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Author: La Civiltà Cattolica Publisher: ucanews ISBN: Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 133
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A collection of 14 articles from the July 2021 edition of La Civiltà Cattolica, the highly respected and oldest Catholic journal published from Rome. It’s abundantly clear now that the first step to kick starting the post-covid world is universal vaccination, The Urgency of Universal Access to the Covid-19 Vaccine looks for answers to this problem, what we have learned about the SARS-CoV-2 virus and the economics and politics of the issue. “Physics could be seen as a game of chess played by the gods, with us observing the movements of the pieces on the chessboard without being aware of the rules of the game but with a burning desire to discover them”: said the great American physicist and genius Richard Feynman. Paolo Beltrame investigates the “Muon g-2” experiment that has physicists speculating if it is a “new physics”. Argentinian Jesuit Diego Fares reviews a rich body of speeches that the Pope has produced in, for and from the Latin American region in Pope Francis and his Messages to Latin America. Fr Giovanni Sale looks at the Arab Spring ten years on. The aim of these revolutions was greater political and socio-economic participation. Have they succeeded and what are the lasting outcomes?
Author: La Civiltà Cattolica Publisher: ucanews ISBN: Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 133
Book Description
A collection of 14 articles from the July 2021 edition of La Civiltà Cattolica, the highly respected and oldest Catholic journal published from Rome. It’s abundantly clear now that the first step to kick starting the post-covid world is universal vaccination, The Urgency of Universal Access to the Covid-19 Vaccine looks for answers to this problem, what we have learned about the SARS-CoV-2 virus and the economics and politics of the issue. “Physics could be seen as a game of chess played by the gods, with us observing the movements of the pieces on the chessboard without being aware of the rules of the game but with a burning desire to discover them”: said the great American physicist and genius Richard Feynman. Paolo Beltrame investigates the “Muon g-2” experiment that has physicists speculating if it is a “new physics”. Argentinian Jesuit Diego Fares reviews a rich body of speeches that the Pope has produced in, for and from the Latin American region in Pope Francis and his Messages to Latin America. Fr Giovanni Sale looks at the Arab Spring ten years on. The aim of these revolutions was greater political and socio-economic participation. Have they succeeded and what are the lasting outcomes?
Author: Massimo Durante Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1000345343 Category : Computers Languages : en Pages : 272
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We delegate more and more decisions and tasks to artificial agents, machine-learning mechanisms, and algorithmic procedures or, in other words, to computational systems. Not that we are driven by powerful ambitions of colonizing the Moon, replacing humans with legions of androids, creating sci-fi scenarios à la Matrix or masterminding some sort of Person of Interest-like Machine. No, the current digital revolution based on computational power is chiefly an everyday revolution. It is therefore that much more profound, unnoticed and widespread, for it affects our customary habits and routines and alters the very texture of our day-to-day lives. This opens a precise line of inquiry, which constitutes the basic thesis of the present text: our computational power is exercised by trying to adapt not just the world but also our representation of reality to how computationally based ICTs work. The impact of this technology is such that it does not leave things as they are: it changes the nature of agents, habits, objects and institutions and hence it subverts the existing order, without necessarily generating a new one. I argue that this power is often not distributed in an egalitarian manner but, on the contrary, is likely to result in concentrations of wealth, in dominant positions or in unjust competitive advantages. This opens up a struggle, with respect to which the task of reaffirming the fundamental values, the guiding principles, the priorities and the rules of the game, which can transform, or attempt to transform, a fierce confrontation between enemies in a fair competition between opponents rests on us.
Author: Serena Giusti Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1000286819 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 233
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This book explores the challenges that disinformation, fake news, and post-truth politics pose to democracy from a multidisciplinary perspective. The authors analyse and interpret how the use of technology and social media as well as the emergence of new political narratives has been progressively changing the information landscape, undermining some of the pillars of democracy. The volume sheds light on some topical questions connected to fake news, thereby contributing to a fuller understanding of its impact on democracy. In the Introduction, the editors offer some orientating definitions of post-truth politics, building a theoretical framework where various different aspects of fake news can be understood. The book is then divided into three parts: Part I helps to contextualise the phenomena investigated, offering definitions and discussing key concepts as well as aspects linked to the manipulation of information systems, especially considering its reverberation on democracy. Part II considers the phenomena of disinformation, fake news, and post-truth politics in the context of Russia, which emerges as a laboratory where the phases of creation and diffusion of fake news can be broken down and analysed; consequently, Part II also reflects on the ways to counteract disinformation and fake news. Part III moves from case studies in Western and Central Europe to reflect on the methodological difficulty of investigating disinformation, as well as tackling the very delicate question of detection, combat, and prevention of fake news. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of political science, law, political philosophy, journalism, media studies, and computer science, since it provides a multidisciplinary approach to the analysis of post-truth politics.
