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2025, Problemata

Resumo: Este artigo procura investigar a arte, em Nietzsche, no período entre Humano, demasiado humano (1878) e os últimos escritos (1888), isto é, no período posterior à "metafísica de artista". Pela divisão tripartite da obra do autor, a "metafísica de artista" corresponde ao período de sua juventude, enquanto aqui serão explorados os períodos intermediário e maduro. Ao se afastar de Schopenhauer e Wagner e, com isso, da metafísica e do pessimismo romântico, Nietzsche acentuará o exame da arte, cada vez mais, pelo viés do artista. Ele não pretendia conceber uma teoria da arte, uma ciência do belo, nem analisar a arte pelo prisma da obra de arte, tampouco do espectador. Na realidade, sem o artista, sem o corpo criador, a obra de arte não teria condições de existir. Assim, a "metafísica de artista" cederá lugar a uma "fisiologia da arte" e, pela ótica da "vontade de potência", uma "vida decadente" produzirá uma "arte decadente". Ao contrário disso, somente a plenitude de forças poderá engendrar uma "arte ascendente", dionisíaca, afirmativa, aquela capaz de, ao lado de outros mecanismos, realizar a "transvaloração de todos os valores". Palavras-chave: Nietzsche; arte; período intermediário; período maduro; "fisiologia da arte".

2025

In the context of an increasingly diverse and secular academic environment, some Catholic universities have appealed to concepts of a "centered pluralism" and a community in difference. This paper uses Chantal Mouffe's theory of agonistic pluralism to partially affi rm these efforts, while clarifying how such pluralism is "confl ictual" and cannot evade the exclusions of "the political." I argue such agonistic pluralism entails a non-foundational account of reason that, at the same time, can resonate with the often overlooked call for "crossdisciplinary confrontation" in the controversial Land O' Lakes Statement on Catholic higher education. In light of the Congregation on Catholic Education's highlighting gender theory as a key topic of "educational crisis" today, I conclude by pointing to the theological work of James Alison on gender as a helpful exemplar in agonistic disputation.

2025

This paper explores the dangerous yet liberative potentials of so-called monotheistic intolerance, arguing for its importance in pluralistic politics. Drawing upon the work of political theorist Chantal Mouffe, I examine conventional political notions of inclusivity and show how the metaphysics of "the One True God" has political analogs not merely in despotic, exclusive absolutism but in agonistic pluralism. The metaphysical correlate of pluralism, I argue, is not merely in polytheism but in "apophatic intolerance"-the refusal to lay claim upon the Absolute, the denial of its representation-a subtle mechanics at the heart of monotheism. And yet, ambivalently coinciding with this emancipatory intolerance is a violence-laden "Mosaic distinction" between true and false religion. The political theology of Egyptologist Jan Assmann helps us interpret such volatile but crucial intolerance for our own democratic and pluralistic context.

2025

Uniwersytet w sieci. Od e-learningu do e-akademicyzmu Rafał Ilnicki / Elektroniczna paideia Marysia Lewandowska i Laurel Ptak / rozmowa na temat własności intelektualnej Kalendarium Abstracts Noty o autorach 6 Z. Melosik, Obywatelstwo,... more

2025, Journalism and Mass Communication

This research uses a theoretical conceptual method based on Chantal Mouffe"s Radical Democracy which blended with Derrida"s deconstruction thesis about "democracy to come" to reach findings on the state of South Africa"s media freedom landscape. The method is contained in the conceptual framework. The article provides the constitutional legal landscape-or the overarching laws of the land-and the co-regulatory framework within which journalists work. There are four research explications: the Protection of State Information Bill (dubbed the Secrecy Bill), a painting of the president and Freedom of Expression, an arson attack on a community radio station and finally, the death of a photojournalist at the hands of police. The argument here is that the death, the arson attack, the Secrecy Bill, and the shut-down of dissent during the exhibition of the painting of the president all undermine democracy and signify significant closures for the media in the now 20-year-old post-apartheid South Africa. The analysis and reflections will be framed within theories of radical democracy, which argue for more fights and contestations and more voices from the margins in order to deepen democracy, rather than rational consensus which closes the spaces for greater plurality.

2025

The role of the media in a democracy: Unravelling the politics between the media, the state and the ANC in South Africa. Research Question: What is the intersection between the floating signifier, „Democracy ‟ and an independent press?

