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If truth hurts, this is no doubt because it is often enough forced on us. And the question as to whether the reception of “nice,” “easy” truths is similarly an outcome of coercion negates itself in its very formulation—we do not ask “why are things the ...
Jeffrey Bernstein
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The Freedom of Commitment: The Role of the Writer in Sartre’s What is Literature?
The commitment of literature stirred up controversy in the face of European cataclysm of the post-war period. The significance of literature in political spheres fell under suspicion.
Susan Poursanati +1 more
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This paper focuses on the concept of imagination in Giacomo Leopardi’s works, studying its evolution, from the Querelle des Anciens et des Modernes, to the latest theoretical formulations. From the Discorso di un italiano intorno alla poesia romantica to
Tommaso Grandi
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Antinomies of Nativism: Understanding Decoloniality Theory's Affinities with the Global Far Right
ABSTRACT This article examines the peculiar conjuncture of decolonial theory and contemporary far‐right ideology. It argues that their shared fixation on the dualism of native and settler is immanent to the development of advanced capitalism, particularly the sharpening of its contradictory tendency to undermine labour as the source of value, and to ...
Aylin Bademsoy, Neil Larsen
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This paper is an attempt to identify the sources of contemporary culture. The author argues that at its bottom we can find a form of antihuman thinking.
Sylwester Warzyński
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The Muting of the Other: The Technological Reconfiguration of Our Auditory Experience of Others
Increasingly privatized auditory spaces resulting from the mutual engendering of auditory cultural practices and sound technologies that separated the sense of hearing and segmented acoustic spaces have had a muting effect on our experience of Others ...
Gutierrez Ivan
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Abstract An oft‐overlooked aspect of Sartre’s concept of selfhood is his rejection of good faith and sincerity as normative ideals. We argue that Sartre’s paradoxical treatment of good faith – claiming both that it is a manifestation of bad faith and the antithesis of it – holds a key to understanding Sartre’s account of selfhood.
Mark A. Wrathall, Wanda von Knobelsdorff
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From Moral Annihilation to Luciferism: Aspects of a Phenomenology of Violence
Do the various ascriptions of “violence,” e.g., to rape, logical reasoning, racist legislation, unqualified statements, institutions of class and/or gender inequity, etc., mean something identically the same, something analogous, or equivocal and context-
James G. Hart
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The Master's Problem: Revisiting Hegel's Critique of Social Domination
Abstract This paper argues for a reinterpretation of Hegel's internal critique of the master in his famous ‘Master–Slave Dialectic.’ Hegel argues that, in addition to the evident injustice suffered by the enslaved, the arrangement also undermines the master's own purposes.
Stephen Cunniff
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Sartre: aspectos da noção de consciência [PDF]
Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Centro de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas. Programa de Pós-Graduação em FilosofiaEsta dissertação é um estudo do itinerário do conceito sartreano de consciência nas obras A Transcendência do ...
Cahet, Henrique José Praxedes
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