Download or read book Colecci n del Nuevo Humanismo Posici n y propuestas del Nuevo Humanismo ante la actual crisis civilizatoria written by Salvatore Puledda and published by Virtual Ediciones. This book was released on 2023-07-11 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Esta es una selección de discursos e intervenciones de Salvatore Puledda en conferencias internacionales, los cuales tienen por objeto aclarar los orígenes y las ideas fundamentales del Nuevo Humanismo. Realizando un recorrido histórico y estudiando las diversas corrientes que se han presentado como “humanistas”, aclara su fundamento, precisando como en su base se encuentran diferentes concepciones y definiciones del ser humano. Finalmente concluye con la del Nuevo Humanismo Universalista, que la encuadra en la línea del desarrollo del pensamiento del Novecientos alternativa al naturalismo: la línea de la fenomenología y del existencialismo que va de Husserl y Heidegger a Sartre. Define, según palabras del pensador Mario Luis Rodríguez Cobos (Silo, 1938-2010), que: “...la conciencia humana no es un "reflejo" pasivo o deformado del mundo natural, ni un contenedor de "hechos síquicos" existentes en sí mismos. La conciencia humana "trasciende" el mundo natural, es decir, constituye un fenómeno radicalmente diferente de éste. Ella es actividad intencional, actividad incesante de interpretación y reconstrucción del mundo. Por consiguiente, la conciencia es fundamentalmente poder-ser, es futuro, superación de lo que el presente nos entrega como "hecho". En esta reconstrucción del mundo externo y en este salto hacia el futuro reside la libertad constitutiva de la conciencia: libertad entre condicionamientos, sometida sí a la presión del pasado, pero, de todas formas, libertad. En cambio, para la interpretación naturalista, la conciencia humana es esencialmente pasiva y está anclada al pasado: es reflejo del mundo externo y su futuro es actualización determinista del pasado. Esta interpretación, si quiere ser coherente, no deja espacio alguno para la libertad humana” Las conferencias que acá presentamos ―realizadas entre enero de 1989 y enero del 2.000― fueron dictadas en varias instituciones y universidades, entre las que destacan la Universidad “La Sapienza” de Roma, Italia; la Universidad de Berkeley en California, Estados Unidos; la Universidad Nacional de Costa Rica; la Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia de Madrid, España; la Universidad “La Sorbonne” de París, Francia y la Universidad de Hunter en Nueva York, Estados Unidos.
Download or read book Colecci n del Nuevo Humanismo Interpretaciones del Humanismo written by Salvatore Puledda and published by Virtual Ediciones. This book was released on 2020-04-20 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Interpretaciones del Humanismo es un estudio referido a los distintos modos en que el concepto de humanismo ha sido entendido en Occidente a partir del Renacimiento. No se trata de un estudio histórico-filosófico de tipo académico sino de un intentento por reconstruir, en un lenguaje lo mas simple posible, las imágenes del ser humano que se han impuesto en nuestra civilización, así como las principales ideas sobre "naturaleza" o "esencia" humana. El libro describe en primer lugar la concepción del ser humano desarrollada en el Renacimiento y luego, aquellas que han ido presentando las corrientes filośoficas de nuestro siglo –de inspiración marxista, cristiana y existencialista– y que se declararon humanistas. El siglo XX, efectivamente, presencia humanismos conflictivos, ideas contrastantes sobre "naturaleza" humana, que tuvieron fuerte influencia en la esfera política. En el texto resuenan los ecos del gran debate sobre el humanismo que a fines de los años cuarenta involucró a personalidades de la estatura de Sartre y Heidegger, así como la polémica sobre el valor histórico del humanismo que propusieron durante los años setenta los estructuralistas y M. Foucault. El libro presenta también una descripción de de las nuevas concepciones filosóficas o políticas que han surgido en los últimos años, inscritas en el ámbito del humanismo. Entre ellas destaca la Perestroika puesta en marcha por el grupo dirigente soviético guiado por Mihail Gorbahöv y el Nuevo Humanismo fundado en los años sesenta por el pensador argentino Mario Rodríguez Cobos, conocido con el nombre de Silo. El libro comienza con un prólogo escrito por M. Gorbachöv "Una precondición para la sobrevivencia", en el cual el ex-presidente de la URSS plantea la necesidad de una "revolución humanista" para superar los tremendos peligros que amenazan a la humanidad y construir una nueva civilización planetaria que tenga como valor central al ser humano.
