Greetings! We would like to warmly welcome you to this years' IHSRC at Bournemouth University. The conference has a long and rich history of bringing people together from far and wide to share developments and emerging perspectives in human science research. We have had the privilege of attending previous IHSRCs and have experienced the very real sense of scholarly community that is at its core...

Nadeem Aslam’s Maps for Lost Lovers reflects existential crises, the life of migrant settlers in western world and transnationalism. The present paper proposes to have a study on existentialism which that an individual person is free think make decisions by himself. But should remember such are taken immediate purposes. This research about Existentialist strain transnationalist elements Lovers....

Sartre's concept of ‘non-thetic awareness’ must be understood as equivalent to the concept of ‘nonconceptual content’ currently discussed in anglophone epistemology and philosophy of mind, since it could not otherwise play the role in the structure of ‘bad faith’, or self-deception, that Sartre ascribes to it. This understanding of the term makes sense of some otherwise puzzling features of Sar...

cancer is deemed the century’s major health problem, and its increasing growth during the last decades has made experts concerned more than ever. of all types of cancer, breast cancer is regarded as the second most common disease among women. the aim of this study was to determine the effectiveness of spiritual group therapy on quality of life and spiritual well-being among patients suffering f...

This paper aims to extend dark tourism scholarship concerned with existential aspects of the human nature and power ‘dark places’ provoke our thinking about meaning purpose existence. Our main focus is on artistic expressions in form murals that have emerged years following nuclear disaster Chernobyl, questioning significance meanings they for Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, context tourists' percept...

ABSTRACT This paper proposes a reflection on the concept of presence theorized by Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht premised Heidegger’s thought, contrasting it with philosophy Jacques Derrida, especially in his deconstruction metaphysics presence. Accordingly, is neither matter tracing Heideggerian throughout oeuvre nor defending Derrida from accusations linguistic existentialism, but rather demonstrating...

In his article, "Reading Orientalism and the Crisis of Epistemology in the Novels of Lawrence Durrell," James Gifford argues that Edward Said's Orientalism has had a far reaching impact on the study of literature as well as in Comparative Literature, especially in works which depict the "Eastern Other." However, a question arises in those texts which have completed the philosophical motion from...