Plí: The Warwick Journal of Philosophy (ISSN: 1367-3769) is a peer-reviewed journal of philosophy edited and produced by members of the Graduate School of the Department of Philosophy at the University of Warwick, and associated contributors. Plí has no specific set of philosophical concerns but previous issues have focused on European philosophical traditions, especially Continental Philosophy, reflecting the interests of the graduate community at Warwick. In particular, Plí has also published translations of works otherwise unavailable in English by philosophers including Éric Alliez, Gilles Deleuze, Jacques Derrida, Michel Foucault, François Laruelle, Jean-François Lyotard, Jean-Luc Nancy, and Friedrich Nietzsche. A number of these have been prompted by visits of philosophers to Warwick, including Derrida and, more recently, Alliez, Badiou, and Laruelle. As well established journal with historical significance in the British philosophical scene, Plí has built a strong, diverse, international, and transdisciplinary Advisory Board, with professors from several countries, such as France, Brazil, USA, Argentina, Italy, Mozambique, Poland, Netherlands, Australia, Mexico, Czech Republic, Cape Verde, Canada, and others. Before submitting to Pli, please make sure to read the Notes to Contributors. situs delapantoto slot gacor situs slot sobat777 sobat777 Toto gacor tkpjp warkopkiu aslivip88 slot
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When citing these papers, be aware of using the right name, title, and pages of each one. Antikritik - F.W.J. SCHELLING On the True Concept of Philosophy of Nature and the Correct Way of Solving its Problems - F.WJ. SCHELLING Anthropological Schema - F.W.J. SCHELLING The Life of the 'ldea': Hegel, Schelling, and Schopenhauer -TILOTTAMA RAJAN Schelling's Doctrine of Abstraction - DANIEL WHISTLER 'World' in Middle Schelling: Why Nature Transcendentalises - IAIN HAMILTON GRANT Das Gewüßte wird erzählt: Schelling on the Relationship between Art, Mythology, and Narrative - JASON WIRTH Twilight of the Gods: Nancy and Schelling on the End of Myth and Politics - TYLER TRITTEN VARIA Spinoza's Principle of Essential Derivation - DINO JAKUSI´C Time After Death: The Account of Fecundity in Levinas's Totality and lnfinity - ROBERT KING REVIEWS AND RESPONSES Adrian Johnston: Prolegomena to Any Future Materialism, Volume I - TIMOTHY M. HACKETT ldealism and Emergence: Three questions for Adrian Johnston - BENJAMIN BERGER Transcendentalism in Hegel's wake: A Reply to Timothy M. Hackett and Benjamin Berger - ADRIAN JOHNSTON
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When citing these papers, be aware of using the right name, title, and pages of each one. Abbreviations of Nietzsche's Works Introduction - Matthew Dennis and David Rowthorn 1. Nietzsche on Integrity: Selected Nachlass Fragments from 1880-1881 - Trans. CAROL DIETHE, with an introduction by KEITH ANSELL-PEARSON 2. In What Senses are Free Spirits Free? - CHRISTA DAVIS ACAMPORA 3. Nietzsche's Second Turning - JONATHAN R. COHEN 4. Mood and Aphorism in Nietzsche's Campaign against Morality - REBECCA BAMFORD 5. On Seriousness and Laughter - KATIA HAY AND HERMAN SIEMENS 6. Nietzsche's Post-Classical Therapy - THOMAS RYAN AND MICHAEL URE 7. On Nietzsche's Theory of the Passions in his Middle Period - SIMON SCOTT 8. Lumping It and Linking It - RUTH ABBEY 9. Nietzsche's Other Naturalism - FRANK CHOURAQUI 10. Beyond the Free Spirit Works - WERNER STEGMAIER IN DISCUSSION WITH THE EDITORS Reviews 11. Paul Franco: Nietzsche's Enlightenment - Review by JEFFREY PICKERNELL 12. Frank Chouraqui: Eternity by the Stars (trans.) - Review by WILLIAM KNOWLES MCINTIRE 13. Dirk Johnson: Nietzsche's Anti-Darwinism - Review by THOMAS WATERTON
