W stronę radykalnego pluralizmu religijnego

Książka stanowi poszerzoną i uzupełnioną wersję pracy magisterskiej, napisanej pod kierunkiem prof. Tadeusza Buksińskiego w Instytucie Filozofii im. Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu.

A interpretação de Copenhague e os estados relativos de Hugh Everett III : o problema do realismo científico

Dissertação (mestrado)—Universidade de Brasília,Instituto de Ciências Humanas, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Filosofia, 2015.

Indícios no insólito : Avalovara através do espelho

Tese (doutorado)—Universidade de Brasília, Instituto de Letras, Departamento de Teoria Literária e Literatura, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Literatura, 2015.

O cinema de Ray Harryhausen: efeitos especiais e maneirismo no cinema de Hollywood

Através de uma análise histórico-formal, este trabalho propõe uma leitura maneirista da obra de Ray Harryhausen (1920-2013), um dos maiores criadores de efeitos especiais do cinema de Hollywood, verdadeiro autor de uma série de filmes que se distinguem pelo uso virtuoso da técnica, colocada ao serviço de narrativas fantásticas, construídas numa clara referencia a grandes clássicos do cinema de Hollywood.

A atividade física, o stress e o estilo de vida na Polícia de Segurança Pública

A atividade física sempre que praticada conscientemente é um meio benéfico para qualquer indivíduo na promoção da sua saúde e do seu bem estar físico (Livro Verde da Atividade Física, 2011). Esta pode ser praticada independentemente da sua idade, género, saúde ou mesma da sua situação económica. Alguns dos seus benefícios são observados na diminuição do stress, na prevenção de doenças, na prevenção da perda de autonomia, autoestima, bem-estar, qualidade de vida e isto acaba por ser uma ponte para um bom ambiente familiar, profissional e social. Face ao exposto, foi definido como objetivo geral: Estudar os níveis de AF, a vulnerabilidade ao stress e os estilos de vida dos elementos da PSP; foram propostos como objetivos específcos: (1) Verificar o impacto da AF nos estilos de vida e no stress nos elementos policiais; (2) Avaliar o grau de relação entre os diferentes níveis AF, a vulnerabilidade ao stress e os estilos de vida; (3) Analisar o efeito da idade nos níveis de AF, no stress e no estilo de vida dos elementos. Neste estudo de caso participaram 245 elementos pertencentes à Esquadra do Funchal, Esquadra de Benfica, Esquadra de Cascais e EIR. Para realizar a investigação foram utilizados os seguintes instrumentos: International Physical Activity Questionaire (IPAQ) para medir a AF; 23 Questionário de Vulnerabilidade ao Stress (23QVS); Questionário de Estilo de Vida Fantástico (QEVF). Através destes instrumentos conseguiu-se obter os seguintes resultados: (1) Existe um impacto positivo da atividade física no estilo de vida e na diminuição do stress; (2) Uma relação positiva ente a AF e os estilos de vida, por outro lado não há relação entre os níveis AF e a vulnerabilidade ao stress. (3) A idade não surte qualquer efeito nos níveis de AF, no entanto o mesmo não se verifica na vulnerabilidade ao stress e no estilo de vida.

