/thumbnail.jp
THE THEOLOGICAL FOUNDATION OF ADAM SMITH'S WORK
No full textThe paper will discuss the theological foundation to Smith's writings. Teleology, final causes and divine design were initially seen as central to understanding Smith's writings. Over time, this view fell out of fashion. In the period after World War II, with the rise of positivism, commentators tended to overlook or downplay this interpretation. In the last decade, or so, teleology has started to be restored to its former position as an essential element in understanding Smith. After spelling out Smith's teleology and his view of final causes, divine design and the ends of nature, we try to explain the Panglossian nature of the 'new theistic view' of Smith. While our view differs somewhat, we agree with the essence of the 'new view' claim: a theological view exists in Smith which underpins his moral and economic theories.Political Economy,
Cult: A Composite Novel
No full textCult (redacted)
The first component of the thesis is a composite novel called Cult which falls into two parts with seven narratives in each. Part 1 tracks the protagonist, Ellen, from her first involvement with the cult through to her eventually leaving it. Although fiction, the first half of the book answers the kinds of questions the author is asked when people discover that she was once a sannyasin (a follower of the guru Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh). While the experiences of meditation, group therapy and communal living are all faithfully rendered within the stories, the need for strong characters, narrative drive and a lightness of touch takes precedence.
Part 2 picks up Ellen’s story some twenty or so years later and explores what becomes of her in middle age. It also looks at other groups in society, such as academia, the law and the internet dating community which each have their own jargon, hierarchies, rituals and rules but are not considered to be cults.
The book examines the question raised in the Epigraph, ‘how do we be together when we feel so alone’ with a focus on relationships other than the familial and the romantic.
Collisions, Chasms and Connections: a Performative Exploration of the Composite Novel Form
The second part of the thesis is both a critical and creative response to three contemporary American books: Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout; A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan; and Legend of a Suicide by David Vann. The critical element comprises a close reading of the three books; a chronological reconstruction of their overarching storylines; and a consideration of what their authors have said about writing the books. It concludes that, in the composite novel, the simultaneous presentation of multiple views and storylines operate much like a 3D image to give the impression of depth to the characters and situations rendered. The creative element of the essay is a playful and personal response to the texts
The RISE of the Repository Rodeo and Developer Track
No full textRecording of OR2020 Repository Rodeo:
Dataverse: Danny Brooke, Harvard University
DSpace: Maureen Walsh, The Ohio State University
EPrints: John Salter, University of Leeds
Fedora: David Wilcox, LYRASIS
Haplo: Tom Renner, Haplo
Invenio: Lars Holm Nielsen, CERN
Islandora: Mark Jordan, Simon Fraser University
Samvera: Jon Dunn, Indiana University
Slides: http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3875490
And Developer track:
Developing COrDa: The COmmunity Orcid Dashboard; The powerful chamber: an institutional overview of the ORCID registry – Adam Vials Moore, JISC
API driven applications with GraphQL; Building a modern repository UI with Elasticsearch, React and IIIF – Adam J. Arling, Northwestern University Librarie
The Manifesto, an animated opera about the Italian Futurists
No full textThe Manifesto is ground breaking live action animated opera about the Italian Futurists, a movement of artists, musicians and writers who believed in a future dominated by fast cars and machines way ahead of their time. The live action is played by opera singers with the animated background illustrating a world drawn from their ideas. The music was specially written for film by David Josiah Moore from the Guildhall School of Drama and was a collaboration between the guildhall and University of Greenwich. This is the cutting copy of the live action before the animation is added
Dissolving the Chimera of the ‘Adam Smith Problem’
No full textIn The Wealth of Nations, Adam Smith set out his influential theory that societies achieve prosperity by securing the freedom of individuals to pursue their own end by the means they choose within a framework of rules of justice. In his earlier work The Theory of Moral Sentiments, Smith developed his thesis about the origins of our moral sentiments and the emergence of rules of justice. The socalled ‘Adam Smith Problem’ concerns the perceived inconsistency between Smith’s defence of selfinterest in the Wealth of Nations and his emphasis of sympathy as the origin of moral sentiments in the earlier work. The existence of the ‘Adam Smith Problem’ has been contested by many writers. The present author provides a number of new arguments to demonstrate the illusory nature of the problem by revisiting the key elements Smith’s moral theory. The author argues that the problem dissolves when the role of justice in providing the conditions of free trade is understood. Smith’s tirade against wealth worship is explained as part of his defence of justice and not a condemnation of wealth accumulation. According to this reading, the Theory of Moral Sentiments is a powerful statement of the moral basis of capitalism.
