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Rapp begins with a question posed by the poet Theodore Roethke: “Should we say that the self, once perceived, becomes a soul?” Through her examination of Plato’s Phaedrus and her insights about the place of forgetting in a life, Rapp answers Roethke’s query with a resounding Yes. In so doing, Rapp reimagines the Phaedrus, interprets anew Plato’s relevance to contemporary life, and offers an innovative account of forgetting as a fertile fragility constitutive of humanity. Drawing upon poetry and comparisons with other ancient Greek and Daoist texts, Rapp brings to light overlooked features of the Phaedrus, disrupts longstanding interpretations of Plato as the facile champion of memory, and offers new lines of sight onto (and from) his corpus. Her attention to the Phaedrus and her meditative apprehension of the permeable character of human life leave our understanding of both Plato and forgetting inescapably altered. Unsettle everything you think you know about Plato, suspend the twentieth-century entreaty to “Never forget,” and behold here a new mode of critical reflection in which textual study and humanistic inquiry commingle to expansive effect.

Plato. --- Oblivion. --- Phaedrus. --- Soul. --- dialogical. --- forgetting. --- fragility. --- reading. --- remembrance. --- selfhood.

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Srikanth Reddy's second book of poetry probes this world's cosmological relation to the plurality of all possible worlds. Drawing its name from the spacecraft currently departing our solar system on an embassy to the beyond, Voyager unfolds as three books within a book and culminates in a chilling Dantean allegory of leadership and its failure in the cause of humanity. At the heart of this volume lies the historical figure of Kurt Waldheim-Secretary-General of the U.N. from 1972-81 and former intelligence officer in Hitler's Wehrmacht-who once served as a spokesman for humanity while remaining silent about his role in the collective atrocities of our era. Resurrecting this complex figure, Reddy's universal voyager explores the garden of forking paths hidden within every totalizing dream of identity.

Waldheim, Kurt --- Voyager Project --- American poetry. --- American literature --- ambition. --- american literature. --- american poetry. --- astrology. --- cosmology. --- creative writing. --- forgetting. --- genocide. --- hitler. --- humanity. --- identity. --- intelligence officer. --- kurt waldheim. --- leadership. --- literature. --- nazis. --- poems. --- poetics. --- poetry. --- possibility. --- possible worlds. --- progress. --- science fiction. --- secret identity. --- secret past. --- secretary general. --- silence. --- solar system. --- space. --- spacecraft. --- spy. --- united nations. --- universe. --- war crimes. --- wehrmacht. --- witness.

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A wave of plague swept the cities of northern Italy in 1630–31, ravaging Christian and Jewish communities alike. In Writing Plague Susan L. Einbinder explores the Hebrew texts that lay witness to the event. These Jewish sources on the Great Italian Plague have never been treated together as a group, Einbinder observes, but they can contribute to a bigger picture of this major outbreak and how it affected people, institutions, and beliefs; how individuals and institutions responded; and how they did or did not try to remember and memorialize it. High self-consciousness characterizes many of the authorial voices, and the sophisticated and deliberate ways these authors represented themselves reveal a complex process of self-fashioning that equally contours the representation and meaning of plague. Conversely, it is under the strain of plague that conventions of self-fashioning come to the fore.In the end, what proves most striking is how quickly these accounts retreated into obscurity. Why was this plague, which was among the most documented of all outbreaks since the Black Death of the fourteenth century, ultimately consigned to silence in Jewish memory? Did the memory take shape outside the written or material remains that we typically consult, in ephemeral forms that were lost over time? How much were the official genres of commemoration responsible for the erosion of historical particularity? How much did these conventionalized forms of mourning help individuals find language for private experience? And how, conversely, was private experience reconfigured to signify public grief?Throughout Writing Plague, Einbinder unearths and analyzes a cluster of little-known texts, reading them as much for the things about which they remain silent as for the things they seem openly to express. It is a compelling hybrid work of literary criticism and historical reflection about premodern constructions of self and community.