Download or read book Colecci n del Nuevo Humanismo Diccionario del Nuevo Humanismo written by Silo and published by Virtual Ediciones. This book was released on 2021-06-10 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Este trabajo publicado en 1994 bajo el título de “Algunos términos de uso frecuente en el Humanismo”, fue ampliado considerablemente dándose a la imprenta en 1997 como “Diccionario del Nuevo Humanismo”. Para la inclusión en estas Obras Completas se han introducido algunas modificaciones de extensión sobre las ediciones más recientes de 1999. Las palabras que se exponen en esta obra no provienen de los amplios campos de la cultura sino, mayoritariamente, de la Politicología y de la Sociología. Por otra parte, no se han recogido vocablos excesivamente técnicos aparecidos en diferentes producciones del Humanismo. Según el autor, “en este diccionario, realizado con el aporte de selectos colaboradores, no se ha logrado balancear el humanismo occidental con otras formas de humanismo, igualmente ricas, que se encuentran en las diversas culturas. Esa insuficiencia podrá ser superada cuando se encare la tarea de producir una enciclopedia con la extensión que requiere el humanismo universalista”.
Download or read book Colecci n del Nuevo Humanismo Contribuciones al pensamiento written by Silo and published by Virtual Ediciones. This book was released on 2014-12-01 with total page 109 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contribuciones al pensamiento consta de dos ensayos. El primero de ellos, Psicología de la imagen, fue escrito en 1988 y el segundo, Discusiones historiológicas, se concluyó en 1989. Aunque referidas a campos distintos estas dos producciones guardan entre sí muy estrecha relación y, en algún sentido, se esclarecen mutuamente. Es por ello que su publicación, bajo el título abarcante de Contribuciones al pensamiento, parece del todo adecuada. Los enfoques de Psicología de la imagen y de Discusiones historiológicas son característicos de la reflexión filosófica y no nacen de la entraña misma de la Psicología ni de la Historiografía. Sin embargo, ambos trabajos se dirigen a las mentadas disciplinas de modo fundamentante. En Psicología de la imagen se expone una novedosa teoría sobre lo que el autor llama “espacio de representación ”, “espacio” que surge al evidenciarse los objetos de representación (no simplemente de percepción ) y sin el cual no puede entenderse cómo es que la conciencia puede dirigirse a y distinguir entre los llamados “mundo externo” y “mundo interno”. Por otra parte, si la percepción da al perceptor cuenta de los fenómenos ¿en qué lugar éste se ubica respecto a aquéllos?, porque si se dijera que se ubica a sí mismo en la espacialidad externa, acorde con la externidad del fenómeno percibido, ¿cómo es que puede mover el cuerpo “desde adentro” guiándolo en esa externidad? Mediante la percepción puede explicarse el advenimiento del dato a la conciencia pero no se puede, por aquélla, justificar el movimiento que la conciencia imprime al cuerpo. ¿Puede el cuerpo actuar en el mundo externo si no existe una representación de ambos términos? Obviamente no. Esa representación, por tanto, ha de darse en algún “lugar” de la conciencia. Pero, ¿en qué sentido se puede hablar de “lugar”, o “color”, o “extensión” en la conciencia? Estas son algunas de las dificultades que se abordan exitosamente en el presente ensayo cuyo objetivo ha sido sostener las siguientes tesis: a) La imagen es un modo activo de estar la conciencia en el mundo y no simple pasividad como han sustentado las teorías anteriores; b) Ese modo activo no puede ser independiente de una “espacialidad” interna; y c) Las numerosas funciones con que cumple la imagen dependen de la posición que ésta asume en aquella “espacialidad”. En Discusiones historiológicas se pasa revista a las distintas concepciones que el autor engloba bajo la designación de “Historia sin temporalidad”. Pero ¿por qué es que se ha dado cuenta, hasta hoy, de la historia humana considerando al hombre como epifenómeno o simple polea de transmisión en la que cumple con la función de paciente de factores extrínsecos? ¿Qué ha motivado la falta de explicación suficiente sobre la temporalidad y de qué naturaleza es ésta? El autor explica que la Historiología sólo devendrá en ciencia en la medida en que pueda responder a esas preguntas y aclare los pre-requisitos necesarios a todo discurso histórico, a saber: ¿de qué historicidad y de qué temporalidad estamos hablando?
Download or read book The Colonial System Unveiled written by Baron de Vastey and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016-01-25 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first translation into English of 'Le Système colonial dévoilé', the first systematic critique of colonialism ever written from the perspective of a colonized subject.
