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Introduction: Subjectivity and Selfhood in the History of Philosophy
2016
In our everyday dealings with ourselves, other persons and the world, we commonly take our selves, or the entities signified by our employment of the first-personal pronoun ‘I’ in simple assertoric sentences such as ‘I am’, ‘I think’, or ‘I am walking’, to be the uncontroversial loci of our experiences of being, knowing, and acting. But when we glance at contemporary literature on the philosophy of mind and action, on a steady increase for much of the twentieth and the present century in naturalist, analytic, and phenomenological approaches alike, we find that few of the intuitions we may have about that first-personal pivot actually stand uncontested. In fact, it rather seems that if there…
Introductory Study. Nietzsche on Culture and Subjectivity
2015
La tempestividad de Nietzsche es patente en el renovado entusiasmo con el que filósofos de tradición continental y analítica se han acercado recientemente a su obra. Entre otros temas, la atención se ha dirigido hacia dos aspectos importantes del pensamiento nietzscheano: el análisis, la crítica y la genealogía de la cultura, así como la posición de Nietzsche respecto de la subjetividad. En este estudio introductorio, los autores realizarán un breve análisis de ambos aspectos. Como se mostrará, estos aspectos juegan un papel de primera importancia en el pensamiento nietzscheano, y la relación entre ellos es más fuerte de lo que se podría pensar inicialmente.
Interpretation, Truth and Correspondence
2000
The correspondence theory of truth is usually considered unsuitable for qualitative research. This is because of the interpretive nature of social reality and subjective nature of research procedures. Contra these ideas it is argued that the correspondence theory of truth is presupposed in the practice of qualitative research. This theory does not, however, dictate any methods for verifying the interpretations. Various theories of truth are seen as necessary because of the complexity of the interpretation process.
Triebsphäre und Urkindheit des Ich
2009
This paper explores Husserl’s late manuscripts in order to sketch a phenomenological description of drives and the dimension of passive constitution that belongs to them. Although this topic touches upon psychological issues, it will be shown that a specifically phenomenological approach allows us to recognize the transcendental significance of instincts. By means of the phenomenological reduction, drives reveal a peculiar subject, the ‘original child’, which is described not as a figure of developmental psychology but as a transcendental subject pre-forming the way the world appears to us. Drives work constantly and passively as obscure sources of sense, and the original child is always in…
Beasts, Human Beings, or Gods? Human Subjectivity in Medieval Political Philosophy
2016
Human beings are not only self-conscious minds but embodied and social beings, whose subjectivity is conditioned by their social surroundings. From this point of view, it is natural to suppose that the development and existence of a subject that is distinctively human requires contact with other people. The present contribution discusses medieval ideas concerning the intersubjective constitution of human being by looking at the medieval reception of two ideas, which Aristotle presents at the beginning of his Politics: (1) human beings are political animals by nature, which means that those who live outside of political communities due to their nature are either deficient or above humanity –…
Poética y Política sin Mundo
2018
The relationship between poetics and politics is fractured due to being in a world equally fractured, in crisis. The resulted split moves poetics and politics towards a so-called (and often sublimated) relationship between ethics and aesthetics. In fact, it seems that poeisis and politeia are learning to survive in a sterile and confine solitude. In the limits of a subjectivity bored by new ways of pressure, this article seeks to answer to this question: what are the options for creativity to become a new manner of communication and, most importantly, a critical link? The attempted answer will consider the current theoretical and practical circumstances of the relationship between poetics a…
The Importance of Teaching Quality of Life Theory and Methodology in Social Sciences Programs
2019
We define quality of life as a multi-dimensional concept which involves a number of domains which people experience in diverse forms according to the importance attributed to them in their lives, considering their expectations, their values, and their experiences. Teaching theory, methodology and practice in quality of life implies the possibility of integrating the objective and subjective dimensions, considering that subjectivity is constructed on the basis of the daily interaction of the persons as well as their interaction with their environment. In this respect, the act of teaching is also a political act, which leads us to consider that the role of politics should not only be restrict…
“Sentir el cuerpo”: subjetividad y política en la sociedad de masas en España (1890-1931)
2018
El artículo reflexiona sobre las condiciones de aparición de los sujetos en la acción política asumiendo la centralidad del cuerpo como categoría de análisis. Partimos de la hipótesis de que el lenguaje de la política necesita un cuerpo en el que materializarse. Hay dos partes muy marcadas. En la primera, de carácter teórico, se repasan algunos hitos en la renovación del concepto de cuerpo y sus consecuencias en la conformación de la subjetividad. Se propone un concepto spinozista de cuerpo entendiendo este como espacio afectado en el que las emociones se materializan y, a la vez, como espacio activo en la producción del significado. En la segunda parte, se analiza un estudio de caso. La te…
El arte y su otro, o la estética antiidealista de Adorno
2016
<p class='p1'>A partir de la reivindicación de Adorno del poder crítico del arte, este trabajo confronta la posición de este pensador con las de Kant y Hegel a propósito de la cuestión de la autonomía del ámbito estético. Explica por qué Adorno considera que ni Kant, quien afirma esa autonomía, ni Hegel, quien, por el contrario, asume su heteronomía, logran reconocer (el poder de) la obra de arte y de la experiencia estética. Muestra luego que Adorno tomó conciencia de que ello proviene del compromiso de ambos autores con la pretensión de plena autonomía del sujeto moderno, y explica finalmente que Adorno sí reconoce la función crítica del arte y del pensamiento que le corresponde gra…
Experience, Subjectivity and Politics in the Italian Feminist Movement
2006
This article describes the political practices of a part of the Italian women’s movement that, as of the 1980s, gave way to the sexual difference thought. Through a political analysis of their own experience, which removed any humanist identity assumptions, the women’s movement generated new practices and discourses. With these, women were able to exert self-criticism, and simultaneously to produce new subjectivities articulated around the sexual difference concept. The difference thought helped highlight the limits of institutional policy, renewing the premises of political analysis and redefining the borders of what was deemed to be ‘political’. Intended to foster dialogue with other femi…