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ADAM SMITH'S OPTIMISTIC TELEOLOGICAL VIEW OF HISTORY
No full textAdam Smith's four-stage theory provides the framework for his writings on history. The fourth stage is the commercial epoch; the culmination of history in this stage is a key component in the conventional interpretation of Adam Smith as a prophet of commercialism. In two historical case studies Smith shows the capacity of commercial society to regenerate itself. This potent capacity suggests that commercial society is inevitable. At a certain point in time it also overcomes the major obstacles to its permanence. Smith's philosophy of history anticipates the end of history views of Kant and Hegel.Political Economy,
How Might Adam Smith Pay Professors Today?
No full textAdam Smith’s proposal for paying professors was intended to induce increased faculty knowledge. If students have imperfect information about what they learn, and universities can only imperfectly measure the input of faculty time in student learning, publications may be used to measure faculty knowledge. If professors’ ability to publish is positively related to their ability to produce student learning, which universities can imperfectly measure, publications may be necessary to attract more able professors. Since research signals faculty knowledge, schools that do not value publications per se could require higher publication standards and pay higher wages than schools that value only publications.
ADAM SMITH'S VIEW OF HISTORY: CONSISTENT OR PARADOXICAL?
No full textThe conventional interpretation of Adam Smith is that he is a prophet of commercialism. The liberal capitalist reading of Smith is consistent with the view that history culminates in commercial society. The first part of the article develops this optimistic interpretation of Smith's view of history. Smith implies that commercial society is the end of history because 1) it supplies the ends of nature that he identifies; 2) it is inevitable; and 3) it is permanent. The second part of the article shows that Smith has some dark moments in his writings where he seems to reject completely such teleological notions. In this more civic humanist mood he confesses that commercial society does not supply the ends of nature, nor is it inevitable, nor is it permanent. Both views exist in Smith and the commentator is forced to choose between passages in Smith's work in order to support a particular interpretation of the former's view of history.Political Economy,
Affective everyday in narratives of Muslim women migrating to the UK 1906 – 2012
No full textThis thesis uses affect theory and studies of emotion to analyse literary
representations of the everyday in fictional and non-fictional writing about Muslim
migrant women in the UK from 1906 to 2012. Postcolonial literary studies tend to
value exceptional events over mundane life, which causes possible issues of
exoticism and a danger of homogenising distinct experiences. This thesis offers a
theorisation of migration that foregrounds everyday experience through an
engagement with theories of objects, bodies and space, as well as emotional
experiences that are specific to migrant subjectivity. It analyses two groups of texts:
early twentieth century travel writing by Atiya Fyzee, Shahbano Begum Maimoona
Sultan and Zeyneb Hanoum, and contemporary literary texts by Yeshim Ternar,
Farhana Sheikh, Monica Ali, Leila Aboulela, Elif Shafak and Fadia Faqir. The thesis
is structured thematically into three sections, each section containing two chapters,
one about travel writing and another about contemporary texts. In the first section, in
order to examine how the texts negotiate foreignness in daily life, I consider
hospitality theory, which describes how social power relations are based on roles of
host and guest. In the second section, I argue that melancholia is an emotional
experience endemic to migrancy. The texts demonstrate how this emotion is
manifest communally as well as individually, which also shows the political potential
of emotion. In the third section, I investigate how emotional processes of migration
are described spatially in the texts. The findings of this research show that emotional
knowledge is a major concern for migrant writers as a way of engaging with and
critiquing the social and political climates of each text. This is produced through
narrations about feeling in general and specific emotions, such as irritation or
anxiety. Emotional experience is illustrated in conjunction with identities that are
both fluid and intersectional, where gender and class converge with ethnicity and
religion. The texts also show specifically affective styles of writing that concentrate
on focalising women’s intimate experiences through, for example, diary entries,
bildungsroman or psychological realism. While the differing contexts reflect the
particularities of each experience, there are sufficient similarities of narrative content
and style to suggest that affective experience is a major concern for this body of
literature. Overall, this thesis demonstrates the productive uses of affect theory as a
critical stance for analysing postcolonial literature
Contemporary Sibyl. Sibylline themes in the twentieth century literature
No full textThe paper deals with some instances of exploiting the theme of the Sibyl in twentieth century literature, e.g. T.S. Eliot’s The Waste Land, J. Joyce’s Ulysses, M. Butor’s The Modifcation, P. Lagerkvist’s The Sibyl, W. Golding’s The Double Tongue
Adam Smith and Roman Servitudes
No full textThis essay is a preprint of an article that appeared at: Tijdschrift voor Rechstsgeschiedenis, 72 (2004), 327–57.This essay discusses Adam Smith historical jurisprudence and his use of Roman law materials in his Lectures on Jurisprudence. It argues that Smith found it difficult to maintain his theory of legal development in the face of a highly developed body of Roman law literature
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,
Interview. Matthew Joseph with Adam Gussow, musician and author
No full textInterview in which Adam Gussow discusses hill country blues musi
Książę Adam Jerzy Czartoryski i jego stronnicy w świetle historiografii ukraińskiej
No full textIn 1937, the Warsaw historian Marceli Handelsman published a work entitled Ukraińska polityka
ks. Adama Czartoryskiego przed wojną krymską [Ukrainian politics of Prince Adam Czartoryski
before the Crimean War]. So far, this book has been used by historians as the primary source of
information on the Ukrainian issue in the views of the Hotel Lambert’s leader. The author of this
text has decided to collect Ukrainian works referring to the topic inaugurated by Handelsman. Unfortunately, no larger study has been prepared on the Ukrainian side. However, a number of articles
and encyclopaedic notes showing Prince Adam and his Eastern policy (especially during his stay
at the court of Tsar Alexander I Romanov) has been published. Ukrainian authors paid much more
attention to Czartoryski’s associates, who tried to put his ideas into practice. Ukrainian researchers
wrote mainly about Michał Czaykowski (Sadyk Pasha) organizing the Cossack troops in the Ottoman Empire, about Hipolit Terlecki striving for the union of the Orthodox and Roman Catholic
Churches, and finally about the ethnographer and writer Franciszek Duchiński clearly separating
Ukraine from Russia in his writings
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