Rostros y rastros del Nobel: Gabriel García Márquez veinticinco años después

Gabriel García Márquez asume la oralidad del homo caribbeans como síntoma de diversidad , por oposición a la universalizante estandarización trascendental de la escritura, en palabras del antillano Edouard Glissant, y representa una reacción a la cultura letrada establecida por el sistema imperial occidental, custodiada por los organismos reguladores del orden establecido en el centro. De este modo, la literatura oficia como archivo cultural. A la luz de la concepción de literatura como escritura, es preferible hablar de diseminación, de intertextualidad, de palimpsesto, en vez de recurrir al trajinado concepto de influencias literarias. En tal sentido, Cien años de Soledad se constituye en un canon emergente, un código maestro, un nuevo mapa cultural que permite múltiples lecturas y re-escrituras. El realismo mágico pone en crisis el concepto aristotélico de mimesis del arte verbal y exige una nueva perspectiva de analisis.Según un importante sector de la critica, la obra garciamarquiana en sus diferentes rostros, desde las tempranas producciones del ciclo Macondiano hasta la Summa Amorosa que concluye con Del amor y otros demonios, señala el tránsito de la narrativa colombiana de la modernidad a la posmodernidad . Por cierto, veinte años después del Nobel, su rastro se puede seguir desde el campo novelístico nacional contemporáneo hasta recónditas geografias literarias del globo. El realismo mágico, así como en general la literatura del boom, constituye desde la década del setenta una nueva fórmula de respuesta a la situación posmoderna, dado que reemplaza el antiguo canon colonial hegemónico y sus ecos esencialistas, realistas y nacionalistas posteriores a la independencia, y proporciona una ficción de autorrepresentación de la realidad híbrida del discurso otro latinoamericano, en la que la categoría de lo maravilloso reemplazará a la de lo sublime. Sin duda, Macondo existe, es una región de la memoria. Pero sus límites no son occidentales. Dentro del mapa literario mundial, es vecino de remotos espacios geolingüísticos y geoculturales.AbstractGabriel García Márquez assumes the oral tradition of the homo caribbeans as a symptom of diversity, by an opposition to the universalizing standardization of writing, to use the words of Antillean writer Edouard Glissant, and represents a reaction against the educated culture established by the Western imperial system and kept by the regulating organisms of the established order in the center. Thus, literature represents a cultural file.Following the notion of literature as writing, it is preferable to talk about dissemination, intertextuality, or palimpsest instead of resorting to the overused concept of literary influences. In this sense, One Hundred Years of Solitude becomes an emerging cannon, a master code, a new cultural map that allows multiple readings and re-writings. Magic realism puts into crisis the Aristotelian concept of mimicry of the verbal art and demands a new perspective of analysis. According to an important sector of critique, the Garciamarquian work– in its different phases, from the early productions of the Macondian cycle to the Summa Amorosa that finishes with Love and Other Demons, represents the path of the colombian narrative from the modernism to postmodernism. By the way, twenty years after the Nobel, its path can be followed from the novel national contemporary field to distant literary geographies of the world. Magic realism, as well as in general terms the literature of the boom, makes from the sixties decade a new form of answering to the postmodern situation, because it substitutes the old colonial hegemonic cannon and its essential , realistic and national voices after the independence. It gives a fiction of sel-frepresentation of the hybrid reality of the other Latin American discourse, in which the marvelous category will replaced that of the sublime. With no doubt, Macondo exists, it is a region of the memory. But its borders are not Western, inside the literary world map, it is a neighbor of remote geolinguistics and geocultural spaces.

El Señor Presidente y el vanguardismo surrealista

El Señor Presidente es un texto vanguardista, no según la modalidad europea, sino según la vertiente híbrida surgida en América Latina. La novela utiliza recursos y estrategias discursivas del surrealismo para redimensionar las experiencias subjetivas de unos personajes envueltos por la atmósfera pesadillesca y demoníaca de la dictadura. Como texto híbrido mezcla lo ajeno (vanguardias europeas y cristianismo) y lo propio (cultura maya-quiché); y su confluencia posibilita la colisión de tres estéticas: la corriente realista (realismo y regionalismo), el mundo animista maya-quiché y las vanguardias (surrealismo).El Señor Presidente is a vanguard text, not in the European sense, but following the hybrid form appearing in Latin America. The novel employs resources and discourse strategies of surrealism to resize the subjective experiences of some characters enveloped in the nightmarish and demonic atmosphere of the dictatorship. As a hybrid text, foreign aspects (European vanguards and Christianity) are combined with their own (Mayan-Quiche culture); and their coming together leads to the collision of three esthetic codes: realist currents (realism and regionalism), the animist Mayan-Quiche world and the vanguards (surrealism).

Religión, utopismo y realismo político en el renacimiento

This article examines the opposition between utopism and political realism in the context of Renaissance. First, it analyzes the question about the historical continuity or rupture of Renaissance from the Medieval imaginary. After that, it considers the question of religion in Moore ́s Utopia and Campanella’s City of the Sun and compares them with Machiavelli’s texts. Finally, it thinks about the relationship between Renaissance utopism and religion.

De Pas pire à Pour sûr : faits et effets des langues chez France Daigle

La littérature de l’Acadie du Sud-Est émerge dans un contexte lui-même déjà hétérolingue (Grutman). Le chiac porte d’ailleurs les traces de cette cohabitation linguistique puisque son caractère hybride traduit la forte interaction entre les communautés de la région. Or, son usage suscite-t-il une réflexion inquiète sur la situation diglossique du français acadien ou est-il strictement créatif ? Le présent mémoire porte sur le rapport à la langue dans les romans récents de France Daigle, soit Pas pire (1998), Un fin passage (2001), Petites difficultés d’existence (2002) et Pour sûr (2011), en mettant au jour les particularités sociolinguistiques et la façon dont le texte « parle la langue » (Gauvin). Bien qu’il mette à distance les présupposés idéologiques, l’œuvre de Daigle demeure extrêmement sensible au contexte socioculturel d’où il émerge. Ainsi, si l’œuvre s’affranchit d’un réalisme sociolinguistique, c’est afin de créer une « fiction linguistique » (Baetens Beardsmore) qui reconfigure l’imaginaire social de Moncton tout en intégrant certaines inquiétudes bien « réelles ». Qui plus est, la prise en compte de la polyphonie structurelle de l’œuvre permet de s’affranchir de la lecture ethnographique. 

