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Michel Houellebecq expérimentateur existentiel : une approche pascalienne de l’œuvre romanesque
This paper examines how Michel Houellebecq's novels reflect on the consequences of the awareness of the vanity of life’s social goals, in a philosophical vein inspired by Pascal.
Christophe Brochier
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The Concept of Emptiness and Accompanying Concepts in the Philosophical Analysis of Madhyamaka
The article analyses the concept of emptiness (śūnyatā) of the Buddhist Mahāyāna school Madhyamaka. By way of introduction, some fundamental questions are asked regarding the possible meaning of that concept as well as the possible context within which ...
Goran Kardaš
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Cinema, as an artistic medium, has often explored profound existential questions and deeply inquired themes such as the relationship between Being and Non-Being.
Paşcalău Cristian
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On the “Flowing Movement” and the “Lofty and Ancient” in Gary Snyder’s Poetry
On the “Flowing Movement” and the “Lofty and Ancient” in Gary Snyder’s Poetry Gary Snyder, a renowned 20th century American poet, has been strongly influenced by Eastern cultures, especially Chinese.
Zhang Jun-ping, Chen Wei-hang
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The *Āryaprajñāpāramitāhṛdayaṭīkā (hereafter PHT), Vimalamitra’s (ca. the 8th- to 9th cent.) commentary on the long Heart Sutra (hereafter HS), is not merely a commentary on words and phrases of the HS, but it also refers to and criticizes non-Buddhist ...
Toshio Horiuchi
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Dal "vuoto" al "vuoto fertile"
In the twentieth century, Existentialism brings about a radical change in the history of thought. According to such approach the most crucial issue is not the search for Truth, but rather what each individual wants to do with one’s own existence.
Letizia Cacciabaudo, Melina Carrubba, Sebastiana Cipponeri, Angela Ciulla, Paola Errera, Lijia Genovese, Elena Gigante, Milena Mazzara, Isabella Oddo, Salvatore Renda
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The Concept of Nothingness in Dao's Wisdom and Its Manifestation in Chinese Landscape Painting and the Study of Mayoan’s Artworks [PDF]
If the word “contemplation” was studied in its full sense, that is, thoughtfulness with fear and trepidation, no notion such as nothingness and non-existence would have trembled the human soul.
Shahram Taghipur +2 more
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SPACE AS A MEANS OF (NON)COMMUNICATION IN MICHELANGELO ANTONIONI’S RED DESERT AND TODD HAYNES’ SAFE
Two movies from two very different movie eras, Michelangelo Antonioni's Red Desert (Il deserto rosso, made in 1964) and Todd Haynes' Safe (made in 1995), can be linked one with the other, based on several conceptual, thematic and stylistic similarities ...
Dejan M. Malčić
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The Technology of Awakening: Experiments in Zen Phenomenology
In this paper, I investigate the phenomenology of awakening in Chinese Zen Buddhism. In this tradition, to awaken is to ‘see your true nature’. In particular, the two aspects of awakening are: (1) seeing that the nature of one’s self or mind is empty or ...
Brentyn J. Ramm
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"The house of the routine", complex of supremacy and intellectuale despotism in the stories of A.P. Cehov and Laza Lazarevic [PDF]
The subject of this article is the analysis of characters of deformed intellectuals and the problem of spiritual crisis in stories of A.P. Cehov and Laza Lazarević.
Cvetković Raisa J., Soleša Biljana S.
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