Postmodernism Revisited: Current Trends and Interpretations
Journal Title: Meta: Research in Hermeneutics, Phenomenology, and Practical Philosophy - Year 2013, Vol 5, Issue 2
Abstract
Stuart Sim, Fifty Key Postmodern Thinkers. London and New York: Routledge, 2013, 264 p.
Authors and Affiliations
Camelia Gradinaru
Le quattro cause della tragedia
This paper aims to analyze one of the highest achievements of humankind, the classical tragedy, via the application of the heuristic paradigm proposed by Aristotle in his Physics, the fourfold determination of the concep...
Artistic Autonomy in the “Post-Medium Condition” of Art: Conceptual Artworks as Performative Interventions
The present text tackles the old problem of artistic autonomy given the constitutive heteronomy of post-conceptual artistic practices in terms of their medium-specificity. Instead of considering the idea of artistic auto...
Student to Teacher
Teacher preparation cast in Heidegger’s terms is “present-at-hand” (potentially useful) until interrogation makes it ready-to-hand (actually useable). What authentic questions prompt teaching to become ready-to-hand for...
“Blasphemy” or “groundless imagination”? The battle of theological grievances between Descartes and Malebranche
The goal of this article is to analyze a metaphysical and theological argument between Descartes and Nicolas Malebranche about the relationship between the eternal truths and God. We try to see whether the criticism that...
Mission Impossible? Thinking What Must be Thought in Heidegger and Deleuze
In this paper, I discuss and compare the (im)possibility of thinking that which is most worth our thought in Deleuze’s What Is Philosophy? (1994) and Heidegger’s course lectures in What Is Called Thinking? (2004). Both a...