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CONNOTATIONS OF "SELF-LOVE" IN THE EARLY MODERN ENGLISH LITERATURE ON THE PASSIONS

CONNOTATIONS OF "SELF-LOVE" IN THE EARLY MODERN ENGLISH LITERATURE ON THE PASSIONS

Author(s): Sorana Corneanu / Language(s): English / Issue: 02/2008

Keywords: Augustinian; cultura animi; contaminations of discourses and traditions; discipline of judgment; Du Moulin; passions; self-love; Stoic; virtue; Wright

While the more frequent historiographic tendency is to associate the early modern occurrences of “self-love” in English texts with the Augustinian template (the “infected love” of a postlapsarian “wicked will”), this paper aims to highlight several instances of a different usage. The seventeenth-century writings on the passions it will investigate work with a notion of “self-love” which only formally carries Augustinian echoes but whose content is rather in tune with notions belonging to a Stoic-inspired scenario of a cure of the soul (resistance to cure, failure of self-examination, narrowness of self – to be gradually shed off by means of a discipline of judgment, self and emotions). As such, they are interesting cases of a typical early modern phenomenon of eclectic discourse formation and mutual contamination of traditions of thought, and testify to a generally neglected early modern concern with a doctrine and a practice of the “cure of the soul” which typically aims to graft Christian theology onto ancient philosophy.

Pragmatic Approaches in the Analysis of the Political Discourse

Pragmatic Approaches in the Analysis of the Political Discourse

Author(s): Bianca Drămnescu / Language(s): English / Issue: 4/2016

Keywords: Intentionality; pragmatics; discourse analysis; speech acts; political discourse;

Pragmatics in discourse analysis plays a decisive role in the creation of effective political communication strategies. Therefore, speech lies at the junction of rhetoric, linguistics and politics. This study focuses on characterizing the main approaches in pragmatic discourse analysis based on a comparative analysis of studies by international specialists. The intension in communication represents a pragmatic element which plays a decisive role at the time for the communication process. Speech is a central point of interest for social and political spheres. Conceptions about language in association with pragmatics turn the usual rhetoric into a speech activity coordinated by normative linguistic dimensions.

THE ASSOCIATIVE IMAGINATION AND DIVINE PASSIONS IN MARK AKENSIDE’S THE PLEASURES OF THE IMAGINATION (1744)

THE ASSOCIATIVE IMAGINATION AND DIVINE PASSIONS IN MARK AKENSIDE’S THE PLEASURES OF THE IMAGINATION (1744)

Author(s): Alexandra Bacalu / Language(s): English / Issue: 2/2015

Keywords: imagination; the passions; Akenside; habit; natural theology; Stoic therapy

Mark Akenside’s The Pleasures of the Imagination (1744) demands the attention of intellectual and cultural historians, if only on account of its eclectic reconceptualization of the“creative” imagination. Here, the “poetic” imagination takes over a set of moral remedies formerly ascribed to the faculty only in psychological, medical or moral philosophical discussions – remedies which, moreover, undergo a series of developments due especially, but not exclusively, to Hume’s assignment of the process of association to the imagination and to emerging notions of ‘taste’. This paper argues that the ‘creative’ imagination thus conceived allows Akenside to define poetry as equally suitable, alongside science, for the cultivation of religious passions and virtues. Akenside’s main argument in this sense is that the cognitive and affective practices which are involved in the production of poetry (and which are guided by the imagination) allow the poet to discover and cultivate the ‘triggers’ of appropriate emotion and virtue which God has placed in nature. The poet thus gains access to privileged states of ‘raptur’d vision’ and comes to possess the affective make-up of divinity. I would like to shed light upon the ways in which, according to Akenside, the ‘creative’ imagination contributes to the cultivation of such ‘divine’ emotions and thus to highlight the moral and spiritual dimension of mid eighteenth-century notions about literary creation.

