| Ideology An ideology is a set of aims and ideas, especially in politics. An ideology can be thought of as a comprehensive vision, as a way of looking at things (compare Weltanschauung), as in common sense (see Ideology in everyday society below) and several philosophical tendencies (see Political ideologies), or a set of ideas proposed by the dominant class of a society to all members of this society. Ideology
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| Autodidacticism Autodidacticism (also autodidactism) is self-education or self-directed learning. An autodidact is a mostly self-taught person, as opposed to learning in a school setting or from a tutor.A person may become an autodidact at nearly any point in his or her life. While some may have been educated in a conventional manner in a particular field, they may choose to educate themselves in other, often unrelated areas. Autodidacticism
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| Leszek Kołakowski Leszek Kołakowski (born October 23, 1927 in Radom, Poland) is a distinguished Polish philosopher and historian of ideas. He is best known for his critical analyses of Marxist thought, especially his acclaimed three-volume history, Main Currents of Marxism. Leszek_Kołakowski
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| Debiprasad Chattopadhyaya Debiprasad Chattopadhyaya (November 19, 1918 - May 8, 1993) was an eminent Bengali Marxist philosopher from India. He made extensive contributions to the exploration of the materialist current in ancient Indian Philosophy. His most outstanding work in this regard was the compilation and exposition of the ancient philosophy of Lokayata liberating it from distortions that it faced in the hands if its opponents. Debiprasad_Chattopadhyaya
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| The Fellowship of the New Life The Fellowship of the New Life was an organization in the 19th century, most famous for a splinter group, the Fabian Society.It was founded in 1883, by the Scottish intellectual Thomas Davidson . Fellowship members included poets Edward Carpenter and John Davidson,animal rights activist Henry Stephens Salt, sexologist Havelock Ellis, and future Fabian secretary Edward R. Pease. Future UK Prime Minster Ramsey MacDonald Henry David Thoreau and Ralph Waldo Emerson. The Fellowship publishedSeed-Time. The_Fellowship_of_the_New_Life
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| Roy Wood Sellars Roy Wood Sellars (1880 – September 5, 1973) was an American philosopher of critical realism and religious humanism, and a proponent of emergent evolution. His son was the philosopher Wilfrid Sellars. For much of his career he taught at the University of Michigan.In his 1967 book, Reflections on American Philosophy From Within he described his views on materialism as evolutionary materialism, an extension to his 1922 groundbreaking book Evolutionary Naturalism. Roy_Wood_Sellars
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| Ally Sloper's Half Holiday Ally Sloper's Half Holiday was a British comic, first published on 3 May 1884. It has a legitimate claim to being the first comic magazine named after and featuring a regular character. Star Ally Sloper, a blustery, lazy schemer often found "sloping" through alleys to avoid his landlord and other creditors, had debuted in 1867 in the humour magazine Judy Charles Henry Ross and inked and later fully illustrated by his French wife Emilie de Tessier under the pseudonym "Marie Duval" (or "Marie DuVal"; sources differ). Ally_Sloper's_Half_Holiday
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| Theodor Lipps Theodor Lipps (28 July 1851 in Wallhalben – 17 October 1914 in Munich) was a German philosopher. Lipps was one of the most influential German university professors of his time, attracting many students from other countries. Lipps was very concerned with conceptions of art and the aesthetic, focusing much of his philosophy around such issues. Theodor_Lipps
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| The Outsider (Richard Wright) The Outsider is a novel by Richard Wright, first published in 1953. The Outsider is Richard Wright's second installment in a story of epic proportions, a complex master narrative to show American racism in raw and ugly terms. The kind of racism that Wright knew and experienced, a racism from which most black people of his own time could not escape, remained the central element in his fiction. The_Outsider_(Richard_Wright)
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| Isadore Nabi Isadore Nabi (sometimes Isidore Nabi or Isador Nabi) was a pseudonym used by a group of scientists including Richard Lewontin, Richard Levins, Robert MacArthur, and Leigh van Valen in the 1960s. Inspired by the work of Nicholas Bourbaki, they allegedly hoped to create a unified approach to evolutionary biology. However, the project was aborted and the name was reused in the 1980s for satirical purposes. Isadore_Nabi
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| Thomas Davidson (philosopher) Thomas Davidson (1840-10-25 - 1900-09-14) was a Scottish-American philosopher and lecturer.Davidson was born of Presbyterian parents at Deer, near Aberdeen. After graduating from Aberdeen University (1860) he successively held the positions of rector of the Grammar School of Old Aberdeen, teacher and professor in various places in England, Scotland, and America. He travelled extensively, and became a proficient linguist, acquiring a knowledge of French, German, Italian, Spanish, Greek, Latin, and Arabic. Thomas_Davidson_(philosopher)
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| René Ménil René Ménil (1907-2004) was a French surrealist writer and philosopher who lived on the island of Martinique.Born and raised on the island of Martinique, Ménil was one of several of the island's natives who studied in France and returned to influence the independence movement with the ideas of Marxism, and Surrealism. René_Ménil
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| Popular culture Popular culture (commonly abbreviated as pop culture) is the totality of distinct memes, ideas, perspectives, and attitudes that are deemed preferred per an informal consensus within the mainstream of a given culture. Heavily influenced by mass media (at least from the early 20th century onward) and perpetuated by that culture's vernacular language, this collection of ideas permeates the everyday lives of the society. Popular_culture
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| Aant Elzinga Aant Hindricx Elzinga (born 22 November 1937, Bolsward) is a Dutch (Frisian)-Canadian working in Sweden where he is now professor emeritus. From 1991-1997 he was president of the European Association of Science and Technology Studies. Aant_Elzinga
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