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Vibrant Matter: Posthumanism as an Ethics of Radical Alterity
The present article wishes to present critical posthumanism as an ethics of radical alterity. It is divided into three explanatory moments: firstly, it provides a set of perfunctory remarks on the interdisciplinary field of posthumanism; it will then proceed to a general overview of Rosi Braidotti’s The Posthuman (2013); finally, a brief case-study ...
Ricardo Gil Soeiro
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VII Zverev International Conference at RSUH: Colonial and Postcolonial Discourses in American Literature, Culture, and Politics: Pro et Contra [PDF]
The review outlines the major topics of the conference on American Studies held by RSUH in May 2021. Colonial and postcolonial discourses, their intervention and interpretation are still simultaneously extraordinarily enabling and theoretically ...
Irina V. Morozova +1 more
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Religious intolerance: the maximum denial of alterity
It analyses aspects of religious intolerance in Brazil, its cause-and-effect relationship with radical proselytism, negative consequences for the exercise of the right to religious freedom and other human rights, some manifestations in the Brazilian ...
EDNA HOGEMANN, Sergio Luis Tavares
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Das Andere der „erdumspannenden Gesellschaft“
The future vision described in the 1924 novel Berge Meere und Giganten begins with the global spread of a social formation that strives to export its technology and security system to even the most remote regions.
Torsten Hahn
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Por que as formas mais populares do cristianismo contemporâneo são aquelas que vêem uma distância radical entre céu e Terra? Com base em teorias acerca do papel da alteridade na religião, e particularmente nas teorias da época axial - que enfatizam a ...
Joel Robbins
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The Posthuman that Could Have Been: Mary Shelley’s Creature
At the very core of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, the Creature meets his maker, acquaints him – and, consequently, the reader – with the narrative of his miserable life, and entreats him to make a female companion with whom he can share his life. Although
Margarita Carretero González
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After universalisms: music as a medium for intercultural translation
Postmodernity is characterised by the fundamentalisation of plurality. As Aleida Assmann (1996: 99) finds, difference is affirmed in the form of deviance, gaps, and radical alterity.
Martina Viljoen
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Migration Experiences and Narrative Identities: Viewing Alterity from Biographical Research
This paper addresses the ethical challenge of hosting the stranger that is implicit in the work of biographical research with migrant populations. It analyses the tasks faced by this dialogical and narrative research that is put forward both in social ...
Elsa Lechner, Letícia Renault
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Das Paradox der Solidarität: Rezension zu Lea Susemichels und Jens Kastners Unbedingte Solidarität
This essay reviews Lea Susemichel and Jens Kastner's co-edited book Unbedingte Solidarität (Unconditional Solidarity), which was published in 2021.
Anna Weithaler, Michaela Bstieler
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Contrary to Levinas, the event of hospitality does not take place in the face of the other, but rather, in the work of art. Art should therefore not be viewed as provoking pleasure, but rather, as an event of hospitality of radical alterity possessing ...
Dror Pimentel
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