The Panopticon project for a model prison obsessed the English philosopher Jeremy Bentham for almost 20 years. In the end, the project came to nothing; the Panopticon was never built. But it is precisely this that makes the Panopticon project the best exemplification of Bentham's own theory of fictions, according to which non-existent fictitious entities can have all too real effects. There is probably no building that has stirred more philosophical controversy than Bentham's Panopticon.
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COBISS.SI-ID: 44756834A translation of the third quarter of one of the greatest classical texts in the history of philosophy, Kants Critique of Pure Reason, was published. The translator, a member of the research group, published an introduction along with the translation.
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COBISS.SI-ID: 33684525Liebe als Passion is one of the most impotant books on love in the 20th century. It comprises a series of discussions on the semantics of "love", combining two different theoretical approaches, the sociology of knowledge that deals with the transition from traditional to modern social forms, and the theory of symbollically generalized media of communication. Love is thus not treated as an emotion but as an symbollic code that binds feelings and acting within intimate relations to cultural imperatives. The book describes a three hundred year long transformation of semantic codes.
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