A Rhetoric of Remnants

A Rhetoric of RemnantsExamines the rhetoric in and around the New York State Asylum for Idiots in Syracuse, New York from 1854 to 1884. In the nineteenth century, language, rather than biology, created what we think of as disability. Much of the rhetorical nature of "idiocy," and even intelligence itself, can be traced to the period when the New York State Asylum for Idiots in Syracuse first opened in 1854 memorialized today as the first public school for people considered

His vivid descriptions make this both a work of literature and a valuable historical document

French philosophy stands at a crossroads

Wilson uses an extensive number of case studies to support his conclusions

We examine differentiation of functionally female flowers that form fruit and subsequently male flowers that do not form fruit

a Chinese philosopher who lived in the fourth century BCE

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including the interaction and dynamics of charged point particles

"theory"-became subfields

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Based on the life of Charles Yerkes

The chapter anticipates future trends for research into this disease and suggests further reading on the subject

with a focus on its relation to quantum information and its implications for quantum computers and next-generation quantum technologies