Literary pedagogy occupied a privileged place in Bourdieu’s early work on education insofar as he saw it as exemplifying in unconscious mode socially segregational dynamics. Bourdieu’s expressly ‘reductionist’ critique was uncannily mirrored, however, by the spread of more economically instrumental approaches to education. Bourdieu’s engagement with these led him to develop a fuller apprehensio...

This article addresses the question whether and how literary documents can be used to further our understanding of a number of key issues on the agenda of the philosophy of biology such as "complexity" and "reductionism". Kant already granted a certain respectability to aesthetical experiences of nature in his third Critique. Subsequently, the philosophical movement known as phenomenology often...

death is one of the most inspiring concepts in most of well-known contemporary western and arab poets’works,including t.s. eliot and badr shakir al-sayyab’s. it plays a unique role in shaping the modern poetry. this paper contains a comparative archetypal-based analysis of symbolic aspects of death in “the waste land”, the most famous literary work by t.s.eliot whose impression on al-sayyab was...

The story of Joseph has been praised as a treasure of world literature. Voltaire confessed it is one of the most precious documents handed down to our own age from antiquity. Neither Egypt nor Babylon can offer anything even remotely comparable. The matchless narrative of the lost son moves old and young alike. As a literary work, it is artistic perfection. The literary genius of The Joseph Nar...