scholarly journals Ten books

2014 ◽  
Vol 204 (5) ◽  
pp. 406-408
Author(s):  
Elaine Murphy
Keyword(s):  
Jean Paul ◽  
Over 40 Years ◽  
The Way

Only ten books? A quandary: the fewer I can have the more I will expose my prejudices and uncertainties by choosing. ‘We are our choices', as Jean Paul Sartre1 said, probably not thinking of books. I'll throw in another of his lines. ‘All that I know about my life, it seems, I have learned in books'. I would not adopt that sentiment wholeheartedly; I've learned as much from relationships and work as I have from books, but it is true that one can detect one's good and bad selves reflected in books with a clarity no other medium can provide. I am a lifelong greedy reader of anything that comes to hand. I'll read the back of a train ticket if there's nothing else available. But which books influenced me? It is well over 40 years since I chose psychiatry as a career. I can only single out books, mostly novels, which have had an impact on the way I understand other people and their lives, broadened my horizons about the often unfathomable motives and goals of patients and their families, and on the way we practise and organise our services.

The Phenomenology of “Nothingness” by Martin Heidegger and Jean-Paul Sartre

2021 ◽  
pp. 120-130
Author(s):  
Gregory N. Siplivii ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Martin Heidegger ◽  
Jacques Lacan ◽  
General Flow ◽  
Jean Paul ◽  
The World ◽  
Ontological Sense ◽  
The Way

This article is devoted to the analysis of the phenomenology “Nothingness” by Martin Heidegger and Jean-Paul Sartre. Through research of existential phe­nomenology, the article also touches on the topic of “mood” as philosophical in­tentionality. Various kinds of “moods”, such as faintness (Verstimmung), ennui (Langeweile), burden (Geworden), inquisitiveness (Neugier), care (Sorge) and conscience (Gewissen), by Martin Heidegger’s and nausea (la nausée), anxiety (l’anxiété), dizziness (le vertige) by Jean-Paul Sartre, is considered in the context of what they may matter in an ontological sense. The phenomenologically under­stood “mood” as a general intentionality towards something is connected with the way in which the existing is able to ask about its own self. In addition, the ar­ticle forms the concept of the original ontological and phenomenological “in­completeness” of any existential experience. It is this incompleteness, this “al­ways-still-not” that provides an existential opportunity to realize oneself not only thrown into the world, but also different from the general flow of being. This “elusive emptiness” is interpreted in the article in accordance with the psychoan­alytic category of “real” (Jacques Lacan).

Consensus, Dissension, and Admiration: Encounters with Robert Kastenbaum and His Work

2014 ◽  
Vol 70 (1) ◽  
pp. 133-141
Author(s):  
Joachim Wittkowski
Keyword(s):  
Turn Of The Century ◽  
Early Years ◽  
Middle Period ◽  
Over 40 Years ◽  
The Way

The article sheds light on the way the author's scientific views and endeavors in the field of dying, death, and bereavement over 40 years in Germany have been influenced by the work of Robert Kastenbaum. Reconstructing the passage of time, the early years (i.e., the second half of the 1970s), a middle period (i.e., the 1980s and 1990s), and the later years (i.e., from the turn of the century to the present) are outlined. In an anecdotic fashion, two personal encounters with R. Kastenbaum are reported. The article concludes with showing/consensus and dissention in various respects and finally recounts the author's admiration for this outstanding scholar.

Contradiction and Freedom

Philosophy ◽  
1988 ◽  
Vol 63 (245) ◽  
pp. 317-330
Author(s):  
B. H. Slater
Keyword(s):  
The Self ◽  
Anglo Saxon ◽  
The Past ◽  
Jean Paul ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Literary Figure ◽  
Intimate Link ◽  
Clear Thinking ◽  
A Minor ◽  
The Way

Jean-Paul Sartre, in describing the realization of his freedom, was often inclined to say mysterious things like ‘I am what I am not’, ‘I am not what I am’ (‘as I am already what I will be …, I am the self which I will be, in the mode of not being it’, ‘I make myself not to be the past … which I am’.) He was therefore plainly contradicting himself, but was this merely a playful literary figure (paradox), or was he really being incoherent? By the latter judgment I do not mean to reject his statements entirely (like many of his Anglo-Saxon contemporaries); for I believe there is an intimate link between contradiction and freedom, as I shall explain in this paper. But a minor thing we must first have out of the way is the suggestion that Sartre's language was just a rhetorical trope, designed merely to express some banal platitude in a bemusing way: ‘I am not yet what I will be’, ‘I am no longer what I was’ are sane and sensible, for instance, but cannot be the meant content of Sartre's sayings, since, while they would indeed describe the reform of some character, they would be appropriate only before or after some metamorphosis, not, as Sartre clearly intended, in the midst of some process of riddance and conversion, whether radical or otherwise. Yet, in the turmoil of such a change, ‘I am not what I am’ (or the everyday ‘I am not myself’) still, surely, cannot be true, and if that is the case, Sartre must be being inocherent, and therefore, obfuscating and deliberately obscure, and hence, it seems, must properly be rejected by all right and clear thinking men.

