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Hermetic Roots of Marsilio Ficino’s Anthropocentric Thought
2013
Marsilio Ficino’s relationship to the Hermetic literary tradition has long been a controversial issue in academic discussion. Although Ficino is commonly known as a translator and keen reader of the philosophical Hermetica, his allegiances to the Hermetic ideas have been recognized only in his theory of magic (only to be denied later), while in other cases, in general, scholars tend to deny the impact of Hermetic writings instead of accepting it. This paper explores a topic in which the denial has been particularly harsh, namely Ficino’s Promethean philosophy of man, highlighted as the most influential achievement of his thought by previous generations (e.g. by Trinkaus). Despite the neglec…
Ilgtspējīgas attīstības koncepta problemātika vides krīzes kontekstā
2022
Šajā darbā tiek problematizēts jautājums par to, vai ilgtspējīgas attīstības koncepts ir savietojams ar vides filozofijas pamatoto dabas pašvērtību. Darba mērķis ir uzrādīt ilgtspējīgas attīstības koncepta un sociālekonomiskā diskursa problēmas un to pozīciju attiecībā pret vides filozofiju. Pirmajā nodaļā aprakstītas vides filozofijas vadošās pozīcijas par dabas vērtību un cilvēka lomu vides daudzveidības saglabāšanā. Otrajā nodaļā aplūkota ilgtspējīgas attīstības jēdziena izcelsme, nozīme un kritika. Trešajā nodaļā tiek pieteikts teorētiskais ietvars, kā arī veikta politiska diskursa piemēra analīze. Šajā maģistra darbā autore secina, ka vadošās ekonomiskās paradigmas ietvaros ilgtspējīga…
Representing the Haitian diaspora in Russell Banks’s Continental Drift, from Port-de-Paix to Little Haiti: a celebration of the margins
2021
International audience; Russell Banks’s 1985 novel Continental Drift tells the intertwined stories of Bob Dubois, a white American man who decides to try his luck in Florida, and the Haitian Vanise Dorsinville, who is forced to leave her island with her son and her nephew to flee Jean-Claude Duvalier’s dictatorial presidency. In this paper, I study how, in the chapters dedicated to the Haitian diaspora, Banks chooses to adopt an ex-centric point of view to give a voice to those whose history and culture have largely been ignored by American society and literature. Vanise is a figure of in-betweenness, caught between Haiti and the United States, between land and ocean, and even between life …