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Theoretical orientations of spanish psychotherapists: Integration and eclecticism as modern and postmodern cultural trends.
2006
In this article, we focus on the theoretical orientations of Spanish psychotherapists with reference to the concepts of integration and eclecticism associated respectively with the cultural patterns of modernity and postmodernity. Data are reported from 179 Spanish therapists who responded to the Development of Psychotherapists Common Core Questionnaire (Orlinsky et al., 1999). The results indicated that these Spanish therapists do not show a tendency toward postmodern eclecticism, suggesting that present clinical practice in Spain still needs high-profile theoretical constructs.
Meaningfulness and Meaninglessness of Work in Charles Bukowski
2017
In psychological and managerial literature, the meaning of work boasts a long tradition; in this topic, scholars and researchers have explored sources of meaning and meaningfulness of the working activity in workers' motivations, values, and beliefs. Less attention, however, is given to the function work has in terms of signifier of each individual's personal identity. This article aims at deeply examining the relationship between identity construction and meaning of work, focusing on this theme through the exploration of Charles Bukowski's narrative world. My attention was particularly focused on representations and emotional connotations characterizing the relationship between identity an…
Produzione e riproduzione sociale nelle società a modernità congelata
2012
Populismo, ordine politico e potere tra modernità e postmodernità
2020
Vorrei offrire anche io un contributo sul tema del potere nell’at-tuale situazione di “crisi della democrazia”prendendo spunto da quello che è uno degli elementi più caratteristici degli ultimi anni e cioè il fenomeno del “populismo”. Premetto che nella mia analisi mi muoverò nell’ambito di una concezione “repressiva”del potere, cioè quella tipica della tradizione democratico-liberale, e non mi muo-verò seguendo approcci foucaultiani o postmoderni che concepisco-no il potere in termini “produttivi”. La ragione di questa scelta, al di là del mio personale orientamento, risiede nel fatto che se lo slogan dei movimenti populisti di destra o di sinistra è il “voler restituire il potere al popol…
The choice of tradition and the tradition of choice: Habermas’ and Rorty’s interpretation of pragmatism
1999
The paper is aimed at discussing two interpretations of pragmatism in a broader framework of general rules of philosophical interpretation. J. Habermas’ and R. Rorty’s uses of pragmatism are considered in detail and confronted with general assumptions of pragmatic philosophy. It is shown that in both cases the original ideas of pragmatism are changed in order to fit the philosophies of interpreters. The paper ends with discussion of a possibility of applying the rule of interpretative charity and dialogue to philosophical analyses.
On Long-Lasting Humanimal Friendships: Gayness, Aging, and Disease in Lily and the Octopus
2021
This paper analyzes the significance and structural development of the theme of aging in Steven Rowley’s debut novel, the bestselling Lily and the Octopus (2016), a narrative that extends and reinvents the literary approach to manhood through alternate forms of humanimal relations. The novel intersects postmodern conceptions of madness, grief, loneliness, intimacy, and death through a tragicomic exploration of the symmetry between an unlikely (insofar as literary tradition goes) couple: Ted, a gay white male in his early forties, and his senior female dachshund, Lily. As signs of the end of Lily’s life are fleshed out by the cancerous “octopus” that chokes her brain, Ted inadvertently paral…
Suorittaminen, riippuvuus ja seurakunta : essee Päättymättömästä riemusta
2021
Le réalisme social américain à l'ère postmoderne : (Russell Banks, Raymond Carver, Richard Ford)
2012
His study focuses on the works of Russell Banks, Raymond Carver and Richard Ford. They started writing during the 1960s and 1970s, at a time when the self-reflexivity and metafictional play of postmodernist writers were drawing a lot of critical attention in academic circles. However, they consider themselves to be realist writers. In “A Few Words about Minimalism,” John Barth suggested that the return to realist fiction in the mid-1970s could be both a reaction against so-called “postmodernist” fiction and a symptom of the social and economic unease of the period. Indeed, Cathedral, Continental Drift and The Sportswriter describe in accurate detail the everyday lives of ordinary American m…