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This paper deals with the ideological evolution of Ernst Jünger between the First and Second World War: from the heroic realism of The Storms of Steel to the “internal exile” of an esthete at war in their Second World War diaries. In both... more
This paper deals with the ideological evolution of Ernst Jünger between the First and Second World War: from the heroic realism of The Storms of Steel to the “internal exile” of an esthete at war in their Second World War diaries. In both cases, the experience of war has served the author to create the essential figures of his philosophical thought: the Unknown Soldier, the Worker and the Rebel.
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This paper is divided into seven sections. In the first six sections, I show the position on the Covid-19 pandemic of the main celebrities of the international philosophical scene. The criterion followed has been to group the authors by... more
This paper is divided into seven sections. In the first six sections, I show the position on the Covid-19 pandemic of the main celebrities of the international philosophical scene. The criterion followed has been to group the authors by nationalities or cultural areas, renouncing all criticism in order to try to present objectively the point of view of each philosopher. Finally, in the seventh section, a critical review is made of what the philosophers cited in the first six parts have written about the coronavirus crisis. From this point of view, together with my own critical comments on the subject, the theses held by the authors are taken up again with the intention of outlining their affinities and contrasts.
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My intention in this essay is not to deny the traditional interpretation according to Cervantes' parody in Don Quijote the chivalric ideal, but to show, on the one hand, the intrinsic relationship between madness and wit in the knight... more
My intention in this essay is not to deny the traditional interpretation according to Cervantes' parody in Don Quijote the chivalric ideal, but to show, on the one hand, the intrinsic relationship between madness and wit in the knight from La Mancha and point, on the other hand, on the symbolic being of Don Quixote and his ingenious dimension in the light of the Italian philosopher Giambattista Vico's concept of universale fantastico.
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This study deals for the first time in Spanish with Vico’s reception in Il mestiere di vivere of Piamontian poet and novelist Cesare Pavese. In the pages of Pavesian diary the following Viquian topics are discussed: the historicity of... more
This study deals for the first time in Spanish with Vico’s reception in Il mestiere di vivere
of Piamontian poet and novelist Cesare Pavese. In the pages of Pavesian diary the following Viquian topics are discussed: the historicity of poetry, the “poetic logic”, rusticity, primitiveness and the wildness, figures of barbarism, Homer, the sense of interpretation, the ricorso, the world of childhood, and hermeneutics of myth. The conclusion is that the reading of Vico is essential to understand the two Pavese, man and poet.
of Piamontian poet and novelist Cesare Pavese. In the pages of Pavesian diary the following Viquian topics are discussed: the historicity of poetry, the “poetic logic”, rusticity, primitiveness and the wildness, figures of barbarism, Homer, the sense of interpretation, the ricorso, the world of childhood, and hermeneutics of myth. The conclusion is that the reading of Vico is essential to understand the two Pavese, man and poet.
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This paper is carried out a characterization of philosophy as a cultural activity which cannot be separated from the urban space. The lack of interest of the philosophers by the city is explained appealing to its refusal to recognize the... more
This paper is carried out a characterization of philosophy as a cultural activity which cannot be separated from the urban space. The lack of interest of the philosophers by the city is explained appealing to its refusal to recognize the urban phenomenon as an essential element of human nature. The central thesis is that, outside of town, no place for philosophy.
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This paper explores the transition from the concept to the metaphor through the analysis of the implications of the Copernican image of the world in early Hans Blumenberg’s metaphorology. The new conception of the universe was transformed... more
This paper explores the transition from the concept to the metaphor through the analysis of the implications of the Copernican image of the world in early Hans Blumenberg’s metaphorology. The new conception of the universe was transformed into a metaphor of existence: man constitutes neither the center nor the foundation of the universe.
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This paper examines the Spanish humanist Benito Arias Montano’s concept and programme of studia humanitatis. The paper looks specifically at the Virorum doctorum (1572), a work published by Arias Montano together with the Dutch artist... more
This paper examines the Spanish humanist Benito Arias Montano’s concept and programme of studia humanitatis. The paper looks specifically at the Virorum doctorum (1572), a work published by Arias Montano together with the Dutch artist Philips Galle in Antwerp, and focuses on its apology for European humanism. The paper details the plurality of subjects and the diversity and international aspects of the humanist writers depicted in the book.
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The aim of this paper is to examine Montano’s and Vico’s interpretation of discovery of the New World. It begins with a study on the journey of the discovery as a metaphor of the modern mans’s self-assertion. After that, Montano’s and... more
The aim of this paper is to examine Montano’s and Vico’s interpretation of discovery of the New World. It begins with a study on the journey of the discovery as a metaphor of the modern mans’s self-assertion. After that, Montano’s and Vico’s views on the discovery of the New World are analyzed. The conclusion is that the “philosophia biblica” and the “new science” embrace two different conceptions of humanism
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This paper examines the Hans Blumeberg’s philosophical program: the metaphorology. My intention is to show the importance of Blumenberg’s ideas into the current debate on the relations between philosophy and metaphor.
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This paper examines the Spanish humanist Benito Arias Montano’s political thought, divided into two parts. Firstly, a study of the Arias Montano’s activity as advisor to King Philip II in Flanders. Secondly, the comment on his work David... more
This paper examines the Spanish humanist Benito Arias Montano’s political thought, divided into two parts. Firstly, a study of the Arias Montano’s activity as advisor to King Philip II in Flanders. Secondly, the comment on his work David (1575), published in collaboration with the Dutch artist Philip Galle in Antwerp, and in which its possible appreciate his sacred political allegory.
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The purpose of this paper is to theoretically contextualise Nicolás Gómez Dávila’s critique of democracy in his Escolios a un texto implícito, for from its reading alone it is not possible to derive an adequate understanding of the... more
The purpose of this paper is to theoretically contextualise Nicolás Gómez Dávila’s critique of democracy in his Escolios a un texto implícito, for from its reading alone it is not possible to derive an adequate understanding of the reactionary stance of the brilliant Colombian writer. In this way we seem to have contributed in passing to shedding some light on the enigmatic implicit text around which the innumerable scholia of this strange thinker supposedly revolve.
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1. The consciousness of the crisis. 2. Crisis and renewal of man and culture. 3. Philosophy and European crisis in the Vienna Lecture. 4. Crisis of sciences, Lebenswelt, and modernity.
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1. The state of investigation. 2. The Theorem of secularization: Schmitt and Löwith. 3. The position of Blumenberg. 4. A proposition of solution: Koselleck.