Experimenting with Living Nature: Documented Practices of Sixteenth-Century Naturalists and Naturalia Collectors

Experimenting with Living Nature: Documented Practices of Sixteenth-Century Naturalists and Naturalia Collectors

Author(s): Florike Egmond / Language(s): English / Issue: 1/2017

Keywords: natural history; natural sciences; experimentation; naturalia collecting; garden history; plant alchemy; natural philosophy;

This article discusses experimentation in the context of sixteenth-century natural history, or natural science as I prefer to call it here. It uses predominantly textual sources, many of them manuscript letters, from different European countries, mainly Italy, the Low Countries, France and Germany-Austria. The focus is on the practice of experimentation and its documentation, partly because I proceed from the assumption that the investigation of living nature did not necessarily entail the same type of experimentation as contemporary alchemy, pharmacy, or medicine, although all these domains of knowledge and their practitioners overlapped. The subject matter to some extent imposed its own rules. The first part of this essay analyses experimentation in the garden, which often combined practical purposes with research ones. The second and third parts discuss experimentation with both plants and animals that originated in more general questions or led to more wide-ranging conclusions about natural phenomena. The final section discusses the links with natural philosophy in these different types of experimentation in natural science, and addresses the possible implications for the concept of experimentation itself in the period shortly before the ”new science” of the seventeenth century.

The "Scenography" of the handbook's teaching discourse

,,SCENOGRAFIA” DISCURSULUI DIDACTIC APARŢINÂND MANUALULUI

Author(s): Laura-Irina Gavriliu / Language(s): Romanian / Issue: 32/2014

Keywords: communication discourse; teaching discourse; interpretation strategies; script;

The terms belonging to theatre have been permanently transferred and adapted to various epistemic spaces, in the pursuit of organizing a coherent explanation pattern, the “script” being the “the speaking stage that the discourse involves in order to be produced and that, in exchange, needs to confirm through its utterance” . “The communication discourse” promotes understanding based on inferential reasoning, structured by the fundamental principles of conscious learning whose results will configure the identity of the cognitive structure of the teachable subject. This primary understanding, pertaining to the logical significance, will be a condition for further acceptance of an interpretation course, based on heuristic processes, on the consistent character of learning, reflected within the relationship with the incorporated information belonging to the student’s knowledge. The passage from potential to achievement is dependent on the intention and desire of the sender who has to translate an interior need. As part of the teaching discourse, “the creative discourse” is the practice context of the student’s creative potential, tributary to the development of the “lecture competence” with reference to Romanian as a school subject, aiming at the conscious approval of the interpretation process. This can be described in terms of labor concerning the creation process, the literature context facilitates the relationship between the education subject and various “paratope” belonging to Romanian and universal literature, through which the reaction to the symbolic valences of the literary works can be obvious. The identification process between the reader and the creation substantiated through a “school trial” should start from the re-enactment of the author’s labor process, through a participative activity associated to the questioning labor, organized according to the textbook score. It has to provide the student an understanding and interpretation pattern in order to guarantee a “successful” reading, that should harmonize various interpretation strategies.

King Lear’s Fool

King Lear’s Fool

Author(s): Antonella Cornici / Language(s): English / Issue: 29/2020

Keywords: Shakespeare; fool; monologue; Lear; theater;

Shakespeare does not introduce the Fool in his plays by accident or in order to entertain or to amuse. On the contrary, his lines are earnest, filled with undertones, his advices are witty, and their purpose is to amend the one they are aimed at, to point out their mistakes, to warn them, and even to intervene in the play’s plot. The journey of the Fool in King Lear shows that, without this character, the play would be situated somewhere at the border with the Irrational. All the characters seem to be lacking reason, they act without logic. By bringing in the Fool, one is presented the image of the “standstill” in which England’s Royalty was. All the irrationality is transferred to the King. The rest of the characters are, thus, “saved”, their actions being justified by affections that darken their minds and, obviously, accountable for those senseless actions is no one else but Lear.The disappearing of the Fool in King Lear remains a mystery that directors have “deciphered” in many ways. Shakespeare inserted this character in the middle of the first act and kept him throughout the play until the third act; then, gradually, the king’s fool disappeared. The manner this happens is almost imperceptible.The productions of this play are not numerous, King Lear, as critic Marina Constantinescu noticed, is, perhaps, one of the most difficult plays of Shakespeare, profoundly philosophical, linguistically complicated, filled with human nuances, sophisticatedly put on page.The performances to which we will make reference for the monologue of the Fool from King Lear are by Andrei Șerban (2008 and 2012, Bulandra Theater) and Tompa Gábor (2006, Cluj National Theater).