2025, Journal of Documentation

Purpose - The article uses the Marxist base/superstructure model to frame the current dominant form of open science (OS), presenting a critical analysis drawing on policy documents, empirical examples, and mainstream and critical research. The argument focuses on how the project understands its relation to openness, society, science and information and communication technologies (ICTs). Theoretical concepts as openness ideology, cognitive and academic capitalism, and agonistic pluralism, are used for the analysis and development of an alternative OS framework. Design/methodology/approach - A conceptual analysis and ideology critique of OS is conducted within a general Marxist framework. In a subsequent step an alternative form of OS is developed with the help of Chantal Mouffe's theoretical concept agonistic pluralism. The article's argument is structured by 4 propositions and 2 proposals.
Findings - The current dominant OS framework naturalises commercial enclosures in relation to applied science/open innovation and displays a socially fragmented character in relation to citizen science (CS). This aligns with the openness ideology that downplays the social effect of enclosures related to data, information and knowledge. OS's focus on standardised applied science accommodates social sciences and humanities under natural sciences' umbrella. The critique of which, leads to the argument for a political OS, connected to social movements. This alternative is developed around Mouffe's concept of agonistic pluralism and could counteract the commodification of academia and reinvigorate it with diverse forms of applied research.
Originality/value - The article delivers a critical and systematic analysis founded in the Marxist base/ superstructure model that frames and combines conceptual elements rarely combined in Library and Information Science's STS-oriented literature. It problematises the conditions for scholarly research under capitalism's current cognitive phase and identifies positive potentialities that hitherto have eluded the attention from the wider international Library and Information Science community. Through this, the article contributes to a discussion about what kind of (open) science society needs.

2025, The Annual Review for the Sciences of the Democracies

Jean-Paul Gagnon's project of a "lexicon of democracy" has been able to trigger a number of different debates internal to democratic theory. This article will focus on one of them, which is: How does one conceptually distinguish democracy from non-democracy? The question seems essential to the lexicon of democracy project. The article combines four elements: (a) an acknowledgement of the need for a concept-based approach to the problem of the lexicon; (b) a defense of the methodological claim that a cogently formulated concept of democracy should be able to account for the unity of the operation through which democracy is specified, that is, for the idea that the set of interpretive questions with which theorists grapple stems from roughly the same overarching idea in need of interpretation; (c) a particular formulation of that overarching idea-i.e., of the concept of democracy-informed by a certain view of "the people" as a morally empty union of individuals; (d) an explanation of how the operation of specifying democracy from concept to conception proceeds through a set of essential questions which flow from the concept of democracy proposed.

2025

Almost every page contains a new bit of information, a new argument, and the materials, theories and doctrines on which Lindahl draws are almost comprehensive. It is remarkable, therefore, that in a book dedicated in no small part to conflicts between legal orders, Lindahl explicitly rejects the relevance of that field of law that deals with such conflicts: namely private international law. He juxtaposes private international law with other techniques of boundary-setting that he does find relevant: This set of techniques [margin of appreciation, subsidiarity, reciprocal recognition, limited autonomy regimes, safe harbor agreements, the recognition and enforcement of foreign judgments] is by no means exhaustive, but its elements share a common denominator: they are institutional arrangements designed to frame encounters between collective self and other in ways that attempt to preserve both collective identity and difference. On the face of it, they are vehicles for an authoritative politics of boundaries arising from conflict between legal

2025, Visao Global Descontinuado a Partir De 2013

Neste artigo pretende-se compreender a filosofia do pensamento nietzschiano, priorizando a temática assinalada, à medida que esta é formulada numa perspectiva crítica da racionalidade iluminista. A delimitação do trabalho acontece, então, a partir da tematização do conceito para além dele mesmo, isto é, no espaço crítico-criativo da relação entre arte e filosofia. Palavras-chave: Nietzsche. Metáfora. Conceito. Arte. Filosofia. Num estudo do pensamento de Nietzsche, seria uma tarefa menos difícil assumir o convencimento da impossibilidade de aprisionar seu pensamento em definições prefiguradas, performáticas ou normativas do que tentar se aventurar na incerteza do filósofo de Zaratustra. 1 Todavia, em termos de discussão preliminar, podemos assumir a responsabilidade de insinuar um ensaio a respeito do tema: Arte e Filosofia: para além do conceito em Nietzsche de modo emblemático e muito menos cuidadoso e poético do que o do autor em questão. Neste artigo pretendemos compreender a filosofia do pensamento nietzschiano, priorizando a temática assinalada, à medida que essa é formulada numa perspectiva crítica da racionalidade iluminista. A delimitação do trabalho acontece, então, a partir da tematização do conceito para além dele mesmo, isto é, no espaço crítico-criativo

2025, Satrachee Foundation

The socialist movement in India gradually moved away from Congress dominance, aligning itself with leaders who advocated resistance against aristocratic structures. This pivot spurred the rise of leaders dedicated to erecting a durable bastion for the socio-culturally marginalized, all while vigorously advocating for their class prerogatives. At the zenith of the socialist surge, Karpoori Thakur led the charge in erecting such a platform, geared towards nurturing both economic resilience and psychological fortitude among the proletariat. This research article constitutes a unique endeavour focused on dissecting the philosophical underpinnings championed by Karpoori Thakur. It navigates through Thakur's ideological position on socialism, his intricate viewpoints on democracy, his scathing criticisms of casteism and feudalistic doctrines, his steadfast adherence to principles of political probity and combating corruption, his visionary approach towards nurturing communal concord, language policies, women's empowerment, and his penetrating insights into educational restructuring. The article meticulously unravels the complexities of Thakur's doctrines spanning across these diverse realms.

