Universal Sympathy and Naturalistic Approach in the Novels of Arnold Bennett

Transformation of society inevitably leads to transformation of culture. The relevance of studying the reproductive cultural transformations of modern Russian society is increasing due to the obvious presence of gender crisis at the macrosocial and microsocial levels. Gender stereotyping in procreation is increasingly in confl ict with the variety of masculine and feminine reproductive scenarios, the demarcation of norms and pathologies of reproductive behavior. The gender approach in studying of reproductive behavior in modern Russian men and women in this article is aimed to typologize and analyze masculine and feminine reproductive scenarios – from the most conformal (pronatalistic) to oppositional (antinatalistic). The rejection of the totally naturalistic approach to the interpretation of motherhood and fatherhood in favor of analyzing the sociocultural components of the currently relevant feminine and masculine reproductive strategies is much more responsive to the social needs and the demands of modern humanitarian science.

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L'origine del linguaggio puň attendere

PARADIGMI ◽

10.3280/para2009-001012 ◽

2009 ◽

pp. 163-172

Author(s):

Francesco Ferretti

Keyword(s):

Recent Literature ◽

Empirical Treatment ◽

Viable Alternative ◽

Linguistic Variation ◽

Cognitive Perspective ◽

Evolutionary Theories ◽

Language Origin ◽

Origin Of Language ◽

Naturalistic Approach ◽

The Subject

- Starting from a discussion of Sylvain Auroux's new book (L'origine des langues... 2007), the paper develops a critique of the anti-naturalistic approach to the study of language. The rejection of the quest for language origin as a theory unsusceptible to scientific empirical treatment is an aspect of the idealistic consequences of anti-naturalist positions. A survey is presented of recent literature on the subject. In our opinion, evolutionary theories, revisited from a cognitive perspective, have radically changed the terms of the debate and made naturalism a viable alternative. Keywords: Evolutionism, FOXP2, Innateness, Linguistic variation, Nature-nurture debate, Origin of language.

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Arnold Bennett, article in Evening Standard, December 1926

Virginia Woolf ◽

10.4324/9780203444726-67 ◽

2003 ◽

pp. 205-206

Keyword(s):

Arnold Bennett

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ARNOLD BENNETT, a tribute of admiration, Evening Standard 1930

D.H. Lawrence ◽

10.4324/9780203195116-102 ◽

2013 ◽

pp. 353-355

Keyword(s):

Arnold Bennett

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Introduction: Explaining Contingency

The Nature of Contingency ◽

10.1093/oso/9780198846215.003.0001 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 1-21

Author(s):

Alastair Wilson

Keyword(s):

Present State ◽

Modal Realism ◽

The Third ◽

The Core ◽

Fourth Part ◽

Naturalistic Approach ◽

Big Picture ◽

Metaphysics Of Modality

The first part of this introduction sketches the main project of the book, and the structure of the arguments for my proposed quantum modal realism. The second part describes the unsatisfying present state of the metaphysics of modality, setting out what I take to be the most serious objections facing the best extant proposals. A naturalistic approach to metaphysics promises to resolve these objections by providing an account of modality that draws only on scientifically respectable theoretical resources. In the third part, I distinguish two big-picture approaches to the metaphysics of modality, and argue for the viability of an unfamiliar approach that takes the nature of contingency as the core phenomenon that a theory of modality needs to explain. In the fourth part, I explain my methodology and briefly defend the general project of naturalistic metaphysics.

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