Beyond Freedom and Dignity: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn and the American Gulag

A review of The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956: An Experiment in Literary Investigation. Volume III by Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsy

Socialismo y vanguardia vernácula yucateca (1918-1956)

Reseña de El arte monumental del socialismo yucateco (1918-1956), de Marco Aurelio Díaz Güemez.  Mérida: Universidad Autónoma de Yucatán, Compañía Editorial de la Península, Patronato Pro Historia Peninsular, 2016.Reseña de El arte monumental del socialismo yucateco (1918-1956), de Marco Aurelio Díaz Güemez.  Mérida: Universidad Autónoma de Yucatán, Compañía Editorial de la Península, Patronato Pro Historia Peninsular, 2016

Nash (Norman B.) Historical Research Papers, 1918-1956

Norman Nash was born in Bangor, Me. in 1888. He was educated at Harvard, Episcopal Theological Seminary, and Western Theological Seminary. He served in WWI as a Chaplain; from 1916-1939 and was a professor at the Episcopal Theological Seminary. The Norman B. Nash collection contains historical research on Eastern Maine and New Brunswick. The collection includes manuscripts, notes, correspondence, and illustrations. A number of original documents are photocopied.https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/findingaids/1315/thumbnail.jp

Thought about Properties: Why the Perceptual Case is Basic

This paper defends a version of the old empiricist claim that to think about unobservable physical properties a subject must be able to think perception-based thoughts about observable properties. The central argument builds upon foundations laid down by G. E. M. Anscombe and P. F. Strawson. It bridges the gap separating these foundations and the target claim by exploiting a neglected connection between thought about properties and our grasp of causation. This way of bridging the gap promises to introduce substantive constraints on right accounts of perception and perception-based thought

The municipal archives of the City of New York

Ith some 100,000 cubic feet of civic documents, vital and building records, libers, films and photographs, New York City's Municipal Archives is a magnet for researchers. Among those who benefit from centralized access to the wealth of material deposited in the Archives by city government agencies are genealogists, urban scholars and architectural historians

GUIGNET (Philippe), CHANET (Jean-François) (éd.), « Jeunesse, éducation et religion au XXe siècle. En mémoire à Alain-René Michel »

Maître de conférence en histoire contemporaine, Alain-René Michel est décédé brutalement, en 2006. Agrégé d’histoire, il avait soutenu en 1985 une thèse de troisième cycle sur la Jeunesse étudiante chrétienne et, en 2002, une habilitation à diriger les recherches intitulée Catholiques en démocratie, l’Association catholique de la jeunesse française, 1918-1956. En 2007, ses collègues et amis ont organisé, en hommage à sa mémoire, une journée d’études intitulée « Jeunesse, éducation et religion..

Questions, content and the varieties of force

In addition to the Frege point, Frege also argued for the force-content distinction from the fact that an affirmative answer to a yes-no question constitutes an assertion. I argue that this fact more readily supports the view that questions operate on and present assertions and other forceful acts themselves. Force is neither added to propositions as on the traditional view, nor is it cancelled as has recently been proposed. Rather higher level acts such as questioning, but also e.g. conditionalizing, embed assertive or directive acts that are forceful and committal, while suspending commitment to them. The Frege point confounds different varieties of force and the question whether something is merely presented for consideration with the question what is so presented. Force is representational: through assertoric and directive force indicators subjects non-conceptually present positions of theoretical or practical knowledge, while interrogative acts indicate positions of wondering which strive for such knowledge

Chapter Poesia del Gulag o della zona? Problemi e prospettive di analisi per una descrizione del corpus poetico dei prigionieri politici in URSS

The present survey aims at creating the basis for an extensive study on poetry written by victims of political repressions in the whole area of Segregation in the Soviet Union: prisons, forced labour camps, Gulags and confinement. The research relies on evidence drawn from published and archive materials, concerning the 1918-1956 period. We propose a systematization of the corpus, based on a new methodology: the key-concept of ‘poetry of Zone’ as a literary track of testimony of political repression, which was synchronical to the imprisonment experience in the USSR