Download or read book Baron de Vastey and the Origins of Black Atlantic Humanism written by Marlene L. Daut and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-10-31 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on the influential life and works of the Haitian political writer and statesman, Baron de Vastey (1781-1820), in this book Marlene L. Daut examines the legacy of Vastey’s extensive writings as a form of what she calls black Atlantic humanism, a discourse devoted to attacking the enlightenment foundations of colonialism. Daut argues that Vastey, the most important secretary of Haiti’s King Henry Christophe, was a pioneer in a tradition of deconstructing colonial racism and colonial slavery that is much more closely associated with twentieth-century writers like W.E.B. Du Bois, Frantz Fanon, and Aimé Césaire. By expertly forging exciting new historical and theoretical connections among Vastey and these later twentieth-century writers, as well as eighteenth- and nineteenth-century black Atlantic authors, such as Phillis Wheatley, Olaudah Equiano, William Wells Brown, and Harriet Jacobs, Daut proves that any understanding of the genesis of Afro-diasporic thought must include Haiti’s Baron de Vastey.
Download or read book The Future of Development written by Gustavo Esteva and published by Policy Press. This book was released on 2013-10-09 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On January 20, 1949 US President Harry S. Truman officially opened the era of development. On that day, over one half of the people of the world were defined as "underdeveloped" and they have stayed that way ever since. This book explains the origins of development and underdevelopment and shows how poorly we understand these two terms. It offers a new vision for development, demystifying the statistics that international organizations use to measure development and introducing the alternative concept of buen vivir: the state of living well. The authors argue that it is possible for everyone on the planet to live well, but only if we learn to live as communities rather than as individuals and to nurture our respective commons. Scholars and students of global development studies are well-aware that development is a difficult concept. This thought-provoking book offers them advice for the future of development studies and hope for the future of humankind.
Download or read book Paradises written by Iosi Havilio and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A young mother learns to survive among the snakes, sleaze, and slums of Buenos Aires.
Download or read book Protest and Democracy written by Moises Arce and published by . This book was released on 2019-06-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 2011, political protests sprang up across the world. In the Middle East, Europe, Latin America, the United States unlikely people sparked or led massive protest campaigns from the Arab Spring to Occupy Wall Street. These protests were made up of educated and precariously employed young people who challenged the legitimacy of their political leaders, exposed a failure of representation, and expressed their dissatisfaction with their place in the aftermath of financial and economic crisis. This book interrogates what impacts--if any--this global protest cycle had on politics and policy and shows the sometimes unintended ways it continues to influence contemporary political dynamics throughout the world. Proposing a new framework of analysis that calls attention to the content and claims of protests, their global connections, and the responsiveness of political institutions to protest demands, this is one of the few books that not only asks how protest movements are formed but also provides an in-depth examination of what protest movements can accomplish. With contributions examining the political consequences of protest, the roles of social media and the internet in protest organization, left- and right-wing movements in the United States, Chile's student movements, the Arab Uprisings, and much more this collection is essential reading for all those interested in the power of protest to shape our world.
Download or read book Epistemologies of the South written by Boaventura de Sousa Santos and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-11-17 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the concept of 'cognitive injustice': the failure to recognise the different ways of knowing by which people across the globe run their lives and provide meaning to their existence. Boaventura de Sousa Santos shows why global social justice is not possible without global cognitive justice. Santos argues that Western domination has profoundly marginalised knowledge and wisdom that had been in existence in the global South. She contends that today it is imperative to recover and valorize the epistemological diversity of the world. Epistemologies of the South outlines a new kind of bottom-up cosmopolitanism, in which conviviality, solidarity and life triumph against the logic of market-ridden greed and individualism.
Download or read book The Imperial Mode of Living written by Ulrich Brand and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2021-01-26 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Our Unsustainable Life: Why We Can't Have Everything We Want With the concept of the Imperial Mode of Living, Brand and Wissen highlight the fact that capitalism implies uneven development as well as a constant and accelerating universalisation of a Western mode of production and living. The logic of liberal markets since the 19thCentury, and especially since World War II, has been inscribed into everyday practices that are usually unconsciously reproduced. The authors show that they are a main driver of the ecological crisis and economic and political instability. The Imperial Mode of Living implies that people's everyday practices, including individual and societal orientations, as well as identities, rely heavily on the unlimited appropriation of resources; a disproportionate claim on global and local ecosystems and sinks; and cheap labour from elsewhere. This availability of commodities is largely organised through the world market, backed by military force and/or the asymmetric relations of forces as they have been inscribed in international institutions. Moreover, the Imperial Mode of Living implies asymmetrical social relations along class, gender and race within the respective countries. Here too, it is driven by the capitalist accumulation imperative, growth-oriented state policies and status consumption. The concrete production conditions of commodities are rendered invisible in the places where the commodities are consumed. The imperialist world order is normalized through the mode of production and living.