2025

Recent continental and critical theories suggest a necessary connection between strategic action and authoritarian politics. I argue that strategic imagination is necessary for democracy, as it helps safeguard freedom of action against authoritarianism. I begin by reviewing the works of philosophers such as Jacques Rancière, who abdicate strategy in the name of democracy. I demonstrate that, despite their good intentions, their political legacy has ultimately strengthened authoritarianism. Next, I explore the relationship between action and imagination, as well as that between strategy and freedom, by examining the tensions in Hannah Arendt's claim in The Human Condition that

2025, The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Cultural Heritage and Conflict. I. Saloul, B. Baillie (eds.)

Monuments designed by artists or architects and erected in public spaces with the intention of inscribing to them a commemoration value are also regarded as works of public art. Besides the extensive scholarship on monuments, they are also analyzed drawing from discussions specific to public art. The latter received a lot of attention between the 1990s and late 2010s, largely as an effect of a broader spatial turn in the humanities and social sciences. Characteristic of this spatial turn was the adaptation of concepts and theories of space in the analysis of various kinds of social, cultural, and political phenomena. This encyclopedia entry focuses on the concepts of "agonistic spaces" and "safe spaces." The two concepts come from different discursive contexts-from theories of radical democracy and from feminist, gender, and black activism, respectively-and are seemingly ideologically incompatible. Yet in the case of monuments and art created with communities sharing trauma, they function complementarily. This is demonstrated in the example of two case studies, the so-called Living Memorial (2014) in the city of Budapest in Hungary and the long-term project The Present as a Result of the Past (2012-ongoing) by artist Fotini Gouseti in the town of Kalavryta, in Greece.

2025

The contributions to this paper result from a workshop on the concept of ‘civil society’ from a historical perspective, held at the Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin in December 2002. They document a central topic of the debate: the (explicit or implicit) regulative and normative implications of the civil society concept. Three aspects are pointed out that traditional, mostly normative, concepts of civil society tend to neglect or externalise: a possible conceptualisation of civil society by opposite terms, by locating its origin in war and violence, and by reflecting the impact of power within civil societies. All contributions are based on the idea that the problem of power and violence, whether they are opposite to civil society, or rather part (or even precondition) of it, might be an indicator to which extent conceptions of civil society in fact imply normative assumptions. Such assumptions are confronted with the ambivalence of (civil) societal reality. It is shown how the concept o...

2025, Processos psicológicos e desenvolvimento humano em diferentes contextos: teoria e pesquisa

Este capítulo tem como objetivo analisar teórico-conceitualmente a crítica de Friedrich Nietzsche às bases metafísicas da psicologia tradicional. Para isso, examinamos como Nietzsche revela o caráter “superficial” do desenvolvimento da consciência. O filósofo propõe uma abordagem fisiopsicológica alternativa, onde a consciência nuclear do “Eu” racional se dissolve no primado do corpo, entendido enquanto uma multiplicidade de impulsos. Através dessa perspectiva, Nietzsche oferece uma visão ampliada do psiquismo e da subjetividade, desafiando os pressupostos epistemológicos e teórico-metodológicos que sustentam as práticas atuais na Psicologia do Desenvolvimento Humano. Dessa forma, sua filosofia não apenas questiona, mas também sugere novas ferramentas críticas para a reavaliação teórica em Psicologia.

2025, Liberal Current

My reply to Matt Sleat's review of Freedom from Fear

2025, Global Environmental Change

Co-production, the collaborative weaving of research and practice by diverse societal actors, is argued to play an important role in sustainability transformations. Yet, there is still poor understanding of how to navigate the tensions that emerge in these processes. Through analyzing 32 initiatives worldwide that co-produced knowledge and action to foster sustainable social-ecological relations, we conceptualize 'co-productive agility' as an emergent feature vital for turning tensions into transformations. Co-productive agility refers to the willingness and ability of diverse actors to iteratively engage in reflexive dialogues to grow shared ideas and actions that would not have been possible from the outset. It relies on embedding knowledge production within processes of change to constantly recognize, reposition, and navigate tensions and opportunities. Co-productive agility opens up multiple pathways to transformation through: (1) elevating marginalized agendas in ways that maintain their integrity and broaden struggles for justice; (2) questioning dominant agendas by engaging with power in ways that challenge assumptions, (3) navigating conflicting agendas to actively transform interlinked paradigms, practices, and structures; (4) exploring diverse agendas to foster learning and mutual respect for a plurality of perspectives. We explore six process considerations that vary by these four pathways and provide a framework to enable agility in sustainability transformations. We argue that research and practice spend too much time closing down debate over different agendas for changethereby avoiding, suppressing, or polarizing tensions, and call for more efforts to facilitate better interactions among different agendas.

