Diogenes articles from May 2005

Diogenes archives from May 2005

Introduction.
May 1, 2005... Signs and symptoms are discernible on the horizon of the post-metaphysical era which configures our late modernity. (1) They are perhaps sufficiently discreet to escape the vigilance of hegemonic humanism, the tendentious, monopolistic Truth...

Democracy, values and modes of representation.
May 1, 2005... Abstracts This paper argues that the emergence of humanistic values is not a purely modern phenomenon. If by humanism we refer to secular learning and the development of science, there were periods in the history of Islam when this was...

Alexandria, my Mediterranean.
May 1, 2005... For me the white sea is not an equivalent or symbol of mother or woman; I do not hurl myself into its billows as a man may throw himself upon the tender, welcoming bosom of his wife, or as a child curls up on its mother's lap, and its waves are...

Cultural authenticity and national identity.
May 1, 2005... Abstracts Culture is determined by a historical, that is, a temporal perspective, and by another that is atemporal, the transcendental scale of values. Diversity, within the limits of a certain harmony that embraces the whole, is an...

Utopia or utopias in the gaps: from the political to the 'domestic'.
May 1, 2005... Abstracts There is a question mark hanging over the two great markers of modern civilization in the so-called Judeo-Christian, or more accurately Semitic-western-modern tradition: monotheism is the first of these two great markers. The...

New contours of public space in Africa.
May 1, 2005... Abstracts There are several Africas; the continent does not have a single homogeneous reality. Instead we should talk of shifting territorialities. The crucial questions, when thinking about emergent humanisms, have to do with the exegesis...

Essay on the phenomenon of indifference.
May 1, 2005... Abstracts The human race is defined in relation to the search for the meaning of life, but it is human beings' search itself that constructs this meaning. As against the definition of the individual as a product of society (20th-century...

'Human, still human!'.
May 1, 2005... Abstracts For more than a century the shifts in western thought have witnessed: the death of God, the demise of political ideologies that appeared to have taken over from 'divine' values, and the solitude of the disoriented individual. The...

Postmodern liberalism as a new humanism.
May 1, 2005... Abstracts John Gray argues that the modern conception of man is common for all variants of the liberal tradition The version of liberalism which is defended in this paper cannot be called 'classical' because it refuses the conception in...

For a feeling humanism: the political emergence of the emotions.
May 1, 2005... Abstracts If the revival of humanism depends on closing the gap between differences, western and eastern perspectives on the world diverge: the first uses History as its guide and the second uses the notion of destiny. Between the logical...

For an enlargement of human rights.
May 1, 2005... Abstracts If we investigate the concept of the universality of human rights, we realize that it is limited and invalid, and that it fails because it is too utopian and unreal. It is not a question of denying that there is a generic human...

Thinking the Mediterranean arena today.
May 1, 2005... Abstracts This paper proposes a historical and anthropological re-reading of the Mediterranean arena over and above all the lines of thought and action that have directed its history, in particular since Islam's emergence as a conquering...

Towards a polycentric humanism.
May 1, 2005... The possibility of a conception of the world that might question western anthropomorphism basically began to be entertained from the second half of the 20th century, though what we could call 'the intellectual atmosphere of Romanticism' had...

Paul Ricoeur (2004), Parcours de la Renaissance--Trois Etudes.(Book Review)
May 1, 2005... Paul Ricoeur (2004), Parcours de la Renaissance--Trois Etudes, Paris, Stock, Collection 'Les Essais', 2004, 387 pp. Paul Ricoeur's latest book does not depart from the general movement of his philosophical work as he himself has understood...