Aristóteles sobre la República

Dice el autor: “Por sobre las dificultades para dar una definición plenamente compartida y satisfactoria de reflexión, la noción que propiciamos aquí (…) especialmente para efectos de indagación e intervención en teorías subjetivas, incluye entre sus notas esenciales, considerarla: un proceso de examen, por lo mismo, de carácter dinámico; que involucra aspectos cognitivos y afectivos, lo que se relaciona con el significado subjetivo e intersubjetivo de las teorías subjetivas; que es producido por un agente desencadenante, responsabilidad que recae en el indagador, él mismo como ...

The Greeks did not think of madness as pathological, but instead as a divine possession, a type of knowledge and the possibility of happiness. The title essay in this book unveils the source of the most primal possession, the erotic one, caused by nymphs whose sudden and delirious rapture makes prisoners of men. For Calasso, possession is not exclusive to the ancient world, and, beyond the erotic, it is a perennial phenomenon that is experienced during life’s most basic and commonplace moments. Aby Warburg’s delirium for the nymph of Ghirlandaio, Humbert Humbert’s for Lolita in...

In this essay, Byung-Chul Han rereads Heidegger in all his stages as the vindication of a friendly world. The heart, according to Hölderlin's accurate clarification, is the organ that permanently makes the blood flow and ebb, disengage and reencounter in assimilations and emissions, in appropriations and alienations, those currents of life that are the blood flows channeled through arteries and veins. Already in Heidegger's terminology, the heart would be a metaphor for that intersection of closeness and distance in which dissonances are temporarily made to harmonize to make them pleasant:...

Recoge: Los procesos de modernización; Crisis del comunismo y crisis de la razón ilustrada; El regreso de lo desplazado; Hacia una "nueva comunidad"