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CAN HISTORY ABSOLVE? CAN HISTORY JUDGE?

History and Theory, Volume 64, Issue 3, Page 319-337, September 2025.
ABSTRACT Appealing to history, rather than to God, to provide an ultimate judgment about human actions can have a justificatory or consolatory function. The former grants proleptic absolution for acts that may be morally dubious because of their benign consequences, while the latter enables victims in the present to gain a measure of relief by ...
MARTIN JAY
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“Whether my Body Breaks or the Plum Tree Withers”: Iwanaga Maki, Social Welfare Pioneer, and the jūjikai Women's Religious Order

Journal of Religious History, Volume 49, Issue 2, Page 157-176, June 2025.
Maria Iwanaga Maki (1849–1920) was 23 years old in 1873 when she returned home after a community exile and persecutions of more than 3000 people carried out by the Meiji government. Historians in the public record refer to Iwanaga as otoko‐masari (man‐nish) when she stood up to a representative of the Shogun, while in her public work she became known ...
Gwyn McClelland
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O Sublime explicado às crianças

Trans/Form/Ação, 2011
Como o próprio título indica, este ensaio pretende dialogar com a recepção do sublime kantiano pela filosofia francesa contemporânea, sobretudo com Jean-François Lyotard.
Virginia Figueiredo
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Social Dissonance and Living Currency: Mattin With Klossowski

Future Humanities, Volume 3, Issue 1, May 2025.
ABSTRACT Mattin's Social Dissonance addresses the split between the social reality of economic exchange determined by the commodity form, on the one hand, and the phantasm or myth of the self as an agent of its own experience and as an immediate given, on the other hand.
Patrick ffrench
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New Trinitarian Ontologies? Trinitarian Theology, Theological Anthropology and Contemporary Critical Consciousness in Dialogue

Modern Theology, Volume 41, Issue 2, Page 205-228, April 2025.
Abstract The recent translation into English of Klaus Hemmerle's Theses Towards a Trinitarian Ontology has led to a renewed interest in ontology and in the construction of new trinitarian ontologies. In his Theses, Hemmerle argues that a new trinitarian ontology discloses a new order of things: the analogy of Being becomes an analogy of the Trinity.
Teresa Grace Brown
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Book Review: Jean-François Lyotard, Pourquoi philosopher?

Journal of French and Francophone Philosophy, 2012
The posthumous Pourquoi Philosopher? collects Jean-François Lyotard’s previously unpublished four-part introductory course in philosophy, delivered to students of the Sorbonne in 1964.
Matthew R. McLennan
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WHY STILL KOSELLECK?

History and Theory, Volume 64, Issue 1, Page 123-134, March 2025.
ABSTRACT Those seeking to gain a deeper understanding of the complex interrelationship between Reinhart Koselleck's oeuvre and the turbulences of the Age of Extremes would be well advised to consult Stefan‐Ludwig Hoffmann's Der Riss in der Zeit: Kosellecks ungeschriebene Historik.
Fernando Esposito
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Children postmodern: what is needed to better understand the postmodern? lyotard explain to children

Brocar. Cuadernos de investigación histórica, 2012
O artigo reuni considerações acerca de algumas cartas que Jean- François Lyotard escreveu a propósito do debate pós-moderno em seu livro O pós-moderno explicado às crianças, relacionando-as com os argumentos da obra Condição pós-moderna para verificarmos
Alexandre Lopes Campelo
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Desire: A Theological Reappraisal

The Heythrop Journal, Volume 66, Issue 1, Page 3-23, January 2025.
Abstract Desire and its cognates—longing, yearning—do a lot of hard work in modern theology, the work grounded in philosophical precedents going back at least as far as the early German Romantics. These precedents helped to inaugurate the twentieth century explorations of psychoanalysis.
Graham Ward
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Sovereignty and the Persistence of the Aesthetic

The Modern Law Review, Volume 87, Issue 6, Page 1393-1421, November 2024.
British constitutional thought tends to understand sovereignty in legalistic terms, with the concept often equated with the doctrine of parliamentary sovereignty. As Loughlin and Tierney have recently argued, this approach obscures the political considerations which undergird the legal precept. In this article we argue that this approach misses a third,
Illan Wall, Daniel Matthews
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