Exodus or Exile: The Trope of "more life" in Louise Glück’s Poetry
 What is life poetry? One concept that trying to answer this questions a psycho-theological, messianic and vitalist category “more life,” elaborated by the Polish scholar Agata Bielik-Robson on basis Harold Bloom’s theory poetic incarnation. writings constitute link between Jewish vitalism line American poetry, which I plac...

Building on previous research examining the implications for self-regulation and decision making of construing action at varying levels of abstraction, the authors proposed that construing action in terms of its abstract purposes facilitates orienting one’s decisions toward the standards, characteristics, and goalspurposes facilitates orienting one’s decisions toward the standards, characterist...

is "what is got before the mind by an act of abstraction." It is what comes to be known by attending to some part, or aspect, of "what is presented."18 In contrast, what is concrete is grasped by at tending to all of what is presented, not by attending to some part or aspect of it. No special act of selective attending is involved in our grasp of concrete things. 17 Campbell, "The Metaphysic of...

Nominalizations are expressions that are particularly challenging philosophically in that they help form singular terms that seem to refer to abstract or derived objects often considered controversial. The three standard views about the semantics of nominalizations are [1] that they map mere meanings onto objects, [2] that they refer to implicit arguments, and [3] that they introduce new object...

Africa has long been looked at by outsiders as a continent that is hopelessly mired in corruption and incapable of social economic development. This especially pertains to sub-Saharan Africa, overwhelmingly populated black people, thus fitting the trope white supremists people cannot successfully govern themselves.

This manuscript is based on the first author’s doctoral dissertation, completed under the direction of the second author. The authors gratefully acknowledge the helpful input of the other dissertation committee members: Geeta Menon, Tom Meyvis, and Yaacov Trope, as well as the Stern Marketing brown bag attendees, and participants at presentations of this research at the Society for Consumer Psy...

This paper provides a reading of the trope “after Foucault” to indicate three lines of inquiry in Foucauldian studies with particular application to education: the postcolonial, following Edward Said; the biopolitical, following Giorgio Agamben; and the empire of capital, following Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri. This is a synoptic paper that engages with the question of how to read Foucault a...