2025, Leituras nietzschianas. XIX Encontro ANPOF (Goiânia, 2022) - GT Nietzsche

This paper examines the concept of 'extemporaneity' (Unzeitgemäßheit) in Friedrich Nietzsche's writings, with a particular focus on its dual significance: as a non-conformity to the times and as a rhetorical style rooted in the classical tradition of extemporalia. Drawing upon Nietzsche's philological training and his engagement with ancient rhetorical models, the study explores how the improvisational art of extempore discourse informs Nietzsche's critique of modernity and his vision of cultural renewal. By analyzing texts from both his early and late periods, the paper investigates the philosophical and stylistic implications of extemporaneity as a mode of resistance to the homogenizing pressures of contemporary culture. The discussion highlights the agonistic tension inherent in Nietzsche's thought, where the creative reconstruction of tradition serves as a foundation for a transformative philosophical style. This approach situates Nietzsche's extemporaneous style within broader debates about the role of the past in shaping critical responses to the present and future. Ultimately, the paper argues that Nietzsche’s extemporaneity represents an ethical and aesthetic commitment to a dynamically evolving form of cultural critique, rooted in classical ideals of rhetorical and intellectual rigor.

2025, Faculty Publications-English

1. In On the Political, Chantal Mouffe argues that all politics, properly conceived, must be agonistic. The "political" for Mouffe names a field of struggle where contesting groups with opposing interests vie for hegemony. Rather than being the rational conversation of modern liberalism, politics involves a battle where a recognizable "we" fight against a likewise identifiable "they." Mouffe agonizes over the fact that so many political theorists today would deny the antagonistic character of the political. She wishes to combat the pervasive sense among social theorists that, since the end of the Cold War and the advent of globalization, we are living in a "post-political" world, a world in which the problems of societies are resolved by recourse to universal human values, liberal consensus, and human rights. 2. Mouffe argues that by denying the existence of partisan and adversarial interests based on collective identities, modern liberalism has foreclosed the symbolic space for such conflicts to occur. Mouffe enlists the aid of a strategic ally, the conservative theorist Carl Schmitt, to help make her case. This is a dangerous move, because Schmitt is opposed to the sort of pluralist democracy Mouffe wants to champion. Schmitt's anti-liberalism provides a tincture against the platitudinous banalities of that philosophy. For Schmitt, politics always involves collective identities of we/they. This characterization of self and other is also a friend/enemy distinction, which can then lead to violent disavowals of the other's right to exist at all. There can be no rational consensus because identity is always based on exclusion. There is no alternative to the we/they binary, so the goal cannot be to overcome this antagonism. According to Mouffe, Schmitt concludes that pluralism has no place in democratic society; only a homogenous society can work. For Mouffe, who insists on democratic pluralism, the goal is to maintain Schmitt's agonism and to prevent it from becoming antagonism. In other words, she wants to maintain a we/they relationship while keeping it from devolving into a friend/enemy relationship. "The fundamental question for democratic theory is to envisage how the antagonistic dimension-which is constitutive of the political-can be given a form of expression that will not destroy the political association" (52).

2025, Pain

The mu opioid receptor (MOR) and metabotropic glutamate receptor 5 (mGluR5) are well-established pharmacological targets in the management of chronic pain. Both receptors are expressed in the spinal cord. MMG22, a bivalent ligand containing 2 pharmacophores separated by 22 atoms, which simultaneously activates MOR and antagonizes mGluR5, has been shown to produce potent reversal of tactile hypersensitivity in rodent models of lipopolysaccharide (LPS)-and bone cancer–induced chronic pain. This study assessed whether intrathecal MMG22 also is effective in reducing pain of neuropathic origin. Furthermore, we theorized that MMG22 should reduce hyperalgesia in nerve-injured mice in a manner consistent with a synergistic interaction between MOR and mGluR5. Several weeks after spared nerve injury, tactile hypersensitivity was reversed in mice by the intrathecal injection of MMG22 (0.01-10 nmol) but also by its shorter spacer analog, MMG10, with similar potency. The potencies of the bivalen...

