Alexandru Liciu Abstract: The present article represents an attempt to argue in the favor of the thesis that, in the First Meditation, in the fragment where the problem of madness is spoken of, Descartes’ view aims to exclude the possibility that the knowing subject, the Cogito, could be insane, and not only to avoid the … [Read more…]
Oana Șerban Abstract Conceived as an analysis of the reception of Nietzsche`s ethics, assumed as a project for an aesthetic of existence, at the crossroads of modernism and postmodernism, this article explores the way in which the whole art of living could be interpreted following two significant moments: the “death of God”, proposed by Nietzsche, … [Read more…]
Irina Toma Abstract Most perspectives on the postmodern subject revolve around the issue of sexuality and its relevance in the constitution of the subject. Irrespective of the definition we give to sexuality and its related representations on the human body, the critical genealogy of the political practices shows that, in gendering, the body needs to … [Read more…]
VIOREL VIZUREANU Abstract The following study is intended to be the first part of what could be called a “triptych” dedicated to the Foucauldian heterotopias and it is designed to organically capture the following levels of the French thinker’s interpretation of the original concept: 1) an “internal” hermeneutics (a critical commentary) of the text where … [Read more…]
Lorin Ghiman Abstract The rapid institutionalization of “transhumanism”, promoted from the status of subculture to ‘intellectual movement’, to the point in which its interests have gained academic traction becoming a research and reflection field cannot conceal the many methodological and epistemic shortcomings it still suffers today. I intend to go through the most striking … [Read more…]