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3 days ago · This chapter is a historical account of the social and political dimensions of vaccines and vaccine science over the last two centuries. Beginning with Benjamin Jesty, Edward Jenner and smallpox vaccination and concluding in the early neoliberal era, the chapter...
4 days ago · Here we introduce aspects of his times, life, philosophical formation, and social-historical and critical work, including his use of literary montage and concepts of history, now-time (Jetztzeit), non-sensuous similarities, and dialectical images. Benjamin’s methodology and discoveries offer penetrating tools to any psychiatry which is truly ...
5 days ago · The saga, inspired by Messud’s family history, follows three generations of the Cassar family from 1940 to 2010. Claire Messud’s aunt Denise Messud, grandmother Lucienne Messud, and father François-Michel Messud, pictured in 1940. They inspired characters in her new novel. Patriarch Gaston Cassar, his devoted wife, Lucienne, and their ...
1 day ago · St. John's Church, an Episcopal church in Washington, D.C., has been visited by every sitting president since James Madison. [1] Religious affiliations can affect the electability of the presidents of the United States and shape their stances on policy matters and their visions of society and also how they want to lead it.
5 days ago · In churchyard, N. of nave, (2) to Benjamin Jesty, 1816, '. . . the first person [known] that introduced the Cow Pox by Innoculation . . .', headstone; (3) to Elizabeth Jesty, wife of the above, 1824, headstone.
21 hours ago · The Concepts that Made Prehistory: An Interview with Stefanos Geroulanos. by Benjamin Diehl. Stefanos Geroulanos is the Director of the Remarque Institute and Professor of History at New York University. At the center of Geroulanos’s work has been an interest in how the concept of the human has been made and remade in the past few centuries.
5 days ago · In his “Theses on the Philosophy of History,” Walter Benjamin fiercely criticizes optimistic views which see human history as a story of progress where humanity’s ever expanding scientific and moral knowledge has led to ever increasing freedom and happiness. Benjamin’s critique exposes this view as a violent ideology whose persuasiveness lies in its reliance on a ...