2025, Poprzez sztukę. Obserwacje krytyczne

Monografia stanowi zbiór artykułów naukowych powstałych w oparciu o teksty z zakresu krytyki sztuki z lat 2009-2018 publikowane głównie w internetowym „Magazynie O.pl”, a także w czasopismach naukowych („Kultura i Historia”). Tematyka obejmuje wystawy i wydarzenia takie, jak: Biennale Mediations (2012), Biennale Sztuki Mediów WRO (2013), Biennale Weneckie (2013), wystawy obejrzane w 2014 roku w Korei Południowej (m.in. Gwangju Biennale), festiwal art+bits 2015, Biennale Berlińskie (2014, 2016), Robiąc użytek i Cały czas w pracy (2016), Nonsensowne technologie (2017) oraz documenta 14 (2017).

2024

The city of Jerusalem constitutes a microcosm of national politics and clashing identities in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Its highly contested Old City is a focal point for recurring intergroup violence and increasing tensions (Rokem, Weiss, Miodownik, 2018). During May 2021, eviction plans of the Arab neighborhood Sheikh Jarrah in East Jerusalem and violent conflicts at the Al-Aqsa Mosque, a holy site to both Muslims and Jews, have led to ongoing protests, evictions, and polarization of intra-communal sympathies (Aljazeera, 2021). While illustrating the violent history of Israeli-Palestinian contestation of space, Jerusalem remains a space for interaction, dialogue, and localized politics in a securitized setting (Rumelili, 2015). Thus, it is informative about potential ways of desecuritizing the conflict and promoting peaceful dialogue.

2024

To disentangle liberal democratic theory from its rationalism and orientation towards consensus, Chantal Mouffe recommends reviving Machiavelli’s argument about the institutionalization of conflict. Democracy, she argues, needs to establish a vibrant public sphere in which collective identities can openly contend with each other in an adversarial left/right format. Such an institutionalization of conflict is easily imaginable in the form of, and well known from, parliamentary party politics. But is it extendable to those extra-parliamentary forms of politics that increasingly appear to supplement democratic parliamentarism? Does the ‘becoming-other of politics’ (Arditi 2003) suit or defy the institutionalization of conflict?

2024, International Criminal Law Review

The rising tide of autocratization does not bode well for the International Criminal Court (ICC), which has almost exclusively intervened in contexts of autocratic rule. As the Court is dependent not only on state cooperation but also on non-governmental organizations (ngo s) for effectiveness and legitimacy, this article explores the role— if any—of dissident ngo s in the pursuit of justice for international crimes committed under autocratic regimes. It shows that, while ngo s have been fundamental to the working of the icc, autocratic states are particularly challenging for the icc and ngos to operate in. Despite this, ngo s may have found new ways of holding autocratic states to account for international crimes—with or without the icc.

2024, Studia Socjologiczne

Artykuł podejmuje tematykę społeczno-politycznego zaangażowania młodych ludzi w Polsce. Przyjmując za punkty wyjścia teoretyczne rozważania dotyczące takich pojęć, jak polityczne i obywatelskie zaangażowanie, oraz stan badań na temat motywacji do zaangażowania, autorzy koncentrują się na ścieżkach aktywistycznych młodych dorosłych: (1) w jakich okolicznościach rozpoczyna się i rozwija ich zaangażowanie; (2) co ich do niego motywuje – zarówno w pierwszym, jak i kolejnych etapach, oraz jak te motywacje zmieniają się w czasie. Artykuł opiera się na analizie 28 wywiadów z młodymi aktywistami i aktywistkami (18–24 lata) związanymi z co najmniej jednym z trzech obszarów zaangażowania: instytucjonalno-politycznym (polityczne młodzieżówki, partie polityczne, samorządy); społeczno-politycznym (ruchy i organizacje społeczne o ogólnopolskim oddziaływaniu) i społeczno-lokalnym (ochotnicza straż pożarna, lokalne organizacje pozarządowe działające na rzecz społeczności lokalnej).

2024

Comentário a "nietzsChe e o projeto polítiCo assentado na seletividade da virtude. um projeto aristoCrátiCo de vontade de domínio"

2024

Demokratie ist eine sich immer wieder neu und aus sich selbst heraus entwickelnde Praxis. Was aber könnte handlungsorientierendes Wissen für eine solche demokratische Praxis bieten? Christian Leonhardt gibt hierauf eine radikaldemokratische Antwort: Er schlägt vor, radikale Demokratie nicht liberal, sondern anarchistisch zu denken. Sein Buch entwickelt mithilfe aktivistischer Theorieproduktionen Ansätze einer lokal-situativen Theorie radikaldemokratischen Handelns, mit Exkursen von den römischen Plebejern bis hin zum Maler Zinnober. So entstehen Szenen des Politischen, die kritische Deutungen demokratischer Aushandlungen des Gemeinsamen ermöglichen und neue Horizonte einer Poetologie Politischer Theorie eröffnen.