Hebrew literature --- Jewish literature --- Jews --- Plague in literature. --- Plague --- History and criticism. --- History --- Abraham Catalano. --- Abraham Massarani. --- Hebrew. --- Italian. --- Italy. --- Jewish. --- Mantua. --- Rabbi Solomon of Marini. --- black death. --- collective memory. --- community. --- early modern. --- epitaph. --- eulogy. --- forgetting forgetfulness. --- ghetto. --- grief. --- history. --- lament. --- literature. --- liturgy. --- natural disaster. --- padua. --- pandemic. --- plague narratives. --- plague. --- poetry. --- private public. --- representation. --- self-fashioning. --- seventeenth century.

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The study of 5-hydroxytryptamine (5-HT) systems has benefited from the identification, classification and cloning of multiple 5-HT receptors (5-HT1 to 5-HT7). Increasing evidence suggests that 5-HT pathways, reuptake site/transporter complex and 5-HT receptors represent a strategic distribution for learning and memory. A key question still remaining is whether 5-HT markers (e.g., receptors) are directly or indirectly contributing to the physiological and pharmacological basis of memory and its pathogenesis or, rather, if they represent protective or adaptable mechanisms. Certainly, Alzheimer´s disease (AD) is a very complex neuropsychiatric disorder, where memory becomes progressively dysfunctional resulting in amnesia and dementia, whereas forgetting is a physiological phenomenon occurring all the time as adaptive mechanism. As dysfunctional memory occurs in several neuropsychiatric disorders, including schizophrenia, stroke, post-traumatic stress disorder. Hence, the aim of this call is collect recent and important findings related to information about serotonin and memory or 5-HT and learning or 5-HT and memory or serotonin and learning.

Serotonin. --- Serotonin --- Memory. --- Memory disorders. --- Neuropharmacology. --- Neurosciences. --- Receptors. --- Neural sciences --- Neurological sciences --- Neuroscience --- Medical sciences --- Nervous system --- Neurotropic drugs --- Neurosciences --- Pharmacology --- Impairment, Memory --- Memory, Disorders of --- Memory impairment --- Paramnesia --- Cognition disorders --- Retention (Psychology) --- Intellect --- Psychology --- Thought and thinking --- Comprehension --- Executive functions (Neuropsychology) --- Mnemonics --- Perseveration (Psychology) --- Reproduction (Psychology) --- 5-HT (Neurotransmitter) --- Hydroxytryptamine --- Neurotransmitters --- Tryptamine --- Drug effects --- Effect of drugs on --- Learning --- 5-Hydroxytryptamine --- forgetting --- Memory --- dysfunctional memory --- neuropsychiatric disorders --- Amnesia --- neural markers --- 5-HT receptors --- 5-HT markers

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Since the advent of Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) methods in the early 1990s, Bayesian methods have been proposed for a large and growing number of applications. One of the main advantages of Bayesian inference is the ability to deal with many different sources of uncertainty, including data, models, parameters and parameter restriction uncertainties, in a unified and coherent framework. This book contributes to this literature by collecting a set of carefully evaluated contributions that are grouped amongst two topics in financial economics. The first three papers refer to macro-finance issues for real economy, including the elasticity of factor substitution (ES) in the Cobb–Douglas production function, the effects of government public spending components, and quantitative easing, monetary policy and economics. The last three contributions focus on cryptocurrency and stock market predictability. All arguments are central ingredients in the current economic discussion and their importance has only been further emphasized by the COVID-19 crisis.

Technology: general issues --- unconventional monetary policy --- transmission channel --- Bayesian TVP-SV-VAR --- Bayesian econometrics --- portfolio choice --- sentiments --- stock market predictability --- cryptocurrency --- Bitcoin --- forecasting --- point forecast --- density forecast --- dynamic model averaging --- dynamic model selection --- forgetting factors --- military and civilian spending --- DSGE model --- fiscal policy --- monetary policy --- Bayesian estimation --- Bayesian VAR --- density forecasting --- time-varying volatility --- ES --- CES function --- Bayesian nonlinear mixed-effects regression --- MCMC methods --- macroeconomic and financial applications