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ABSTRACTThe traditional problem of the antinomy between human freedom and the determinism suggested by science is a false problem that calls not for solution but for dissolution. This antinomy rests on a double mystification, which concerns both of the traditionnally contrasted terms: a mystification with respect to “determinism”, and a mystification with respect to “freedom”.
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AbstractThe long lasting interest which Edmund Husserl has taken in William James' work in spite of their very different philosophical projects can be explained by two significant features which place James' psychology in the continuation of Franz Brentano's and even confer it some superiority compared to the latter. These features are on the one hand James's ability to combine analyses of descriptive psychology with explanations of neurophysiology and on the other hand James' ability to study the dynamic nature of the stream of consciousness as well as the intentional structure arising from this stream. Furthermore, far from condemning him to psychologism, both these features of James' thought take their roots in a very strong criticism of the « psychologist's fallacy » made in the associationist school, criticism which impressed Husserl deeply.
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AbstractTo begin with, some of the ideological and political issues concerning the so called "feminist view" on the history of philosophy are brought forth. The ontological problem of the fundamental relationship between Logos and Eros is then analyzed, such as it occurs in the philosophical discourse of the beginnings. Finally, for a more dialectical approach than the traditional "feminist view", a metaphorical androgynous view is suggested — with one's tongue in one's cheek ! — as an alternative thesis.
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AbstractThe Iranian filmmaker Mohsen Makhmalbaf's film Kandahar (2001), a sort of intercultural road movie, is built around journeys, cultural encounters and the dual identity of the character Nafas. Taking as its starting point the search for a sister who needs to be saved in Kandahar, the film uses travel narration as an expedient to lead the viewer through the nooks and crannies of the Taliban's Afghanistan. On this road of cleavages between Afghan men and women, Nafas is constantly raising and lowering her veil, or burka, giving rise to questions about the act of unveiling in both the strict sense of the term—removing the burka—and the figurative—revealing Afghans'living conditions to the world. This gesture of unveiling is the symbol of a freedom that is contrasted with the canons of religious fundamentalism.
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A man's character is, as Heraclitus once observed, his destiny. Similarly, Frank Zappa noted that "You are what you is". In nomine Zappa, Zappatore proposes a philological as well as iconographic deconstruction of the Italian name/mask (persona), Zappa. The essay suggests that not only is a man's character his daimon but that, moreover, FZ was both an assiduous and subversive artistic worker.