2024, in: Behemoth. A Journal on Civilisation, 15/2, 2022, S. 77-95

The connection between totalitarianism and ideology is as empirically obvious as it is disturbing for any attempt to grasp it intellectually. The defendant’s confessions to improbable crimes in the so-called Moscow
Processes provide a striking instance of it: Are they expressions of unshakable belief or results of coercive power – or of a necessary conjunction of these two? The article discusses three theoretical positions that attempt at an explanation of how totalitarianism and ideology are related: Marcel Gauchet’s, Hannah Arendt’s, and the author’s own. While the first two tend to regard either totalitarianism in function of ideology, or ideology in function of totalitarianism, a third possibility is to historicize the relation of both terms as such. It then appears as a specific moment in discursive history that implies a particular conception of the subject and of intersubjectivity, as it can be observed in Karl Mannheim or Mikhail Bakhtin. A
parallel reading of Arthur Koestler’s Darkness at Noon lends probability
to all three positions but gives particular weight to the third.

2024, Filosofía, teología y política en un mundo post-secular, José Antonio Valdivia y Diego Rossello (editores). Valencia: Tirant lo Blanch,

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2024, Studia Politologiczne

Odczucie zażenowania, niesmaku, emocje zupełnie odmienne od zachwycającego doświadczenia transgresji, wielowymiarowości, głębi, wyobraźni i porozumienia tworzą zadziwiające iunctim polityki i kiczu. Dwie dziedziny (polityka i sztuka), interesujące z punktu widzenia relacji istotnej dla poruszanego tematu od starożytności tworzyły językowo znaną kolokację -"sztuka polityki". Ilość kojarzonych z tym znaczeń jest z pewnością na tyle duża, że trudna do przedstawienia bez całej panoramy europejskiej, właściwie nawet światowej myśli politycznej, zastanowienia się nad możliwością rozwiązania problemów społecznych w różnych zakątkach globu i w różnym czasie oraz przeglądu wszelkich rozpoznanych i stosowanych technik propagandowych czy socjotechnik. Najczęściej wiąże się ze sposobami realizowania politycznych celów, w tym znaczeniu sztuką ich osiągania, użytecznymi w tym względzie środkami, formami realizowania koncepcji politycznych. Wariantami frazeologizmu są sztuka rządzenia, sztuka manipulacji politycznej, sztuka wyboru lub sztuka tego co jest możliwe. W wersji nader optymistycznej

2024, Dávid Bartus – Zsolt Mráv – Melinda Szabó (eds.), Proceedings of the XXIst International Congress on Ancient Bronzes Budapest, 20–24 September 2022 Budapest. Dissertationes Archaeologicae, Supplementum 4 (2024) 397–416.

The Kovacs Vase was first made known under scholars in Munich in 1996, but its origins and current owner are unknown. It could be shown that the pictorial scenes come from the Greek Pankration. It has now been proposed to date the Kovacs Vase to 400 AD. The successful fight of the alround-fighter Privatulus is shown in five scenes, with legends attached to the fight pictures describing the athletes in more detail. The inscriptions also indicate that it must have been an experienced and victorious all-fighter from the Green Circus Party (factiones). What is unusual is that the loser Victorinus is also mentioned by name, possibly also a successful fighter, over whom victory may have meant an outstanding achievement for Privatulus. All additions are written in a vulgar Latin that is similar to Proto-Romance and is difficult to understand. The overview and comparison of silver and non-ferrous metal jugs and vases from the 4th to 8th centuries shows that in the toreutics of this period both traditional forms and motifs have been present since the 4th century and new forms and decorative elements appear that clearly differ from the late Roman origins. The Kovacs Vase combines ‘classic’ shapes and motifs from the 6th century with innovative elements that indicate an independent, classicist development. It could be that it was made in a workshop in northern Italy. Although written sources mention gymnastic agones, no firmly dated images from the 5th century are known to date. Against this historical-archaeological background, the Kovacs Vase with its depictions and inscriptions is a unique testimony to Greek agonistics in late antiquity.

2024, British Journal of Politics and International Relations

It is sometimes suggested that even democratic politicians need to dirty their hands in ways that render hypocrisy, lying and deception unavoidable and even justified. By contrast, we draw on John Rawls' Political Liberalism to argue that the 'reasonable disagreements' occasioned by the 'fact of pluralism' that make democratic politics necessary can only be resolved in ways congruent with democratic norms if politicians are truthful in Bernard Williams' (2002) sense, and adhere to the related virtues of 'sincerity' and 'accuracy'. Supplementing Eric Beerbohm's 'relational model' of campaign ethics with Suzanne Dovi's account of the 'good representative', we argue that these both entail the virtues of truthfulness. We contend the contemporary crisis of representation associated with the rise of technocracy and populism can be linked to the ways both undermine these virtues through their common rejection of pluralism and the related need for truthfulness. Consequently, both involve deformations of 'good' democratic representation.

2024

This text explores the political theory of Chantal Mouffe and the potentials of its relationship with architecture.