scholarly journals PRASMĖS „PRARADIMAS“ IR NIHILIZMO „LOGIKA“

Problemos ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 75 ◽  
pp. 58-65
Author(s):  
Rita Šerpytytė
Keyword(s):  
Heinrich Von Kleist ◽  
Jean Paul ◽  
The World ◽  
Logical Principle ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The Way

Straipsnyje svarstomas nihilizmo santykis su prasmės (praradimo) problema. Filosofijoje šis santykis dažnai laikomas savaime-suprantamybe. Toks požiūris yra įsitvirtinęs kaip F. Nietszche’s nihilizmo heidegeriškosios interpretacijos nekritiškas perėmimas. Keliamas klausimas, ką iš tiesų reiškia šis nihilizmo tapatinimas su prasmės praradimu? Apie kokį prasmės deficitą kalbama, kai skelbiamas nihilizmas? Straipsnyje interpretuojami romantizmo epochos autorių – Jeano Paulio ir Heinricho von Kleisto – tekstai, atskleidžiantys nihilizmo skelbimo ir prasmės praradimo santykį. Nietzsche nihilizmo ir prasmės santykį „atranda“ teoriškai reflektuotai, įvertindamas ne tik F. Dostojevskio, bet ir romantikų „pamokas“. Parodoma, jog Nietzsche’i prasmės „krizė“ yra susijusi su „dviejų pasaulių“ (tikrojo ir regimybės) demaskavimu. Nietzsche’s interpretacijoje netikėjimas metafiziniu pasauliu, kuris užkerta kelią tikėjimui „tikruoju“ pasauliu, atitinka prasmės praradimo kaip savidemaskacijos „logiką“, o heidegeriškoji Nietzsche’s interpretacija nihilistinį prasmės praradimą ne tik atskleidžia kaip ontologinį/„loginį“ imanentizmo principą, bet ir įgalina nihilizmą atpažinti kaip autoreferentišką Vakarų mąstymo „logiką“.Pagrindiniai žodžiai: nihilizmas, prasmė, Dievas, logika, imanentizmas, autoreferencija.“Loss” of Sense and “Logic” of NihilismRita Šerpytytė   SummaryThe article deals with the problem of the relation between Nihilism and the Loss of Sense, which is often treated in an obvious coherence. The latter approach struck its roots as a non-critical acceptation of Heidegger’s interpretation of Nietzsche’s Nihilism. The article raises the question what the identification of Nihilism with Loss of Sense really means. Moreover, while proclaiming Nihilism, what is meant by the term of Sense Deficit? The article investigates the texts of authors of Romanticism, such as Jean Paul and Heinrich von Kleist, where a relation between the proclamation of Nihilism and the Loss of Sense is disclosed. Nietzsche discovers the relationship between Nihilism and Sense in a theoretically reflected manner. The article demonstrates that for Nietzsche “the crisis” of Sense is related with the unmasking of “two worlds” (the true world and the world of appearance). Non-believing in metaphysical world which blocks the way to the believing in the true world, corresponds, in Nietzsche’s interpretation, to the “logic” of the Loss of Sense as the “logic” of self-unmasking. The Heideggerian interpretation of Nietzsche’s philosophy not only discloses the nihilistic Loss of Sense as an ontological / logical principle of immanentism, but also enables to recognize Nihilism as a self-referential “logic” of Western thought.Keywords: nihilism, sense, God, logic, immanentism, self-referention.

Connoisseurs of Trash in a World Full of It

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jennifer Le Zotte
Keyword(s):  
Popular Music ◽  
Social Meaning ◽  
The Past ◽  
Jean Paul ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Way

This chapter examines the links between trash aesthetics, secondhand dress, and pop iconography, focusing on the myths and dismissals of the short-lived but massively popular music and fashion fad grunge. Whether dubbed retro, kitsch, camp, or trash, borrowing from the ideas and images of the past was an intrinsic part of the postmodern artistic landscape, and debates as to the worth of such reflexive borrowing raged. In the nineties, grunge style was often dismissed as an adolescent form of slumming—perhaps as a reaction to the profligancy of the Reagan years. But viewing grunge styles as simply reactive loses the social meaning embodied in the specific ironic posturing of nineties dress and music, views that preserved and sustained foregoing models of creativity and style at least as much as they upset them. Grunge was not just "the way we dress when we have no money," as designer Jean-Paul Gaultier sniffed disdainfully, but an elaboration on what secondhand aficionados had cultivated for almost a century.

