The rise of remote work and work-from-home, accelerated by the COVID pandemic, is reshaping and disrupting the social dimension of work—that is, the incidence of cooperation, sociability, and solidarity (as well as conflict) among co-workers. Most discussion of the trend toward remote work centers naturally on its impact on firms (especially in terms of productivity) or workers (especially in terms of work-life balance). This essay focuses instead on how remote work and work-from-home might affect the social underpinnings of political life outside the workplace. The quotidian experience of working together—traditionally, face-to-face, and often across salient lines of social division—generates weak and strong interpersonal bonds that can strengthen the foundations of a democratic society. The cumulative societal benefits of co-worker interactions are at risk if remote work thins out and weakens workplace ties. That is especially likely because those societal benefits are “public goods” and spillover benefits of workplace interactions. Those social benefits may thus be neglected by analysts and observers. This essay develops that thesis and then reflects briefly on whether and how the conventional institutional arsenal of labor and employment law might be deployed to increase the production of such public goods.

The new nationalism of the Xi Jinping era, which has brought together political nationalism and cultural nationalism – two largely opposing streams between 1919 and 1989 – has redefined the CPC and the PRC. On paper, the party is a class organization while the PRC is a class dictatorship that sanctions class sovereignty rather than popular sovereignty. Since 2001, the party has been represented as a national party as well as a class organization. Representing the nation entails the promotion of national culture, and a major component of the Chinese Dream is cultural revival. Consequently, the CPC and the PRC are nationalized in a shift from Marxist classism to synthesized Chinese nationalism. Their class identities appear to be at odds with their national identities, but the tension is minimized as the party turns Marxism into an empty signifier and sinicizes it out of existence.

The concept of nature is extremely complex; it signifies something illegal and amoral as well as an unsophisticated innocence. Thus, a diversity of meanings can be generated when bastards are presented as natural children. Natural children dislocate the boundaries of the text's ruling discourse, ensuring that its instability is most sharply perceived. This practice is menacing to the ruling culture, which responds by trying to disempower the bastard. Illegitimacy deconstructs the classically 'finished' cultural model by reintroducing the disruptive elements of the grotesque which blur distinctions between self and other. The natural child's carnivalesque energy is something disruptive to the dominant culture, even though it may be refreshingly different. The grotesque body is a map of 'cosmic, social, topographical and linguistic elements of the world', nowhere more so than in the case of bastards whose monstrosity manifests physically their illicit conception.

Emerson describes a range of experiences that constitute friendship: titanic battles between beautiful enemies; conversational brilliance and expansion; a joyful solitude, as if someone has departed rather than arrived; a generalized benevolence toward people in the street to whom one does not speak; the warm sympathies and household joy one shares with a familiar friend; the disappointment of a friend outgrown. His account shows an intense focus on moral perfection – on our unattained but attainable self, alone and with others – but an equally intense awareness of what he calls in “Experience” “the plaint of tragedy” that sounds throughout our lives “in regard to persons, to friendship and love.” The chapter’s coda charts the opposition in “Love” between love as the experience of being “swept away” and a skeptical vision of marriage as a prison, from which sex, person, and partiality have vanished.

This chapter examines Clara’s and Robert’s general educations and musical training in the context of schooling in early nineteenth-century Germany, underscoring aspects of the instruction they received that were typical and those that were unusual for individuals of their classes and genders. As relatively privileged children, Clara and Robert both benefited from general educations that far surpassed those available to children of the peasant and working classes; by virtue of his gender, however, Robert’s general schooling was much more robust than Clara’s. Privilege also afforded Clara and Robert access to extensive musical instruction, which intersected in the person of Friedrich Wieck, Clara’s father. Friedrich, himself an autodidact, trained his daughter tirelessly from the earliest age, providing her with an extraordinary musical education, one that is all the more astonishing for the era, given her gender.

Corey Dyck discusses the eighteenth-century German context of Kant’s Critical philosophy and shows that a number of prominent Kantian doctrines can be seen as growing out of discussions of Aristotelian ideas in philosophers such as Wolff and Crusius. These include the idea that there are three fundamental operations of the mind (the tres operationes mentis), that the mind is an “entelechy,” and that the operations of a rational mind are characterized by spontaneity.

Chapter 1 uses three examples of expression with substantial inherent value that should arguably not be registered as a trademark, or should only have a narrow scope of trademark protection regardless of whether it has acquired distinctiveness in an industry. The first example focuses on words that provide information about products. DC Comics and Marvel Characters have obtained trademark registrations for “Super Heroes” for comic books and other products that feature superhero characters, and “Super Hero” for masquerade costumes. The second example focuses on trademark rights claimed in popular terms or designs displayed on expressive merchandise. Lifeguard Licensing Corp. registered “Lifeguard” and a white Greek cross symbol (similar in shape to the red cross symbol) as a mark for T-shirts and other goods. The third example focuses on intrinsically decorative product features, such as three-dimensional shapes that represent things in nature. Globefill Inc. owns trademark registrations for a human-skull-shaped bottle for alcoholic beverages sold under the brand name “Crystal Head Vodka”, and a copyright registration and design patent for this sculpture.

This opening chapter goes straight to the heart of what language teachers do – classroom teaching. It includes cases set in seven different countries and in primary, high, and private language schools, as well as college and university. It covers topics as diverse as teaching in large classes, translanguaging, and using AI in an academic writing class.

Physiatrists are physicians with specialized training in management of disability, rehabilitation, and restoration of function. Physiatrists work with a multidisciplinary team to achieve the best possible functional outcome after a patient has survived a critical illness or injury. Multiple complications of Post-Intensive Care Syndrome (PICS), such as ICU acquired weakness, spasticity, and the development of contracures and chronic pain syndromes, can be managed by a physiatrist. Physiatrists perform procedures to reduce spasticity and injections to manage pain. Physiatrists also perform gait assessmentts, evaluations for assistive devices or wheelchairs, and assessments to facilitate return to work via vocational rehabilitation.