Search results for "Sensibility"
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Estetica e vita quotidiana. Prospettive di ricercar-azione negli studi umanistici
2020
Gli studi umanistici sono in crisi ormai da diversi anni poiché in una società incentrata sul profitto questo ramo di studi appare perdente. Tuttavia, la causa non risiede nell’inutilità degli studi umanistici, ma nello iato esistente tra la cultura umanistica e quella scientifica e tecnologica, che è alla base dell’economia. Se si comprende che la prima può servire da volano alla seconda, le scienze umane possono tornare a essere il fulcro di una progettualità finalizzata al benessere collettivo e diventare un social spin-off incentrato sui valori dell’humanitas. In questa direzione l’estetica, intesa come una filosofia del sentire e dell’esperienza quotidiana, può offrire nuovi orizzonti …
Sulla fortuna di «Misero pargoletto»: materiali e ipotesi
2020
The aria "Misero pargoletto", sung by Timante in the third act of Pietro Metastasio's "Demofoonte", enjoyed exceptional fortune throughout the eighteenth century. The text was set tu music dozens of times not only as part of the opera it belongs to, but also as an independent piece. This essay discusses the judgements expressed on "Misero pargoletto" by several men of letters and theorists, examines some buffo parodies of the aria that demonstrate its wide notoriety, and formulates some hypotheses about the reasons for such a great success, which can be partially justified by the new conception of fatherood that emerged in the so-called Age of Sensibility.
Ecological Sensibility: Recovering Axel Honneth’s Philosophy of Nature in the Age of Climate Crisis
2020
What is “critical” about critical theory? I claim that, to be “critical enough”, critical theory’s future depends on being able to handle today’s planetary climate crisis, which presupposes a philo...
Paisaje y nacionalismo en el primer franquismo
2016
Assuming the theoretical idea widely developed by Human Geography that landscapes are cultural constructions with the capacity to become symbolic elements within nationalist discourses, this article explores the context of early Francoism. The aim of these pages is to analyze landscape sensibility as well as the landscape idea developed by the francoist nationalist discourse by trying to draw out three inherent elements in it: first of all, following Oliver Zimmer’s work, the nationalization of nature, this is to say, the consideration that nature expresses the community’s myths, events or memories; secondly, the naturalisation of the nation, that projects upon landscapes the capacity to de…
The visual principle and the correlation between teaching of the Catholic religion and art education in Polish school
2017
Contemporary culture – as already noted – is becoming more and more visual. Contemporary catechesis, referring to its rich, centuries-long experience, should also use different types of images. The first part of this article presents the visual principle as one of basic educating principles, and the second part presents the correlation between the teaching of Catholic religion, and art education in Polish schools. One specific example of using religious painting are in textbooks. Masterpieces of painting, created during centuries and expressing particular desires of their creators, still remain an important inspiration, among others, to the religious search. Faith, though strongly anchored …
Making sense of what you sense: Disentangling interoceptive awareness, sensibility and accuracy.
2016
Garfinkel and Critchley (2013) recently proposed a three level model of interoception. Only few studies, however, have empirically tested this theoretical model thus far. The present study aimed at investigating (1) the central assumptions of this model, i.e. that Accuracy, Sensibility and Awareness are distinguishable facets of interoception and that Interoceptive Accuracy is the basic level of interoception, and (2) whether cardiovascular activation (as indexed by heart rate) is differentially related to the three facets of interoception. Analyses were conducted on a total sample of N=159 healthy participants (118 female [74.2%]; mean age=23.9years, SD=3.3, range=19-45) who performed eith…
Evaluation of the improvement of sensibility with the new IOL Master software version 5.4.3
2009
Purpose To evaluate the improvement of sensibility of the new IOL-Master version 5.4.3 compared with the version 4.08. Methods 214 eyes of 115 patients were examined in a cataract preoperative evaluation making use of both IOL-Master software versions 5.4.3 and 4.08. The type and severity of the lens opacification was assessed by slitlamp biomicroscopy. Results In 182 of the eyes examined both versions were capable to determine the AL; in 29 the version 4.01 could not determine AL whereas the version 5.4.3 was able to measure it; these cases showed posterior capsular cataract (16), dense nuclear cataract (11), posterior synechiae (1) and asteroid hyalosis (1). Finally, the AL of 3 eyes coul…
Máquinas y aviadores. La experiencia de la guerra en los foto-libros del joven Jünger
2013
[spa] El modo en que el Jünger de los años 30 recuerda y describe la guerra en sus foto-libros concibe la misma principalmente desde la contemplación estética como un espectáculo de la naturaleza, en detrimento de su cruel dimensión moral y personal. Ello, que en buena medida es posibilitado por la conciencia técnica, capaz de objetivar a las personas y concebirlas fuera de la esfera del dolor, permite al soldado vivir el combate como una experiencia interior en la que se encuentra cara a cara con lo absoluto y mediante la que puede sentir la vida y la libertad como nunca antes. La guerra se convierte en el espacio idóneo para la realización de un nuevo tipo de hombre duro, noble y viril, e…
Il corpo come strumento della sensibilità: riflessioni sul conoscere e il sentire fra estetica e fisiologia
2016
Since its origins, the controversial relationship between sensible knowledge and conceptual knowledge is a central problem of aesthetics. The reflections of A.G. Baumgarten, the “father of modern aesthetics”, played a key role for the revaluation of senses and corporeity, although, in his works, the constructability of aesthetics is not extended to physiological topics yet. In this article we aim to understand the role played by senses and body structure in all living beings, from unicellular organisms to human beings; at the same time, we try to understand the importance of senses for environmental comprehension, adopting a morphological perspective and keeping together philosophical and s…
Antenor en Ítaca o la venganza de la razón. Un episodio de la segunda parte de "El Antenor" (1788) de Pedro Montengón
2018
Resumen. El libro II de la segunda parte de El Antenor (1788) de Pedro Montengón reproduce unas circunstancias muy semejantes a las que desarrolla el cuarto libro de la Eneida. Una reina viuda, Penélope, se enamora de un héroe, Antenor, que tiene un destino más alto por cumplir. El tratamiento que el autor da a esta situación difiere sustancialmente del virgiliano, introduciendo elementos propios de la moral estoica, del decoro burgués y de la sensibilidad romántica, en una combinación que denota perfectamente la época de composición de esta interesante novela de trama legendaria y de intenciones filosóficas.