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    Struggling against utopia: transgressing the boundaries of servitude in Defoe, Wells, and Atwood by Reza, M

    Published 2014
    “…Utopian literature provides a compelling vision of epistemological and moral clarity: a dream of harmony and justice. But in an age of surveillance, utopia is also the nightmare of a perfectly controlled, sealed and monitored world that leaves no room for ambivalence or discretion. …”
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    Secularism: public space and visible diversity by Ramadan, T

    Published 2017
    “…This paper examines some of the current challenges that societies in the West are facing in relation to the growing informal view of “secularism” and considers the kinds of questions that we should be asking if we are to move forward together in harmony.…”
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    Differential technology development: speeding up to slow down disasters? by Sandberg, A

    Published 2024
    “…Being committed to a harmonious (if authoritarian) peaceful social order they tried to dissuade rulers from attacking other states – and to develop and spread knowledge of defensive warfare, aiding cities and states under attack2. …”
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    Hearing ancient sounds through modern ears by D'Angour, A

    Published 2018
    “…One way to do so might be to match what ancient authors say about the effects of music with specific musical sounds (harmonies, rhythms, etc.) that we can recreate. This chapter examines how one might hear ancient sounds through modern ears by seeking to understand evidence of ancient rhythms, melodies and modes, as well as the sensations these musical sounds were said to have aroused in their time.…”
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    Stoic cosmopolitanism and environmental ethics by Shogry, S

    Published 2020
    “…Humans are naturally set up to contemplate the order and complexity of the universe, and so environmental degradation and species loss, in marring this harmonious system, frustrates the achievement of the human goal. …”
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    China's rural migrant workers and labour politics by Chan, J, Selden, M

    Published 2016
    “…It is an image that is out of step with the ‘harmonious society’ and the ‘Chinese dream’ that contemporary China’s leaders proclaim. …”
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    Dispensing with Style by Small, H

    Published 2013
    “…The lack of any stylistic attractions, any marks of fashion or elegance, about the Clennam house is irrelevant to Blandois’s purposes there, and no obstacle to pressing an entry; he is, at the same time and in his own person, an excrescence of style – a florid incursion of melodramatic mannerism into the mix of styles that constitutes and troubles Dickensian realism – one that must ultimately be <em>‘squashed’</em> (to borrow Garrett Stewart’s apposite verb) to permit a harmonious narrative conclusion for <em>Little Dorrit</em>.…”
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