When citing these papers, be aware of using the right name, title, and pages of each one. Jean Hyppolite (1907-1968) - GEORGES CANGUILHEM and MICHEL FOUCAULT Language and Being; Language and Thought - JEAN HYPPOLITE A New Perspective on Marx and Marxism - JEAN HYPPOLITE Jean Hyppolite and the French Kierkegaard - BRUCE BAUGH Jacobi, Hyppolite and Difference - THOMAS EBKE Michel Henry and His Master Jean Hyppolite - JOAQUIM HERNANDEZ-DISPAUX Appendix: Correspondence - JEAN HYPPOLITE and MICHEL HENRY A Desire Without Sense: Derrida and Hyppolite on Singularity and Recognition - MAURO SENATORE 'Verbose Dialectics' and the Anthropological Circle: Michel Foucault and Jean Hyppolite - GIUSEPPE BIANCO Hyppolite's Hegel Reconsidered - TOM ROCKMORE Hegel's Comedy - DANIEL SMITH REVIEWS Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit by Stephen Houlgate - DINO JAKUSI`´`´C Introduction to Metaphysics: From Parmenides to Levinas by Jean Grondin (trans. Lukas Soderstrom) - TSUTOMU BEN YAGI The Ends of Beauty: Sinead Murphy's the Art Kettle - PETE WOLFENDALE Jean Hyppolite, entre structure et existence, ed. by Giuseppe Bianco - RICHARD LAMBERT
Life and Ontology: Physis, Naturalism, Phenomenology
When citing these papers, be aware of using the right name, title, and pages of each one. Re-Enacting Natural Histories: Heidegger and Collingwood on the Historicity of Living Nature - TOM GREAVES Dilthey and Carnap: Empiricism, Life-Philosophy, and Overcoming Metaphysics - ERIC S. NELSON Merleau-Ponty's Ontology of Life - JAMES DIFRISCO The Trembling of the Concept: The Material Genesis of Living Being in Hegel's Realphilosophie - JOSEPH CAREW The Knowledge of Life in Canguilhem's Critical Naturalism - JONATHAN SHOL Nietzsche's Non-Reductive Naturalism: Evolution, Teleology, and Value - DAVID STOREY lmagism: Bataille and Prehistoric Life - A Review of Georges Bataille's The Cradle of Humanity: Prehistoric Art and Culture - DAVID VAN DUSE
When citing these papers, be aware of using the right name, title, and pages of each one. Metaphysics, Speculation, Correlation - QUENTIN MEILLASSOUX Meillassoux's Speculative Philosophy of Science: Contingency and Mathematics - FABIO GIRONI The Medium of Contingency - ELIE AYACHE Critique as a Practice of Learning: Beyond lndifference with Meillassoux, towards Deleuze - ANNA CUTLER AND IAIN MACKEN Five Meanings of 'Contingency' in Kant's Critique of Pure Reason - GIUSEPPE MOTTA A Defence of Aristotle's 'Sea-Battle' Argument - RALPH SHAIN From a 'History of Being' to a 'History of the Present', Radical Possibility in Heidegger and Foucault - J. D. SINGE Varia From the First to the Second Non-Philosophy - FRANÇOIS LARUELLE François Laruelle, the One and the Non-Philosophical Tradition - NICK SRNICEK
When citing these papers, be aware of using the right name, title, and pages of each one. What does Foucault think is New about Neoliberalism? - JOHN PROTEVI When Time Preceded Eternity: Schelling's Conversion to History - ASHLEY U. VAUGHT Novelty, Temporality, Negativity: Event-Metaphysics with Jean-Luc Nancy -HAKHAMANESH ZANGENEH The Possibility of the New: Adornoian Lessons for Psychoanalysis - ADAM ROSEN-CAROLE Change, Agency, and lnterdependent Affordances: The Outlines of a Modest Ontology - MATTHEW TIESSE The Mouth Freed for Thought - SAMUEL MCAULIFFE The lrruption of Novelty in Badiou's Being and Event: A Dialectical Materialist and Psychoanalytic Response - RICARDO S. GONZALES Reviews Europe, or the lnfinite Task by Rodolphe Gasché - BENJAMIN BERGER
