In a dialog with philosophy the study outlines the relationship between the ontological, the ethical and the aesthetical dimensions of Freudian and Lacanian psychoanalysis. In three precisely circumscribed interventions it investigates the question of Being, Freedom and Comedy. The concept of Being is investigated in relationship to the psychoanalytic notion of sexuality and its possible ontological implications. The concept of Freedom is analyzed through the notion of Cause as its intrinsic condition. Comedy and the Uncanny are analyzed as two answers to the same fundamental impasse.
COBISS.SI-ID: 30016813
The article discusses Foucault’s “structuralist moment” at the time of the publication of The Order of Things. In an interview Foucault introduces the notion of “structuralist philosophy”, which he understands as an analysis and diagnostic of the present. This orientation of philosophy on the basis of structuralist thinking is discussed regarding the concrete case of Foucauldian archeology, which presents itself as a split between historical research and theory of the event. This split is linked to the problem of the relation between continuity and discontinuity in history.
COBISS.SI-ID: 31041069
The aim of this paper is to show that Badiou’s evental conception of communism, based on 1) the Borromean knot of the real, the symbolic, and the imaginary, and 2) the fictional structure of the idea of communism, can contribute to a better understanding of the eternal in politics as well as to a critique of the contemporary “politics without politics”. It also indicates the differences between Badiou’s notion of communism and other contemporary attempts at proclaiming the eternity of communism or its everlasting actuality put forward respectively by Blanchot, Nancy, Hardt and Negri.
COBISS.SI-ID: 31040557
One of the unnoticed signs of a shift in contemporary political discourse is a specific turn in the status of the slip of the tongue, the parapraxis. The effect of a merely formal slip of the tongue, which seems to have no deeper meaning, is neutralized and consensually tolerated in advance, remaining in a certain sense unrecognised – but precisely the suspense of the slip brings about its objectification, which opens up the possibility of a different theory of the political para-praxis. This is precisely the point where the outer edges of Foucault's and Freud's discourses meet.
COBISS.SI-ID: 31041325
In the article Matjaž Vesel analyzes epistemological aspects of discussion between cardinal Roberto Bellarmine and Galileo Galilei about Copernican astronomy. In letter to Dini (23 March 1615) and in the so-called Considerations on the Copernican Opinion (1615) Galileo very convincingly argued, firstly, that Copernicus himself was an »astronomer philosopher« and secondly that even Ptolemaic astronomy was itself based on philosophical principles. This leads him to the conclusion that the astronomical-philosophical program is the only plausible and possible solution.
COBISS.SI-ID: 30369837