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Marginal Thinking Knowledge and Communication in the Postmodern Era
2020
The paradigm of late modernity and postmodernity, characterized by the sheer living manifestation of the limit, assumes the conscience of the indissoluble, by annulling any hypothesis, interrogation or problematization. The fracturing of the self coincides with the fracturing of knowledge, as an effective dialectic movement, or, in other words, as a state of continuity of the thinking, specific to the human being. The knowledge-seeking relation to the world through exclusion, that is featured by late modernity and postmodernism is manifested, in an extreme(marginal) form, by the de-presentisation of the immanent and the transcendent and by imposing the simulation as a global process of crea…
Between Atoms and Humours. Lucretius' Didactic Poetry as a Model of Integrated and Bifocal Physiology
2012
Lucretius has often been regarded as one of the fathers of modern science, and also in recent years several studies have explored his influence far beyond a merely literary perspective. In this paper I analyse specifically the importance of the poet's 'eclectic' attitude in physiology from the point of view of his 'Fortleben' in early modern thought. I suggest that the typical eclectic combination of physics and biology, atomism and macroscopy, which the 'De rerum natura' shows in its didactic structure both through its images and even more through its conscious scientific reflection, built an attractive basis for attempts in the modern period at harmonising corpuscularian theories and qual…
Institutional Dynamics in International Organizations: Lessons from the Recruitment Procedures of the European External Action Service
2014
Author's version of an article in the journal: Organization Studies. Also available from the publisher at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0170840614544558 This article examines how organizational designs develop by proposing a novel theoretical framework that views organizational change as resulting from a dialectic process between interpretive agents. The key claim is that existing formal procedures (such as recruitment processes, our empirical focal point) are subject to involved actors’ interpretive efforts. This results in a bargaining situation based on the interpretations of the principal actors, which may induce a feedback loop whereby the original procedures are amended. The empirical re…
Conclusion: Dialectics in CLIL Classrooms
2020
Based on the insights that emerged in the chapters to this volume, in this chapter, we revisit the following: (a) relationship between teaching, learning, and assessment in the classroom-based assessment cycle (Davison 2008) and (b) integration in assessment in CLIL (Leung and Morton 2016). Two guiding questions will mediate our discussion: What is assessment promoting learning in CLIL? and How can assessment promoting learning in CLIL help to conceptualise assessment promoting learning in general?
Fichte's and Husserl's critique of Kant's transcendental deduction
1985
The specific topic of this chapter is the difference between the attempt in speculative and dialectical thinking on the one hand, and transcendental phenomenology on the other, to solve the enigmas presented by Kant’s transcendental deduction. The thesis is that they are diametrically opposed. The main concern is systematic and not philological-historical. That means, among other things, that the well-known fact that Husserl has a certain preference for the deduction in edition A and that Fichte refers mostly to edition B will not be corroborated in an interpreting of all the passages in both in which they refer to the deduction. What is at stake is a general systematic and theoretical expl…
La negatividad de Kant a Hegel: juicio estético y lenguaje especulativo”.
2017
Este artículo presenta una interpretación de la proposición especulativa de Hegel que, subrayando el “contragolpe” que el sujeto heredado de la tradición moderna sufre en ella, permite vincular el movimiento del sujeto hegeliano a la negatividad reconocida por Kant en el fondo de la capacidad de juzgar a propósito de la dimensión estética. De este modo se pretende, en primer lugar, cuestionar la lectura que ve en Hegel un retroceso respecto a la conciencia ganada por Kant en relación a la finitud o a la fisura constitutiva del sujeto moderno, y, en última instancia, en sintonía con relecturas recientes de Hegel como las de Žižek y Malabou, contribuir al cuestionamiento de la interpretación …
Schelling’s pantheism and the problem of evil
2017
ABSTRACTAny religious worldview, understood in the sense that ‘life has a purpose’, has to face the problem of evil. The problem of evil has been particularly intensively discussed in the Aristotelian–Scholastic–Christian tradition. The most popular solution has been to deny that anything truly evil actually exists. It is hard to conceive why an omnipotent and perfectly good God would allow evil to appear. Yet, Western culture has been and still is full of imagery of absolute demonic evil. I suggest that this strained dialectic could be best approached by radically rethinking the nature of evil and the theological context in which it has traditionally been thought. In his middle period work…
Revista española de educación comparada
2019
espanolEl objetivo de este trabajo consiste en aplicar la dialectica analogica desarrollada por Platon como una metodologia adecuada para comprender su pensamiento. En este sentido, abordare en primer lugar las aclaraciones terminologicas necesarias para delimitar el planteamiento de la cuestion y prestar una especial atencion a la nocion de symploke introducida por Platon y desarrollada posteriormente por Jesus G. Maestro como uno de los criterios hermeneuticos centrales que la Critica de la literatura debe tener en cuenta para evitar caer en el univocidad interpretativa o en la equivocidad propia de la postmodernidad. En segundo lugar, realizare una aproximacion metodologica a la lectura …
Dialectics and contradictions in public procurement of information systems
2014
Published version of a chapter from the book M. Janssen, H. Scholl, M. Wimmer & F. Bannister (Eds.), Electronic Government : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2014. Also available on SpringerLink: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-44426-9_24 Public procurement of Information Systems is a highly complex process. Not surprisingly, systems often fail to meet the needs for which they were procured. One of the main causes of this is the contradictions between goals of different stakeholders. Identifying and understanding these conflicts and contradictions are essential to develop strategies to improve the procurement process. In this paper, we present a case study where we examined the procurement p…