2024, European Journal of Political Theory

John Rawls was what we might call a "frenemy" to Stanley Cavell. Time and again, Cavell states his admiration for Rawls's political philosophy but criticizes it for two reasons. First, he believes that Rawls too hastily dismisses a perfectionist tradition that is essential for a flourishing liberal democracy. Second, he attacks certain aspects of Rawls's theory of justice as moralistic and legalistic. The first half of this article examines Cavell's critique of Rawls and argues that the two authors are more closely aligned than suspected. It begins by reconstructing Cavell's critique of Rawls, and using archival materials from Harvard University, presents for the first time Rawls's interpretation of this critique. The second half of the article highlights perfectionist themes in Rawls's A Theory of Justice. The contribution of this article is to reevaluate the relationship between two of the most important moral philosophers of the twentieth century and also to provide a more expansive theory of liberalism that incorporates the psychological depth, moral subtlety and political hopefulness of moral perfectionism.

2024, Journal of Landscape Architecture, Volume 19, Issue 1

This essay discusses the final commission of Dimitris Pikionis, an architect known for his critical stance on modern architecture. Pikionis became renowned outside Greece for two landscape projects: the interventions in the Acropolis and the Filothei Garden for Children. Spanning the years 1961 to 1963, he embarked on a journey to the island of Euboea and supervised a third project of landscape architecture: the interventions for the Memorial of Major Ioannis Velissariou, a fallen hero of the Balkan Wars. Despite its lesser-known status, this project stands as a representative example of Pikionis’s most prolific period. The essay addresses this gap in scholarship by utilizing archival research, on-site documentation and interviews with Pikionis’s collaborators. It offers an extensive account of the interventions, followed by a critical assessment. This serves a dual purpose: first, to explore the intellectual underpinnings that influenced the interventions, and second, to underscore their contemporary relevance.

2024

Friedrich Nietzsche é reconhecido como um dos mais contundentes polemistas da história da filosofia moderna. Suas contraposições – tanto explícitas quanto subtendidas – se tornaram de tal modo constitutivas de seus escritos que dificilmente se pode negar que estas seriam traços centrais de seu caráter filosófico. No entanto, para muitos tal índole parece movida por algum desencanto ou ressentimento – justamente o que Nietzsche combate em suas incursões. Trata-se aqui de pensar a relação entre o estilo discursivo e a personalidade filosófica de Nietzsche. Conjectura-se que sua atitude polêmica não é movida por sentimentos reativos, que cabe assim distinguir entre uma contraposição reativa e uma contraposição ativa, que esta possui estratégias argumentativas precisas e impessoais, bem como integra uma nova forma de expressão filosófica

2024

Boesenbergia pandurata is a folklore remedy for relieving stomach, abdominal, joint, and muscular pain. Previous study from our research group has shown that Boesenbergia pandurata’s essential oil (BPEO) possesses antinociceptive activity against chemical and thermal models of pain. The present study was conducted to evaluate participation of opioid receptors in BPEO-induced antinociceptive activity. The involvement opioid receptors were assessed using acetic acid-induced abdominal writhing test. The acetic acid-induced writhing test was conducted by administering the non-selective opioid receptor antagonists (naloxone) 15 minutes before administration of BPEO orally, and selective opioid receptor antagonists (beta-funaltrexamine, norbinaltorphimine, and naltrindole) 1 day before BPEO administration. 0.6% acetic acid was later injected intraperitoneally and 5 minutes after the injection mice was observed for writhing response in 30 minutes time span. It was demonstrated that oral ad...

2024

This thesis entitled The Ethics of Public Spaces: In Between the Lived and Built Environment, introduces different philosophical approaches which elaborate upon the mutual conditionality between the lived and the built environment. In addition, it contrasts those attitudes not only with each other but also with examples of active citizenship, interventions, and art in public spaces. The aim of my work is to shed light on the different layers that public spaces consist of, and reveal what the word ‘public’ in a connection of spatiality means in praxis.
With Hannah Arendt as my main guide and other thinkers, including Judith Butler, Michel de Certeau, Michel Foucault and Richard Sennett, I pose the following questions: What is public about public spaces? What role do public spaces play in our lives? And how do they shape the way we perceive the world?
None of the authors mentioned above dedicated their work to public spaces solely. In their research, they only touch upon certain aspects, which I abstract and layer on top of each other to draw a bigger picture, which would stress the importance of public spaces in our lives since I claim we are slowly losing not only material places itself but also its meaning.

2024, Leuven UP

In this Prelude to Homo Mimeticus II, I step back to the great examples of Homer and Machiavelli to flesh out new conceptual arrows for mimetic studies--including mimetic agonism, hypermimesis and the mimetic unconscious--in view of... more

2024, Revista de Estudios Políticos, 205, pp. 285-331

Gerardo López Sastre, Francisco José Martínez Mesa, Margarita Eva Rodríguez García y María Luisa Sánchez-Mejía (coords): Las luces del progreso y la conciencia de la Modernidad, Madrid, Editorial Tecnos, 2022, 397 págs.