Sans Emploi, Sans Repos, Sans Réponse: Georges Bataille’s Loss without a Why

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alex Dubilet
Keyword(s):  
Gabriel Marcel ◽  
Jean Paul ◽  
The Way

This chapter argues that Bataille’s wartime writings, the texts comprising La Somme athéologique, are exemplary in the way they bypass the customary division erected between philosophical and religious discourses in order to foreground a different partition: between modes of thinking, living, and speaking that disclose movements of self-emptying and irrecuperable loss and thereby reveal the ungrounded immanence of life, and those, by contrast, that disavow and instrumentalize of those movements and thus uphold transcendence. This, as the chapter argues, explains the peculiar fact that Bataille’s texts never found a disciplinary home; he was a figure whose thought proved too mystical for the philosophers (as Jean-Paul Sartre claimed) and too nihilistic for the theologians (as Gabriel Marcel made clear). In other words, Bataille’s works gave voice to the ungrounded immanence of life, but did so while stripping thought of its discursive and disciplinary supports and orientations.

scholarly journals Socio-Psychological Training: 40 years of the Development of M. Forverg’s Concept in Russia

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 219-227
Author(s):  
V.A. Chiker
Keyword(s):  
Teaching Methods ◽  
Professional Community ◽  
Existence Results ◽  
Professional Activity ◽  
Interactive Teaching ◽  
Psychological Theories ◽  
Psychological Training ◽  
Scope Of Application ◽  
Over 40 Years ◽  
The Way

Objective. The article traces and analyzes the way of development of the method of socio-psychological training in Russia. Background. The author studies the prerequisites for the emergence of the method, its place in group psychological work, as well as the psychological principles of constructing the program proposed by the famous German psychologist Manfred Vorwerg (1933-1989). It outlines the basic psychological theories that underlie it, as well as the scope of application of the method, target audiences and stages of development over the 50 years of its existence. Results. The article analyzes the way the method has spread in its modifications in our country over 40 years of its application. Socio-psychological training is allocated to a separate category of interactive teaching methods in various fields of professional activity and education. Main conclusions. The vast accumulated experience of using the training in our country allows us to formulate the strengths of its methodology, as well as the existing obvious limitations, to outline the discussion points for its discussion in the professional community.

scholarly journals Is the Patent System the Way Forward with the CRISPR-Cas 9 Technology?

2020 ◽  
Vol 33 (4) ◽  
pp. 2-23
Author(s):  
Franc Mali
Keyword(s):  
Genetic Engineering ◽  
Scientific Discovery ◽  
Human Life ◽  
New Technology ◽  
Basic Research ◽  
Scientific Institutions ◽  
Patent Landscape ◽  
Central Argument ◽  
Over 40 Years ◽  
The Way

CRISPR-Cas9 technology is reshaping the way scientists conduct research in genetic engineering. It is predicted to revolutionise not only the fields of medicine, biology, agriculture and industry but, much like all revolutionary technologies of the past, the way humans live. Given the anticipated and already seen benefits of CRISPR-Cas 9 in different areas of human life, this new technology may be defined as a true breakthrough scientific discovery. The article presents several challenges connected with various dimensions of the CRISPR-Cas 9 patent landscape. The central argument is that today the biggest challenge is finding a intermediary way that ensures a balance between providing sufficient openness for the further progress of basic research in CRISPR-Cas 9 such as ‘niche’ areas of the latest genetic engineering and adequate intellectual property rights to incentivise its commercialisation and application. The article contends the endeavours by academic scientific institutions to arrive at short-term benefits of the new CRISPR-Cas 9 technology do not constitute such an intermediary way, especially when the CRISPR-Cas 9 patent landscape is viewed as part of a series of controversial bioethical discussions that have been underway for over 40 years.

Sartre

2021 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 37-47
Keyword(s):  
Colonial Rule ◽  
French Colonialism ◽  
Jean Paul ◽  
Critical Commentary ◽  
Full Humanity ◽  
The Way

This article addresses an area of French colonialism, specifically French Algeria, through the critical lens of Jean-Paul Sartre’s theories on race and colonialism developed in Colonialism and Neocolonialism. I focus in particular on two key components of Sartre’s critical commentary: first, the way in which French colonialism established practices that assigned full humanity only to the European colonizers; indigenous Muslim Arabs were systematically confined to the category of “sub-humans.” Second, my article examines in detail how promised reforms to colonial rule were consistently thwarted by practices mired in deception and fraud. Finally, I suggest that the application of liberal humanist principles in this colonial context was designed to create further inequality between Arabs and Europeans.

scholarly journals Ricoeur on myth and demythologising

2016 ◽  
Vol 72 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Gert Jacobus Malan
Keyword(s):  
Follow Up Study ◽  
Condensed Form ◽  
Jean Paul ◽  
The Way

Since Jean Paul Gustav Ricoeur’s passing away in 2005, there has been a significant international resurgence of interest in his work. Coming to grips with the sheer extent of Ricoeur’s publications on a variety of subjects can leave one thoroughly perplexed. This is also true when investigating his views on myth and demythologisation. Numerous of his publications expound from various perspectives his insights on myth and its interpretation. This investigation proposes to bring together Ricoeur’s extensive contributions on myth, its interpretation and demythologisation in order to present them in condensed form. This will pave the way for a future follow-up study to compare Ricoeur’s perspectives to Bultmann’s demythologisation program and consider combining their contributions for theological hermeneutics.Keywords: myth; demythologising; Ricoeur; Bultmann; hermeneutics 

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