Book Reviews

Book Reviews

Author(s): Dietrich Denecke,Balázs Karlinszky,Katalin Szende,Szabolcs Varga,Krisztina Péter,Dániel Siptár,Eszter Pál,Zsolt Kökényesi,David Do Paço,Kurt Scharr,Cristian Cercel,Theodore Weeks,Gábor Demeter,Tamás Révész,Ferenc Laczó,Árpád V. Klimó,Gábor Egry,Vítězslav Sommer / Language(s): English / Issue: 4/2015

On the Road: The History and Archaeology of Medieval Communication Networks in East-Central Europe. By Magdolna Szilágyi. Budapest: Archaeolingua, 2014. 250 pp. pozsonyi prépost és a káptalan viszálya (1421–1425). A szentszéki bíráskodás Magyarországon – a pozsonyi káptalan szervezete és működése a XV. század elején [Conflict between the Provost and the Chapter of Pressburg (1421–1425). Jurisdiction of the Holy See in Hungary – Organization and Operation of the Pressburg Chapter in the Early Fifteenth Century]. By Norbert C. Tóth, Bálint Lakatos, and Gábor Mikó. (Subsidia ad Historiam medii aevi Hungariae inquirendam 3.) Budapest: MTA TKI, 2014. 464 pp. Cities and their Spaces. Concepts and their Use in Europe. Edited by Michel Pauly and Martin Scheutz. Cologne–Weimar–Vienna: Böhlau, 2014. 324 pp. Dzsámik és mecsetek a hódolt Magyarországon [Mosques in the Territories of Hungary under Ottoman Occupation]. By Balázs Sudár. (Magyar Történelmi Emlékek. Adattárak.) Budapest: MTA Bölcsészettudományi Kutatóközpont Történettudományi Intézet, 2014. 650 pp. A Divided Hungary in Europe: Exchanges, Networks and Representations, 1541–1699. Vol. 1–3. Edited by Gábor Almási, Szymon Brzezinski, Ildikó Horn, Kees Teszelszky, and Áron Zarnóczki. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2014. 738 pp. Pálos missziók Magyarországon a 17–18. században [The Pauline Order’s Missions in Hungary in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries]. By †Ferenc Galla. Edited by István Fazekas. (Collectanea Vaticana Hungariae – Classis 1, vol. 11.) Budapest–Rome: MTA-PPKE ‘Lendület’ Egyháztörténeti Kutatócsoport–Gondolat, 2015. 536 pp. Conflicting Values of Inquiry. Ideologies of Epistemology in Early Modern Europe. Edited by Tamás Demeter, Kathryn Murphy, and Claus Zittel. Leiden–Boston: Brill, 2015. 410 pp. Császárválasztás 1745 [Imperial Election of 1745]. By Márta Vajnági. Budapest: ELTE BTK Középkori és Kora Újkori Egyetemes Történeti Tanszék, 2014. 186 pp. The Charmed Circle. Joseph II and the “Five Princesses,” 1765–1790. By Rebecca Gates-Coon. West Lafayette: Purdue University Press, 2015. 380 pp. “A Sanguine Bunch.“ Regional Identification in Habsburg Bukovina 1774–1919. By Jeroen van Drunen. (Pegasus Oost-Europese Studies 24.) Amsterdam: Uitgeverij Pegasus, 2015. 653 pp. Die Donauschwaben 1868–1948. Ihre Rolle im rumänischen und serbischen Banat [The Danube Swabians: Their Role in the Romanian and Serbian Banat]. By Mariana Hausleitner. (Schriftenreihe des Instituts für donauschwäbische Geschichte und Landeskunde, Band 18 – Quellen und Forschungen, Band 2.) Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2014. 417 pp. Enemies for a Day: Antisemitism and Anti-Jewish Violence in Lithuania under the Tsars. By Darius Staliūnas. Budapest: CEU Press, 2015. 284 pp. Les guerres balkaniques (1912–1913): Conflits, enjeux, mémoires. Edited by Catherine Horel. (Enjeux internationaux 31.) Bruxelles–Bern–Berlin–Oxford: P.I.E. Peter Lang, 2014. 348 pp. A régi Magyarország utolsó háborúja 1914–1918 [The Last War of Old Hungary 1914–1918]. By Tibor Hajdu and Ferenc Pollmann. Budapest: Osiris, 2014. 416 pp. KL. A History of the Nazi Concentration Camps. By Nikolaus Wachsmann. London: Little, Brown, 2015. 880 pp. The Nation Should Come First. Marxism and Historiography in East Central Europe. By Maciej Górny. Translated by Antoni Górny. Editorial assistance Aaron Law. (Warsaw studies in contemporary history 1.) Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 2013. 302 pp. Otthon és haza. Tanulmányok a romániai magyarság történetéből [Homeland and Home: Essays on the History of the Hungarians of Romania]. By Nándor Bárdi. Csíkszereda: Pro Print, 2013. 607 pp. Revolution with a Human Face: Politics, Culture and Community in Czechoslovakia, 1989–1992. By James Krapfl. Ithaca–London: Cornell University Press, 2013. 292 pp.

