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Friedrich Engels
Friedrich Engels , 1820-95, German socialist; with Karl Marx , one of the founders of modern Communism. The son of a wealthy Rhenish textile manufacturer, Engels went in 1842 to take a position in a factory near Manchester, England, in which his father had an interest. In 1844, while passing... Read more |
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Louis Althusser
Louis Althusser Aligned with the French Communist Party, philosopher Louis Althusser (1918-1990) strove to explain contemporary developments by reinterpreting the doctrines of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. Louis Althusser was born at Birmandreis, Algeria (then a colony of France), October... Read more |
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International
International any of a succession of international socialist and Communist organizations of the 19th and 20th cent. The First International The First International was founded in London in 1864 as the International Workingmen's Association. Karl Marx was a key figure in inspiring its creation... Read more |
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Karl Marx
Karl Marx 1818-83, German social philosopher, the chief theorist of modern socialism and communism . Early Life Marx's father, a lawyer, converted from Judaism to Lutheranism in 1824. Marx studied law at Bonn and Berlin, but became interested in philosophy and took a Ph.D. degree at Jena... Read more |
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dialectic
dialectic [Gr.,= art of conversation], in philosophy, term originally applied to the method of philosophizing by means of question and answer employed by certain ancient philosophers, notably Socrates. For Plato the term came to apply more strictly to logical method and meant the reduction of what... Read more |
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Marxism
Marxism economic and political philosophy named for Karl Marx . It is also known as scientific (as opposed to utopian) socialism. Marxism has had a profound impact on contemporary culture; modern communism is based on it, and most modern socialist theories derive from it (see socialism ). It... Read more |
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dialectical materialism
dialectical materialism official philosophy of Communism, based on the writings of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels , as elaborated by G. V. Plekhanov , V. I. Lenin , and Joseph Stalin . In theory dialectical materialism is meant to provide both a general world view and a specific method for... Read more |
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libido
libido [Lat.,=lust], psychoanalytic term used by Sigmund Freud to identify instinctive energy with the sex instinct. For Freud, libido is the generalized sexual energy of which conscious activity is the expression. C. G. Jung used the term synonymously with instinctive energy in general. Many... Read more |
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Lou Andreas-Salome
Lou Andreas-Salomé Russian-born German writer Lou Andreas-Salomé (1861-1937) has been known mostly as the lover of and inspiration to several of the most prominent male German authors of her time, including philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, poet Rainer Maria Rilke, and psychoanalytic... Read more |
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Social Democratic Federation
Social Democratic Federation. Founded in June 1881, but did not add the ‘Social’ to its name until 1884. By then it had also become socialist, in a Marxist sense, under the influence of H. M. Hyndman. Unfortunately neither Marx himself nor Engels supported it. It also suffered... Read more |
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ABBREVIATION
...serve their purpose. People literate in English can work successfully with such formulas as e.g. and q.v. whether or not they know their full Latin forms exempli gratia (for the sake of example) and quod vide (which see). The more familiar and successful... |
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Adams, Maude
...briefly portraying Viola in Twelfth Night (1908), she scored again in yet another Barrie play, as Maggie in What Every Woman Knows. A major disappointment was her failure in the title role of Rostand's Chantecler (1911), which had opened to much ballyhoo... |
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AESTHETICS
...refined or cultured person is widely taken to be able to distinguish the good from the bad, the beautiful from the ugly, and to know when it is not right to make such judgements at all; it is also often considered that the less cultured or the uncultured should... |
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aggression
...Direct aggressive confrontation may be used to determine which individual has priority, but it is more usual that animals come to know, through a process of social learning, who is likely to win in such an encounter. This determines their strategy, and also... |
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AITCH
...h’ should be sounded on English words because this is the established practice. So it is—but not among Cockneys. They know that h's are there and put them in in writing; but to use them in speech is ‘talking posh’. Their omission does not lead... |
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AMERICAN ENGLISH AND BRITISH ENGLISH