Bodies of Evidence: Making New Histories of 20th Century British Scuplture
No full textThis thesis includes a monograph, The Sculpture of Charles Wheeler (London: Lund Humphries in association with the Henry Moore Foundation, 2012), and a catalogue essay ‘Let There Be History: Epstein’s BMA House Sculptures’, in
Modern British Sculpture, ed.by Penelope Curtis and Keith Wilson (London: Royal Academy of Arts, 2011). The book is the first study of Wheeler, an important but neglected sculptor who was President of the Royal Academy from 1956-66; the Epstein essay looks anew at a notorious episode in the career of one of modernism’s canonical practitioners, coming to radically different conclusions to the accepted narrative. The accompanying analytical commentary reflects on the
complex research journey towards understanding and articulating hidden histories of modern British sculpture. Deploying traditional methodologies of archive exploration and making connections between divergent critical and artistic groupings has enabled the construction of new histories. Disrupting the appropriation and elision of ‘modern’ with ‘modernist’ and ‘avant-garde’ restores the work of non-canonical practitioners to the historical moment of the first half of
the 20th Century, while historical analysis draws mythologised artists into the contingencies of the real world. These publications offer original insights and their impact is becoming evident in the fields of British sculptural and architectural
history. Beginning in the recent past as I prepared to write this thesis, the commentary
moves into the deeper history of the research journey, considering my theoretical approaches, the initial difficulties of writing against the prevailing academic fashion, the serendipities of a supportive scholarly milieu and the details of making Wheeler’s history. The value of the monograph itself is discussed. Reviewing
Epstein’s modernist cause célèbre proved the transferable value of dispassionate archival research. The commentary finally comes full circle, concluding in October 2014 when I found myself, unexpectedly, implicated in the very history to which I have contributed
A unique and conflicted enlightener: Adam Ferguson’s political thought
No full textAdam Ferguson (1723–1816) was a leading figure of the Scottish Enlightenment but his fame has long been eclipsed by those of his contemporaries, David Hume and Adam Smith. As Lisa Hill discusses in her review article on Iain McDaniel\u27s book Adam Ferguson in the Scottish Enlightenment: The Roman Past and Europe’s Future, attempts to recover Ferguson from obscurity are wise: he was interested in a central question of our times: how to prevent large, prosperous and competitive commercial states from degenerating into counter-democratic militarism.
Book title: Adam Ferguson in the Scottish Enlightenment: The Roman Past and Europe’s Future
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Date published: 2013
Author: Iain McDanie
The birth of economic rhetoric: communication, arts and economic stimulus in David Hume and Adam Smith
No full textThis book explores and compares the works of two great economists and philosophers, David Hume and Adam Smith, considering their contributions to language, perception, sympathy, reason, art and theatre to find a general theory of rationality and economics. The author considers and analyses both figures through a range of approaches, and moves on to demonstrate how different concepts of language affect Hume's and Smith's idea of value and economic growth. This book contributes to a wider literature on communication and language to demonstrate that economics is linked to rhetoric and is an essential part of human nature.Depto. de Economía Aplicada, Estructura e HistoriaFac. de Ciencias Económicas y EmpresarialesTRUEpu
David Harvey’s theory of accumulation by dispossession: new research perspectives – the case of Jason W. Moore
No full textThis article reconstructs David Harvey’s accumulation by dispossession (ABD) theory aimed at explaining the specifics of capital accumulation under neoliberal capitalism. Reaching back to the thought of Marx and Rosa Luxemburg, Harvey proposed an impressive theory of qualitative change within the capitalist mode of production. However, as his critics have convincingly presented, Harvey’s concept struggles with the problems presented in the text. The solution to these problems appears to be the school of “world-ecology”, analyzed here on the example of one of its representatives, Jason W. Moore. By solving the problems that Bin and Ras wrote about, it creates the possibility for APW to become a theory that shows a certain continuum of quantitative change within capitalism. In other words, Moore’s research perspective creates new perspectives for the application of APW.W niniejszym artykule zrekonstruowana została teoria akumulacji przez wywłaszczenie (APW) Davida Harveya, mająca na celu wyjaśnienie specyfiki akumulacji kapitału w warunkach neoliberalnego kapitalizmu. Sięgając do myśli Marksa oraz Róży Luksemburg, Harvey zaproponował imponującą teorię jakościowej zmiany w obrębie kapitalistycznego sposobu produkcji. Jak jednak przekonywali jego krytycy, koncepcja Harveya zmaga się z przedstawionymi w niniejszym tekście problemami. Rozwiązaniem tych problemów może być szkoła „ekologii-światowej”, przeanalizowana na przykładzie jednego z jej przedstawicieli, Jasona W. Moore’a. Rozwiązując problemy, o których pisali Bin i Ras, wspomniana koncepcja stwarza możliwości, by APW stała się teorią ukazującą pewne kontinuum zmian ilościowych w obrębie kapitalizmu. Innymi słowy, perspektywa badawcza Moore’a wyznacza nowe perspektywy zastosowania APW
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