Machado de Assis educador: considerações a partir de Schopenhauer e Nietzsche
by Vitor Cei
Lampejo – revista eletrônica de filosofia
Arthur Schopenhauer, in Über die Universitätsphilosophie (1851), Friedrich Nietzsche, in Über die Zukunft unserer... more
Arthur Schopenhauer, in Über die Universitätsphilosophie (1851), Friedrich Nietzsche, in Über die Zukunft unserer Bildungsanstalten (1872) and Machado de Assis, in Teoria
do Medalhão (1882), criticizes the education system and the cultural structures of the nineteenth-century. Attacking the university philosophy of their time they show how the ideas were transformed into material signs of distinction. This question is analyzed from a comparative reading of the three authors. The main objective is to identify trends that still lead to a weakening of the educational system. The reading of Machado’s books can indicate the possibilities opened to the philosophical thinking by the literature.
“Vital Theater: Pirandello, Marinetti, and Lebensphilosophie"
PSA: The Journal of the Pirandello Society of America, XXIII (2010); pp. 11-43.
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by Ruud Welten
"What do we hear when we hear music? A radical phenomenology of music". The 9th issue of Studia... more "What do we hear when we hear music? A radical phenomenology of music". The 9th issue of Studia Phaenomenologica (central dossier: "Michel Henry's Radical Phenomenology" coordinated by Jad Hatem and Rolf Kühn), Studia Phaenomenologica vol. IX/2009, p. 269-286, Publisher: Romanian Society for Phenomenology & Humanitas, Bucharest, Journal Editor(s): Cristian Ciocan, Guest Editor(s): Rolf Kühn & Jad Hatem,400 pages, ISSN: 1582-5647
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Seen by:'Nietzsche's Goethe: In Sickness and in Health', Publications of the English Goethe Society, 77 (2008), 113–124.
by Nick Martin
Originally presented as an invited paper to the English Goethe Society, April 2007.
On the Possibility of Aesthetic Justification
Work in progress; paper was presented at the 2011 18th International Friedrich Nietzsche Society conference.
One question that has emerged in the literature on "The Birth of Tragedy" is the extent to which it is... more One question that has emerged in the literature on "The Birth of Tragedy" is the extent to which it is continuous with Nietzsche’s later projects. In this paper I address one specific aspect of this debate: the meaning of Nietzsche’s claim, “only as an aesthetic phenomenon is existence and life eternally justified” (BT 5). Nietzsche’s claims about aesthetic justification seem at first to be continuous with his mature, “life-affirming” reevaluative project. Julian Young and others, however, have argued that Nietzsche’s “aesthetic justification” is nevertheless an iteration of the life-denying pessimism of Schopenhauer. These critics claim that aesthetic justification is not offered for human beings at all, but for the Schopenhauerian “world-Will.” I argue, against this position, that aesthetic justification does not manifest a form of Schopenhauerian pessimism, and that it is designed to affirm the lives of phenomenally-embodied beings like ourselves. In support of this thesis, I introduce a way of reading BT as the continuation of a cultural and philosophical project that originated in Kant’s "Critique of Judgment" and in the Romantic movement that immediately followed it (most notably in Schiller). Nietzsche’s project is continuous with the Kantian project, I argue, in that they are both concerned with a reconciliation of the noumenal and the phenomenal by means of the aesthetic. For Kant, the bridge between noumena and phenomena lies in “beauty,” while for Nietzsche the bridge is “tragedy.” In both cases the attempt is made to reconcile human life with the ultimate ground of being, or to foster a sense of purpose and value that stretches across the metaphysical divide between reality and appearance. Moreover, I claim that reading Nietzsche in this way provides us with a better understanding of the character of his mature reevaluative project.
Schopenhauer: estrategias de acreditación del mundo como voluntad
Bajo palabra. Revista de filosofía, ISSN 1576-3935, Nº. 2, 2007 , pags. 91-101
Este texto trata de perfilar el camino argumentativo que lleva a Schopenhauer a insertar la voluntad en "El mundo... more Este texto trata de perfilar el camino argumentativo que lleva a Schopenhauer a insertar la voluntad en "El mundo como voluntad y representación". Se muestra como a partir de la corporalidad del hombre se accede a la voluntad como fundamento de la representación. También se insiste en el modo en que Schopenhauer esquiva las dificultades que surgen en la argumentación. Además, la marcha del análisis conduce hacia un lugar problemático: el que ocupa la objetivación más perfecta de la voluntad. Las líneas que siguen se orientan hacia el horizonte de contacto entre la voluntad, las ideas y la dimensión corporal del hombre.
'The Rapture of Vertigo': Beckett's Turning-Point
by Paul Lawley
Published in MODERN LANGUAGE REVIEW 95:1, January 2000.
A creative turning-point for Samuel Beckett in summer 1945 resulted in his commitment to an ‘art of failure’. Ranging... more A creative turning-point for Samuel Beckett in summer 1945 resulted in his commitment to an ‘art of failure’. Ranging across Beckett’s post-war writing, this study identifies the theme of self-abandonment and investigates its connection with that aesthetic. Recurrent images of falling and drifting are linked by analysis with the familiar Beckettian motif of the birth-into-death. Beckett’s immediate post-war decision to write in French is proposed as another form of self-abandonment, and the project of the art of failure is seen, with reference to Schopenhauer’s conception of the Sublime, as a repeated attempt at self-birth in a (paradoxical) moment of simultaneous wholeness and annihilation.
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Kierkegaard's Uncanny Encounter with Schopenhauer, 1854
in Roman Kralik et al (eds) Kierkegaard and Great Philosophers (Acta Kierkegaardiana Vol. II) (Mexico: Sociedad Iberoamericana de Estudios Kierkegaardianos, 2007)
This paper explores Kierkegaard's encounter with the work of Arthur Schopenhauer, as recorded in a series of journal... more
This paper explores Kierkegaard's encounter with the work of Arthur Schopenhauer, as recorded in a series of journal entries from mid-1854. Kierkegaard finds in Schopenhauer both an uncannily similar authorial voice to his own, and a cautionary picture of the failure of authorial integrity. By critiquing Schopenhauer's failure to inhabit his own philosophical categories, Kierkegaard reflexively sharpens his own conception of what his authorial project demands.
Unthinking Nature: Transcendental Realism, Neo-Vitalism and the Metaphysical Unconscious in Outline
Published in Thinking Nature Vol. 1.
This essay is an attempt at making the metaphysics of the unconscious relevant for contemporary realism, outlining a... more This essay is an attempt at making the metaphysics of the unconscious relevant for contemporary realism, outlining a position that is neither naive dogmatism, nor a form of correlationism. By outlining the metaphysical import of the unconscious for both post-Kantian transcendental realism and neo-vitalism, the author shows that contemporary thinkers should take seriously the works of Schelling, Schopenhauer, and Fechner, among others.

