MacIntyre, Dante and Modernity

Phenomenology and Post-Modernity

Phenomenology and Post-Modernity

Statement Blair MacIntyre blair

The core focus of my research is on developing software tools and technologies to support the creation of augmented and mixed reality experiences (AR for short), especially the fundamental (and often subtle) problems that have made augmented reality systems difficult to design and deploy. In my research, I prefer not to focus on a specific aspect of AR software and technology (such as tracking ...

Polanyi , MacIntyre , and the Role of Tradition Michael Polanyi , Alasdair MacIntyre , and the Role of Tradition

Introduction Modernity has reached a dead end. The optimism in which the modern world was conceived and nurtured has been replaced by a thoroughgoing skepticism that denies the possibility of making meaningful truth claims, especially when those claims bear on morality and religion. The irony is that this has occurred as we have become increasingly confident of scientific utterances. Thus, as o...

Translation Studies, Cultural Context, and Dante

In his article, "Translation Studies, Cultural Context, and Dante," Reuven Tsur explores limits of legitimacy in translation studies. Tsur's approach is a critique of the theoretical assumptions and their application in Edoardo Crisafulli's cultural interpretation of Seamus Heaney's decisions in translating the Ugolino episode in Dante's Inferno. Crisafulli claims that Heaney's choices show int...