La poética de lo Icárico

El presente trabajo tiene como centro fundamental el tema de la caída y su relación con la muerte y el lenguaje. Al conjunto de estos elementos hemos dado en denominar Poética de lo Icárico tomando dicho nombre del mito griego de Ícaro. El trabajo de exposición de esta poética aparece configurado en tres capítulos. En el primero se postula un plano para la génesis y el concepto de lo icárico a partir de los tres héroes míticos de la caída: Ícaro, Lucifer y Cristo; el objetivo aquí es identificar y desarrollar los elementos que estructuran esta poética. El segundo capítulo avanza hacia la manifestación de lo icárico en la modernidad, principalmente en autores como Charles Baudelaire, Friedrich Nietzsche, pero, sobre todo, a partir de Baudelaire se analiza una cuarta encarnación del héroe mítico de lo icárico en la figura del poeta moderno; la presencia de Nietzsche está directamente relacionada con la crítica y desmonte de este héroe tal y como llega a Baudelaire, desde el espacio del mito, pero así mismo son importante autores como Lewis Carroll y Carlos Castaneda, quienes preludian ya el desarrollo de la relación de la caída con el lenguaje. La plenitud de este desarrollo se lleva a cabo en el tercer capítulo con el análisis del poema Altazor, del poeta chileno Vicente Huidobro. La tesis que sustenta este capítulo y culmina el trabajo de exposición, plantea el poema de Huidobro como la puesta en plenitud de la poética de lo icárico que se resuelve precisamente en el momento en que Huidobro logra que la caída funcione dentro del poema como su esencia misma, en la medida en que lo determina o determina de manera absoluta el lenguaje con el cual está escrito, y, de este modo, con Huidobro, la relación inicial entre la caída, la muerte y el lenguaje termina siendo la totalidad misma de un poema que, en cuanto a lo icárico, abre para la poesía hispanoamericana nuevas posibilidades de lo poético.

La representación indígena en la obra Cuatro años entre los ecuatorianos de Friedrich Hassaurek

La clasificación de Carl Linnaeus en el siglo XVIII y la creación de los polos fuertes y débiles de las oposiciones binarias han logrado etiquetar al mundo entero. Bajo el pretexto de salvar al mundo de la barbarie, el proyecto hegemónico europeo ha podido dibujar la línea divisoria entre la oposición binaria centro y periferia. El civilizado del centro o el sujeto de conocimiento se ha dedicado a la labor de remediar todas las enfermedades causadas por el objeto de conocimiento o los bárbaros de la periferia. Al establecer el conocimiento científico como el único saber, el discurso hegemónico ha ganado el derecho de prescribir el recetario para eliminar la alteridad del bárbaro. Sin embargo, la presencia del bárbaro es necesaria para definir quién es el civilizado, motivo por el cual no sería factible que desaparezca por completo el otro. La literatura de viaje es uno de los portavoces más importantes para el plan hegemónico porque la alteridad de la periferia puede ser visiblemientras el civilizado del centro sirve como su ventrílocuo. Un ejemplo de este género: Cuatro años entre los ecuatorianos, escrito por Friedrich Hassaurek en el siglo XIX sobre sus experiencias durante el período que sirvió como embajador en Ecuador, manifiesta un dilema entre la protección de los intereses de su gobierno y su propia curiosidad acerca de los aspectos etnográficos e históricos ecuatorianos. Por lo tanto, el propósito de este trabajo es identificar y analizar las razones por las cuales Hassaurek cambió de una retórica de la vanguardia capitalista y la misión civilizadora (el sujeto de conocimiento) a una de la anticonquista: la mística de la reciprocidad (el objeto de conocimiento). Se propone vincular el proyecto hegemónico occidental con el género de la literatura de viaje cuya labor ha sido el vehículo de la imposición de la epistemología europea. La representación indígena en el libro de Hassaurek es una pieza del rompecabezas del proyecto hegemónico occidental que busca nombrar al otro (la periferia) para definir quién es el yo (el centro).

Winckelmann in the perspective of Altertumswissenschaft: Christian Gottlob Heyne and Friedrich August Wolf

Winckelmann's writings hold an interest for modern classical studies which is not restricted to the subfield of classical archaeology. Considered in terms of methodology, his writings dramatise problems and questions which attend any attempt to provide a comprehensive account of ancient culture and society. The Geschichte der Kunst des Alterthums provided an influential model of what such a reconstruction might look like in a period when classical philology was undergoing a significant reconfiguration as „Alterthums-Wissenschaft" at the hands of scholars such as Christian Gottlob Heyne and Friedrich August Wolf. Investigation of their critical responses to Winckelmann’s works aims to contribute to understanding both of the early reception of his works and of questions which are still relevant today. Im Rahmen der modernen Altertumswissenschaften kommt den Werken Winckelmanns eine Bedeutung zu, die nicht auf den Bereich der Klassischen Archäologie beschränkt ist. Methodologisch betrachtet, dramatisieren seine Schriften Probleme und Fragen, die jedem Versuch einer umfassenden, erklärenden Rekonstruktion der antiken Kultur und Gesellschaft zugrunde liegen. Die Geschichte der Kunst des Alterthums hat ein einflussreiches Modell dafür geliefert, was eine solche Rekonstruktion in einer Zeit leisten konnte, in der die klassische Philologie einer erheblichen Umstrukturierung als „Alterthums-Wissenschaft“ durch Gelehrte wie Christian Gottlob Heyne und Friedrich August Wolf unterzogen wurde. Die vorliegende Untersuchung ihrer kritischen Reaktionen auf Winckelmanns Schriften soll dazu beitragen, sowohl die frühe Rezeption seines Werkes als auch Fragestellungen, die heute noch aktuell sind, besser zu verstehen.

