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SOCIAL STRATIFICATION, HEREDITARIANISM, AND EUGENICS. A HARVARD TALE
2019
This chapter documents how eugenics, scientific racism, and hereditarianism survived at Harvard well into the interwar years. In the late 1920s and early 1930s, Thomas Nixon Carver and Frank W. Taussig published works in which they established a close nexus between an individual’s economic position and his biological fitness. Carver, writing in 1929, argued that social class rigidities are attributable to the inheritance of superior and inferior abilities on the respective social class levels and proposed an “economic test of fitness” as a eugenic criterion to distinguish worthy from unworthy individuals. In 1932, Taussig, together with Carl Smith Joslyn, published American Business Leaders…
Presentazione
2018
Si presenta il volume di Calogero Ridulfo mettendo maggiormente in evidenza le notizie che arricchiscono la conoscenza del patrimonio artistico dell'ultimo scorcio del Medioevo a Corleone quando vi operavano importanti pittori, da Tommaso De Vigilia a Pietro Ruzzolone, affiancati da altri abili artisti ora sottratti dall'oblio The volume by Calogero Ridulfo is presented, highlighting the news that enriches the knowledge of the artistic heritage of the last part of the Middle Ages in Corleone when important painters worked there, from Tommaso De Vigilia to Pietro Ruzzolone, alongside other skilled artists now stolen from oblivion
Eugenics and American Economics in the Interwar Years: The Case of Thomas Nixon Carver
2017
The aim of this paper is to explore in some detail Carver’s eugenic ideas with a main, albeit non-exclusive, focus on the interwar years. Although his major contributions had all appeared prior to 1918, Carver remained particularly productive throughout the 1920s and 1930s, publishing several articles and eight books, which include The Principles of National Economy (1921), and The Essential Factors of Social Evolution (1935)—two works which contain significant traces of eugenic reasoning. Just as important, Carver’s interwar activities were not limited to academia. After his retirement from Harvard in 1932 he became involved in the activities of the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce, while i…
Le réalisme social américain à l'ère postmoderne : (Russell Banks, Raymond Carver, Richard Ford)
2012
His study focuses on the works of Russell Banks, Raymond Carver and Richard Ford. They started writing during the 1960s and 1970s, at a time when the self-reflexivity and metafictional play of postmodernist writers were drawing a lot of critical attention in academic circles. However, they consider themselves to be realist writers. In “A Few Words about Minimalism,” John Barth suggested that the return to realist fiction in the mid-1970s could be both a reaction against so-called “postmodernist” fiction and a symptom of the social and economic unease of the period. Indeed, Cathedral, Continental Drift and The Sportswriter describe in accurate detail the everyday lives of ordinary American m…
Disease and Anti-Naturalism in Raymond Carver's “Fat” and “A Small, Good Thing” and David Lynch's Blue Velvet
2005
International audience; This paper does not explore possible references to Carver in Lynch's films, but offers a comparative study of their representations of disease. Based primarily on a play between metonymy and metaphor, this aesthetic of contamination contributes to a critical discourse on naturalist thought. The first form of “anti-naturalism” is the deconstruction of what calls Charles Taylor “disengaged reason.” The second form is the questioning of the very “idea of nature.” These artists adopt what Clément Rosset calls an “artificialist” standpoint, the subject and the body being shaped, as Michel Foucault and Judith Butler would have it, by normative discourses and techniques. Co…
Survival Value and a Robust, Practical, Joyless Individualism: Thomas Nixon Carver, Social Justice, and Eugenics
2017
The aim of this paper is to provide a compressive assessment of Thomas Nixon Carver's thought—from his early formative years in the 1880s to his post WWII career as a journalist and pamphleteer. The main (albeit not exclusive) focus of this paper will be on the theoretical and philosophical coordinates of Carver's “new liberalism”—his own definition—and how this broad vision was intrinsically connected with an explicitly hierarchical and eugenic approach to human nature. Just as important, what follows is also an attempt to increase our general understanding of the extent in which eugenic considerations permeated the realm of political economy during the first decades of the last century an…
La maestranza dei muratori e degli intagliatori di Cefalù: i capitoli del 1631
2016
In età moderna le maestranze si configurano come un’associazione, alla cui attività devozionale e assi- stenziale si aggiunge quella economica e giurisdizionale, in rapporto all’esercizio di un’arte, ossia di un mestiere. Relativamente al settore edile, a partire dalla fine del Quattrocento vengono stilati gli statuti delle corporazioni delle principali città siciliani, quali Palermo (1487), Siracusa (1515), Modica (1541- 1542), Messina (1559), Nicosia (1560) e Trapani (1598), mentre al 1631 risale l’istituzione della Maestranza dei muratori e degli intagliatori di Cefalù; infatti, come risulta dagli atti del notaio locale Calogero D’Anna, l’11 febbraio di quell’anno vennero redatti i Capit…