In the article the author discusses Adorno's aesthetic theory in the light of some recent aesthetic theories and the simultaneous art of modernism and postmodernism. Through readings of Adorno by Lyotard, Wolfgang Welsch and Peter Bürger and a simultaneous discussion of avant-garde art of the previous century the author passes to a discussion of postmodern art and to the so-called “end of art.” This demise of art coincides with its commodification, with the latter concurring with a related commodification of theory. Their destiny is shared also by Adorno’s autonomous art.
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The article sets up a wider theoretical background as a basis for an analysis of the role of the act within onto-logical theory of the appearance developed in the fifth year of the programme. It sets out from the thesis according to which the crucial issue in Kant’s “Copernican turn” in philosophy is thought’s affection by a “thing of thought”. This thesis is supported by two central issues of Kant’s philosophy. The first issue is ontological, i.e. Kant’s “transcendental difference” between phenomenon and noumenon. The second is logical, at it core is the critique of the transcendental appearance. The author argues that it is only in his Critique of Judgement that Kant succeeded to properly articulate their connection. This effect of connection is the additional, second “Copernican turn” of Kant’s philosophy that concludes Kant’s revolution in thinking.
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The study, which discusses global capitalism and racism, specifically highlights the relationship between the temporality of transformation and the perception of transformation of the border, a relationship situated at the division, or at the border, between one and nothing.
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The term semblant was by Lacan in order to rework the articulation between two radically heterogeneous registers, the symbolic and the real. The author sets out from the assumption that the semblant is relevant to numerous contemporary discourses, as its principal function is to cover up the economy of jouissance. Yet the semblant can only succeed in its task inasmuch as we believe in it. At the same time, the semblant is a problem specific to psychoanalysis, since, in psychoanalysis, the role of semblants is two-fold: as a means of both attaining the real and of bringing to light the functioning of semblants in all other discourses.
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The study answers the question why and how Copernicus became a Copernican. The author argues that Copernicus’ critical attitude towards the state of astronomy, which ultimately resulted in his geokinetism and heliocentric arrangement of the planetary orbs, was founded upon his Platonism. The hypothesis of Copernicus’ Platonism explains all the most fundamental aspects of his project. It brings unity and coherence to his work and links otherwise seemingly completely unrelated issues, such as the equant problem and the problem of the order of the planetary spheres, into consistent philosophy.
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