When citing these papers, be aware of using the right name, title, and pages of each one. The Truth of Humanity: The Collective Political Subject in Sartre and Badiou - NINA POWER Capitalism and the Non-Philosophical Subject - NICK SRNICEK After the Subject: Meillassoux's Ontology of 'What May Be' - PETËR GRATTON Between Emancipation and Domination: Habermasian Reflections on the Empowerment and Disempowerment of the Human Subject -SIMON SUSEN Two Studies in Wittgenstein's Subject - ANDREW STEPHENSON Varia Response to Deleuze - FRANçOIS LARUELLE On the Sublime in Nietzsche's Dawn - KEITH ANSELL-PEARSON Zarathustra and the Children of Abraham - JAMES LUCHTE Heidegger and Japanese Fascism: An Unsubstantiated Connection -GRAHAM PARKES Reviews From Symbolism to Symbolic Logic: Alain Badiou, Being and Event - DAVID MILLER
When citing these papers, be aware of using the right name, title, and pages of each one. Contents The Expression of Meaning in Deleuze's Ontological Proposition - RAY BRASSIER Expression and lmmanence - MIGUEL DE BEISTEGUI Nonsense and Mysticism in Wittgenstein's Tractatus - ANGELA BREITENBACH Epistemology and the Civil Union of Sense and Self-Contradiction: A Co-ordinated Solution to the shared problems of Political and Mainstream Epistemology - JEREMY BARRIS Presuppositioness Scepticism - IOANNIS TRISOKKAS Varia Essay on Transcendental Philosophy: Short Overview of the Whole Work; On the Categories; Antinomies. ldeas. - SALOMON MAIMON Conflicted Matter: Jacques Lacan and the Challenge of Secularising Materialism - ADRIAN O. JOHNSTON Alain Badiou: Truth, Mathematics, and the Claim of Reason - CHRISTOPHER NORRIS On the Horrors of Realism: An lnterview with Graham Harman - TOM SPARROW Reviews Earth Aesthesis: Sallis' Topographies and the Aesthetics of the Earth - BOBBY GEORGE The Natural History of the Unthinged: lain Grant's Philosophies of Nature After Schelling - JAMES TRAFFORD Jay Lampert's Deleuze and Guattari's Philosophy of History - GIOVANNA GIOLI and MATTHEW DENNIS
Superior Empiricism (Historical Archive)
When citing these papers, be aware of using the right name, title, and pages of each one. Contents Matisse with Dewey and Deleuze - ERIC ALLIEZ and JEAN-CLAUDE BONNE Between Geophilosophy and Political Physiology - JOHN PROTEVI Facticity and contingency in Louis Althusser's Aleatory Materialism - MAX HENNINGER lmmanent Description and Writing From... - STUART GRANT Lights in the Dark: The Radical Empiricism of Emmanuel Levinas and William James - MEGAN CRAIG Empiricism, Facticity, and the lmmanence of Life in Dilthey - ERIC SEAN NELSON Duns Scotus' Concept of the Univocity of Being: Another Look - PHILIP TONNER Schelling's Positive Empiricism - RASMUS UGILT Spinoza's Third Kind of Knowledge as a Resource for Schelling's Empiricism - CHRIS LAUER What is Transcendental Empiricism? Deleuze and Sartre on Bergson - GIOVANNA GIOLI A Superior Empiricism: The Subject and Experimentation - SIMONE BIGNALL Reviews The Politics of Creation: Peter Hallward's Deleuze and the Philosophy of Creation -HENRY SOMERS-HALL Radiance and Vulnerability: On Reading Dorothea Olkowski's The Universal (in the Realm of the Sensible) - JOSEPH D. KUZMA Stephen Zepke's Art as Abstract Machine and Simon O'Sullivan's Art Encounters Deleuze and Guattari - DARREN AMBROSE
Ultrapolitics: Sovereignty, Biopower and Total Mobilisation (Historical Archive)
