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Examination of Afghanistan's Development Traps

Regional Science Policy &Practice, EarlyView., 2022
Abstract We examine the factors behind Afghanistan's persistent underdevelopment. Drawing on various theories of development traps operating at the demographic, economic and institutional levels, we seek to assess whether and to what extent their functioning affects Afghanistan's development. To capture the functioning of development traps empirically,
Klemen Knez, Tina G. Lokar
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Quentin Meillassoux’s Speculative Materialism as a Manifestation of the Rationality of Non-one

Наукові записки НаУКМА: Філософія та релігієзнавство, 2019
This article has a twofold aim. First, it attempts to reconstruct and critically analyze arguments provided by Quentin Meillassoux, a contemporary French philosopher, for his central philosophical thesis: only contingency is necessary.
Vasyl Korchevnyi
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Autopsies on the body of nature: Dark ecology in Thomas Bernhard's Verstörung

Orbis Litterarum, Volume 78, Issue 4, Page 286-303, August 2023., 2023
Abstract Verstörung—often considered a minor work by Bernhard—is a somewhat overlooked example of ecologically oriented fiction in the German language. In this novel, Bernhard examines the implications of a darkly ecological concept of the environment (as this article characterizes it with reference to Timothy Morton), confronting it with ...
Bastian Ljung Franch
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OBJECT‐ORIENTED ONTOLOGY AND THE OTHER OF WE IN ANTHROPOCENTRIC POSTHUMANISM

Zygon®, Volume 58, Issue 2, Page 315-339, June 2023., 2023
Abstract The object‐oriented ontology group of philosophies, and certain strands of posthumanism, overlook important ethical and biological differences, which make a difference. These allied intellectual movements, which have at times found broad popular appeal, attempt to weird life as a rebellion to the forced melting of lifeforms through the ...
Yogi Hale Hendlin
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Factuality and the Beyond of God

Diakrisis, 2019
This article stages the confrontation of two approaches to thinking the absolute. On the one hand, it discusses Quentin Meillassoux’s speculative materialism. In suggesting that there is no ultimate ground of being and that only contingency is necessary,
Sandra Lehmann
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Forget Meillassoux! A critique of speculative materialism [PDF]

Hastapenak, 2022
Quentin Meillassoux´s philosophical project aims at challenging some of the most fundamental assumptions of contemporary philosophy. His polemic against “correlationism”, which he understands as the main paradigm of philosophy from Kant onwards, is ...
Mario Aguiriano Benéitez
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The science of talismans today

History Compass, Volume 21, Issue 3-4, April 2023., 2023
Abstract The science of talismans was cultivated in Arabic, Greek, and Latin in the first millennium AD and entered European vernaculars in the seventeenth century. Its primary concern is the ability of images to produce effects in the world, even at a distance.
Benjamin Anderson
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Power, Possibility, and Agency: Speculative Realism and Whitehead’s Theory of Relations

Eidos. A Journal for Philosophy of Culture, 2020
At the turn of the twentieth century, the debate between supporters of internal and external relations showed how our assumptions on the nature of relations result in ontological, epistemic, and ethical commitments. In this debate, Alfred North Whitehead
Christian Frigerio
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Iteração, reiteração, repetição - Uma análise especulativa do signo desprovido de sentido

Revista Eco-Pós, 2018
Este ensaio fornece uma crítica à filosofia pós-kantiana, organizada em torno da ideia de que só temos acesso à correlação entre o pensamento e o ser.
Quentin Meillassoux
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The Absolute as the Meeting Point Between Speculation and Fiction

Open Philosophy, 2020
The article investigates Meillassoux’s notion of the absolute in relationship with the Kantian and Hegelian philosophical systems. The absolute, as independent of subjective consciousness, is showcased as the meeting point of speculation and fiction.
Habdankaitė Daina
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