1. INTRODUCTION Of all the features of autism, none is more widely admired than the remarkable talent found so frequently with this condition. Yet special talents are still less researched and less well understood than other features of autism. In popular accounts of autism, the existence of extraordinary talent in art, music, maths, calendar calculation or memory, often referred to as savant s...

The urge to theorize has been a driving force of Western intellectual tradition. It underlies academic discourse, giving the scientific enterprise its vitality. Without systematic theorizing much of contemporary culture, particularly technology, would be virtually unthinkable. Disciplines Communication This book chapter is available at ScholarlyCommons: http://repository.upenn.edu/asc_papers/296

Using Gayle Rubin’s (1984) classic distinction between “good sex” and “bad as a springboard, this article explores ideas of sexual normalcy otherness in Swedish context through the lens multi-method case study kink platform darkside.se (established 2003). The focuses on how norms beyond Darkside have shifted time, particular takes shape an ambivalent borderland new forms public visibility linge...

The question that animates this paper is deceptively simple: what is brought into ‘play’ in the conjunction of the signifiers ‘Britishness’ and ‘Otherness’? Is the coupling of these two terms merely a taxonomic convenience, a way of marking out apparently fixed, mostly immutable categories such as ‘nation’, ‘cultural practice’, ‘ethnicity’ and ‘Empire’? Or, conversely, is the opposition of ‘Bri...

Concern for the other is constant with Montaigne, figures of otherness are extraordinarily rich. And yet, Montaigne known above all as writer self. But “soy” like Journal de voyage and Essais, in fact saturated by otherness. This article aims therefore to show how particular will write imagine from

Society has assigned different expectation and obligation to male and female. And this difference is shown in many ways, especially in clothing. Society prescribes standard costume for both sexes. Human clothing represents great otherness because of the gender differences. This dissertation is to discuss the relationship between gender differences and costume.

the purpose of this study was to analyze the philosophical hermeneutics of gadamer، and show its implications for the attainment of self-understanding، otherness- understanding and together – understand in education. to achieve this objective، descriptive research methods and conceptual analysis of the qualitative research approach was used in. this study، the theoretical foundations and philos...