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The desertion crisis in Italy, 1944
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In the First World War desertion was a serious drain on manpower. However, thanks in no small part to the judicious use of capital punishment, it never got out of hand. The death penalty for most military crimes, including desertion and cowardice, was abolished between the wars at the height of anti-war and pacifist feeling, despite the opposition of serving and retired commanders.1 This method of deterring misconduct and disposing of the corrupting influence of 'worthless and incorrigible' characters (to quote King's Regulations) was therefore no longer open to the British Army during the ...
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The Arbor Scientiae Reconceived and the History of Vico's Resurrection.
Magazine article from: The Review of Metaphysics
; ...Tagliacozzo is the pied piper of Vico studies in the English-speaking...historical methods of the New Science; Vico's insistence on the conceptual...Philadelphia, 1992], "although Giovanni Battista Vico was one of the first and most prominent...
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The Real, The Theoretical, and the Spiritual
Magazine article from: Judaism
; ...IMITATION OF THE birds. The idea was first proposed by Giovanni Battista Vico, a late seventeenthcentury Italian historian and philosopher...first language. You can read this little anecdote about Vico and much more (not necessarily on this topic) in my...
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The real, the theoretical, and the spiritual.(language and song)
Magazine article from: Judaism: A Quarterly Journal of Jewish Life and Thought
; ...IMITATION OF THE birds. The idea was first proposed by Giovanni Battista Vico, a late seventeenthcentury Italian historian and philosopher...first language. You can read this little anecdote about Vico and much more (not necessarily on this topic) in my...
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A seminar with Talcott Parsons at Brown University: "My Life and Work" (in two parts) Saturday, March 10, 1973.(THE MARCH 10, 1973 SEMINAR)
Magazine article from: The American Journal of Economics and Sociology
; ...in the early 18th century, in the autobiography of Giovanni Battista Vico. (Chuckling.) I hope some day to convince you to take a look at Vico. In the meantime, we could all benefit very much if...
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Death comes for the archintellectual. (death of writer Isaiah Berlin)(Obituary)
Magazine article from: Change
; ...19th-century Germany, the details of Johann von Herder's life and ideas, romanticism, the philosophy of Giovanni Battista Vico, Charles Louis de Secondat Montesquieu, and Herder, and contemporary fascism. He was startlingly erudite but...
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Jeanne Chenault Porter, ed. and intro. Baroque Naples: A Documentary History, 1600-1800.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Italica
; ...century, such as philosopher Giambattista Vico, scientist and playwright Giovanni Battista della Porta, and Neapolitan dialect poet Giovanni Battista Basile, as well as painters, architects...
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