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Variaciones del drama historial en Lope de Vega
2013
Starting from the presentation of the principles underlying the current research and that link it to previous studies —principles which deal with the concept and features of drama historial (historic drama) in Lope de Vega—, the essay focuses on the distinction of two fundamental modes of drama historial: the commemoration of famous historical events on the one hand, and moral conflict analysis, almost always of private nature and exploding in specific historical circumstances, on the other hand. These two major strategies of significance, the one being characteristic of a collective memory, associated with the identity of the nascent nation, and the other one exploring private identity, th…
A premodern legacy: the "easy" criminalization of homosexual acts between women in the Finnish Penal Code of 1889.
1998
Homosexual acts between women were criminalized in Finland in the 1889 Penal Code which also criminalized men's homosexual acts for the first time explicitly in Finnish legislation. The inclusion of women in the Penal Code took place without much ado. In the article it is argued that the uncomplicated juxtaposing of men and women was due to the legacy of a cultural pattern where man and woman, as categories, were not in an all-pervasive polarity to each other, for example, in sexual subjectivity. A cultural pattern of low gender polarization was typical of preindustrial rural culture, and it can help us apprehend also certain other features in contemporary Finnish social and political life,…
Subjectivisation and feminism. An analysis of a political manifesto
2004
The theme of this article is the the Italian feminist movement of the 1980s. That movement was characterised by political transformation and a crtitique of identity. The article takes as its point of departure the inaugural speech of the movement, the manifesto "Piu donne che uomini" (1983). The analysis that we present is inspired in the work of Michel Foucault. It aims to show to that the production of new feministic subjectivities, when fighting the symbolic dimension of masculine domination, has an intrinsically political character. In the 1980s, in the Italian context and particularly in the feminist movement, the rules of the political game set up by the events of 1968 materialized. T…
On the Historiography of Subjectivity
2014
LA TECNICA Y LA CRISIS FILOSOFICA DEL HUMANISMO
2008
Los acontecimientos civilizatorios que emblemáticamente representamos con nombres como Auschwitz o Hiroshima han hecho visible que la comprensión de la realidad como técnicamente abordable obliga a replantear problemas centrales para la filosofía: la omnipresencia de la técnica transforma el modo de vida de los individuos y las sociedades contemporáneas, el vínculo del hombre con la naturaleza y el vinculo social, no menos que los modos de construcción de la subjetividad humana. El presente escrito intenta oponer a la destrucción heideggeriana del sujeto la idea de que, en la presente crisis abierta por las posibilidades inéditas de las tecnologías, es imprescindible una reconstrucción del …
Preparados para el desastre
2019
La actual crisis política y económica que atraviesa nuestra cotidianeidad supone también una crisis individual que afecta y pone en cuestión tanto las manifestaciones hacia el interior (subjetivas) como también hacia el exterior (de sociabilidad, de inter-subjetividad). Lo mencionado se agrava si tenemos en cuenta el complicado escenario de «colapso» al que nos abocamos según el consenso científico en materia medioambiental, entendido este como una especie de «punto cero» que podría desencadenar una catástrofe de consecuencias inimaginables. Ante este panorama, no son pocas las manifestaciones literarias o cinematográficas que en las últimas décadas se han encargado de asumir este colapso c…
Historicism: Some Thoughts on Life-World
1993
More than three decades ago, Walter Biemel read a paper at the Third Colloquium of Philosophy at Royaumont on “The Decisive Phases in the Development of Husserl’s Philosophy” that seemed to be definitive.1 Notwithstanding the great value of the facts and reflections that he provided, and the numerous studies devoted afterwards to the same problem, it is not easy to fix different stages in Husserl’s work. This difficulty is increased by the lack of a strict synchrony between the works that Husserl himself published and those that remained unpublished after his death and have been laboriously recovered by his disciples. Actually, in manuscripts belonging to early moments in his life we find t…
The Construction of Subjectivity
1991
The doctrinal antagonisms that have appeared in the history of philosophy have often been an expression of tensions existing in those very problems that have generated philosophical thinking. I think that the fundamental task of phenomenology must consist in the clarification of those problems, insofar as they are constituted by strictly phenomenal situations that have provided both the riddles provoking philosophical theories as well as the basic materials for their theoretical construction.
Values of love: two forms of infinity characteristic of human persons
2020
AbstractIn his late reflections on values and forms of life from the 1920s and 1930s, Husserl develops the concept of personal value and argues that these values open two kinds of infinities in our lives. On the one hand personal values disclose infinite emotive depths in human individuals while on the other hand they connect human individuals in continuous and progressive chains of care. In order to get at the core of the concept, I will explicate Husserl’s discussion of personal values of love by distinguishing between five related features. I demonstrate that values of love (1) are rooted in egoic depts and define who we are as persons, (2) differ from objective values in being absolute …
SUBJECTIVITY AS A NON-TEXTUAL STANDARD OF INTERPRETATION IN THE HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHICAL PSYCHOLOGY
2010
Contemporary caution against anachronism in intellectual history, and the currently momentous theoretical emphasis on subjectivity in the philosophy of mind, are two prevailing conditions that set puzzling constraints for studies in the history of philosophical psychology. The former urges against assuming ideas, motives, and concepts that are alien to the historical intellectual setting under study, and combined with the latter suggests caution in relying on our intuitions regarding subjectivity due to the historically contingent characterizations it has attained in contemporary philosophy of mind. In the face of these conditions, our paper raises a question of what we call non-textual (as…