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The Constellation: A Reappraisal of Walter Benjamin's Influence on Theodor W. Adorno

Constellations, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In the 1920s and 1930s, Walter Benjamin and Theodor W. Adorno both sought to develop a notion of Darstellung—of philosophical presentation or representation—that could provide an alternative to the classically idealist tendency to subsume objects under abstract concepts.
E. Lawrence Bradford
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Historicizing Hermann von Helmholtz’s Psychology of Differentiation

Journal for the History of Analytical Philosophy, 2018
Nineteenth-century scientist Hermann von Helmholtz’s peculiar wavering between empiricism and transcendentalism in his philosophy of science in general, and in his theory of perception in particular, is a much debated and well-documented topic in the ...
Liesbet De Kock
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The Big Picture: Religion and Global Comparative History

Journal of Religious History, EarlyView.
This article considers what a ‘big picture’ approach to global religious history might look like, and in particular the implications of deploying the comparative method across much larger stretches of time and space than historians normally attend to. It will begin by reflecting on the epistemological moods that have hindered this project to date, the ...
Alan Strathern
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COSMOLOGICAL MARKINGS AND ERASURES: The Political Theology of State‐Led Gentrification and Heritagization

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract This article investigates the symbolic politics of state‐led gentrification and heritagization, focusing on how these processes serve to ‘glorify’ state power. Drawing on Agamben's political theology, Bourdieu's notion of symbolic power and space, and political heritage studies, we argue that the symbolic politics of state glorification can ...
Wouter van Gent, Tular Sudarmadi, Bakti Setiawan   +2 more
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Mixed Super‐Circles

Computer Graphics Forum, EarlyView.
Abstract We introduce mixed super‐circles, a position‐curvature formulation of the original dynamic 2D super‐helix model. Compared to the latter, purely curvature‐based model – the so‐called chained formulation –, the mixed formulation that we propose here drastically reduces the algorithmic complexity of the solving scheme – from quadratic to quasi ...
Emile Hohnadel, Thibaut Métivet, Florence Bertails‐Descoubes   +2 more
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Culture in the Reflections of Ernst Cassirer

Studies in Logic, Grammar and Rhetoric
At the level of assumptions, Ernst Cassirer’s philosophy of symbolic forms is related to Marburg’s interpretation of Kant’s transcendentalism.
Raube Sławomir
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Antinomies of Nativism: Understanding Decoloniality Theory's Affinities with the Global Far Right

Development and Change, EarlyView.
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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Kantowska metafizyka percepcji (Kant’s Metaphysics of Perception) [PDF]

Analiza i Egzystencja, 2009
This article treats of an issue of Kant’s the metaphysics of perception as a specific sphere where concept of sense perception within transcendental philosophy seem to be rooted into a wider context of metaphysical presuppositions. The text is an epitome
Paweł Sikora
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Nonhuman Pedagogical Relations: Towards Conceptual Limits

Educational Theory, EarlyView.
Abstract This article considers the pedagogical relation as a relation to a nonhuman educator, wherein the educatee is a member of the Homo sapiens species. My aim is to clarify the extent to which a nonhuman‐human relation can be understood as pedagogical.
Silas C. Krabbe
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Sovereignty of the Living Individual: Emerson and James on Politics and Religion

Religions, 2017
William James and Ralph Waldo Emerson are both committed individualists. However, in what do their individualisms consist and to what degree do they resemble each other?
Stephen S. Bush
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