Volume 53 (1998), 10

The paper discusses W. James' non-cartesian model of philosophy. This model is based on rejection of any substantialism and on James' belief, that the reality is created by our knowing and that our objective is to effect the reality actively. In this perspective James' pragmatism is first of all a method of resolving metaphysical disputes, or a non-correspondence… Read more

The geometrical principles of perspective have been thoroughly analysed and well understood. Nevertheless it is strange, that also the question of the relationship between painting and geometry is thus considered to be exhausted. The aim of the paper is to push the study of the analogies between painting and geometry further, through mannerism to baroque. Its… Read more

The author (she) presents the Generation 98 as the first generation of modem Spanish intellectuals, which, after the collapse of the Spanish colonial politics, were the first to reflect on the crisis critically, in the broader cultural - philosophical context of the "fin de siécle". On the other hand, she points out, that they were genetically linked with the so… Read more