Everything You Always Wanted to Know About the Summa quadripartita that Descartes Never Wrote

Everything You Always Wanted to Know About the Summa quadripartita that Descartes Never Wrote

Author(s): Sophie Roux / Language(s): English / Issue: 1/2016

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Father Andrei Scrima’s correspondence with Patriarch Justinian reflected in the Security archives

Corespondenţa părintelui Andrei Scrima cu Patriarhul Justinian reflectată în arhivele Securităţii

Author(s): Maxim (Iuliu-Marius) Morariu / Language(s): Romanian / Issue: 10/2020

Keywords: Father Andrei Scrima; Patriarch Justinian; correspondence; former Security Archives; India; Metropolitan Iustin Moisescu;

Using information provided by the Archives of the Council for the Study of Security Archives, this research brings into attention the correspondence between the Patriarch Justinian Marina and Fr. Andrei Scrima intercepted by the communist authorities between 1957 and 1960. The correspondence consists of a telegram sent by the head of the Orthodox Church, asking the young monk to visit him in a hospital in Zurich, and two letters sent by Scrima from Benares, asking for a scholarship. The documents are important not only for their content, but also for a potential biographical restitution or for some secondary aspects and they could be a worthwhile source for a reconstruction of Fr. Scrima’s biography.

Inter-Texting Cultures during Pandemic(s): A Pragmatic Approach and Beyond

Inter-Texting Cultures during Pandemic(s): A Pragmatic Approach and Beyond

Author(s): Daniela Șorcaru / Language(s): English / Issue: 10/2020

Keywords: pragmatics; context; communication; change;adaptability;

Pandemics are characteristic of both The Roaring 20s, with 1920 being the aftermath of the Spanish flu, and 2020s being the onset of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic. In such a case, pragmatics (along socio- and psycho-linguistics, discourse analysis, behavioural and mass psychology, and NLP only in the latter ‘20s) is changing as we speak (literally!), forcing us to either adapt or no longer be an active participant in a speech event. We are granted a rare, even if unfortunate, opportunity to witness change in the very fabric of speech acts. Both the linguistic (or the verbal) and the extra-linguistic (or the nonverbal) are now facing tremendous pressure from people living in isolation and from restrictions imposed by authorities, which have resulted in extensive changes in context and in the entire process of communication. Yet, the pandemic has proved, without a shadow of a doubt, that people crave human interaction and they need to inter-text their cultures, their beliefs, their realities, and ultimately themselves to (the) others, in a struggle to avoid alienation and anxiety, to avoid becoming ‘the other.’ Hence, both in the 1920s and in the 2020s, we notice a shift from cultural intertexts to everybody inter-texting their cultures as their only means of communicating themselves.

