Einleitung

2021 ◽  
Vol 69 (1) ◽  
pp. 114-118
Author(s):  
Andrea Marlen Esser
Keyword(s):  
Current Discussion ◽  
Works Of Art ◽  
Philosophical Methods ◽  
Philosophical Texts

Abstract Many classical philosophical texts contain passages that are to be judged as discriminatory and degrading, and by today’s standards even as racist, sexist or anti-Semitic. How we should deal appropriately with this heritage – be it in teaching or in research – is by no means undisputed. Some researchers are of the opinion that the passages in question are terminological idiosyncrasies of the respective authors related to the time they lived in and therefore philosophically irrelevant: they can be disregarded. Others doubt that such a separation can actually be made. They are of the opinion that the philosophical parts of the respective work are always affected if racist, sexist or anti-Semitic ideas can be detected in passages. In analogy to the current discussion on how to deal with problematic works of art, memorials, street names or linguistic expressions, the question can also be addressed to philosophical works: what should be done with philosophical texts if they contain racist, sexist and anti-Semitic thoughts and their reception preserves so-called racist knowledge in our society? The contributions in the section ‘Philosophie aktuell’ take a stand on these questions from different perspectives and thereby show that one can also deal critically with this topic on the basis of philosophical methods.

Introduction What are we Reading?

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-12
Author(s):  
Paul R. Goldin
Keyword(s):  
Chinese Philosophy ◽  
Human Being ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Great Work ◽  
Works Of Art ◽  
Art And Literature ◽  
Chinese Aesthetics ◽  
Philosophical Texts

This introductory chapter argues that one of the first questions that readers must ask themselves, regardless of their hermeneutic framework, is what they are reading. In Chinese philosophy, the question is not often raised, in part because of the long-standing but specious assumption that the eight classic philosophical texts were written by the great masters whose names they bear. This approach is congruent with a cardinal tenet of traditional Chinese aesthetics: works of art and literature are produced by talented human beings as a way of channeling their responses to poignant events. It follows that a great work must have been composed by a great author—and since the texts are undeniably great, each one must have been produced by a magnificently talented human being. But far from denigrating Chinese philosophy, liberating it from these mythic suppositions only improves our understanding and appreciation of it.

An Institutional Approach to Ancient Philosophical Texts: Plato’s Ion

2020 ◽  
Vol 30 (6) ◽  
pp. 23-40
Keyword(s):  
Self Esteem ◽  
Arts And Crafts ◽  
Early Date ◽  
Philosophical Text ◽  
Institutional Approach ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Philosophical Methods ◽  
The Republic ◽  
Philosophical Texts ◽  
Sophistical Refutations

The institutional approach to interpreting philosophical texts, which is a valuable supplement to the traditional historical, philological, and philosophical methods of analysis, requires from the reader a reflective technique and an understanding of the kind of statements it can validate. Factors such as the author’s self-esteem and its effect on the process of creating the text, as well as the intended genre and audience are all brought into the material studied (a philosophical text) through the institutional approach. Meeting all these requirements results in a delineation of an institution that permits objectification of the author’s stance and manner of inquiry. An analysis of the Plato’s Ion, which is usually considered one of the earliest of his dialogues, offers an example the institutional approach to philosophical texts. The article calls into question an early date for Ion because Plato’s earlier dialogues are typically retellings of previous conversations. The Ion, however, consists of direct dialogue in a dramatic format - a style proper to the late dialogues, which reflect the technique developed for the arguments and disputations between schools; these debates were conducted according to certain rules and referred to summaries of material previously selected (as Aristotle’s Topics and Sophistical Refutations demonstrate). Furthermore, the Ion echoes Plato’s Republic (just as Homer in the Republic is not versed in the arts and crafts, the rhapsodist in the Ion who recites Homer’s depictions of those skills likewise has not mastered any of them) and with the Phaedrus (which like the Ion explores the concept of divine madness). These parallels strongly suggest that the Ion is among the later dialogues and consequently call its attribution to Plato into question.

Non destructive testing of works of art by terahertz analysis

2013 ◽  
Vol 64 (2) ◽  
pp. 21001 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jean-Luc Bodnar ◽  
Jean-Jacques Metayer ◽  
Kamel Mouhoubi ◽  
Vincent Detalle
Keyword(s):  
Non Destructive Testing ◽  
Destructive Testing ◽  
Works Of Art ◽  
Non Destructive

Artistic-professional strategies in the music sector. The case of the jazz scene in Barcelona

2020 ◽  
pp. 145-163
Author(s):  
Marta Casals Balaguer
Keyword(s):  
Research Methods ◽  
Social Dimension ◽  
Artistic Identity ◽  
Professional Musicians ◽  
Main Research ◽  
Works Of Art ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Creation

This article aims to analyse the strategies that jazz musicians in Barcelona adopt to develop their artistic careers. It focuses on studying three main areas that influ-ence the construction of their artistic-professional strategies: a) the administrative dimension, characterized mainly by management and promotion tasks; b) the artistic-creative dimension, which includes the construction of artistic identity and the creation of works of art; and c) the social dimension within the collective, which groups together strategies related to the dynamics of cooperation and col-laboration between the circle of musicians. The applied methodology came from a qualitative perspective, and the main research methods were semi-structured inter-views conducted with active professional musicians in Barcelona and from partic-ipant observation.

