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Is esprit de corps the secret engine of history?Unveils the hidden and conflicting ideologies at stake behind the concept of esprit de corps and its contemporary uses Focuses on the discursive uses of esprit de corps in various transnational contexts and in the long term, from 1700 to present times Combines intellectual history, cultural history, philosophy, history of ideas, discourse analysis, political theory and labour history Offers a fresh look into the modern dialectics of individualism and collectivism, structure and agency, laissez-faire and corporatismDeepens our understanding of the history of corporate capitalism and its military influences, as well as to understand the current revival of occidental nationalismEsprit de corps has played a significant role in the cultural and political history of the last 300 years. Through several historical case studies, Luis de Miranda shows how this phrase acts as a combat concept with a clear societal impact. He also reveals how interconnected, yet distinct, French, English and American modern intellectual and political thought is. In the end, this is a cautionary analysis of past and current ideologies of ultra-unified human ensembles, a recurrent historical and theoretical fabulation the author calls 'ensemblance'

Through several historical case studies from the last 300 years, Luis de Miranda shows how the phrase 'esprit de corps' acts as a combat concept with a clear societal impact. He also reveals how interconnected, yet distinct, French, English and American modern intellectual and political thought is.

The 2020 coronavirus pandemic served to remind us that despite our Cartesian fantasies of control, naturing nature (natura naturans) is still active in the form of an untamed Other. The dominant reaction on most political sides was anthropocentric: if we do something– a doing generally framed within the scope of technique and management – nature shall go back to the kind and submissive non-viral neutrality that we appreciate in 'her' as a supposedly passive resource for productivism. How could humanity – a pandemic species itself and not only metaphorically – be better attuned with the powers of naturing nature, in a posture of co-creation rather than of a reactive technocratic war against the non-periodic or 'monstrous' aspects of life? This question is a matter of philosophical health: the future of humanity does not depend on statistics and logistics, but on the possibility of a philosophical (re)generative politics, a trustful care for creative singularity rather than an anxious control and production of regularity. Humanity's collective health presupposes this reconciliation with naturing nature and the deployment of a global shared cosmology based on the creative healing-growth flux of originative creativity. This regenerative and life-affirming creative Real is here termed 'Creal', and we call 'crealectics' the generative philosophical health that favours healing growth.

The 2020 coronavirus pandemic served to remind us that despite our Cartesian fantasies of control, naturing nature (natura naturans) is still active in the form of an untamed Other. The dominant reaction on most political sides was anthropocentric: if we do something– a doing generally framed within the scope of technique and management – nature shall go back to the kind and submissive non-viral neutrality that we appreciate in 'her' as a supposedly passive resource for productivism. How could humanity – a pandemic species itself and not only metaphorically – be better attuned with the powers of naturing nature, in a posture of co-creation rather than of a reactive technocratic war against the non-periodic or 'monstrous' aspects of life? This question is a matter of philosophical health: the future of humanity does not depend on statistics and logistics, but on the possibility of a philosophical (re)generative politics, a trustful care for creative singularity rather than an anxious control and production of regularity. Humanity's collective health presupposes this reconciliation with naturing nature and the deployment of a global shared cosmology based on the creative healing-growth flux of originative creativity. This regenerative and life-affirming creative Real is here termed 'Creal', and we call 'crealectics' the generative philosophical health that favours healing growth.

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The tendency to idealise artificial intelligence as independent from human manipulators, combined with the growing ontological entanglement of humans and digital machines, has created an "anthrobotic" horizon, in which data analytics, statistics and probabilities throw our agential power into question. How can we avoid the consequences of a reified definition of intelligence as universal operation becoming imposed upon our destinies? It is here argued that the fantasised autonomy of automated intelligence presents a contradistinctive opportunity for philosophical consciousness to understand itself anew as holistic and co-creative, beyond the recent "analytic" moment of the history of philosophy. Here we introduce the concept of "crealectic intelligence", a meta-analytic and meta-dialectic aspect of consciousness. Intelligent behaviour may consist in distinguishing discrete familiar parts or reproducible functions in the midst of noise via an analytic process of segmentation; intelligence may also manifest itself in the constitution of larger wholes and dynamic unities through a dialectic process of association or assemblage. But, by contrast, crealectic intelligence co-creates realities in the image of an ideal or truth, taking into account the desiring agent imbued with a sense of possibility, in a relationship not only with the Real but also with the creative sublime or "Creal".

Este artigo desenvolve a tese segundo a qual o niilismo é conatural a hermenêutica filosófica, segundo Gianni Vattimo. A afirmação dessa tese não implica a negação da verdade, mas sim, uma saída da metafísica da presença e de seu conceito de verdade como adaequatio, o que implica afirmar que, também, o conflito é conatural na hermenêutica filosófica e que, por sua vez, abre o caminho para pensar uma política a partir do enfraquecimento da hermenêutica em Gianni Vattimo.

The multiple-choice video game Life is Strange was described by its French developers as a metaphor for the inner conflicts experienced by a teenager in trying to become an adult. In psychological work with adolescents, there is a stark similarity between what they experience and some concepts of existentialist philosophy. Sartre's script for the movie Les Jeux Sont Faits (literally "games are made") uses the same narrative strategy as Life is Strange—the capacity for the main characters to travel back in time to change their own existence—in order to stimulate philosophical, ethical, and political thinking and also to effectively simulate existential "limit situations." This article is a dialogue between Sartre's views and Life is Strange in order to examine to what extent questions such as what is freedom? what is choice? what is autonomy and responsibility? can be interpreted anew in hybrid digital–human—"anthrobotic"—environments.

Recibido: 20/08/2013 ∙ Aceptado: 13/09/2013ResumenLa problemática de la filosofí­a chilena se ha vuelto, poco a poco, una cuestión relevante dentro de las investigaciones filosóficas en Chile. Más relevante aún, se vuelve cuando ese quehacer se vincula con la dictadura y sus escisiones fundamentales de aquellos que, en un caso padecen la dictadura y, en otro caso, la operan. Una voz filosófica emerge en aque­lla situación dictatorial en la que, en muchos casos, el silencio asomaba como la norma. Jorge Millas será el filósofo chileno que tendrá el coraje de filosofar en aquellos tiempos de dictadura. En este sentido esta co­municación transita por los textos del filósofo Jorge Millas publicados los primeros años de la dictadura. La tesis según la cual la filosofí­a se hace en el tiempo y contra el tiempo presente es la que pretendemos mostrar en la filosofí­a de Jorge Millas.Palabras clave: Jorge Millas - democracia - intelectual - corajeAbstractChilean philosophy has become a relevant question within the philoso­phical research trends in Chile. It becomes even more relevant when it is linked to the dictatorship and the fundamental separation between those who suffered from the consequences of the dictatorship and those who operated it. Chilean philosopher Jorge Millas was a voice who had the courage to philosophise in times of the Chilean dictatorship when silence used to be the norm. This article explores Jorge Millas' texts published during the first years of the dictatorship, following the thesis that states that philosophy is made in and against the present time.Keywords: Jorge Millas - democracy - intellectual - bravery