Author: Elena Ferrante Publisher: Europa Editions ISBN: 1609455924 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 323
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The New York Times–bestseller set in a divided Naples—now a Netflix original series—from the acclaimed author of My Brilliant Friend and The Lost Daughter. A BEST BOOK OF 2020 The Washington Post·O, The Oprah Magazine·TIME Magazine·NPR·People Magazine·The New York Times Critics·The Guardian·Electric Literature·Financial Times·Times UK·Irish Times·New York Post·Kirkus Reviews·Toronto Star·The Globe and Mail·Harper’s Bazaar·Vogue UK·The Arts Desk Giovanna’s pretty face is changing, turning ugly, at least so her father thinks. Giovanna, he says, looks more like her Aunt Vittoria every day. But can it be true? Is she really changing? Is she turning into her Aunt Vittoria, a woman she hardly knows but whom her mother and father clearly despise? Surely there is a mirror somewhere in which she can see herself as she truly is. Giovanna is searching for her reflection in two kindred cities that fear and detest one another: Naples of the heights, which assumes a mask of refinement, and Naples of the depths, a place of excess and vulgarity. She moves from one to the other in search of the truth, but neither city seems to offer answers or escape. “Another spellbinding coming-of-age tale from a master.” —People Magazine, Top 10 Books of 2020 “The literary event of the year.” —Elle “Ms. Ferrante once again, with undiminished skill and audacity, creates an emotional force field that has at its heart a young girl on the brink of womanhood.” —The Wall Street Journal
Author: Jenny Ponzo Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG ISBN: 311049602X Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 372
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This book presents a semiotic study of the re-elaboration of Christian narratives and values in a corpus of Italian novels published after the Second Vatican Council (1960s). It tackles the complex set of ideas expressed by Italian writers about the biblical narration of human origins and traditional religious language and ritual, the perceived clash between the immanent and transcendent nature and role of the Church, and the problematic notion of sanctity emerging from contemporary narrative.
Author: Antonio Guzmán Publisher: Barkhuis ISBN: 9492444844 Category : Art Languages : en Pages : 335
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Many new and fruitful avenues of investigation open up when scholars consider forgery as a creative act rather than a crime. We invited authors to contribute work without imposing any restrictions beyond a willingness to consider new approaches to the subject of ancient fakes, forgeries and questions of authenticity. The result is this volume, in which our aim is to display some of the many possibilities available to scholarship. Following Splendide Mendax, this is the latest installment of an ongoing inquiry, conducted by scholars in numerous countries, into how the ancient world-its literature and culture, its history and art-appears when viewed through the lens of fakes and forgeries, sincerities and authenticities, genuine signatures and pseudepigrapha.
Author: Teodolinda Barolini Publisher: Princeton University Press ISBN: 1400853214 Category : Poetry Languages : en Pages : 328
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By systematically analyzing Dante's attitudes toward the poets who appear throughout his texts, Teodolinda Barolini examines his beliefs about the limits and purposes of textuality and, most crucially, the relationship of textuality to truth. Originally published in 1984. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Author: Michele Battini Publisher: Columbia University Press ISBN: 0231541325 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 424
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In Socialism of Fools, Michele Battini focuses on the critical moment during the Enlightenment in which anti-Jewish stereotypes morphed into a sophisticated, modern social anti-Semitism. He recovers the potent anti-Jewish, anticapitalist propaganda that cemented the idea of a Jewish conspiracy in the European mind and connects it to the atrocities that characterized the Jewish experience in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Beginning in the eighteenth century, counter-Enlightenment intellectuals and intransigent Catholic writers singled out Jews for conspiring to exploit self-sustaining markets and the liberal state. These ideas spread among socialist and labor movements in the nineteenth century and intensified during the Long Depression of the 1870s. Anti-Jewish anticapitalism then migrated to the Habsburg Empire with the Christian Social Party; to Germany with the Anti-Semitic Leagues; to France with the nationalist movements; and to Italy, where Revolutionary Syndicalists made anti-Jewish anticapitalism the basis of an alliance with the nationalists. Exemplified best in the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, the infamous document that "leaked" Jewish plans to conquer the world, the Jewish-conspiracy myth inverts reality and creates a perverse relationship to historical and judicial truth. Isolating the intellectual roots of this phenomenon and its contemporary resonances, Battini shows us why, so many decades after the Holocaust, Jewish people continue to be a powerful political target.
Author: Federica G Pedriali Publisher: Edinburgh University Press ISBN: 0748668748 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 251
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Introduces and analyses stage performances of texts by Italian Modernist writer Carlo Emilio Gadda, Italy's own Joyce. Includes the Italian texts (with English translation) and the dvd of the Italian performance (with English subtitles).
Author: Folke Gernert Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG ISBN: 3110695758 Category : Foreign Language Study Languages : en Pages : 260
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Magicians, necromancers and astrologers are assiduous characters in the European golden age theatre. This book deals with dramatic characters who act as physiognomists or palm readers in the fictional world and analyses the fictionalisation of physiognomic lore as a practice of divination in early modern Romance theatre from Pietro Aretino and Giordano Bruno to Lope de Vega, Calderón de la Barca and Thomas Corneille.
Author: La Civiltà Cattolica
Author: La Civiltà Cattolica
Author: Massimo Durante
Author: Serena Giusti
Author: Elena Ferrante
Author: Jenny Ponzo
Author: Antonio Guzmán
Author: Teodolinda Barolini
Author: Michele Battini
Author: Federica G Pedriali
Author: Folke Gernert