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Axiological pessimism, procreation and collective responsibility
Abstract A form of pessimism can support the claim that we have a collective duty to prevent the creation of additional human beings. More specifically, I argue that axiological pessimism, which suggests that human existence is overall bad (for humans) because of a form of evil it causes, implies that we should end human procreation, provided that we ...
Andrea Sauchelli
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Tracing the Flâneur: The Intertextual Origins of an Emblematic Figure of Modernity
This article presents an intertextual analysis of the origins of the flâneur, tracing his literary evolution from early nineteenth-century attestations to Baudelaire’s Le Peintre de la vie moderne (1863).
Castigliano Federico
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La beauté du bizarre dans les portraits sculptés de Baudelaire. Chronologie commentée (1867-1940)
Les portraits sculptés de Baudelaire, étant tous postérieurs à sa mort en 1867, n’ont pas été étudiés dans leur ensemble. Cependant neuf artistes entre 1880 et 1940 affrontent le mythe. Alfred Ross, auteur d’un buste en plâtre du poète ; Zacharie Astruc,
Anne Pingeot
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Paris as Real and Fantastic Space in Depiction of E. T. A. Hoffmann and Ch. Baudelaire
The article discusses the depiction of Paris in E. T. A. Hoffmann’s novella “Das Frӓulein von Scuderi,” 1818 and in Ch. Baudelaire’s series “Tableaux parisiens,” 1861. It is noted that their authors are united by belief in fantasy as a means of knowledge.
N. M. Ilchenko, J. A. Marinina
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Humour, Transcendence, and Selfhood: An Essay on Lightness and Truth
Abstract This article is concerned with a ‘lightness that is as far as possible from triviality’. It argues, firstly, that a connection can be drawn between comic perception and pictures of reality that entail transcendence, understood as an otherness at the heart of things that may be indirectly glimpsed but never fully grasped as the object of fixed ...
Simon Ravenscroft
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Projetos de Prefácios de As Flores do Mal, de Charles Baudelaire
RESUMO: O trabalho consiste na tradução dos quatro projetos de prefácios que Baudelaire escreveu para As Flores do Mal, cujos rascunhos foram publicados apenas postumamente. PALAVRAS-CHAVE: Charles Baudelaire, As Flores do Mal, Crítica literária, Poesia,
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O presente artigo buscou apresentar sucintamente algumas reflexões em torno das transformações modernas do regime de visualidade e, a partir daí, da formação do espectador moderno, tal como essas questões se colocam de forma significativa na poesia de ...
Luis Inacio Oliveira Costa
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Abstract Some scholars suggest a puzzle presents itself in Ludwig Wittgenstein's final words in the mismatch between what Norman Malcolm describes as a ‘fiercely unhappy’ life and Wittgenstein's expression of that life as ‘wonderful’. Ronald L. Hall attempts to overcome the apparent puzzle by retranslating Wittgenstein's final words into an expression ...
Ryan Manhire
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A modernidade pelo olhar de Walter Benjamin
O OBJETIVO do artigo é traçar um perfil da modernidade tomando como referência os ensaios "Paris capital do século XIX" e "Paris do Segundo Império em Baudelaire", de Walter Benjamin.
Martha D'Angelo
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Speaking Truth to Power: Understanding the Role of Political Theater in Russia
The Russian Review, Volume 85, Issue 2, Page 149-156, April 2026.
Katherine A. New
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