Stranger in a Strange Land: The struggle for cultural and personal identity in Haruki Murakami's Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World

In order to explicate Murakami's version of the official culture, I have analyzed the novel with the works of several different theorists. Primarily, I drew my own understanding of the official culture from Raymond Williams's examination of culture in Marxism and Literature. His terminology became helpful in writing about the operation of the System and the Town, though it did not define that operation precisely. Williams's work also introduced me to the theory behind the official culture's manipulation and exclusion of historical aspects in order to create their "official" version of history, from which the official culture draws its identity. For further analysis of the treatment of history, I turned to Friedrich Nietzsche's On the Advantage and Disadvantage of History for Life. Though it examines the official culture's manipulation of history in a much more in-depth manner, it seems to have influenced Murakami's treatment of individual memories and cultural histories. For instance, the herd ofunicoms in the End of the World resembles Nietzsche's description of the ''unhistorical herd," or has the potential to resemble it. With these theories I was able to access the mechanisms of cultural control that Murakami depicts in the form of the System and the Town, and from there I was able to develop a model for how the narrator struggles to subvert that control. Both sides of that struggle are depicted and re-imagined many times throughout Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World.

Além da Mediocridade

“E se um dia ou uma noite um demônio se esgueirasse em tua mais solitária solidão e te dissesse: ‘Esta vida, assim como tu vives agora e como a viveste, terás de vivê-la ainda uma vez e ainda inúmeras vezes...’” Friedrich Nietzsche

Da crise do estado à democracia como alvo: Observações sobre o neoliberalismo a partir de Friedrich Hayek e Milton Friedman

The neoliberalism proclaims the crisis of the State in front of globalization , but, approaching two books taken as basic on this theoretical chain - The road to serfdom, of Friedrich Hayek, and Capitalism and Freedom, of Milton Friedman - to analyze this supposed dualism, the conclusion into which we arrive is another one. Remembering liberal tradition and quickly, later, analyzing critically the workmanships, can be perceived that others are the conflicts really gifts in the current capitalist reality - market versus State et capitalism versus democracy - and, from the understanding on the reading made and the theoretical trajectory of its authors, we may see as the neoliberalism locates itself in relation to these conflicts, which polar regions of these antagonisms privileges, what represents the State for itself, and what it intends as much more global philosophy than economic/politics thinking only

Max Stirner, o único e o que lhe é próprio: uma interpretação e(m) algun(s) ensaio(s)

This work has a study object the main thinking work of Johan Kaspar Schmidt well known as Max Stirner (1806-1856) - originally titled (in German), Der Einzige und sein Eigentun, and translated into Portuguese by the Portuguese publisher Antígona in 2004, under the title The Unique and its Ownership. This book was known in 1844 although its publication dated 1845 seen that the censor of that time rejected the publication request in that year - saying that ( ) in concrete passages of that work, not only God, Christ, the church and the religion are usually object of proposal blasphemy, but also because all social order, the state and the government are defined as something that should not exist simultaneously as one justifies the lie, perjury, the murder and suicide and denies the ownership right. After this first attack and rejection by its bearing the unique come to be others target, due practically to all the philosophical political thinkers its time including thinkers like Ludwig Feuerbach and Karl Marx & Friedrich Engels in spite of, on the other hand, having inspired formulations and reformulations of many of those thinkers that were against then in their times, as well as those thinkers that came after then such as Nietzsche himself. Even though this work was be victim of powerful attempts of erasing it of history, it has shown a great repercussion power and that is the main reason that led us to ask the following questions what is its big originality? , how could his author arrive at a so impactant perspective? What is its most legitimate political place? We endeavored in elaborate answers to those questions trough the exegesis of its text, taking in account both the scholarship environment where the author produced his intellectual life set - and the detailed reading of texts linked to discussion in focus, where this reading is always based upon the meaning and senses traced by the texts and its contexts as a precaution against the limits and the traps of the readings which shed light markedly on strict letter of the phrases constructs. Ours conclusions point at to the idea that a work like this , that subverts the characteristic ways of thought of the modernity, completely, continues being a utter odds, without rank in the history of thought and the moderns political practices, finding parallel possibility only, in a very special way, with a certain autharchic perspective of Ancient Greece

Augusto Matraga: um hérói além do bem e do mal - uma perpectiva trágico-ntológica

The present dissertation analyses the philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) and the short story written by João Guimarães Rosa (1908-1967), A hora e vez de Augusto Matraga (1946) seeking to point out the possibility of the philosophic application of some Nietzschean ideas to enlarge the aesthetic value of the short story. It has been especially aimed at applying the concept of the noble superior being described by Nietzsche, the ubermensch, to the hero s ontological nature, Augusto Matraga. Nietzsche s postulates of the will to power, the elements suggested of the trial between Dionysus and Apollo and the ascetic ideal, will be especially relevant to this work, which intends to establish until what point the hero can be conceived as a good ascetic person, in so far as his noble ontological nature trespass the Christian morality, bringing him closer to the man who, according to Nietzsche, is beyond good and evil. Some Heideggerian concepts will also be relevant in order to reinforce the idea that the judgment created about Matraga is just an appearance that does not contemplate his essential Being, contributing to veil his real tragic-ontological valour, what implies that the aesthetic power of the short has been under valued