The paper presents the findings of two studies on the current transformations of philosophy of history. The paper claims that those transformations outline a research field more appropriately defined as historical knowledge studies, and focused on the conditions of possibility, operation, structure, institutional praxis, critical potential and political relevance of our knowledge about history. The study provides an outline of the emergence of new problems and topics in philosophy of history based on an analysis of the contents of a prominent journal crucial to the development of the field, History and Theory, which has hosted many important debates on historical knowledge since the 1960s and whose editorial policy is recognised for its pluralism. This account of the transformation of the research field is supplemented by the findings of a study of the institutional localisation and geographic distribution of university courses in philosophy of history.
Este artículo presenta una conceptualización y teorización del término 'sostenibilidad' desde sus movilidades y tensiones. El análisis se refleja en cuatro ámbitos principales: lo filosófico, lo cultural, lo económico y lo pedagógico. Tales tensiones, que en sí mismas contienen una discusión político-ambiental y social, están enmarcadas en la pregunta por la realidad Latinoamericana y Colombiana para el caso de la adopción de políticas, individuales y colectivas, frente al ambiente.ABSTRACTThis article presents a concept and a theory about 'sustainability' from its moves and tensions. The analisys reflects four main topics as philosophy, culture, economics and education. Such tensions contain inside a political environmental and social discussion that are inclosed to the question about colombian and latin american reality in order to adopt political singular and collective strategies before environment. ; Este artículo presenta una conceptualización y teorización del término 'sostenibilidad' desde sus movilidades y tensiones. El análisis se refleja en cuatro ámbitos principales: lo filosófico, lo cultural, lo económico y lo pedagógico. Tales tensiones, que en sí mismas contienen una discusión político-ambiental y social, están enmarcadas en la pregunta por la realidad Latinoamericana y Colombiana para el caso de la adopción de políticas, individuales y colectivas, frente al ambiente.ABSTRACTThis article presents a concept and a theory about 'sustainability' from its moves and tensions. The analisys reflects four main topics as philosophy, culture, economics and education. Such tensions contain inside a political environmental and social discussion that are inclosed to the question about colombian and latin american reality in order to adopt political singular and collective strategies before environment.
The paper surveys Hegel's early aphorisms from his Wastebook first published by K. Rosenkranz. In his Hegel biography, Rosenkranz admires these critical xenias for their beauty and their poignance. They are chance but concise little products that are to reappear in Hegel's introduction to The Phenomenology of the Spirit. They show the process through which Hegel sheds the mythical perspective he inherited from Schelling's philosophy. György Lukács also considers these notes important as traces of Hegel's maturing thought and methodological development in Jena during his early years. There are approximately one hundred notes which can be arranged into five topics: religion, philosophy as science, methodological problems of the principle of dialectics, the intellectual and political status of Germany. These ideas will be expanded on in Hegel's early volumes, primarily in The Phenomenology of the Spirit.
Infinite Next is an international group exhibition of works by Anna Líndal, Amy Howden-Chapman, Bjarki Bragason, Bryndís Snæbjörnsdóttir & Mark Wilson, Hildigunnur Birgisdóttir and Pilvi Takala (curators: Bjarki Bragason, Anna Líndal and Þorgerður Ólafsdóttur). Inifinity is limitless, there is endless space, size or context and it is impossible to measure or view it in entirety. Works in the exhibition each deal with systems which all societies struggle with; late-capitalism, ecosystems in degradation, human experiments to alter the environment, knowledge production, manifestations and the effects of humans on the environment. Since the beginning of agriculture and with the industrial revolution, which took place between 1760 and 1820-40, humans have become a geological force. Human activity began to mark deeper footprints on the planet and cause changes to natural processes. Today the effects are apparent in climate change, which is hard to quantify as an entirety, instead it appears as fragments in all things, as an imbalance in bio systems, droughts or rain, as changes in circumstances and future prospects of all species. Recently in world history, culture has been able to produce products that continue to have an impact dozens of millennia after the production or their use occurred. Thus, the residue of atomic bombs will spread and glaciers melt, thousands of years after the plug has been pulled on all the world's factories. The geological timeframe has overlapped with the human timeframe for the first time. Ahead are endless connections between processes that upon first sight are not directly related; communities of the past and the present infiltrate the future, which individuals try to imagine and locate themselves within, while political power systems struggle to form common goals. Bryndís Snæbjörnsdóttir & Mark Wilson are resident in Iceland and the UK. They are a collaborative artist team, whose art practice is research based and socially-engaged, exploring issues of history, culture and environment in relation to both humans and non-human animals. Their artworks have been exhibited internationally and they have delivered papers on art and animal studies worldwide. They are currently working with Anchorage Museum, Alaska on a two year research project, and they are part of a cross disciplinary research into 'plant blindness' funded by the Swedish Science Council. Mark is a Professor at the University of Cumbria and Bryndís is a Visiting Professor at Malmö Art Academy and the Icelandic Academy of the Arts.
