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I remember reading many years ago (perhaps more than 40 years ago) that Antonio Gramsci wrote somewhere about the time awareness of workers who originated from Sardinia. According to my vague memory, he argued that Sardinian workers had more loose time awareness than workers who grew up in Torino and its suburbs and it reduced their labor productivity.
Does someone know where Gramsci made this kind of argument? If possible, I want to know the exact argument he made and the circumstances of this argument. It is possible that I read it someone's paper other than Gramsci himself.
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It was in A. Gramsci. I quaderni dal carcere (his letters from jail, several editions), namely a letter dated March 26, 1927, sent to his sister Teresina Gramsci Paulesu. There are nowadays more than 400 of these letters published and you will find several addressing the special culture of Sardinian workers.
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How popular are Hegel's ideas in the USA? Can we say that his influence on Communism indicates his being marginalized in American philosophical circles?
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Leading thinkers as Hegel, Marx, Weber, Durkheim, Freud, Braudel, or some (few) others are classic authors. Their books and theories have a lasting intrinsic value regardless of ideologies, politics, manipulations, and "popularity". It doesn't simply matter if they are or not "popular" since their ideas, theories, and erudite interpretations will last.
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What literature, philosophy, cosmology, etc. did Bruno read?
Is there a record of his library?
Who was part of Bruno's intellectual circle?
Are there archives documenting (m)any of his correspondences?
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Yesterday, on February 17, 2020 was sad anniversary: 420 years has passed since the Inquisition found him guilty, and he was burned at the stake in Rome's Campo de' Fiori in 1600.
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The object is ~23mm in diameter and weighs 7.3g. It doesn't react to a magnet. It has a stippled surface and was recovered from a housing complex at the Hellenistic site of Jebel Khalid in Syria. Dated around 3rd century BCE. Unfortunately, I cannot analyse it chemically, as it's now lost. Grateful for any suggestions!
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Sometimes ferric oxide collects on the exterior of abandoned in ground insect nests. Any organic materials decompose, leaving thin hollow ferric oxide orbs.