Critical intellectuals were traditionally those who utilized their skills of speaking and writing to denounce injustices and abuses of power, and to fight for truth, justice, progress, and other positive values. In the words of Jean-Paul Sartre (1974: 285), "the duty of the intellectual is to denounce injustice wherever it occurs." The modern critical intellectual's field of action was what Hab...

Platelets have recently been shown to participate in reactions with blood coagulation factors at every stage of intrinsic clotting, from contact activation to fibrin formation. Platelets can trigger intrinsic coagulation by two alternative pathways, the first of which involves factors XII and Xl and adenosine diphosphate, and the second of which bypasses factor XII, provided factor Xl and colla...

The present study is conducted to compare 'From 7 o`clock to 9:30' by Abbas Na-albandian and 'Erostratus' by Jean-Paul Sartre based on Bakhtin’s intertextual approach with an eye on Bakhtin’s notion of dialogic imagination. Bakhtin in his approach focuses on the text, rather than the author, and that is why the approach is so demanding at present time. Also his dialogism refers to the fact that...

The 19 century Danish philosopher Søren Kierkegaard was a profoundly religious thinker. He is also regarded as the father of Existentialism, one of the most important philosophical movements of the 20 century. The term ‘existentialist’ is applied to those philosophers, like Jean-Paul Sartre and Albert Camus, who held that the foundation of all philosophical thought is to be found in the actual,...

imone de Beauvoir recalls that when she first made the acquaintance of Jean-Paul Sartre he, then still a young man, proudly and somewhat hubristically declared that when he became older he wanted to be Stendhal and Spinoza (Cérémonie 182, 228). Not satisfied with the dream of being merely a great writer or a great philosopher, Sartre hoped to pursue both academic vocations at the same time. For...

Abstract This investigation provides an in-depth exploration of the dialectics action and technology in works French philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre, both terms concrete use contexts technological artifacts entanglement between individual agents their sociotechnical surroundings. Furthermore, it briefly outlines some potentials Sartre’s thoughts for debates contemporary philosophy technology. Thro...