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This paper is a preliminary attempt to bring to the fore some questions and issues regarding the role of habits in aesthetics. Indeed, much attention has recently been given to habits across a wide range of fields of inquiry: philosophers turn to the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
468 Views
17 Pages

3 February 2026

This article examines some postcolonial dimensions of a global literary movement in the twenty-first century called Neo-Decadence. It begins by highlighting the artistic and political preoccupations of the movement within the context of the century&r...

  • Article
  • Open Access
214 Views
20 Pages

28 February 2026

While concepts of remoteness have long conditioned the fabulation of alterity, remoteness is not a quality ascribable to distant places and strange peoples “out there”. No one is by nature “remote”. Building from this proposit...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,648 Views
14 Pages

6 May 2023

In early modern Italy, lyric poets of spiritual verse experimented with engaging and depicting the divine Word in novel ways. They aestheticized bodies, including that of Christ, and they imagined eroticized encounters between themselves and the Word...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,004 Views
14 Pages

20 June 2023

In their different languages, codes of expression, practices and worldviews, art and religion share a reflexive intention to symbolize the chaos, suffering and ambivalence of the real. In particular, the aesthetic programme of Christianity has sought...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11,891 Views
9 Pages

14 March 2019

General George Armstrong Custer remains one of the most iconic and mythologized figures in the history of the American West. His infamous defeat at the 1876 Battle of the Little Bighorn largely defines his legacy; historical scholarship and popular r...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
11,009 Views
22 Pages

23 July 2019

Naturalism, as a movement and genre, was heavily influenced by the work of Émile Zola, particularly by his essay, Le roman expérimental (1880). However, despite Zola’s strong influence, Naturalism was also significantly influenced...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4,673 Views
25 Pages

15 September 2020

Disgust occupies a particular space in Buddhism where repulsive aspects of the human body are visualized and reflected upon in contemplative practices. The Indian tradition of aesthetics also recognizes disgust as one of the basic human emotions that...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
9,420 Views
23 Pages

Convivial Greenstreets: A Concept for Climate-Responsive Urban Design

  • Ken Tamminga,
  • João Cortesão and
  • Michiel Bakx

This paper presents a conceptual framework for using “convivial greenstreets” (CG) as a resource for climate adaptation. When applied consistently, CG can become an emerging green practice with a positive impact on urban adaptation to climate change:...

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  • Open Access
195 Views
20 Pages

7 March 2026

The publication of Richard Wilhelm’s German translation of the Daodejing in 1911 ignited a “Daoist enthusiasm” in German literary circles, offering spiritual solace to a generation disillusioned by World War I. This article explores...

  • Perspective
  • Open Access
1 Citations
10,858 Views
25 Pages

27 January 2022

While reports of the death of literature are greatly exaggerated, reports of the decline of Aestheticism, New Criticism, and the printed word are not. Literature as a critique of society is alive today, but to survive tomorrow in any form it will nee...

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  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,890 Views
15 Pages

30 May 2019

Associating autonomy with art has long been viewed with suspicion, but autonomous signifying agency may be attributed to literary discourse without lapsing into decontextualized aestheticism or neoliberal conceptions of subjectivity. Through literary...

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  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,932 Views
22 Pages

13 August 2025

The early encounters between Buddhism and Christianity in China were primarily characterized by mutual exclusivity and competition. By the Republic of China era, both traditions faced mounting pressures—Buddhism under the impact of modernizatio...

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  • Open Access
523 Views
27 Pages

11 January 2026

This article examines how the same heritage or revival site can produce both welcoming and hostile atmospheres depending on the cohort, yielding selectively permeable environments that enable some groups while constraining others. Climatic volatility...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
16,563 Views
14 Pages

19 March 2023

This text is a critical interpretation of Walter Benjamin’s theory in the context of the contemporary situation in art and culture. Benjamin’s innovative method of analysis and key concepts in art theory and their simultaneous research an...

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  • Open Access
436 Views
16 Pages

5 January 2026

Fin-de-siècle decadence—marked by symbolism, dandyism, aesthetic withdrawal, and defiance of bourgeois norms—has long been reimagined beyond its original European contours. Vladimir Nabokov’s Ada or Ardor: A Family Chronicle...

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  • Open Access
1,082 Views
12 Pages

1 July 2025

Early modern theologians often cast female curiosity as both a moral flaw and an epistemic transgression. Aware of this suspicion, Teresa of Ávila professed to have renounced such dangerous impulses in her youth. Yet the persistent presence of...

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  • Open Access
3,988 Views
10 Pages

8 December 2023

The image of the Apsara, a celestial dancer in Cambodian myth, is closely associated with Cambodian cultural preservation practices like Cambodian classical dance. The Apsara, its aesthetic features and its association with Cambodian cultural preserv...