John Caruana
Biographic Data
| ID | 3891730 |
|---|---|
| NAME | John Caruana |
| GIVEN NAMES | John |
| FAMILY NAME | Caruana |
| SIGNATURE | CARUANA J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Toronto Metropolitan University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1976 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
The Christian presence in North Africa under Almoravids Rule (1040–1147 CE)
This paper attempts an introspection on the Christian presence in Almoravids North Africa (1040–1147 CE). It argues that, contrary to the thesis that the Almoravids mistreated the Christians in the Maghreb; the Christians in fact enjoyed a range of freedoms and privileges under the auspices of the Almoravids, strikingly different to the limited freedoms enjoyed during the prior rule of the Idrisids (788–974) of the Maghreb. The Christian presence…
The Dardenne Brothers and the Invisible Ethical Drama
The cinema of the Dardenne brothers represents a new kind of cinema, one that challenges a number of our conventional ways of thinking about the distinction between religion and secularism, belief and unbelief. Their films explore the intricacies of spiritual and ethical transformations as they are experienced within embodied, material life. These features of their cinema will be examined primarily through the lens of Emmanuel Levinas's philosoph…
The drama of being
Not Ethics, Not Ethics Alone, but the Holy”
While much has been written about Levinas's conception of ethics, very little has been said about the connection between ethics and holiness in his work. Yet, throughout much of his corpus, Levinas consistently links the two. The first part of my article addresses the important distinction that Levinas establishes between the sacred ( le sacré ) and holiness ( la sainteté ). According to Levinas, several influential thinkers conflate these two ca…
Solid-Waste Management
The objective of this paper is to determine how residential solid waste has been and could be disposed of or reused in metropolitan regions. By means of optimization techniques, the authors examine the economic efficiency of landfilling, energy and materials recovery, and waste-transportation technologies at centralized and dispersed sites. The results indicate that dry-fuel technology is the most efficient system for the near future. Pyrolysis, …
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Solid-Waste Management
The objective of this paper is to determine how residential solid waste has been and could be disposed of or reused in metropolitan regions. By means of optimization techniques, the authors examine the economic efficiency of landfilling, energy and materials recovery, and waste-transportation technologies at centralized and dispersed sites. The results indicate that dry-fuel technology is the most efficient system for the near future. Pyrolysis, …
Not Ethics, Not Ethics Alone, but the Holy”
While much has been written about Levinas's conception of ethics, very little has been said about the connection between ethics and holiness in his work. Yet, throughout much of his corpus, Levinas consistently links the two. The first part of my article addresses the important distinction that Levinas establishes between the sacred ( le sacré ) and holiness ( la sainteté ). According to Levinas, several influential thinkers conflate these two ca…
The drama of being
The Dardenne Brothers and the Invisible Ethical Drama
The cinema of the Dardenne brothers represents a new kind of cinema, one that challenges a number of our conventional ways of thinking about the distinction between religion and secularism, belief and unbelief. Their films explore the intricacies of spiritual and ethical transformations as they are experienced within embodied, material life. These features of their cinema will be examined primarily through the lens of Emmanuel Levinas's philosoph…
The Christian presence in North Africa under Almoravids Rule (1040–1147 CE)
This paper attempts an introspection on the Christian presence in Almoravids North Africa (1040–1147 CE). It argues that, contrary to the thesis that the Almoravids mistreated the Christians in the Maghreb; the Christians in fact enjoyed a range of freedoms and privileges under the auspices of the Almoravids, strikingly different to the limited freedoms enjoyed during the prior rule of the Idrisids (788–974) of the Maghreb. The Christian presence…
Philosophy (4 works) · Epistemology (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Art (2 works) · Drama (2 works) · Literature (2 works) · Philosophy, Ethics, and Existentialism (2 works) · Political science (2 works)