walter benjamin proposes that a work of art does not belong to a specific time; rather it is transient. a work of art has a 'temporal effect' which is considered as the 'context' of the work in which it has been written. the 'context' cannot be reconstructed to be the same as what once existed;it is constructed.translator's job is to recreate the life of the original work from one language to a...

this article is concerned with eugene fontinell’s idea about personal immortality. fontinell has offered a specific view about the possibility of afterlife, through employing the experimental method, william james’s pragmatic method, and also developing william james’s field theory and his psychological ideas about the “self”.  fontinell believes that it is possible to imagine immortality in a ...

Little is known about how the minds of dead agents are represented. In the current experiment, individuals with different types of explicit afterlife beliefs were asked in an implicit interview task whether various mental state types, as well as pure biological imperatives, continue after death. The results suggest that, regardless of one’s explicit reports about personal consciousness after de...

One of my research projects examines pictorial symbols and epitaphs on gravestones in Norway and Sweden. The focus has been on the 1990s and the 2000s. The choice of this period is motivated by the fact that new national burial laws were adopted in both countries in the early 1990s. These laws provided the next of kin with the possibility of choosing memorial symbols and inscriptions more freel...

The last conscious thoughts before loss of consciousness have been of interest for many years. Some people have been reported as having said that they had had a glimpse of an afterlife , and had regretted returning to this one; others have recalled, so novelists write, a misspent youth, or events they wish had not taken place. During an investigation into retrograde amnesia (Rudolf, 1947, 1948)...

This article investigates the symbolism of white color in works Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish and Spanish Federico Garcia Lorca. The is exceptionally employed their poetry, which different from its normal Arabic cultures. In used to symbolize a duality opposites, death as an end mortal life eternity infinity phase afterlife. paradoxical use cannot be grasped by readers without considering po...

Many “pro-life” or anti-abortion advocates are Christians who believe that (1) there exists an all-powerful, all-knowing, and morally perfect god created our universe; (2) restricting abortion ought to be a top social political priority; (3) embryos fetuses die all go hell they heaven. This paper seeks establish Christian pro-life with these beliefs face the Afterlife Dilemma. On one hand, if h...