International flavours

It is an Olympic year and we have just witnessed the fantastic games hosted by Rio de Janeiro. Well done to team USA for winning the most medals overall but also well done to so many other nations and individuals who performed so well or were ambassadors in other ways. Teenage swimmer Yusra Mardini who swam for the refugee team and South Africa's Wayde van Niekerk who broke the longstanding 400 m record of Michael Johnson that has stood since 1999. Of course, we must mention sprinter Usain Bolt and swimmer Michael Phelps, who have now transcended superstar status and entered a new level of icon. My personal highlight was the sportsmanship witnessed in the 5000 m when American Abbey D’Agostino was accidentally felled by New Zealand runner Nikki Hamblin. D’Agostino helped Hamblin back to her feet but slumped to the track after realising her own injury. Hamblin helped her up and stayed with her so that both completed the race. The International Olympic Committee has awarded both with the prestigious Pierre de Coubertin award, also known as the International Fair Play Trophy. Fair play is of paramount importance in publishing in peer-reviewed papers. At CLAE we try and maintain, as do other journals, this by ensuring double blind peer review and allowing authors to select the most appropriate handling editor for their submission. Our handling editors are placed across the world (2 in Europe, 1 in the Americas, 1 in Australia and 1 in Asia) and part of their role is to encourage submissions from their region. Over the last decade we certainly have seen more and more papers from places that haven’t previously published in CLAE. In this issue of CLAE we have a true international blend of papers. We have papers from authors from the UK, USA, Iran, Jordan, France, Poland, Turkey, Nigeria, France, Spain and Brazil. I think it's a testament to the continued success of the journal that we are attracting new writers from so many parts of the world and retain papers from more established authors and research centres. We do continue to attract many weaker papers that are rejected early in the review process. Often these will be unexceptional case reports or papers describing a surgical technique. Case reports are published but only those that offer something original and especially those with interesting photographs. In this issue you will see Professor James Wolffsohn (UK) has an interesting paper around a lot of the focus of his recent research activity into clinical evaluation of methods of correcting presbyopia. In this paper he highlights predictors to aid success of presbyopic contact lenses. If you have been involved in any clinical work or research in the field of dry eye disease then you will know well the CLDEQ (Contact Lens Dry Eye Questionnaire) devised by Robin Chalmers and her colleagues (USA). This issue of CLAE details the latest research using the CLDEQ-8 (the 8 item version of the CLDEQ). The Shahroud Eye Cohort Study has produced many papers already and in this issue we see Fotouhi Akbar (Iran) looking at changes in central and peripheral corneal thickness over a five year period. These days we use a lot of new instrumentation, such as optical low-coherence reflectometry. In this issue Emre Güler (Turkey) compares that to a new optical biometry unit. Dry eye is more common and in this issue we see a study by Oluyemi Fasina (Nigeria) to investigate the disease in adults in South-West Nigeria. The TearLab™ is now commonly used to investigate osmolarity and Dorota Szczesna-Iskander (Poland) looks at measurement variability of this device. Following the theme of dry eyes and tear testing Renaud Laballe (France) looks at the use of scleral lenses as a reservoir-based ocular therapeutic system. In this issue we have a couple of papers looking at different aspects of keratoconus. Magdalena Popiela (UK) looks at demographics of older keratoconic patients in Wales, Faik Orucoglu (Turkey) reports a novel scoring system for distinguishing keratoconus from normal eyes, Gonzalo Carracedo (Spain) reports the effect of rigid gas permeable lens wear on dry eye in keratoconus and Hatice Nur Colak (Turkey) compares topographic and aberrations in keratoconus. Other interesting papers you will find are Mera Haddad (Jordan) investigates contact lens prescribing in Jordan, Camilla Fraga Amaral (Brazil) offers a report on the use of ocular prosthetics, Naveed Ahmed Khan (Malaysia) reports of the use of dimethyl sulfoxide in contact lens disinfectant and Michael Killpartrick (UK) offers a short piece with some useful advice on contamination risk factors that may occur from the posterior surface of disposable lenses. So for this issue I would say that the Gold Medal for biggest contribution in terms of papers has to go to Turkey. I could have awarded it to the UK too, but Turkey has three full papers and the UK has two plus one short communication. Turkey is also one of the countries that has shown the largest increase in submissions over the last decade. Finally, welcome aboard to our newest Editorial Board Member Nicole Carnt from Australia. Nicole has been an active researcher for many years and acted as a reviewer for CLAE many times in the past. We look forward to working with you.

