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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,
Stephen Crane and the mass media
No full textThe influence of European painting and literature in Stephen Crane’s pre-Red Badge of Courage work has been overstated by most twentieth century critics. Stephen Crane’s portrayals of New York poverty in the 1890s was profoundly shaped by the more immediate influence of the American mass media, specifically by religious anti-slum tracts, the documentary photographs of Jacob Riis and Alfred Stieglitz, the “new” journalism that blurred the distinction between the newspaper and the novel, and color print advertising. Maggie: a Girl from the Streets and his freelance newspaper articles written between 1892 and 1894 provide ample evidence of Crane’s participation in the sensational mass media, which often transformed urban poverty into middle-class entertainment.M.A.Includes bibliographical referencesby Adam Broc
Stephen Greenblatt's 2017 Book The Rise and Fall of Adam and Eve and Walter J. Ong's Thought
No full textI proceed in an additive way to connect certain points in Stephen Greenblatt's book The Rise and Fall of Adam and Eve with related points in the thought of Walter J. Ong, Bernard Lonergan, and John Courtney Murray. As I proceed, I provide bibliographic references in parenthetical documentation in the text of my essay.My 4,250-word essay surveys selected points in Stephen Greenblatt's 2017 book The Rise and Fall of Adam and Eve, on the one hand, and, on the other, related points in Walter J. Ong's thought, along with related points in the thought of Bernard Lonergan and John Courtney Murray.N/AFarrell, Thomas. (2018). Stephen Greenblatt's 2017 Book The Rise and Fall of Adam and Eve and Walter J. Ong's Thought. Retrieved from the University Digital Conservancy, https://hdl.handle.net/11299/199762
Stephen Adam: Chromophony (1993)
No full text"The imaginary title loosely translates from the Greek as 'coloured voice'. The human voice provides a significant range of sound types for electroacoustic transformation, (d)evolution, or colouring. This piece takes samples from that palette of possibilities, focussing on the utterances and sustained textures which maintain links with the human voice, even under radical modification. The piece contrasts discrete and continuous elements in various ways. At the lowest formal level, the pseudo-linguistic solo utterances with which the piece opens stand in opposition to the sustained, unvoiced and 'massed' sound textures whose emotive and morphological attributes are far less clearly defined. At a higher formal level, the (discrete) episodes in the early stages of the work which incidentally outline a symbolic transition from 'higher' to 'lower' life form give way to a predominantly transformational (continuous) motion. At a little over halfway through the piece, this trajectory is reiterated; its commencement is marked by the 'explosion of plosives' which gradually merge and subside to reveal a single, and substantially time stretched, utterance. While this section reinforces the motion from discrete to continuous sound events, it simultaneously mirrors the overall trajectory of solo voice to dense texture evident in the first half of the piece. With only a few exceptions, the sounds used in the piece are of vocal origin and, in order of frequency of appearance, are the voices of Joan Pollock, Trish Anderson and myself." -- Stephen Ada
NA4003 Stephen Norton, interviewed by Adam Lee Cilli
No full textNA4003 Stephen Norton, interviewed by Adam Lee Cilli, August 27, 2013, in his his office in Sawyer Hall at the University of Maine, Orono. Norton talks about the beginnings of his career in geology; his beginnings at UMaine and the Climate Change Institute; his own research experiences; his contributions to geology and climate science; the reality of anthropogenic climate change; his current interdisciplinary project; and his status as professor emeritus.
Text: 12 pp. transcript
Recording: mfc_na4003_audio001 61 minutes
Photo provided by the Climate Change Institute.https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/mf192/1025/thumbnail.jp
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,
Adam Oehlenschläger
No full textThis is a short presentation of the main works of the Danish author Adam Oehlenschläger
Radical Medievalism:Pierce Egan the Younger's Robin Hood, Wat Tyler, and Adam Bell
No full textPierce Egan the Younger has always been assumed to have been a conservative author. Yet recent research by Chris R. Vanden Bossche has highlighted his support for Chartism. This article develops Vanden Bossche's radical reading of Egan's "Wat Tyler" and applies it to two of his other medievalist novels, "Robin Hood" and "Adam Bell"
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
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