When citing these papers, be aware of using the right name, title, and pages of each one. Papers Biological Sovereignty - EUGENE THACKER The Task of Thinking in the State of Exception- Agamben, Benjamin and the Question of Messianism - CHRISTIAN NILSSON The Obscene Voice: Terrorism, Politics and the End of Representation in the Works of Baudrillard, Zizek and Sloterdijk - SJOERD VAN TUINEN "The Sovereign Disappears in the Election Box": Carl Schmitt and Martin Heidegger on Sovereignty and (Perhaps) Governmentality -THOMAS CROMBEZ Freedom Ablaze: Ernst Jünger and Michel Foucault's Concept of Force -LEON NIEMOCZYNSKI AND KEVIN SÖDERGREN Varia Deleuze, Leibniz and the Jurisprudence of Being - SEAN BOWDEN Levinas, 'llleity' and the Persistence of Skepticism - DARREN AMBROSE Reviews and Responses Heidegger and (the) Beyond: Michael Lewis' Heidegger and the Place of Ethics - RAFAEL WINKLER Response to Rafael Winkler MICHAEL LEWIS Heideggerian Truth and Deleuzian Genesis as Differential 'Grounds' of Philosophy: Miguel de Beistegui's Truth and Genesis: Philosophy ad Differential Ontology - DAVID MORRIS Response to David Morris - MIGUEL DE BEISTEGUI
Continental Philosophy and Global South Perspectives
New Thematic Issue: Continental Philosophy and Global South Perspectives. V. 36th, 2025. Thematic Papers Mirian Kussumi, Pablo Azevedo Axioms of capitalist accumulation: Deleuze and Guattari meet Samir Amin // Marketa Jakesova Bodies in Multiple Worlds: Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Eduardo Viveiros de Castro // Rizalino Noble Malabed Gigantomachy Concerning a Void: Philippine Martial Law, Fictive Exception, and Sovereign Indecision // Gabriel Silva Moreira, Thais Gonçalves Ferreira da Silva Human Rights Critique and Political Agency in the Global South through the Perspectives of Alain Badiou // Nicholas Romanos Philosophy and Philology in A. W. Schlegel’s Bhagavad-Gita and the ensuing debate: Translations and Commentary // Kat Wehrheim The Flesh of the world and Indigenous thought: An inter-species art of not knowing it all in the age of the climate emergency // Camille Dasseleer The Paradoxes of Latin American Arts et Research in their Quest for Autonomy // Fernando Gómez Herrero Western Philosophy and the Global South: Apropos Dussel’s anti-Cartesian Meditations. // Srijan Uzir What is called "Orientalislm"? -- Varia Victor Peterson II An Argument Against Transcendence // Jakub Zítko Searching for the Politics of the Impossible: Georges Bataille and the Gesture of Literature -- Small Essays Osamu Kiritani About Life: One Dialogue and Three Essays // Irene Breuer Julia Iribarne: The Ethical Meaning of Life -- Translations Saber Mensouri; Gustavo Ruiz da Silva, Eberval Gadelha Figueiredo Junior Ibn Khaldûn: Historian of the Past and the Present, Here and Elsewhere -- Book Reviews Alice de Galzain Glad to the Brink of Fear: A Portrait of Ralph Waldo Emerson // Fábio Luís Franco Infinite Greed: The Inhuman Selfishness of Capital // Almendra Espinoza-Rivera LADIES IN ARMS: Women, Guns, and Feminisms in Contemporary Popular Culture // Davide Versari Liberalism as a Way of Life // Pedro Ivan Moreira de Sampaio Modernity between Immunity and Community // Mary Peterson Spinoza: Freedom’s Messiah by Ian Buruma // Daniele Cardoso Tracing the Conceptual Foundations: A Critical Dialogue on Philosophical Archaeology in Agamben and Govrin
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Translation of "Ibn Khaldûn: Historien du passé et du présent, de l’ici et de l’ailleurs", by Saber Mensouri. Text originally published under the reference: MENSOURI, Saber, IBN KHALDÛN: Historien du passé et du présent, de l'ici et de l'ailleurs. Revue des Deux Mondes, MARS 2002, pp. 122-127. Avalable on: http://www.jstor.com/stable/44189625 Original paper published without an abstract.
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Book Review of: Johnston, A. (2024). Infinite greed: The inhuman selfishness of capital. Columbia University Press.
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BOOK REVIEW: Marcus, James. Glad to the Brink of Fear: A Portrait of Ralph Waldo Emerson. Princeton UP, 2024.
