This article examines the evolution of “mystical discourse” in literature on Great Patriotic War from 1941 to 2008. It analyses content ideas about participation supernatural principles people’s relations and fate peoples different historical conditions. The author reveals gnoseological potential socio-cultural mission irrational knowledge that claims be universal truth. “transcendent vision” f...

A variety of themes are explored as the basis for developing a contextual theology of dementia. These include impairment, loss, dislocation, isolation, decline and death. These themes represent immanent human concerns with various kinds of experiences of “selfemptying”. It is suggested that dementia presents a kind of “malaise of immanence”, within which there is progressive inability to focus ...

In this paper we seek to present a challenge to the normative prescriptive role of strategic urban planning practice. In effect, we challenge what has traditionally been regarded as the essence of strategic or `forward' planning: the plan as a statement of what the city ought to become. Using Lacanian-inspired analysis we seek to understand how urban issues may be identified as metaphorical def...

A BibTeX-formatted bibliography of the first twenty-five years of Linguistics and Philosophy, with topic keywords, is available at www.eecs.umich.edu/∼rthomaso/l-and-p/. Rather than attempting an overview of what has been accomplished in the pages of this journal, or even a proper introduction to the papers in this issue that celebrate its twentyfifth anniversary, we instead try to present our ...

mulla sadra shirazi by his fundamentals like fundamentality of existence, existential gradation and the unity of being, believes that love equals being and explains how the love moves in all particles in the universe. he maintains that love is divine nature of human existence and it is full of wisdom and expediency sees. although the description of love by the theory of fundamentality of existe...