With over 140 million copies in print, and serving as the principal proselytizing tool of one of the world's fastest growing faiths, the Book of Mormon is undoubtedly one of the most influential religious texts produced in the western world. Written by Terryl Givens, a leading authority on Mormonism, this compact volume offers the only concise, accessible introduction to this extraordinary work. Givens examines the Book of Mormon first and foremost in terms of the claims that its narrators make for its historical genesis, its purpose as a sacred text, and its meaning for an audience which shifts over the course of the history it unfolds. The author traces five governing themes in particular--revelation, Christ, Zion, scripture, and covenant--and analyzes the Book's central doctrines and teachings. Some of these resonate with familiar nineteenth-century religious preoccupations; others consist of radical and unexpected takes on topics from the fall of Man to Christ's mortal ministries and the meaning of atonement. Givens also provides samples of a cast of characters that number in the hundreds, and analyzes representative passages from a work that encompasses tragedy, poetry, sermons, visions, family histories and military chronicles. Finally, this introduction surveys the contested origins and production of a work held by millions to be scripture, and reviews the scholarly debates that address questions of the record's historicity. Here then is an accessible guide to what is, by any measure, an indispensable key to understanding Mormonism. But it is also an introduction to a compelling and complex text that is too often overshadowed by the controversies that surround it.About the Series: Combining authority with wit, accessibility, and style, Very Short Introductions offer an introduction to some of life's most interesting topics. Written by experts for the newcomer, they demonstrate the finest contemporary thinking about the central problems and issues in hundreds of key topics, from philosophy to Freud, quantum theory to Islam. ; https://scholarship.richmond.edu/bookshelf/1075/thumbnail.jpg
We have Nietzsche to thank for some of the most important accomplishments in intellectual history, but as Gary Shapiro shows in this unique look at Nietzsche's thought, the nineteenth-century philosopher actually anticipated some of the most pressing questions of our own era. Putting Nietzsche into conversation with contemporary philosophers such as Deleuze, Agamben, Foucault, Derrida, and others, Shapiro links Nietzsche's powerful ideas to topics that are very much on the contemporary agenda: globalization, the nature of the livable earth, and the geopolitical categories that characterize people and places. Shapiro explores Nietzsche's rejection of historical inevitability and its idea of the end of history. He highlights Nietzsche's prescient vision of today's massive human mobility and his criticism of the nation state's desperate efforts to sustain its exclusive rule by declaring emergencies and states of exception. Shapiro then explores Nietzsche's vision of a transformed garden earth and the ways it sketches an aesthetic of the Anthropocene. He concludes with an explanation of the deep political structure of Nietzsche's "philosophy of the Antichrist," by relating it to traditional political theology. By triangulating Nietzsche between his time and ours, between Bismarck's Germany and post-9/11 America, Nietzsche's Earth invites readers to rethink not just the philosopher himself but the very direction of human history. ; https://scholarship.richmond.edu/bookshelf/1241/thumbnail.jpg
This paper overviews the articles, published in this issue of Filosofija. Sociologija. The articles are arranged in three topics – social and political philosophy, philosophical anthropology and epistemology. In developing these topics the authors get in touch with each other. They are worried about the present condition of society and its future, troubles of human existence and prospects of human knowledge.
This paper overviews the articles, published in this issue of Filosofija. Sociologija. The articles are arranged in three topics – social and political philosophy, philosophical anthropology and epistemology. In developing these topics the authors get in touch with each other. They are worried about the present condition of society and its future, troubles of human existence and prospects of human knowledge.
