The aim of this essay is to provide an answer to the question of knowing whether it is possible to find in Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason a figure of the subject that would not be solely reduced to a function in the constitution of the object. Is Kant’s “Copernican turn” truly a turn towards the subject or is it rather simply a detailed elaboration of the theory of the object, a theory with two voids: the void of the transcendental subject and the void of the transcendental object? The answer elaborated in this essay is the following: in the first Critique there is indeed a figure of the subject that is not solely the subject of the object, but is rather the subject for which the object is not only a vis-a-vis but also a part thereof, although a constitutively subtracted part. While this curious object, which the author proposes to call a trans-empirical, makes the constitution of the subject possible, it remains for the latter something that is radically Dawider.
COBISS.SI-ID: 39424301
The article focuses on Galileo’s understanding of the relationship between revealed and natural truth. In his Letter to Castelli Galileo argued for the separation of theology and natural philosophy. But in the very same letter and in Letter to Dini he appears to use the Bible as a scientific authority, in support of his Copernican views, and thus he seems to contradict his own hermeneutical principles. The author argues that Galileo’s Copernican interpretation of Psalm 18 in Letter to Dini should be understood against the background of Galileo’s argumentation in Letter to Castelli in which Galileo also interpreted a passage from Joshua and that both letters cannot be properly understood without knowledge and understating of the context of their genesis. Galileo’s position is not contradictory but consistent. The second aim of the article is to underline the fact that in these two letters Galileo develops a specific philosophy of nature in order explain his telescopic observations and discoveries on a more fundamental philosophical level.
COBISS.SI-ID: 38785837
In the congress in Kiel, 1938, celebrating the three hundred and fiftieth anniversary of Thomas Hobbes's birth, a crucial shift in the field of Hobbes studies was articulated. The phase of Hobbes studies personified by Ferdinand Tönnies, who was the first to apply methods of textual criticism to the study of Hobbes's works, was succeeded by a phase dominated by Nazi intellectulas. Whereas most of them used Hobbes in order to formulate political differences among themselves, Carl Schmitt centered his interpretation of Hobbes on political mythology. Schmitt's influential interpretation of Hobbes is here for the first time set in the context of the preceding studies of Hobbes's life and work, on the one hand, and of the Nazi occupation of the field of Hobbes studies, on the other.
COBISS.SI-ID: 37681453
Aims of the monograph are explained: to affirm concepts of the aesthetic avant-garde, the aesthetic revolution, and of the three avant-gardes. The pivotal concept is the aesthetic avant-garde which supports the differentiation and the break between avant-gardes that limited themselves to the sphere of art and those that reached into “reality” and that support the differentiation between stylistic changes and the passing into “life.” The author supports his views with Rancière's concepts of aesthetic revolution, aesthetics and politics. He also refers to P. Bürger, T. de Duve, A. Flaker, F. Schlegel and F. Schiller.
COBISS.SI-ID: 38502957
The monograph follows the development of aesthetics in key thinkers of 20th century philosophy. It argues that the central trait of this development is the philosopher’s encounter with an artwork. Art is identified as a way of thinking that has the power to inscribe a discontinuity in the philosophical understanding of being and the world. On the basis of research done in the previous programme period, the monograph focuses on the mutations of the categories of representation, appearing and interpretation – the junctions where contemporary aesthetics, ontology and phenomenology meet.
COBISS.SI-ID: 278706688