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HOLLOWS of EXPERIENCE
2010
This essay is divided into two parts, deeply intermingled. Part I examines not only the origin of conscious experience but also how it is possible to ask of our own consciousness how it came to be. Part II examines the origin of experience itself, which soon reveals itself as the ontological question of Being. The chief premise of Part I chapter is that symbolic communion and the categorizations of language have enabled human organisms to distinguish between themselves as actually existing entities and their own immediate experience of themselves and their world. This enables them to reflect upon abstract concepts, including “self,” “experience,” and “world.” Symbolic communication and conc…
On Thinking the Tragic with Adorno
2016
This article seeks to provide a template for understanding the tragic dimension of Theodor W. Adorno’s philosophy through a reading of his early collaborative work with Max Horkheimer, the Dialectic of Enlightenment (1944). While Adorno’s view has often been considered to be tragic, little has been done to reconstruct the tragic dimension of his thought. I argue that the view of the human condition, presented in the Dialectic of Enlightenment, is founded on metaphysical, epistemological, and ethical convictions that have structural similarities with the positions held by theorists and philosophers of tragedy and the tragic. Since traces of these tragic elements can be found throughout Adorn…
O gulag e a literatura de gulag: um balanço das pesquisas
2017
Resumo: Este artigo apresenta um panorama dos debates historiográficos, antigos e recentes, sobre a literatura produzida no complexo de campos de concentração soviéticos (o "gulag"). São examinados livros, congressos, instituições de pesquisa e organizações de memória dedicadas ao tema. O texto é concluído pela constatação da escassez de pesquisas voltadas às especificidades da literatura do gulag. Abstract: This paper presents an overview of recent and old debates on the literature created in Soviet concentration camp complexes (gulags), and examines books, conferences, research institutions and memory organizations dedicated to the matter. The article concludes with the observation that s…
Senreliģija, Dieva meklējumi un izpratne igauņu rakstnieka Andrusa Kivirehka romānā “Vīrs, kas zināja čūskuvārdus”
2018
Summary The novel “A Man who Knew the Snake Words” by an Estonian writer Andrus Kivirähk (Andrus Kivirähk, Mees, kes teadis ussisõnu, translated from Estonian by Zane Balode, Riga, “Lauku Avīze”, 2007, 335., in Latvian - 2011) is a parabolic work, close to the genre of fantasy, and, at the same time, a work built in the tradition of a historic novel which rouses contemplation about the vital power of culture in a situation when at least a single its representative has survived. The people created by the writer lives in the forest; it is an ancient and wonderful civilisation. They milk wolves, they are friends with bears, they know the language of animals, snake words (witchcraft), they have…