Hamlet’s Theatre Lesson

Hamlet’s Theatre Lesson

Author(s): Antonella Cornici / Language(s): English / Issue: 30/2020

Keywords: Shakespeare; theatre; monologue; Hamlet;

Hamlet is the play that has ignited the most numerous polemics, and about the Prince of Denmark and his madness, may it be considered real or acted out, thousands of pages have been written. Hamlet is the absolute character. No other author has ever managed to create something with such a spectacular status. He is an enigma, the only one that has never given anyone the chance to fully decipher it, not one from all the people that had ever come close to it. Hamlet- the actor and the director, this is the perspective from which one will seek answers by following the text and certain unique directorial approaches. One analyzed the monologue from the second scene of the third act. In this theatre lesson, one can find guidelines on acting, but also on directing, pieces of advice that are valid today. Hamlet is one of the characters with the most monologues, pages and pages of words that cover the same dilemma – To be or not to be. One proposes to follow the acting lesson, but also the play-within-the-play scene, as they are connected from the actors’ and directors’ perspectives. The monologue presents strict guidelines for actors/directors, exemplifying them, and in the scene of the performance one can notice whether the lesson was truly efficient or not. One will follow this specific path in certain productions, considered as being unique.

The Euphemistic Value of Fixed Structures with Proper Nouns

Valoarea eufemistică a unor structuri fixe cu nume proprii

Author(s): Ioana Petrovan David / Language(s): Romanian / Issue: 1/2019

Keywords: euphemism;phraseological unit;proper name;taboo;

Thorough study of fixed structures with proper names from a semantic perspective could help us understand the way people relate to different situations in their lives and how they influence, by language, the other participants of communication. They have at their disposal / have access to several styles of speech (standard, literary, colloquial, traditional etc.). In certain contexts, speakers could add a touch of euphemism, since phraseological units – including those that denote unpleasant aspects of human existence – as complex linguistic units, have penetrated into all areas of activity, reflecting certain attitudes. Taboo represents the main source of euphemistic expression.

FAITH AND REASON IN THOMAS MERTON: THE “UNIFIED HEART” – A MONK’S SOLUTION?

FAITH AND REASON IN THOMAS MERTON: THE “UNIFIED HEART” – A MONK’S SOLUTION?

Author(s): Liana Gehl / Language(s): English / Issue: 1-2/2020

Keywords: fede e ragione; Thomas Merton; Vladimir Ghika; Jacques Maritain; Martin Buber; hasidismo; neotomismo; monachesimo; intelligenza; intuizione;

Fede e ragione in Thomas Merton: il “cuore unificato” – la soluzione di un monaco? L’articolo prende l’avvio da uno scambio di lettere tra il monaco americano Thomas Merton ed il filosofo francese Jacques Maritain sul rapporto fede-ragione. Dopo aver considerato l’approccio mertoniano, avvicinandolo ad una posizione simile riscontrata in un carteggio anteriore tra Jacques Maritain ed il Beato Vladimir Ghika (un altro corrispondente affiattato del filosofo francese), l’articolo prosegue suggerendo che per Merton il problema non consistette tanto nel conciliare i dati della scienza con i dogmi della fede, quanto nel raggiungere quell’ “unificazione del cuore” auspicata dal filosofo Martin Buber come il vero cammino dell’uomo.

Needles and Pins on the Scaffold: Francis Bacon and Giovan Battista della Porta on the Motions of the Human Soul and the Passions of the Lodestone

Needles and Pins on the Scaffold: Francis Bacon and Giovan Battista della Porta on the Motions of the Human Soul and the Passions of the Lodestone

Author(s): Sergius Kodera / Language(s): English / Issue: 1/2020

Keywords: Francis Bacon; Giovan Battista Della Porta; Magnetism; History; Early Modern Psychology; Natural Magic; Renaissance Theater;

