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A Grain of Justice, a Grain of Truth: An Analysis of Obscurity in an Early Medieval Irish Text (2017)

Guidera O'Rourke, Deborah

A Grain of Justice, a Grain of Truth: An Analysis of Obscurity in an Early Medieval Irish Text (2017)

Guidera O'Rourke, Deborah

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Immacallam in Dá Thuarad or The Colloquy of the Two Sages is a ninth - century text preserved in whole or part in eleven manuscripts dating between the twelfth and sixteenth centuries (Carey, 2014, p. 630), in which two poets Néde and Ferchertne engage in a verbal sparring contest which is often obscure, in an attempt to define their iden tity and status and exact the claim of head poet. This paper focuses on §236, Neglect of Crops; i.e., without cultivating them, or without their growing although they are cultivated; or [neglect] of judgements, and §237, Perjuries (2014, p. 637), from John Carey’s edition of the eschatological section of Ferchertne’s speech. It seeks to demonstrate how these phrases illustrate the complexity of the learning of the medieval Irish poet who delivers an eschatological vision of last days, informed by metaphoric and allegorical references which were employed by a ‘small intellectual el...

http://mural.maynoothuniversity.ie/8296/

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Genealogy, method (2009)

Crowley, Una

Genealogy, method (2009)

Crowley, Una

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Genealogy is a historical perspective and investigative method, which offers an intrinsic critique of the present. It provides people with the critical skills for analysing and uncovering the relationship between knowledge, power and the human subject in modern society and the conceptual tools to understand how their being has been shaped by historical forces. Genealogy works on the limits of what people think is possible, not only exposing those limits and confines but also revealing the spaces of freedom people can yet experience and the changes that can still be made (Foucault 1988). Genealogy as method derives from German philosophy, particularly the works of Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900), but is most closely associated with French academic Michel Foucault (1926-24). Michel Foucault’s genealogical analyses challenge traditional practices of history, philosophical assumptions and established conceptions of knowledge, truth and power. Genealogy displaces the primacy of the subje...

http://mural.maynoothuniversity.ie/3024/

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Introduction: 'At tending to the Way Things Are' : Frankfurtian Reflections on Truth and Musicology (2009)

Kehoe, Joe

Introduction: 'At tending to the Way Things Are' : Frankfurtian Reflections on Truth and Musicology (2009)

Kehoe, Joe

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In his recent examination of The Discourse o f Musicology Giles Hooper poses the question ‘What should one say about music?’ and it is clear that the use of the word should here covers a moral dimension.1 Unlike, say, physicians and engineers, whose activities are assessed in terms of outcomes such as health of patients and robustness of physical constructions, what musicologists do must primarily be considered in terms of the words they produce. Given that this is the case, and that speech acts (understood to cover inscriptions - the normal mode of scholarly discourse - as well as utterances) may be examined for whether they are true or false, appropriately informative or deceptive, perspicuous or vague, questions of truth, honesty, and intellectual integrity, can become important issues for musicologists.

http://mural.maynoothuniversity.ie/9468/

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Management, Truth and Life (2009)

Maguire, Mark

Management, Truth and Life (2009)

Maguire, Mark

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The 2006 United Nations report, the State of the World's Refugees, outlines many of the challenges of studying migration in the contemporary moment. The first of these being the recognition that migration today is increasingly 'mixed' or blended. In contrast, the postWorld War II state-based migration regimes seem to offer governmental categories that, to paraphrase Friedrich Nietzsche, grasp at the smoke of an evaporating reality. These days, student migration is also widdy recognized (even by governments) to be blended with labour migration. With increasing restrictions on labour migration, applications for asylum offer one of the few routes to a better life; and, with increasingly restrictive asylum systems, unknown numbers are falling into irregular routes. All of this must be situated against a background in which the numbers of migrants in the world continues to grow. Of course, many migrants are not asylum seekers, refugees or 'illegal' immigrants, bu...

http://mural.maynoothuniversity.ie/2848/

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Managing Migration? The Politics of truth and Life Itself, a special issue (2009)

Maguire, Mark; Murphy, Fiona

Managing Migration? The Politics of truth and Life Itself, a special issue (2009)

Maguire, Mark; Murphy, Fiona

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http://mural.maynoothuniversity.ie/12762/

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Muriel Rukeyser, America, and the "Melville Revival" (2010)

Gander, Catherine

Muriel Rukeyser, America, and the "Melville Revival" (2010)

Gander, Catherine

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Whilst Muriel Rukeyser's poetic affinity with Walt Whitman is generally acknowledged, the close relation of her work and poetic sensibility to the thought and writing of Herman Melville has somehow gone relatively unnoticed, and almost wholly unexamined. In 1918, Van Wyck Brooks called for the creation of a usable past that would energize America by recasting its cultural tradition. His plea addressed the need to rebuild a national heritage via the rediscovery of culturally "great" figures. By the late 1930s, many scholars and writers had answered the call, and the new discipline of American studies was beginning to take shape, aided by a reclamation of one of the country's greatest, most neglected, writers - Herman Melville. This was also the period in which Rukeyser "came of age"; a time when political and international conflicts and economic crises generated both the stark, documentary representation of present social realities and the drive to retri...

http://mural.maynoothuniversity.ie/11442/

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The Integrity of Learning and the Search for Truth (2005)

Hogan, Padraig

The Integrity of Learning and the Search for Truth (2005)

Hogan, Padraig

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Socrates believed that the search for truth was the highest aspiration of human learning. And by truth he meant something more inclusive than the factual accuracy of propositions about the natural world. Much closer to his heart, and to his ever-renewed practical efforts, was the venturesome question of the truth about the right way to live. Yet, in the course of his encounters with the most accomplished intellects of his age, he came to see, as Plato showed him declaring frankly in the Apology, that there was something enigmatic about this question, something that resisted resolution in conclusive terms.1 This is not to deny that there are notable advances made in the lively debates of the early dialogues of Plato, which show Socrates at his philosophical and educational best. But those advances are of a curious and frequently chastening kind. Characteristically, they reveal to participants in the dialogues some undetected biases, often crucial ones, in their own starting points. I...

http://mural.maynoothuniversity.ie/8573/

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Truth, Charity, and the Dismal Science: An Economist’s Response to Caritas In Veritate (2011)

Pecchenino, Rowena A.

Truth, Charity, and the Dismal Science: An Economist’s Response to Caritas In Veritate (2011)

Pecchenino, Rowena A.

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In Caritas In Veritate Pope Benedict XVI decries the present state of the world socially, politically, economically, and judicially. He sets out what should be so that each and every person can attain authentic human development, rather than remain mired in physical or spiritual poverty. While Caritas In Veritate calls upon economies, governments, and institutions to be and to do more, it fails to provide direction in terms of specific, feasible, incentive compatible socio-economic policies by which these goals can be achieved. By identifying the essential message of Caritas In Veritate, from the perspective of economics rather than theology, this article determines whether or not the temporal human development goals can be achieved, and if so, how.

http://mural.maynoothuniversity.ie/3596/