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The article offers the biographical information of Elizabeth Gurley Flynn. Flynn was an organizer of Industrial Workers of the World and a Communist party activist. She launched major strikes in the U.S., however, she was indicted and convicted. She became the first female national chair of the Communist Party, headed the Women's commission, and eventually died in Soviet Union. The collection is divided into eight series and includes 33 reels.

The article proposes a short bio-bibliographic profile of the seventeenth-century Spanish polymath Juan Caramuel y Lobkowitz, exposes the main contents of one of his Latin works, the Grammatica Audax (litt.: 'the Audacious Grammar'), and focuses on the passages of this work that shed new light on the history of semiotic ideas. The paper dwells, in particular, on the first part of the Grammatica Audax, the Methodica, where Caramuel adopts the linguistic approach of Renaissance speculative grammars and elaborates his ideas on the combinatorial nature of linguistic expression, the definition of meaning, the types of signification, the naturalness versus conventionality of signs and words, etc. Two points of the Grammatica Audax are deeply relevant vis-à-vis the history of semiotic ideas: first, Caramuel's speculations on signs as relations; second, his original conception of signification as 'moral or virtual transubstantiation.' The paper concludes by emphasizing the importance of rekindling the interest of contemporary semioticians in Caramuel's neglected works. Like most Catholic scholars after the Council of Trent, Caramuel conceived of signs, signification, language, and communication so as to provide a theoretical ground for early-modern Catholic spirituality against the critiques of Protestant theologians. Yet, such a theological effort gave rise to (proto-) semiotic insights whose importance for the development of modern and contemporary semiotics should not be underestimated. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article presents abstracts of papers related to sociology which include the use of methylphenidate to respond to social pressure, the structural logic of pornography and the modes of biography construction.

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Copyright of Zeitschrift für Antikes Christentum / Journal of Ancient Christianity is the property of De Gruyter and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. This abstract may be abridged. No warranty is given about the accuracy of the copy. Users should refer to the original published version of the material for the full abstract. (Copyright applies to all Abstracts.)

The article presents information on the novel "Ulysses," by Irish novelist and poet James Joyce in which he discusses certain assumptions related to the biographies of play writer and poet William Shakespeare, which imitates his life. The narrative technique and presentation of Joyce creates a living impression in his characters. The biographical knowledge and theoretical approach related to life is considered here in detail and conducts a comparative study between the novels Ulysses and Hamlet. The structure of Ulysses is discussed with reference to that of Hamlet.

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Nietzsche planned and worked hard on writing a Hauptwerk at least between 1884 and November 1888. I will show that there are good reasons to assume that this intention continued until at least just days before his collapse. Nietzsche's changing and alternating references to Der Antichrist as either "the first book of the Umwerthung aller Werthe" or as "the Umwerthung aller Werthe" is likely merely to be a reflection of an uncertainty of, or changed view of, how to entitle that work, not to that he had given up on the project. If Nietzsche changed his mind about writing the further three volumes at the end of November or the end of December 1888, this would be a major change of his intentions and relevant for his biography. But in regard to the books and notes we possess it is really a question of little consequence since they were already written before this. However, his continued plans for and work on a major four volume Hauptwerk is a question of major importance for the interpretation of both his late books and his late notes. This is a question that has received far too little attention since the publication of the critical edition of Nietzsche's work. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article focuses on political theorist Hannah Arendt, who had been concerned on the experience of philosopher Socrates, philosopher Plato's view on education of philosophers, and critical thinking. It mentions the article "Philosophy and Politics," in which Arendt considers the trial of Socrates as the start of a philosophical tradition that is grounded on the conflict between politics and philosophy. Arendt notes that the myth of the cave presented in Plato's "Republic" Book VII offers his biography. It adds that Arendt's philosophy attempts to elaborate the significance of critical thought in political judgment.

A biography of Valentin Pavlovich Dymnikov, head of the Institute of Numerical Mathematics of the RAS, is presented. Born on November 26, 1938 in Russia, Dymnikov finished his studies at the Moscow Engineering Physics Institute in 1961. His initial works involved the construction of effective numerical techniques for short-term weather prediction. He later focused on the construction of a climate model on modern parallel computing systems and modern geophysical hydrodynamics.

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