2024, Prometeo: Quarterly Magazine of History and Sciences

Paul Feyerabend, one of the most original and nonconformist epistemologists of the 20th century, is known for describing science as an essentially anarchic enterprise characterized by different, sometimes contradictory, methods, approaches and ways of reasoning. But it was through his reflections on art and myth that he developed an even more radical view: there are different forms of human thought, each characterized by a different rationality and reality, and science is only one of them. And in intellectual history there is only change, but not progress.

2024, Nómadas

Poéticas indígenas de resistência e reconstrução plural de comunidade Indigenous poetics of resistance and collective reconstruction of community El artículo analiza la política lingüística multicultural que enmarca la revitalización de lenguas indígenas en Colombia, las relaciones de poder-saber y los legados coloniales. Propone una pragmática ecológica y decolonial, reconociendo las dimensiones poéticas, éticas y políticas de las prácticas narrativas indígenas. Considera, además, la capacidad de estas prácticas para favorecer la emergencia de formas de resistencia y reconstrucción comunitaria en medio de la violencia. Finalmente, relexiona sobre la capacidad de estas prácticas para facilitar la reconstrucción de comunidades y permitir diálogos decoloniales. Palabras clave: poéticas indígenas, colonialidad-decolonialidad, pragmática ecológica, resistencia creativa, agonística, Sur global. O artigo analisa a política linguística multicultural que emoldura a revitalização de línguas indígenas na Colômbia, as relações de poder-saber e os legados coloniais. Propõe uma pragmática ecológica e descolonizadora, reconhecendo as dimensões poéticas, éticas e políticas das práticas narrativas indígenas. Considera, ainda, a capacidade dessas práticas para favorecer a ocorrência de formas de resistência e de reconstrução comunitária no meio da violência. Finalmente, relexiona sobre a capacidade dessas práticas para facilitar a reconstrução de comunidades e permitir diálogos descolonizadores.

2024, Nómadas

El artículo analiza la política lingüística multicultural que enmarca la revitalización de lenguas indígenas en Colombia, las relaciones de poder-saber y los legados coloniales. Propone una pragmática ecológica y decolonial, reconociendo las dimensiones poéticas, éticas y políticas de las prácticas narrativas indígenas. Considera, además, la capacidad de estas prácticas para favorecer la emergencia de formas de resistencia y reconstrucción comunitaria en medio de la violencia. Finalmente, reflexiona sobre la capacidad de estas prácticas para facilitar la reconstrucción de comunidades y permitir diálogos decoloniales.

2024, Revista de Ciências do Estado

É possível pensar o incremento da violência política contra as mulheres como sintoma dos limites apresentados pelo consenso racional, conforme apontado pelos críticos das teorias democráticas deliberativas? Partindo deste problema de pesquisa, utilizaremos como marco teórico deste artigo uma das principais dessas críticas: a teoria do pluralismo agonístico, desenvolvida pela filósofa Chantal Mouffe e pautada na necessidade do resgate do elemento do conflito e das paixões na esfera pública. Com isso, objetivamos refletir sobre suas contribuições para a análise da onda crescente de violência política direcionada às mulheres no contexto brasileiro, em específico, e do reaparecimento dos antagonismos em um cenário político global marcado pela desdemocratização e pela mobilização dos afetos por movimentos da extrema direita. Em um primeiro momento, trataremos do elo visualizado entre o esgarçamento do modelo liberal-democrático e as manifestações de violência política contra às mulheres, sobretudo no Brasil. Em seguida, apresentaremos as bases da contraproposta teórica de radicalização da democracia apresentada por Mouffe. Por fim, discorreremos sobre o potencial das bases desse agonismo, sobretudo a partir da sua legitimação do adversário como um pressuposto democrático, em colaborar com os esforços para conter os antagonismos extremos que volta e meia imperam na política, assim como indicar uma direção para a imaginação de novas alternativas e para a renovação do sistema democrático através de sua radicalização.

2024, Simposio Internacional de tecnología aplicada al cuidado del Patrimonio, posibilidades y retos - Universidad Católica San Pablo

Over the past few years, AI has begun to play a crucial role in architecture over the past decades, especially in heritage preservation and urban development. Advanced tools have aided in design and restoration, making processes more precise, faster, and efficient. In post-conflict cities, heritage becomes more important because it is tied to the community's identity. AI has great potential to assist in the restoration and preservation of the culture, history, and memory of the built environment, and it can facilitate a more democratic dialogue on the subject. That said, ethical concerns need to be addressed.