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Chronic Conditions: Beckett, Bergson and Samuel Johnson

This article analyses the work of the twentieth-century late modernist Samuel Beckett, in light of the turn-of-the-century anti-rationalist Henri Bergson (1859-1941) and the eighteenth-century neoclassicist Samuel Johnson (1709-1784). What unites these three very different thinkers is a concern over habitual, automatic and involuntary behavior, which in all three cases has a distinctly neurolog...

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Ectopic valvular ossification during the course of degenerative valve disease is a relatively rare event. The presence of lamellar bone tissue in human cardiac valve was first documented histologically by Rosenstein over a century ago (1). The frequency of ossification in surgically excised native cardiac valves reported in three large retrospective analyses was 13% (aortic and mitral valves) (...

The Phenomenal Presence of Invisible Legs: Beckett and the Actor

ed, and conceptualized” (Garner “‘Still Living Flesh’: Beckett, MerleauPonty, and the Phenomenological Body” 448). 2. Kuhn’s influential book, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (1962), specifies that landmark scientific advancements such as Newton’s Principia should be understood as paradigms because “[t]heir achievement was sufficiently unprecedented to attract an enduring group of adher...

LIS meets the EIP

To meet a perceived need for information professionals engaging in projects on document and knowledge management, a new course on Enterprise Information Portals (EIP) and Intranets has been established at the Royal School of Library and Information Science (RSLIS). The aim of the course has been to provide the graduates with a better understanding of fundamental theoretical, methodological and ...