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Marx's Concept of Life

open access: yesEuropean Journal of Philosophy, Volume 34, Issue 1, Page 163-190, March 2026.
Abstract This essay aims to reveal the conceptual unity of an ensemble of concepts of organic, animal, and anthropological life articulated by the young Karl Marx between 1842 and 1844. To lay the groundwork for my analysis, I begin with Marx's general account of “life as activity.” I argue that Marx articulates a hylomorphic theory of organic form in ...
Christopher Shambaugh
wiley   +1 more source

Functions and Forms of Verbality in Spiritual Practices and Practices Related to Them

open access: yesКонсультативная психология и психотерапия, 2014
Functions and forms, in which the verb is used in spiritual practices and practices related closely to them are analyzed systematically. The following classes of prac¬tices are considered: 1) Eastern-Orthodox hesychasm, 2) Hellenistic practices of the ...
Horujy S.S.
doaj   +1 more source

CHRONOPOLITICS OF CLASSICAL PHILOLOGY THROUGH THE NON SEQUITUR

open access: yesHistory and Theory, Volume 64, Issue 4, Page 45-55, December 2025.
ABSTRACT This article argues that classical philology can play a vital role in debates about the importance of philology now and configures a genealogy that may contribute to the quest for alternative philologies. Building on Werner Hamacher's definition of philology as “love of the non sequitur,” I turn to founding texts of Western classical philology
ALEXANDRA LIANERI
wiley   +1 more source

Aisthesis: a brief introduction to the aesthetics of affections

open access: yesRevista Gearte, 2017
This article intends to present an introductory panorama of aesthetic studies from the bias of affections. In this sense, aesthetics is marked by human affections and not by correspondence with some criterion of beauty (consolidated vision in the fields ...
Renato Camassutti Bedore   +1 more
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Venus-uoluptas, Vénus vagabonde et Vénus conjugale : plaisir sexuel et désillusion dans le De rerum natura

open access: yesAitia, 2020
The end of book 4 of De rerum natura is enigmatic for any reader well versed in Epicurean doctrine: beyond the Epicurean orthodoxy that warns us of the pleasures of love, book 4 actually insists on many joyful and pleasurable aspects of sexuality ...
Julie Giovacchini
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Atomismus [PDF]

open access: yes, 2005
Encyclopedia article briefly summarizing the history of atomism from antiquity to ...
Johnson, Monte
core  

Academic eloquence and the end of Cicero's De finibus [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
The paper considers why the structure of Cicero’s De Finibus implicitly favours the Academy, even though Cicero avoids a decision between the Stoic theory and Antiochus’ theory.
Long, Alexander George
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Deadly Lifeworlds Meet Palliative Politics: Struggle in Circulation

open access: yesAntipode, Volume 57, Issue 6, Page 2326-2348, November 2025.
Abstract This paper locates acute and ongoing crises of coloniality and ecology within struggles over circulation that are anchored in infrastructure. If infrastructure organises movement—including its constraint in carceral forms—then it is also a linchpin for materialising distinct regimes of motion (Nail 2020a; Marx in Motion: A New Materialist ...
Deborah Cowen
wiley   +1 more source

A thematic analysis of Palahniuk’s fiction in light of Epicureanism

open access: yesK@ta: A Biannual Publication on the Study of Language and Literature, 2017
Chuck Palahniuk is a contemporary American writer whose novels have been adapted into acclaimed Hollywood motion pictures. Palahniuk’s literary style is often branded as modernist with nihilistic undertones.
Hesamoddin Shahriari, Ghazal Toosi
doaj   +1 more source

The Humanist at the Table. On the Pleasure of Feasting in Polish Renaissance

open access: yesTabula, 2020
Italian humanists’ discoveries of ancient texts and printed editions of such ancient works as Lucretius’ De rerum natura, Plato’s Symposium or Apicius’ De re coquinaria strongly influenced the renewal of the Epicurean category of pleasure (voluptas) and ...
Dawid Barbarzak
doaj   +1 more source

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