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The Literary Construction of the Universe : Narratives of Truth, Transcendence, and Triumph in Contemporary Anglo-American Popularizations of Physics and Astronomy

Daniel Helsing
- Iss: 18
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The article was published on 2019-01-01 and is currently open access. It has received 79 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Transcendence (philosophy).

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Imagined communities: Reflections on the origin and spread of nationalism

TL;DR: In this paper, Imagined communities: Reflections on the origin and spread of nationalism are discussed. And the history of European ideas: Vol. 21, No. 5, pp. 721-722.
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The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion

TL;DR: Haidt as mentioned in this paper argues that the visceral reaction to competing ideologies is a subconscious, rather than leaned, reaction that evolved over human evolution to innate senses of suffering, fairness, cheating and disease, and that moral foundations facilitated intra-group cooperation which in turn conferred survival advantages over other groups.
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Cybernetics, or Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine

Enders A. Robinson
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors propose a Cybernetics or Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine (CACM) for controlling and communicating with animals and the machines.
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The content of the Form: narrative discourse and historical representation

TL;DR: Hayden White as mentioned in this paper put together essays on Droysen, Foucault, Jameson and Ricoeur to give an encompassing account of a problematic issue that has been one of the major concerns of historical studies as well as of many other areas of the human sciences: that of the importance of narrative representation in the description or explanation of the "object" of study of human sciences.
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Imagined communities: Reflections on the origin and spread of nationalism

TL;DR: In this paper, Imagined communities: Reflections on the origin and spread of nationalism are discussed. And the history of European ideas: Vol. 21, No. 5, pp. 721-722.
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The postmodern condition : a report on knowledge

TL;DR: In this article, the status of science, technology, and the arts, the significance of technocracy, and how the flow of information is controlled in the Western world are discussed.
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The agenda-setting function of mass media

TL;DR: In choosing and displaying news, editors, newsroom staff, and broadcasters play an important part in shaping political reality as mentioned in this paper, and readers learn not only about a given issue, but also how much importance to attach to that issue from the amount of information in a news story and its position.