From a bird’s eye view, the history of 19th century aesthetics can be cast in terms of strife bet... more From a bird’s eye view, the history of 19th century aesthetics can be cast in terms of strife between two mutually opposed philosophical camps. On the one hand, the champions of a content-oriented understanding of beauty as the sensory manifestation of the idea (the followers of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel) and, on the other hand, the formalists (inspired by Johann Friedrich Herbart) who conceived of beauty as a purely relational category devoid of any content. My paper focuses on the robust development of the formal school at Prague University after 1850 exemplified by the theories of Robert Zimmermann (1824-1898), Josef Durdík (1837-1902), and Otakar Hostinský (1847-1910). It concludes with posing the question whether the structuralist aesthetics advanced in mid-1930s by the Prague Linguistic Circle was not, in fact, an echo of the indigenous Herbartian formalism.
A ciência da decisão é uma disciplina relativamente nova: é o produto da imbricação entre matemát... more A ciência da decisão é uma disciplina relativamente nova: é o produto da imbricação entre matemática, psicologia, economia e outros ramos do saber. Ela estuda como as pessoas fazem suas escolhas e procura fornecer um “quadro racional de escolha entre alternativas possíveis quando as consequências resultantes de tal ação são imprecisamente conhecidas”. Meu artigo aborda as teorias de Viktor Chklóvski e Iúri Tyniánov resumindo como esses dois membros da Sociedade para o Estudo da Linguagem Poética (OPOIAZ), de São Petersburgo, consideravam o escritor um agente racional que almejava um objetivo específico e os meios disponíveis para obtê-lo. Para concluir, justaponho a conceituação formalista de criatividade poética à visão de Mikhail Bakhtin sobre o mesmo assunto, argumentando que a maneira como ele concebe as estratégias disponíveis ao autor literário se adequa a pressupostos da chamada “racionalidade interativa”.
And secondly, identity conceived negatively is simply a mirror image of the metaphysics of presen... more And secondly, identity conceived negatively is simply a mirror image of the metaphysics of presence-what might be called a "metaphysics of absence"-the obverse of the same paradigm of thought. Thus Derrida had set out to question both "the authority of presence [and] its ...
Roman Jakobson: linguistica e poetica a cura di Stefania Sini, Marina Castagneto e Edoardo Esposito, Ledizioni, 2018
The paper—based on primary archival materials—brings to the fore Roman Jakobson’s complex and oft... more The paper—based on primary archival materials—brings to the fore Roman Jakobson’s complex and often contradictory relations with trio of the political institutions within whose orbits he was moving during his interwar stay in Czechoslovakia: 1) the Ministry of Interior; 2) the Ministry of Foreign Affairs; 3) and the Soviet Red Cross Mission (morphing in 1921 into a Commercial Delegation, upgraded in 1922 to a de facto Political Representation).
From a bird’s eye view, the history of 19th century aesthetics can be cast in terms of strife bet... more From a bird’s eye view, the history of 19th century aesthetics can be cast in terms of strife between two mutually opposed philosophical camps. On the one hand, the champions of a content-oriented understanding of beauty as the sensory manifestation of the idea (the followers of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel) and, on the other hand, the formalists (inspired by Johann Friedrich Herbart) who conceived of beauty as a purely relational category devoid of any content. My paper focuses on the robust development of the formal school at Prague University after 1850 exemplified by the theories of Robert Zimmermann (1824-1898), Josef Durdík (1837-1902), and Otakar Hostinský (1847-1910). It concludes with posing the question whether the structuralist aesthetics advanced in mid-1930s by the Prague Linguistic Circle was not, in fact, an echo of the indigenous Herbartian formalism.
A ciência da decisão é uma disciplina relativamente nova: é o produto da imbricação entre matemát... more A ciência da decisão é uma disciplina relativamente nova: é o produto da imbricação entre matemática, psicologia, economia e outros ramos do saber. Ela estuda como as pessoas fazem suas escolhas e procura fornecer um “quadro racional de escolha entre alternativas possíveis quando as consequências resultantes de tal ação são imprecisamente conhecidas”. Meu artigo aborda as teorias de Viktor Chklóvski e Iúri Tyniánov resumindo como esses dois membros da Sociedade para o Estudo da Linguagem Poética (OPOIAZ), de São Petersburgo, consideravam o escritor um agente racional que almejava um objetivo específico e os meios disponíveis para obtê-lo. Para concluir, justaponho a conceituação formalista de criatividade poética à visão de Mikhail Bakhtin sobre o mesmo assunto, argumentando que a maneira como ele concebe as estratégias disponíveis ao autor literário se adequa a pressupostos da chamada “racionalidade interativa”.
And secondly, identity conceived negatively is simply a mirror image of the metaphysics of presen... more And secondly, identity conceived negatively is simply a mirror image of the metaphysics of presence-what might be called a "metaphysics of absence"-the obverse of the same paradigm of thought. Thus Derrida had set out to question both "the authority of presence [and] its ...
Roman Jakobson: linguistica e poetica a cura di Stefania Sini, Marina Castagneto e Edoardo Esposito, Ledizioni, 2018
The paper—based on primary archival materials—brings to the fore Roman Jakobson’s complex and oft... more The paper—based on primary archival materials—brings to the fore Roman Jakobson’s complex and often contradictory relations with trio of the political institutions within whose orbits he was moving during his interwar stay in Czechoslovakia: 1) the Ministry of Interior; 2) the Ministry of Foreign Affairs; 3) and the Soviet Red Cross Mission (morphing in 1921 into a Commercial Delegation, upgraded in 1922 to a de facto Political Representation).
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