...or is used elsewhere, as for example in Australia or New Zealand. Often enough, the lexicographer using the label does not know either. The vagueness due to the easy passage between the two varieties is also reflected in dictionaries, by the tendency... |
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American Party
American Party. See Know‐Nothing Party. |
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American, The
...to his aristocratic friends. Meanwhile the American comes to know Mlle Noémie Nioche, a copyist of paintings, whose meek, shabby...man's disgust with his family, and is told that Mrs. Bread knows a guilty secret about them that Newman may use to further his... |
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anaesthesia, general
...was established on a firm foundation of basic science by John Snow (1813–58), who devised inhalers which allowed him to know and control the strength of the vapour that the patient was breathing. The psychological barrier having been broken, the unpleasant... |
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Anderson, Robert Woodruff
...on McCarthyism. His later plays include All Summer Long (1957); a double bill, Silent Night/Lonely Night (1959); You Know I Can't Hear You when the Water's Running (1967; London, 1968), four short plays which achieved his longest run; and... |
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acquaint
acquaint XIII. ME. aqueynten, aquointen, acointen — OF. acointier :- medL. accognitāre make known, f. L. accognitus, f. AC- + cognitus, pp. of cognōscere know (see COGNITION). So acquaintance XIV. |
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Ñāṇadassana
...combined with ñāṇa it gives the special meaning, ‘insight arising from knowledge’. Thus the Buddha is described as one who ‘knows and sees’ (tam ahaṃ jānāmi passāmi, Majjhima Nikāya 1. 329). The central truths of Buddhism are ‘seen’ (Saṃyutta... |
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agnosticism
agnosticism. As commonly understood, the view that we cannot know whether there is a God or not. |
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ago
...good-oh, go-slow, grow, gung-ho, Heathrow, heave-ho, heigh-ho, hello, ho, hoe, ho-ho, jo, Joe, kayo, know, lo, low, maillot, malapropos, Marceau, mho, Miró, mo, Mohs, Monroe, mot, mow, Munro, no, Noh, no-show, oh... |
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Alfred
...town‐planner; patron of the church; promoter of universal education and father of English prose; saintly, and easy to know. Revisionists emphasize his skill as propagandist, downgrading his achievements. Perception of Alfred's personality, policies... |
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angel
...order of the celestial hierarchy. ∎ inf. Aviation an unexplained radar echo. 2. a person of exemplary conduct or virtue: I know I'm no angel. ∎ used in similes or comparisons to refer to a person's outstanding beauty, qualities, or abilities: you... |
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ask
...result in difficulty for oneself: they accused me of asking for it. don't ask me! inf. used to indicate that one does not know the answer to a question and that one is surprised or irritated to be questioned: “Is he her boyfriend then?” “Don... |
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aught
aught1 / ôt/ (also ought) archaic • pron. anything at all: know you aught of this fellow, young sir? aught2 • n. the digit 0; zero. |
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Augustine of Hippo, St
...Adam's sin; and from this the whole human race is justly massa damnata, to be saved only by the grace of God. Since God knows what he intends to do, Augustine is inevitably predestinarian to some extent, and this influenced especially Calvin and other... |
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awareness context
...in Awareness of Dying (1965), to facilitate analysis of ‘the total combination of what each interactant in a situation knows about the identity of the other and his own identity in the eyes of the other’, and in this way to aid understanding of the... |
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accordingly
accordingly • adverb 1. you know the truth and must act accordinglysynonyms: appropriately, correspondingly, suitably, properly, fitly, consistently. 2. they could... |
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adroitness
...proficiency, accomplishment, artistry, art, facility, aptitude, flair, finesse, talent; quick-wittedness, cleverness, sharpness, cunning, astuteness, shrewdness, resourcefulness, savoir faire; informal know-how, savvy. |
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as
...well-paid, as doctors and lawyerssynonyms: such as, for instance, for example, namely, viz; inf. like. 7. as you know, he's deadsynonyms: a fact which, that which.phrases: as for/to synonyms: on the subject of, as regards, with reference... |
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brusque
...is applied more often to a man. Anyone who has had to deal with an overworked store clerk while shopping during the holidays knows the meaning of surly, which is worse than gruff. It describes not only a sour disposition but an outright hostility toward... |
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country