This article discusses the powers of the lodestone for two authors, Francis Bacon and Giovan Battista della Porta, relating their observations on magnetism and human emotions to the field of learned natural magic. It investigates some of Bacon’s and Porta’s remarks on experimental work with lode- stones and the ways in which both authors translated the inexplicable powers of lodestones and magnetized iron into a series of principles that also served as a structure and explanation of human emotions (and vice versa). I suggest that at work here is not merely an anthropomorphic projection at nature, but also (and conversely) an interest in and fascination with the naturalization and mechanization of human emotions. My contribution examines passages from Bacon’s Advancement of Learning, the Novum organum, the Sylva sylvarum and his Essays; from Della Porta’s Magia naturalis (second edition 1589) and his comedy Sorella (1604). First, the insight that Bacon’s and Della Porta’s perception of magnetic movements have a strong common bias: the identification with human emotions. Both authors postulate not merely a close analogy, but a mutual convertibility between the two phenomena and with animal spirits. Second, this syn-optic approach is no one-way-street merely creating a characteristic perception of the phenomenon of magnetism: it also conditions the modes in which the human mind and emotions are perceived. Third, emotions—in particular love and hatred—are in principle as predictable as the movements of attraction and repulsion exercised by iron and lodestone.

Never ending story: the transmedia myth of Don Quijote as the product of a weakly-connected community of multimedia artists

NEVER ENDING STORY: DON QUIJOTE, UN MIT TRANSMEDIAL, PRODUSUL UNEI COMUNITĂŢI DE CREATORI (CVASI)INDEPENDENŢI

Author(s): Nicoleta Popa Blanariu,Dan Popa / Language(s): Romanian / Issue: 44/2020

Keywords: Transmedia Storytelling; myth; Don Quixote; intertextuality; coordinated entertainment experience;

Notre analyse porte sur un corpus de Transmedia Storytelling (Jenkins, 2011), constitué autour du mythe littéraire (Dabezies, 1999) de Don Quichotte. Pour l’analyse de ce corpus, on se sert d’une adaptation de la définition du mythe tel que le comprend Lévi-Strauss (1978). Plus précisément, on entend par mythe un corpus inter- et transmédiatique qui se confond avec la totalité de ses variantes disponibles sur différents supports et dans divers médias. Pour les besoins de l’analyse, on définit et l’on distingue plusieurs aspects de l’intertextualité: technologique, visuelle, algorithmique, de traduction. La définition de Jenkins (2011) envisage une « expérience unifiée » et assez bien « coordonnée » de la réception et de la création des Transmedia Storytellings. Par rapport à cette acception, on s’intéresse plutôt à des communautés des créateurs qu’on propose d’appeler faiblement « coordonnées ».

The Integrity of Moral Values in the Thought of C.S. Lewis

INTEGRITATEA VALORILOR MORALE ÎN GÂNDIREA LUI C. S. LEWIS

Author(s): Constantin Ghioancă / Language(s): Romanian / Issue: 1/2020

Keywords: faith; integrity; morality; reason; relativism; emotions; Tao; values;

Clive Staples Lewis’s reflections about the „abolition of man” – the abolition of morals and human conscience – are amazingly relevant in our contemporary culture, shaped by an ongoing moral relativism. Our aim in this paper is, therefore, to emphasize the necessity to protect the integrity of moral values. Specifically, we will describe the concept of Tao; secondly, we take notice of some of the perils which threaten the integrity of moral values and, subsequently, of human conscience itself – challenges which are even greater than in the year of 1943, when C.S. Lewis published the Abolition of Man – and finally, we will uncover a few solutions that humans can use as they pass through these challenges.