Oxford Studies in Medieval Philosophy showcases the best scholarly research in this flourishing field. The series covers all aspects of medieval philosophy, including the Latin, Arabic, and Hebrew traditions, and runs from the end of antiquity into the Renaissance. It publishes new work by leading scholars in the field, and combines historical scholarship with philosophical acuteness. The papers will address a wide range of topics, from political philosophy to ethics, and logic to metaphysics. OSMP is an essential resource for anyone working in the area.
In many ways this journal issue presents some remnant fruits of a conference entitled Engaging the Contemporary 2019: The Philosophical Turn Towards Religion, and convened by the Department of Philosophy, at the University of Malta, on the 7–8 November 2019. The conference featured almost seventy papers on topics which ranged very widely from metaphysics to epistemology, from ethics to politics, and from phenomenology to analytic philosophy. Indeed, the conference was a living witness to the immense fecundity of the philosophy of religion. ; peer-reviewed
The only book on the market to include classical and contemporary readings from key authors in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics (PPE), this unique anthology provides a comprehensive overview of the central topics in this rapidly expanding field. Each chapter opens with an introduction that helps students understand the central arguments and key concepts in the readings. The selections encourage students to think about the extent to which the three disciplines offer complementary or contradictory ways of approaching the relevant issues. Philosophy, Politics, and Economics: An Anthology is ideal for undergraduate PPE programs and courses in political philosophy and political economy.
The only book on the market to include classical and contemporary readings from key authors in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics (PPE), this unique anthology provides a comprehensive overview of the central topics in this rapidly expanding field.
There are special challenges in writing a Presidential Address: you want to address a very broad group of philosophers with knowledge and abilities that far exceed your own, and you want to say something that will be as engaging as possible. Philosophers have addressed a great many issues, with different methods, and I want there to be space in our discipline for all of them. I myself love arcane philosophical topics – put me in a world where I could spend my time pouring over Aristotle's Metaphysics and I'd be happy – and I believe that philosophy yields knowledge and that is intrinsically valuable. I also love kinds of philosophy that many would not regard as philosophy at all: philosophy as it emerges in thinking about personal and family issues, philosophy in the context of political activism, and philosophy that is inextricable from empirical research.
Why has Sidgwick's political philosophy fallen into oblivion while his ethics continues to be celebrated? Not because his performance in that field was inferior, nor because his choice of topics has become outdated, nor because his conclusions were largely conservative. Instead the problem stems from the weight he attached to common sentiments and beliefs in his application of the utility principle, illustrated by his treatment of topics such as secession and colonialism. Moreover his Elements of Politics is arranged in such a way that he never has to confront the basic question of what makes states legitimate. This means that neither political moralists, who want to see the utility principle applied in more radical fashion, nor political realists, for whom the problem of establishing political order is central, find much to commend in his political philosophy.
Instituto de Investigaciones Filosóficas. Facultad de Filosofía. Programa Institucional de Maestría en Filosofía de la Cultura ; The following investigation approaches topics of the work of Villoro very little treaties, but not hence of little importance. He/she helps us to have a deeper vision of their work and to repensar the philosophy in general. They are collateral topics to the main lines philosophical of our Mexican thinker that keep certain lateralidad in the sense of that the main topics of their work have been about the indigenismo, problems of the one multiculturalism and interculturalidad, Marxism, phenomenology, epistemology, politics and ethics. The topics that here are approached they are on mystic, aesthetics, history philosophy, philosophy of the religion, utopia, Hindu thought, reflections on the sense and the one I silence that in spite of their irrational character, like they are commonly conceived, they are marked by a strict, logical and systematic rationalism; they have a logical character- rational that always looks from the lens epistemological to all the angles of the world of that lived that he/she settles down between the man and the being in general. These thematic ones are very far from the abstract and universal philosophy, but they are very important in the mark of a theory of the culture and of an anthropological ethics, that is to say, in the relationship of him human and their world of significances; in the vital dimension of the culture where the one man looks for the sense of the existence, it is where they charge his importance; they belong to the sphere of the practical reason. ; La siguiente investigación aborda temas de la obra de Villoro muy poco tratados, pero no por ello de poca importancia. Nos ayuda a tener una visión más profunda de su obra y a repensar la filosofía en general. Son temas colaterales a las principales líneas filosóficas de nuestro pensador mexicano que guardan cierta lateralidad en el sentido de que los temas principales de su obra han sido acerca ...