Still entrenched in the conflict/cooperation dichotomy? EU–Russia relations and the Ukraine crisis

The article highlights that the traditional conflict/cooperation dichotomy which characterised the dynamic of European Union (EU)–Russia relation during the post-Cold War period has remained stable throughout the Ukraine crisis. It identifies a pattern of continuity rather than change in the main characteristics of the traditional conflict/cooperation dichotomy: the post-Cold War order on the European continent, values and worldviews, perceptions of self and other, and policies towards each other and post-Soviet space. Secondly, in tune with neoclassical realism the article aims to account for the relative persistence of the conflict/cooperation dichotomy. It argues that the dynamic of EU–Russia relations remained rather stable due to the fact that neither the EU nor Russian foreign policy has undergone major transformations (of both power, scope and organisation) that would provide incentive or constrains for a complete overhaul of the conflict/cooperation dichotomy. Moreover, the article claims that the relative stability of world politics since the start of the Ukraine crisis has not given any the EU and Russia incentives – or constrained them – to seek to change the overall dynamic of their relationship.

De Pas pire à Pour sûr : faits et effets des langues chez France Daigle

La littérature de l’Acadie du Sud-Est émerge dans un contexte lui-même déjà hétérolingue (Grutman). Le chiac porte d’ailleurs les traces de cette cohabitation linguistique puisque son caractère hybride traduit la forte interaction entre les communautés de la région. Or, son usage suscite-t-il une réflexion inquiète sur la situation diglossique du français acadien ou est-il strictement créatif ? Le présent mémoire porte sur le rapport à la langue dans les romans récents de France Daigle, soit Pas pire (1998), Un fin passage (2001), Petites difficultés d’existence (2002) et Pour sûr (2011), en mettant au jour les particularités sociolinguistiques et la façon dont le texte « parle la langue » (Gauvin). Bien qu’il mette à distance les présupposés idéologiques, l’œuvre de Daigle demeure extrêmement sensible au contexte socioculturel d’où il émerge. Ainsi, si l’œuvre s’affranchit d’un réalisme sociolinguistique, c’est afin de créer une « fiction linguistique » (Baetens Beardsmore) qui reconfigure l’imaginaire social de Moncton tout en intégrant certaines inquiétudes bien « réelles ». Qui plus est, la prise en compte de la polyphonie structurelle de l’œuvre permet de s’affranchir de la lecture ethnographique. 

Introduction

This book explores the supernatural literature of Walter Scott, James Hogg, Théophile Gautier, Charles Nodier and G rard de Nerval from a European perspective that casts them as part of a network rather than as the discrete, isolated artistic outcomes of different national literatures, by focusing on the central role played by the literature of E.T.A. Hoffmann during the first half of the nineteenth century. The author claims that Hoffmann had a seminal role through the reactions that his literature aroused. These reactions took place both in the realm of theory, for Hoffmann’s works provoked a great deal of discussion on the nature and purposes of supernatural literature, and also in the realm of their literary writings themselves, with much cross-fertilisation taking place, sometimes enabled through translation and sometimes from direct experience. The author focuses on shared themes like the idealized dead beloved, and dreams, reveries and altered states.

Alcances y límites del principio de la responsabilidad de proteger: actuación del consejo de seguridad frente al conflicto en libia en el 2011 y Siria durante el periodo 2011-2014.

El propósito de este estudio de caso es determinar los alcances y límites de la Responsabilidad de Proteger, tomando como ejemplo la actuación del Consejo de Seguridad de Naciones Unidas ante el conflicto en Libia y Siria. Para esto es necesario analizar fuentes primarias documentos oficiales y secundarias como artículos académicos, para así comprobar que la evolución del concepto de soberanía ha permitido que se legitimen las intervenciones con fines humanitarios, ya que todos los Estados tienen la responsabilidad de garantizar la protección de los derechos humanos de sus ciudadanos, de lo contrario, la comunidad internacional debe tomar medidas para evitar o detener los crímenes masivos.

Nicaragua y el Lawfare: el derecho internacional como sucedáneo de la guerra

El interés de esta monografía es evaluar la relación entre el derecho internacional, la guerra y la política exterior a la luz del concepto de lawfare. Esta relación se evalúa a la luz del caso de las relaciones de Nicaragua con sus vecinos. Se analiza y explican las distintas nociones de derecho internacional desarrolladas por las teorías de Relaciones y sus limitaciones; la utilización de la guerra jurídica como estrategia sustitutiva de la guerra material en el caso de Nicaragua. Utilizando el concepto desarrollado por Charles Dunlap, el trabajo busca demostrar que el lawfare explica algunas relaciones entre derecho, guerra, y relaciones internacionales que las teorías clásicas no pueden y, adicionalmente da razón de las acciones de Nicaragua mediante la utilización del Derecho Internacional.