This essay responds to Badiou’s charge that Deleuze fails to set forth a philosophy that is “beyond categorical oppositions.” It is argued that this criticism of Deleuze is founded upon a misreading of the Deleuzean distinction between the virtual and the actual, a reading that carries forward Badiou’s misreading of Spinoza and, hence, of Deleuze’s Spinozism. With this corrected, we show how th...

Abstract The article analyses Nietzsche’s reception in the German-Jewish press from 1892 to 1918 on basis of archives Richard Krummel. Several narratives can be identified, which, divided into three thematic fields – biography, “the Jews”, Jewry” run through Nietzsche and are discussed following way: after general remarks reception, quoted aphorisms analyzed. treatment biography view “racial su...

like other religions, there are various currents in imami shiite in the first centuries. this article, relying on discourse analysis and by concentrating on oppositions, attempts to identify the internal shiite currents in iraq and iran in the second and third centuries. according to historical evidences, the opposition between school of hisham ibn al-hakam and majority of shia, which was schoo...

immigration i s a n important subject which h as always attracted the attention of critics and authors . tahar ben - j e l l ou n , t h e french author , i s o ne such instance . h is opinion is exceptiona l . with downcast eyes i s a masterpiece by this author . i n this masterpiece , h e displays the problems o f a n african girl in two parts ( before and after immigration ) . the setting of ...

In seeking to explain the persistence of informal economy – defined as set economic activities that are illegal yet legitimate some large groups scholars often focus on instrumental factors; in doing so, role morality is overlooked. response, we conduct a qualitative study Pakistani counterfeit bazaars, understand how market participants construct moral legitimacy way justifies participation in...

Frequency counts are a measure of how much use a language makes of a linguistic unit, such as a phoneme or word. However, what is often important is not the units themselves, but the contrasts between them. A measure is therefore needed for how much use a language makes of a contrast, i.e. the functional load (FL) of the contrast. We generalize previous work in linguistics and speech recognitio...

This article examines different categories of expression genealogies family historiesthemes from the Sunjata epic principles of segmentation labour division in Mandeand proves that they all develop along lines of predictability and are therefore productsof the same discourse It is argued that genealogies are artificial kinship constructionswhich represent status claims Any genea...

This chapter is an empirical attempt to identify the nature and regional dimension of port-city relationships on a world scale. Although general processes of such relationships can be identified in the literature, regional variations are still not well understood when dealing with the insertion of port cities in the global transport chain. An analysis of a world sample is proposed using simple ...