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This review critically examines Govrin's work on Giorgio Agamben's philosophical archaeology, focusing on its historical and conceptual foundations. To this end, the aim is to engage with the dialogue established by Govrin throug key concepts in Agamben's thought: the relationship between act and potentiality, origin and arché, time and temporality. The review seeks to unveil how these concepts emerge and unfold, shedding light on their significance within Agamben's ohilosophical framework.
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This essay takes up a proposition undergirding much of the Black studies as well as contemporary efforts at unifying theory and practice. Amiri Baraka would call for a turn away from fantastic deferrals of freedom to be had in the beyond during the same time that Stuart Hall would call for a formalization of the mechanisms instituting relations of subordination and dominance from within. I argue that in considering theory and practice as a unified procedure, we circumvent the failings of searching for solutions transcendent to a world that we compose and recompose from within.
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Alexandre Lefebvre's Liberalism as a Way of Life is a book on the true power of liberalism. Rather than confining it to the political realm as contemporary philosophers do, if one recognises that the values of liberalism are omnipresent in any dimension of our lives, this would bring many advantages to redeem one's life. To reach this goal, one should embrace liberalism as a way of life through three spirtiual exercises that can help live well as true liberals in societies that, in fact, are not such.
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Ladies in Arms: Women, Guns, and Feminisms in Contemporary Popular Culture. Edited by Teresa Hiergeist and Stefanie Schäfer. Published by transcript 2024. Pages: 322. Language: English.
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Julia Iribarne (1929-2014) received her doctoral degree in 1998 from the University of Buenos Aires, where she was appointed Professor for Philosophy. She authored many books and articles on phenomenology and translated Husserl's Krisis into Spanish. While her first book is devoted to Kant, her doctoral thesis concerned intersubjectivity and was translated into German as Husserls Theorie der Intersubjektivität (Freiburg i.B., 1994). In her book De la ética a la metafísica (From Ethics to Metaphysics), Bogotá 2007, she intends to develop a transcendental anthropology that aims at showing how the human being attains a critical conception of knowledge, value and action on the basis of an elemental and non-objectifying but instinctive experiencing, valuing and willing. She was also concerned with the relationship between philosophy and literature: In her book Fenomenología y literatura (Phenomenology and Literature), Bogotá 2005, she deals with the issues of hope, dream and freedom. And in her last work, En torno del sentido de la vida. Ensayos fenomenológico-existenciales (About the meaning of life. Phenomenological-existential essays), Morelia 2012, she recurs to Husserl and Borges, she further pursues the issues of finite, death and hope, which reflections crystallize in the problem of the meaning of life.
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This article presents one dialogue and three essays about life. The first section solves an antinomy about the meaning of life , based on the type/token distinction. The second section proposes another solution to the antinomy, referring to Deleuze's notion of repetition. The third section address altruism by referring to Derrida's notion of deconstruction. The final section proposes a naturalistic solution to Meillassoux's spectral dilemma.
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Modernity between Immunity and Community
This paper presents a review of the book: Common Immunity: Biopolitics in the Age of Pandemic by Roberto Esposito. The work was initially published in Italian in 2020 and was translated into English in 2023.
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This article is a succinct exploration of the critical anti-Cartesian disposition exemplified by the Argentinian-Mexican philosopher Enrique Dussel (1934-2023), one of the leading voices of the Philosophy of Liberation. The Dusselian disposition is to historicize, “contaminate” and open up the historical field to thus include the Early Modern / colonial period within and against the exclusive frame of continental-European philosophy, or rather the universalist pretensions of the West. Circumscriptions matter: Global South, Third World, Indias Occidentales, Latin America. We are dealing with different names for the spatialization of a series of subordinations denounced by Dussel and others. This article develops one such dissident Latin American perspectivism vis-à-vis René Descartes (1596-1650), one, if not “the” foundational "beginning" of "modern philosophy." We are dealing with a critique of those Eurocentric foundational principles without falling for easy seductions and dilemmas that reach us today. What is the Cartesian problem? Or is it ours? Is Latin America philosophical? Is it Western proper? Is it self-constitutive? The category of the “West” demands a critical interrogation in between geopolitical tensions and myriad popular-culture articulations. We may put Dusselian polemics and protestations vis-à-vis Eurocentrism, also in its hegemonic US-led varieties. The theoretical "dance" of prefixes (anti, post-, de-, pluri-, trans-, inter-) accompanies the big binary modernity/coloniality.