Download or read book Surface Encounters written by Ron Broglio and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Developing a phenomenology of the animal other through contemporary art
Download or read book Practising Feminist Political Ecologies written by Wendy Harcourt and published by Zed Books Ltd.. This book was released on 2015-05-14 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Destined to transform its field, this volume features some of the most exciting feminist scholars and activists working within feminist political ecology, including Giovanna Di Chiro, Dianne Rocheleau, Catherine Walsh and Christa Wichterich. Offering a collective critique of the ‘green economy’, it features the latest analyses of the post-Rio+20 debates alongside a nuanced reading of the impact of the current ecological and economic crises on women as well as their communities and ecologies. This new, politically timely and engaging text puts feminist political ecology back on the map.
Download or read book Biopoetics written by Brett Cooke and published by Paragon House Publishers. This book was released on 1999-04 with total page 526 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book New Perspectives on Environmental Justice written by Rachel Stein and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Women make up the vast majority of activists and organizers of grassroots movements fighting against environmental ills that threaten poor and people of color communities. [This] collection of essays ... pays tribute to the ... contributions women have made in these endeavors. The writers offer varied examples of environmental justice issues such as children's environmental-health campaigns, cancer research, AIDS/HIV activism, the Environmental Genome Project, and popular culture, among many others. Each one focuses on gender and sexuality as crucial factors in women's or gay men's activism and applies environmental justice principles to related struggles for sexual justice. Drawing on a wide variety of disciplinary perspectives, the contributors offer multiple vantage points on gender, sexuality, and activism.-Back cover.
Download or read book Artist Animal written by Steve Baker and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2013-02-27 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Animals have always been compelling subjects for artists, but the rise of animal advocacy and posthumanist thought has prompted a reconsideration of the relationship between artist and animal. In this book, Steve Baker examines the work of contemporary artists who directly confront questions of animal life, treating animals not for their aesthetic qualities or as symbols of the human condition but rather as beings who actively share the world with humanity. The concerns of the artists presented in this book—Sue Coe, Eduardo Kac, Lucy Kimbell, Catherine Chalmers, Olly and Suzi, Angela Singer, Catherine Bell, and others—range widely, from the ecological to the philosophical and from those engaging with the modification of animal bodies to those seeking to further the cause of animal rights. Drawing on extensive interviews he conducted with the artists under consideration, Baker explores the vital contribution that contemporary art can make to a broader conception of animal life, emphasizing the importance of creativity and trust in both the making and understanding of these artworks. Throughout, Baker is attentive to issues of practice, form, and medium. He asks, for example, whether the animal itself could be said to be the medium in which these artists are working, and he highlights the tensions between creative practice and certain kinds of ethical demands or expectations. Featuring full-color, vivid examples of their work, Artist Animal situates contemporary artists within the wider project of thinking beyond the human, asserting art’s power to open up new ways of thinking about animals.
Download or read book Beasts of the Modern Imagination written by Margot Norris and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2019-12-01 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1985. Beasts of the Modern Imagination explores a specific tradition in modern thought and art: the critique of anthropocentrism at the hands of "beasts"—writers whose works constitute animal gestures or acts of fatality. It is not a study of animal imagery, although the works that Margot Norris explores present us with apes, horses, bulls, and mice who appear in the foreground of fiction, not as the tropes of allegory or fable, but as narrators and protagonists appropriating their animality amid an anthropocentric universe. These beasts are finally the masks of the human animals who create them, and the textual strategies that bring them into being constitute another version of their struggle. The focus of this study is a small group of thinkers, writers, and artists who create as the animal—not like the animal, in imitation of the animal—but with their animality speaking. The author treats Charles Darwin as the founder of this tradition, as the naturalist whose shattering conclusions inevitably turned back on him and subordinated him, the rational man, to the very Nature he studied. Friedrich Nietzsche heeded the advice implicit in his criticism of David Strauss and used Darwinian ideas as critical tools to interrogate the status of man as a natural being. He also responded to the implications of his own animality for his writing by transforming his work into bestial acts and gestures. The third, and last, generation of these creative animals includes Franz Kafka, the Surrealist artist Max Ernst, and D. H. Lawrence. In exploring these modern philosophers of the animal and its instinctual life, the author inevitably rebiologizes them even against efforts to debiologize thinkers whose works can be studied profitably for their models of signification.
