Vernacular anxiety and the Semitic imaginary: Shem Tov Isaac ibn Ardutiel de Carrión and his critics

Rorty and His Critics

Daniel Dohrn Lewis and his Critics on

Ibn a`Nnafees and his masterpiece "al-Mujaz"

Abu-al-Hassan, Ala-a`Ddeen Ali Ibn Abe`l-Hazm Ibn a`Nnafees al-Qurashi a`Ddimashqi (607-687 A.H.) was born in Damascus, wherein he grew up and was occupied studying sciences as syntax, jurisprudence, medicine, theology, tradition, logic, etc. His most well known masters in medicine were Muhadhdhib a`Ddeen a`Ddakhwar and Umran Israeli. After completing his studies, he left Damascus for Cairo, wh...

Ibn a`Nnafees and his masterpiece "al-Mujaz"

Abu-al-Hassan, Ala-a`Ddeen Ali Ibn Abe`l-Hazm Ibn a`Nnafees al-Qurashi a`Ddimashqi (607-687 A.H.) was born in Damascus, wherein he grew up and was occupied studying sciences as syntax, jurisprudence, medicine, theology, tradition, logic, etc. His most well known masters in medicine were Muhadhdhib a`Ddeen a`Ddakhwar and Umran Israeli. After completing his studies, he left Damascus for Cairo, wh...

The Concept of Labor : Marx and His Critics SEAN

Marx conceives of labor as form-giving activity. This is criticized for presupposing a “productivist” model of labor which regards work that creates a material product — craft or industrial work — as the paradigm for all work (Habermas, Benton, Arendt). Many traditional kinds of work do not seem to fit this picture, and new “immaterial” forms of labor (computer work, service work, etc.) have de...