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The goal of this article is to develop a critical comparison between Deleuze and Guattari's analysis of Capitalism on a “global scale” and the works of Samir Amin. This comparative approach is justified given the Deleuzoguattarian influence of Amin’s concept of "unequal exchange" in A Thousand Plateaus. However, one can identify two more theoretical affinities and a point of intersection in both analyses about the capitalist system in a broader sense: a) they offer an explanation of Capitalism’s historical accumulation processes that contradicts the evolutionist perspective of classical Marxism and Modern philosophies of History; b) both employ the concept of precapitalist social formations instead of the well know notion of modes of production – which involves the political debate about the State (discussed in Deleuze-Guattari's “Urstaat” and Amin's “Tributary Formations”); c) and, finally, an analytical consonance between dependency theory and Amin’s notion of peripherical social formations and Deleuze and Guattari's discussion of global polarities (i.e., the geopolitical organization between center-periphery and North/South).
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The Flesh of the world and Indigenous thought
Maurice Merleau-Ponty, at his Collège de France lectures, asserted our sharing in the flesh of the world. His comment has implications beyond those commonly discussed in the post-Enlightenment West, and we are yet to learn how to interact with some of these. Incommensurabilities between Indigenous and Western paradigms require our openness to methodologies of allowing methodology to emerge where familiar categories prove insufficient. An intersection of contemporary Western science, Western phenomenological thought, and Indigenous philosophies, which was first explored during a series of trans-disciplinary academic conferences known as the “Dialogues”, offers initial shared ground as a starting point for subsequent Western interaction with Indigenous philosophies on their own terms. Indigenous conceptions of participationalist paradigms, when granted space to emerge beyond the boundaries imposed by previously familiar categories, extend our comfort zone in their engagement with co-creative processes of inter-species, shared becoming. Unilateral human control of such processes reveals itself to be a questionable quest, not least when the climate emergency is contextualised with the necessity of our inability to preconceive all that we may be co-creating. An alternative of mutually responsive forms of inter-species relationship is explored against a background of Indigenous philosophies embracing the embodied as an element of rationality alongside those accessible to linguistic expression. A case study involving an ancient evolutionary relationship and its role in Indigenous story is offered as a seed we may wish to grow into our own, original, post-Enlightenment Western forms of inter-species interaction in our own, Western localities.
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The Paradoxes of Latin American Arts et Research in their Quest for Autonomy
The purpose of this paper is to show that the power dynamics between the Global North and the Global South that can be observed in the artistic world can also be seen in the academic world in general, and in the Latin American literary studies in particular. Multiple paradoxes are analysed: A first aspect is the importance of the human capital flight from the Southern universities to the Northern universities, and the consequent co-optation of the criticisms against the hegemony of the Global North academia by that same academia. Another paradox is to be found in the fact that the Latin American social sciences field it is imbued with Continental Philosophy and with theoretical frameworks originated in the North. Those contradictions end up generating a very delicate situation for the intellectuals of the Global North who pretend to develop a critical analysis of the Latin American cultural world, without getting involved in any form of coloniality.
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Human Rights Critique and Political Agency in the Global South through the Perspectives of Alain Badiou
This article critically engages with the philosophical perspectives of Alain Badiou and Jacques Rancière, contrasting their affirmative approaches to political agency with the criticisms of human rights offered by Hannah Arendt and Giorgio Agamben. The analysis highlights the limitations of traditional human rights frameworks, especially in addressing complex issues such as migration and displacement. Badiou's ontology, centered on the concept of Event and the 'nomadic proletariat,' provides a compelling framework for understanding migrant struggles, particularly in Brazil, where historical patterns of migration and labor exploitation have shaped the sociopolitical landscape. Similarly, Rancière's theory of dissensus emphasizes the need for political subjectivation to break with the status quo and include marginalized populations. In contrast, Arendt and Agamben critique the intrinsic flaws in human rights discourse, arguing that it reinforces the domination of the nation-state and contributes to the exclusion and exploitation of those considered outsiders. The article concludes that neither existing human rights frameworks nor the critiques offered by Arendt, Agamben, or Derrida's concept of hospitality are sufficient to address the needs of displaced populations. Instead, it advocates for Badiou's and Rancière's disruptive, event-oriented approaches, calling for a radical rethinking of political agency and human rights to meet the global challenges of the 21st century.