The Prayer. Structure and Universe of Discourse

Rugăciunea. Structură și univers de discurs

Author(s): Nadia Obrocea / Language(s): Romanian / Issue: 59/2021

Keywords: Eugeniu Coșeriu; prayer; structure; text; universe of discourse; text linguistics;

The prayer is a particular type of text, with a particular structure and a specific purpose. This paper aims to address the prayer from the perspective of text linguistics developed by Eugeniu Coșeriu, analyzing the textual structure of the prayer and, in particular, one of the specific mechanisms that contribute to the articulation of its meaning, i.e. the relative clause. The starting point of our approach – and its fundamental theoretical landmark – is the study of Eugeniu Coșeriu Orationis fundamenta. The Prayer as a Text, in which Eugeniu Coșeriu analyzes the prayer Our Father from the viewpoint of text linguistics as hermeneutics of the meaning (Coșeriu 2010). This paper indicates that relative clauses have a special status within the textual structure of the prayer. In terms of semantics, it can be emphasized that relative clauses have a significant role in articulating textual meaning, therefore in the intrinsic functionality of the text. The concept of the “universe of discourse”, which represents a system of meaning that grants validity and meaning (Coșeriu 2013, 69), also becomes a relevant landmark to our research.

Attempts to Reacquisition Modernity and Creative Integrity in Romanian Literature and Theater from the Middle of the ‚60s of XXth Century

ÎNCERCĂRILE DE RECUPERARE A MODERNITĂȚII ȘI INTEGRITĂȚII CREATOARE ÎN LITERATURA ȘI TEATRUL ROMÂNESC DE LA MIJLOCUL ANILOR '60 AI SECOLULUI XX

Author(s): Veronica Turcuş / Language(s): Romanian / Issue: 2/2020

Keywords: Romanian postwar culture; socialist realism; cultural pseudo- liberalization of the mid-1960s; Romanian cultural institutions;

The insertion of the Soviet models in Romanian culture after the Second World War and the imposition of socialist realism as a unique method of creation at the end of 1947 were outclassed in the mid-1960s, when an attempt was made by artists and writers to revalue modernity and creative integrity. At the literary-artistic level there is an attempt to partially recover the old cultural elite (which had survived and been marginalized in the first two decades of communism), reconnecting to the European cultural trend, the links being forcibly and unhappily broken in the postwar years. The phenomenon is noticeable at the level of Romanian journalism, literary creation (where poetry successfully overcomes the phase of militant poem, agitprop poetry, prose is emancipated from the formula of „critical realism”, class pamphlet, canon based on antinomy, drama from the bodice of proletarian works, which thematically proposed the rural world marked by the new breath of agrarian reform and collectivization or the proletarian universe, necessarily transposing everyday realities and literary criticism from the constraints of socialist realism, which promoted the absolute truth of the ideological message, imposing itself now the principle of the variety of the literary meaning, the reinterpretations of the classics exceeding the deterministic-historical criterion and the analysis of the ideology of the work), theatrical movement (which knows the phenomenon of reteatralization and internationalization), highlighting the attempts to connect the Romanian cultural process to the western European evolutions.

GENERAL INTRODUCTION ROHAULT’S CARTESIANISM

GENERAL INTRODUCTION ROHAULT’S CARTESIANISM

Author(s): Dobre Mihnea,Babeș Ovidiu,Grigore Vida,Ioana Bujor / Language(s): English / Issue: 1/2021

Keywords: philosophy; science; René Descartes; Traité de Physique.; review; Jacques Rohault;

Review of Jacques Rohault‘s preface to the Traité de Physique.

Ways of Self-Healing. Philosophical Therapies in Early Modern Germany

Ways of Self-Healing. Philosophical Therapies in Early Modern Germany

Author(s): Alessandro Nannini / Language(s): English / Issue: 13/2023

Keywords: medicina mentis; moral medicine; therapeutic logic; Baumgarten; Clauberg; Placcius; Tschirnhaus; Thomasius

In this paper, I aim to outline the impact of the medical imagery on both logics and ethics in Germany between the seventeenth and the beginning of the eighteenth century. After introducing the problem of logic as a therapy of the soul (Keckermann; Clauberg) and of moral medicine (Placcius), I will focus on the cases of Tschirnhaus and Thomasius as the main models of philosophical care for the soul in this period. The consideration of their divergent conceptions will pave the way for an examination of the controversy about whether the emendation of the soul must begin from the intellect or from the will, a controversy which took place in the first decades of the eighteenth century. This controversy, I will conclude, constitutes a highly relevant, if overlooked, background for the emergence of aesthetics as an independent branch of philosophy, which will respond to that challenge in a novel manner.