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نقد فرمالیستی خطبۀ قاصعه/علی نجفی ایوکی-نیلوفر زریوند

The mathematician as a formalist

Comparative Classification for Administrators: A Short Sermon

It appears that in too many instances the administrators who must decide what classification schemes libraries should use lack understanding of comparative classification. As a result, these decisions are frequently based upon irrelevant considerations. The author points to the several weighty reasons for claiming that such systems as Bliss, the Colon Scheme, and the UDC are superior to those i...

The Creation of Authority in a Sermon by St. Augustine

As its title reveals, Joe’s early book, The Authoritative and the Authoritarian,1 drew an original distinction that is important to all thought about law, and about more than law: to all thought about any form of social organization, from the family to the church—for all human organization requires authority. As for the meaning of the word “authoritative”: in this book, and in his later thinkin...

THE FORMALIST REVOLUTION OF THE 1950s

Something happened to economics in the decade of the 1950s that is little appreciated by most economists and even by professional historians of economic thought. The subject went through an intellectual revolution as profound in its impact as the so-called Keynesian Revolution of pre-war years. I call it the Formalist Revolution after Ward (1972, pp. 40–41), who was the first to recognize the p...

Toward a Materialist-Formalist History of Twentieth-Century Irish Literature

Most accounts of contemporary Irish culture tend to be largely affirmative, evenWhiggish, in cast. The contemporary cultural moment is recurrently described as one characterized by renaissance, experiment, and iconoclasm, a moment vitalized by the emergence of radical new voices, styles, media, forms, and energies. This upbeat view is clearly underpinned by a broader sociohistorical narrative, ...