fictional literature has experiencedan increasing and stunning growthof women writers in the past two decades. in terms of quality and quantity, theincrease was to the extent that nowadays women’s names are mentioned sometimeseven more than men’s amongthe distinguished writers ofcontemporary iranianliterature. on the other hand, these authors have often chosen the novel astheir main literary fo...

This paper presents a critical evaluation on the global riskscape following COVID-19 pandemic. The coronavirus disease spread around globe questioning priorities in public health policies as well economic adaptability to prevention measures. Spreading with social, political and costs societies, issue of pandemic exceeds limits being identified problem, becomes be catalyst new paradigm consid-er...

This paper reframes the concept of competition, arguing that recent tendencies to frame it in context neoliberalism are too narrow grasp its full significance. We need see how operates well beyond capitalist economy, as a social and not just theoretical concept. I contextualise deeper history, going back eighteenth century, beginning with an empirical examination development English language di...

This paper identifies cultural and historical dimensions that structure US climate science politics. It explores why a key subset of scientists—the physicist founders and leaders of the influential George C. Marshall Institute—chose to lend their scientific authority to this movement which continues to powerfully shape US climate policy. The paper suggests that these physicists joined the envir...

This paper argues that the progressive, revisionist reaction within Catholic education and schooling, as well as within Catholicism at large, to the challenge of modernity is a mistake. In view of modernity’s malaises, it advocates instead the affirmation or reaffirmation of the ideal of traditional Catholicism as the only authentic response for Catholics to modern progress. In order to justify...

Hegel?s Phenomenology of Spirit put alienation high on the philosophical agenda, as was readily recognized by Marx. Relatively well-known is also that concept inspired Goethe?s translation Diderot?s dialogue Rameau?s Nephew, but details and conceptual implications these typically escape scholarly attention. Recognizing basic idea not-belonging to or being deprived something, I emphasize implies...

The relationship between modernity and religiosity has been in the center of many scholarly debates. Among others, Charles Taylor presents in his works a general picture of the elements that shape the secular age. He starts with the question why people used to be faithful, while they are not easily so in our age. To answer, he explores the past five centuries in the West and coins some terms to...

The biblical book of Ecclesiastes is often claimed as a harbinger of modernity. In this essay, I compare Ecclesiastes with two overlapping constructions of modernity, taken from Matthew Arnold and Charles Taylor, focusing especially on Taylor’s motifs of inwardness, narrativity, meaninglessness, and ordinary life. I suggest that the likeness to modernity in Ecclesiastes is a complex bundle of e...