Volume 67 (2012), 8

The article deals with Adorno’s intention to create a new modified concept of dialectics, i. e. negative dialectics. It concentrates on the model analysis, or rather the models of negative dialectics as developed by Adorno in his Negative Dialectics (1966). While Adorno’s antisystem does retain some of the most salient features of the traditional system such as… Read more

This text ventures into the research of the death or birth of a new metaphysics on the basis of a critical explanation and a new interpretation of the philosophy of Martin Heidegger and Emmanuel Lévinas, especially from the perspective of a critical response to the rational metaphysics and its historical structure. Thus it confronts two philosophical approaches… Read more

The article deals with the logic of comedy and its inherent connection with the “functioning” of love (or better “the love which does work”). The comical along with laughter is a Nietzschean theme par excellence; love, on its turn, the most “tangible” figure of duality. Here “two” does not represent a pair or two people; it is a figure which resolves the antinomy… Read more

The paper takes as its starting point the category of the Other which has deeply marked the contemporary philosophy, although in very different ways. The red thread is the category of the Other in psychoanalysis, where already Freud spoke of the unconscious as “the other scene”, and Lacan emphatically proposed formulas like “the unconscious is the discourse of the… Read more

The fragment from the author’s book offers one possible approach to the phenomenon of violence from the perspective of the difference between the Neighbor and Thing. The fear is nowadays the essential component of subjectivity. By postulating the immeasurable Other as the Neighbor Lévinas tries to approach the problem of the radical alien of the Other. The radical… Read more

The article tackles the distinction between multiculturalism and interculturality, which evinces a phenomenological relevance as far as it concerns the investigation of the world hood of the world. The first problem arising is that of gaining phenomenological evidence of such distinction. It is necessary to take into account the historical relationship between… Read more

The existential dialectics of decision goes back to the Aristotelian concept of motion as a change meaning the free originating. Kierkegaard rejects the Hegelian dialectics of Aufhebung which dissolves the disjunction of possibility and reality, dissolving thereby also freedom. According to Kierkegaard the essential decision embodies willing the impossible.… Read more