Jean Wahl and Karl Jaspers on Descartes and Kierkegaard: An Epistolary Exchange

A translation of selected correspondence between Jean Wahl and Karl Jaspers on Descartes and Kierkegaard.

Late Love: Vittoria Colonna and Reginald Pole

In the final years of her life, Vittoria Colonna developed a profound attachment to the English Catholic cardinal, Reginald Pole, who had formed a circle of reformers in the city of Viterbo where Colonna herself moved in 1541. This paper examines the epistolary exchange between Colonna and Pole with an aim of uncovering the nature of what Colonna repeatedly describes as her ‘extreme obligation’. The letters Colonna wrote both to Pole directly and to others in the Viterbo group about Pole reveal his role in her life as a Christ-like figure to whom she is both erotically and spiritually drawn.

O que resta de Nietzsche ou Narizinho no espelho / What’s Left of Nietzsche or Little Nose in the Mirror

Resumo: O artigo procura discutir as principais linhas de influência do pensamento de Nietzsche na formação intelectual de Monteiro Lobato. Para isso, utiliza a troca epistolar do autor com Godofredo Rangel, reunida em A barca de Gleyre. A intenção é demonstrar o lugar destacado que Nietzsche ocupa entre as referências do escritor. Em várias cartas, a interpretação de Monteiro Lobato é claramente equivocada, em outras, alinhada ao que havia de mais progressista. Ao cotejar depoimentos que cobrem quase 50 anos de atividade intelectual, a conclusão é que Monteiro Lobato considerava Nietzsche um modelo de liberdade e independência moral. Até o fim, Lobato permaneceu irmanado ao “seu filósofo”, como se referiu a Nietzsche mais de uma vez.Pavavras-chave: Monteiro Lobato; Nietzsche; filosofia; literatura; formação; influência.Abstract: The article seeks to discuss the main lines of influence of Nietzsche’s thought in Monteiro Lobato’s intellectual formation. For this, he uses the author’s epistolary exchange with Godofredo Rangel, gathered in A barca de Gleyre. The intention is to demonstrate the prominent place that Nietzsche occupies among the references of the writer. In several letters, Monteiro Lobato’s interpretation is wrong, in others aligned with what was most progressive. When comparing testimonies that cover almost 50 years of intellectual activity, the conclusion is that Monteiro Lobato considered Nietzsche a model of freedom and moral independence. Until the end, Lobato remained brotherly to “his philosopher”, as Nietzsche referred to more than once.Keywords: Monteiro Lobato; Nietzsche; philosophy; literature; formation; influence.

Análisis genético del "Análisis reflexivo". Para un re-encuentro fenomenológico: Lester Embree, Javier San Martín, Ludwig Landgrebe y José Ortega y Gasset

En el contexto del homenaje filosófico que rendimos a Lester Embree (1938-2017), este trabajo intenta ofrecer un análisis genético del Análisis reflexivo del filósofo norteamericano, tomando como hilo conductor el debate público y privado (establecido en su intercambio epistolar) entre Lester Embree y Javier San Martín, e intentando profundizar en los problemas que nos plantean. Para ello me remitiré, en un segundo momento, a dos ensayos de Ludwig Landgrebe publicados en Faktizität und Individuation (1982). Finalmente, como cierre de este escrito, añado un breve “Epílogo para orteguianos. Lester Embree in memoriam”.As a part of the philosophical tribute we render to Lester Embree (1938-2017), this essay aims at presenting a genetic analysis of the Reflective Analysis of the American philosopher, by focusing on the public and private debate (established in his epistolary exchange) between Lester Embree and Javier San Martín, and trying to deepen the problems that they pose to us. For this I will refer, in a second part, to two essays of Ludwig Landgrebe published in Faktizität und Individuation (1982). Finally, as conclusion of this paper, I add a brief "Epilogue for Orteguian. Lester Embree in memoriam".

Plagiarism and Authorship in Turn-of-the-Century Venezuela

This article explores the connection between modernismo, a literary movement that relied heavily on imitation and intertextuality, and accusations of plagiarism, copying, and appropriation. It contextualizes the analysis within a nineteenth-century legal moment in which intellectual property protections were just beginning to take hold at the international level. It examines claims of authorship in the absence of meaningful intellectual property legislation, and in an asymmetrical context in which European authors were widely reprinted and read in Latin America but Latin American authors were barely read in Europe. And it considers performances of plagiarizing and of being plagiarized—that is, the unease expressed by one who suspects his work has been copied. Specifically, the article analyzes an accusatory epistolary exchange between Enrique Gómez Carrillo and Manuel Díaz Rodríguez; the novel El hombre de hierro (The Iron Man; 1907) by Rufino Blanco Fombona, which was interpreted as a copy of Flaubert’s Madame Bovary but justified by its local character; and the very curious case of Rafael Bolívar Coronado, whose writing implodes the category of authorship that underlies intellectual property legislation. Taken together, the three cases demonstrate the development of the notions of authorship and plagiarism in Venezuelan literature at the turn of the century.

Silvering (slowly)

‘Silvering (slowly)’ was a group show at St Paul Street Gallery in Auckland, NZ, 9–13 September 2019. It drew together threads from our independent research trajectories as a response to this journal’s questions around augmentation and technicity. The exhibition was a material dialogue consisting of installations and drawings, structured dialogues before and during the show, and an epistolary exchange afterwards. The operative methodology is one of conversation between collaborators that was conceived more generally as an open-ended material practice including nonhuman participants. Without purporting to offer a single consistent position, we problematise the concept of augmentation through our conversation. By means of our rhetorical figures—the moon, mirrors, silvering hair, and silence—we question the time and matter of augmentation, and its sense of forwardness and addition.

Introduction

Women Religious and Epistolary Exchange in the Carmelite Reform tells the story of the Carmelite expansion beyond the death of Teresa de Jesús, showing how three of her most dynamic disciples, María de San José, Ana de Jesús, and Ana de San Bartolomé, struggled to continue her mission in Portugal, France, and the Low Countries. Like Teresa, these women were prolific letter writers. Catalina de Cristo, a Carmelite nun who never left Spain, also produced a corpus of letters that reveals the distress of those who anxiously waited for news of their sisters abroad. In devoting themselves so assiduously to letter-writing, these women, as Joan Ferrante has shown, were continuing a long monastic tradition that had begun in the Middle Ages.

Women Religious and Epistolary Exchange in the Carmelite Reform

The sixteenth century was a period of crisis in the Catholic Church. Monastic reorganization was a major issue, and women were at the forefront of charting new directions in convent policy. The story of the Carmelite Reform has been told before, but never from the perspective of the women on the front lines. Nearly all accounts of the movement focus on Teresa de Avila, (1515-1582), and end with her death in 1582. Women Religious and Epistolary Exchange in the Carmelite Reform: The Disciples of Teresa de Avila carries the story beyond Teresa’s death, showing how the next generation of Carmelite nuns struggled into the seventeenth century to continue her mission. It is unique in that it draws primarily from female-authored sources, in particular, the letters of three of Teresa’s most dynamic disciples: María de San José, Ana de Jesús and Ana de San Bartolomé.