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This article explores the links between Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Eduardo Viveiros de Castro's ideas on corporeality and intersubjectivity, inspired by an Amerindian account of the encounter with Europeans. Merleau-Ponty approaches intersubjectivity from the point of view of one's own body, recognizing others as human immediately through bodily similarity. Viveiros de Castro introduces a multinaturalism in which culture and humanity are universal, but nature and material reality vary according to perspective. The text emphasizes that relationships, for Amerindians, are actively created rather than inherited from a common origin. This perspective contrasts with Merleau-Ponty's embodied ontology, where relationships derive from a common flesh, yet are maintained by difference. In conclusion, the article suggests that Viveiros de Castro's approach can enrich Merleau-Ponty's by emphasizing the active creation of relationships and alliances, rather than supposedly innate characteristics. Viveiros de Castro's political project aims to redefine Western society as a case among others, calling into question its role as guarantor of universality.
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This paper undertakes a comparative and complimentary reading of Edward Said’s analysis of Orientalism and the philosophical problem of orientation in Kant, especially Kant’s discussion of this in “What does it mean to orient oneself in thinking?”. Although Said has been seen by some critics as a thinker of radical alterity, this paper will contest this claim and show that he is best thought of as defending auto-determination and self-positing. Furthermore, it analyzes the important defense of knowledge that accompanies Said’s critique of oriental sciences. This leads Said to propose an alternate logic of relation as opposed to the logic of representation that structures Orientalism, in this manner shifting the issue of knowledge to what he calls “acknowledgement”. Therefore, Said opens up the concept of Orientalism to a transcendental philosophical questioning whose interests would exceed mere positivist critique. This latter tendency has led to a restrained reception of Said’s work whereby his analyses have been studied for their empirical interest focusing on his objections to orientalist practices. This paper argues that such a reading, apart from being reductive, mischaracterizes the project undertaken by Said. The objective is not only to read Said’s thought through its relation to Kantianism but also to reflect Said’s understanding of Orientalism onto Kant and therefore to transform the philosophical reception of the concept of orientation in general. In this way, beyond a simple application of philosophy on issues relation to the “global south”, Said is presented as one of the great figures of the Internationalization of philosophy.
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Philosophy and Philology in A. W. Schlegel’s Bhagavad-Gita and the ensuing debate
August Wilhelm von Schlegel’s edition and Latin translation of the Bhagavadgītā, with its pioneering application of the methods of Classical Philology to a Sanskrit text, played an important role in establishing Indology as a scholarly discipline in Europe. But Schlegel’s work, and the critical debate that it catalysed, which would draw contributions from Wilhelm von Humboldt and eventually G. W. F. Hegel, also provides a rich—and largely neglected—source of philosophical enquiry. The technical business of creating, refining, and justifying a translation of ancient Indian philosophical poetry ultimately forces reflection on the nature of conceptual and linguistic diversity across cultures, the essence of language, and the hermeneutical process of understanding a foreign culture. This paper, after a general historical introduction, offers a translation of a generous selection of Schlegel’s original (Latin) preface to his Bhagavad-Gita, a document fundamental to the ensuing debate, but which has not yet been translated into English. This is followed by a brief philosophical commentary, which leads into an extended discussion of the responses to Schlegel’s work and his replies, up to the (posthumous) second edition of his Bhagavad-Gita, illustrated throughout with translations of selected passages. It is thus possible to track not only the increasingly sophisticated reflections of Schlegel and Humboldt on translation and understanding, but also the development of a hermeneutic method for approaching Indian texts, involving the epistemological evaluation of the Indian scholarly tradition. The discussion concludes with a brief assessment of the contribution of Hegel, and its relationship to the preceding debate.
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