Factors of Price Formation for Art Objects With the Application of Text Analysis of Twitter News

2020 ◽  
pp. 114-131
Author(s):  
Elena A. Fedorova ◽  
Diana V. Zaripova ◽  
Igor S. Demin
Keyword(s):  
Text Analysis ◽  
Price Formation ◽  
Works Of Art ◽  
Art Objects ◽  
Online Resource ◽  
The Difference

This work confirmed the hypotheses about the influence of the mood index on Twitter on the pricing of art objects and the difference between the experts' estimations and the final price of the auction. The hypotheses were tested with the use of a sample of 83 paintings selected on the basis of ratings of ARTNET's online resource about the most expensive works of art ever sold in the last 10–15 years. The sample consisted of 25 artists, for each of them was made an index of moods on Twitter. This index was created by a sentimental analysis of each tweet about the artist on the hashtag for a period of 2 to 4 months between the announcements of sales in the open sources and the direct sale of the work with the use of the two dictionaries AFINN and NRC.

Why it is Necessary to Revise the Standards of Exhibition Lighting

2019 ◽  
pp. 5-10
Author(s):  
Alexei V. Bogdanov ◽  
Vladimir A. Smirnov
Keyword(s):  
Modern World ◽  
Museum Visitors ◽  
Artificial Lighting ◽  
Works Of Art

In the modern world, one of the main functions of museums is to organize the preservation of pieces of art and arrange their presentation to museum visitors. Since the modern exhibition is based on the artificial lighting, it is necessary to properly arrange this lighting; otherwise, it can negatively affect the safety of museum pieces. The article sets out the views on the criteria of professional lighting of works of art, as it is always a compromise between the custodians and the lighting engineers. The authors also attempt to disclose the processes of organizing museum lighting and give a generalized description of the standards and rules, which serve as a basis to realize this lighting. The main reasons for the need to rethink these standards and rules (and even to revise them), in connection with the emergence of new LED sources, have been outlined.

After Alice After Cats in Derrida's L'animal que donc je suis

Derrida Today ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 180-196 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jessica Polish
Keyword(s):  
Human Development ◽  
Sexual Difference ◽  
Human World ◽  
Philosophical Texts ◽  
The Sacrifice

In this essay, I argue that Derrida cannot pursue the question of being/following unless he thinks through the question of sexual difference posed by figures of little girls in philosophical texts and in literature, specifically as posed by Lewis Carroll's Alice whom Derrida references in L'animal que donc je suis. At stake in thinking being after animals after Alice is the thought of an other than fraternal following, a way of being-with and inheriting from (other than human) others that calls for an account of development that is not dictated by a normative autotelic and sacrificial logic. I argue that Derrida's dissociation of himself and his cat from Alice and her cat(s) in L'animal que donc je suis causes him to risk repeating the closed, teleological gestures philosophers like Kant and Hegel perpetuate in their accounts of human development. The more sweeping conclusion towards which this essay points is the claim that the domestication of girls and their subjection to familial fates in narratives and the reduction of development to teleology more generally, require the sacrifice and forgetting of ‘nature’, including animals, so that the fates of girls and ‘nature’ are intertwined in the context of projects of human world-building and home-making.

Challenges, Concerns, and Perspectives for Poland's Energy Transition during Global COVID-19 Pandemic

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 169-173
Author(s):  
Andrzej Lorkowski ◽  
Robert Jeszke
Keyword(s):  
Internal Energy ◽  
Energy Transition ◽  
Energy Transformation ◽  
Modern Times ◽  
Current Discussion ◽  
The Face ◽  
National Governments ◽  
The Eu ◽  
At Home

The whole world is currently struggling with one of the most disastrous pandemics to hit in modern times – Covid-19. Individual national governments, the WHO and worldwide media organisations are appealing for humanity to universally stay at home, to limit contact and to stay safe in the ongoing fight against this unseen threat. Economists are concerned about the devastating effect this will have on the markets and possible outcomes. One of the countries suffering from potential destruction of this situation is Poland. In this article we will explain how difficult internal energy transformation is, considering the long-term crisis associated with the extraction and usage of coal, the European Green Deal and current discussion on increasing the EU 2030 climate ambitions. In the face of an ongoing pandemic, the situation becomes even more challenging with each passing day.

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