...homeland, native land, fatherland, motherland, the land of one's fathers. 3. every election year, these guys claim to know what the country wants synonyms: the people, the public, the population, the populace, citizenry, the nation, the body... |
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encounter
encounter • verb 1. I encountered a teacher I used to know synonyms: meet, meet by chance, run into, come across/upon, stumble across/on/upon, chance on/upon, happen on/upon... |
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expertise
expertise • noun synonyms: skill, skillfulness, mastery, proficiency, knowledge, command, professionalism, deftness, dexterity, facility, ability, knack, capability, competence, cleverness; inf. know-how. |
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feel
...have a sensation of. 3. feel painsynonyms: experience, know, have, undergo, go through, bear, endure, suffer. 4...in one's bones, have a hunch, have a funny feeling, just know. 8. the air feels dampsynonyms: seem, appear, strike one... |
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fiction
...record was a fabrication designed to lure tourists downtown). A falsehood is basically a lie—a statement or story that one knows to be false but tells with intent to deceive (a deliberate falsehood about where the money had come from). A deception... |
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find
...good buy, bargain; godsend, boon. phrase: find out let us know what you find out about the theftsynonyms: discover, become...discern, perceive, observe, notice, note, get/come to know, realize; bring to light, reveal, expose, unearth, disclose... |
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Take Your Facebook Page to the Next Level with F-Commerce
...Petouhoff about what companies need to know about f-commerce. CRM; How does f...benefits of f-commerce? Petouhoff: We know that people are spending more time on Facebook...your brand. The key to social media is to know your authence. With all this information... |
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Lessons from CRM Idol 2011
...thing that it needs to - getting people to know who you are and what you do and have...company doing it. The lesson here is to know what authence you are addressing, understand...s a good thing, right? [Sidebar] KNOW YOUR AUTHENCE, UNDERSTAND THEIR EXPECTATIONS... |
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The Hard Work of Law Making
...setting laws, but if it is difficult to debate and pass laws, the next best thing is to start writing letters to let people know what your views are on an issue. Sending letters is a tool that legislators often use to exert their influence. During my time... |
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Eighteenth-Century Literary Culture and the Experience of History
...fiction and history. Her book takes a fresh look at this boundary by reviving the category of experience as central to how we know about the past. Mack's book suggests that our relationship to the past can never be rational: it is always fraught with emotions... |
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Finding a picture's station point: Reconstructing virtual space when the...
...stimulus is a picture, we often want to know the geometric properties of the spatial...see in a perspective display, we need to know what the distances, depths, and directions...space seen "behind" the display. And to know these things without measuring the real... |
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A motion capture library for the study of identity, gender, and emotion...
...perception of human movement, such as motor control, humanoid robotics, and computer graphics, where it would be informative to know the motion pattern and variability for performing simple tasks. Obtaining the movement library involved many steps, including... |
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Tscope: A C library for programming cognitive experiments on the MS Windows...
...but the reaction time measured would be biased by an unknown factor. Even when inspecting the data afterward, one would not know which reaction times are measured accurately and which are not. As a consequence, cleaning up the data afterward is not possible... |
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What makes a difference: A method to determine whether a change in an image...
...Gist will depend on the observer. People interpret a scene on the basis of what they see (image properties) and what they know (knowledge, experience, interests, expectations). The identification of the essence of a scene, the activated schema or... |
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Web-based experiment control software for research and teaching on human...
...USs in human research. In general, what can be observed in these experiments is that during the first trials subjects do not know what to say or do; however, as learning proceeds a learning curve can be observed and this shows either that the behavioral... |
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An R package to compute commonality coefficients in the multiple regression...
...independent variables, singly and in all combinations, share variance with the dependent variable. Only then can we fully know the relative importance of independent variables with regard to the dependent variable in question [italics added]. (Seibold... |
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