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The Logic of Revelation
No longer trusting the once-dominant disciplines of reasoning in the modern academy, contemporary discussions of theology often turn to tradition- or...
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Mach’s “Sensation”, Gomperz’s “Feeling”, and the Positivist Debate About the Nature of the Elementary Constituents of Experience. A Comparative Study in an Epistemological and Psychological Context
In the present article, I compare Ernst Mach’s and Heinrich Gomperz’s contributions to the German-speaking positivist tradition by showing how, in...
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A Critique of the Premises Underlying the Philosophical Ideas of Thought
Hidden within the thoughts of each age are the basic ideasIdea (理念) that compose them, and which resonate deeply as the philosophical ideasIdea (理念)...
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XI Responsibility and Discourse Ethics
This chapter deals with the responsibility and the discourse ethics. The starting point is the sociologist Max Weber, who, with his distinction...
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A Critique of the Basic Logic Underlying Thought
Fundamentally speaking, the question of the relation between thought and beingQuestion of the relation between thought and being (思维和存在的关系问题) is a...
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The Holographic Relations Between Language and Cognition
The discussions in this chapter are performed for the sake of further demonstrating the state of the inner language holography.
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The Missing Hymn of Metis: an Origin of Loss
It is simply no longer acceptable to speak of the goddess Athena from the fifth generation of Olympian/Orphic Greece without reference to her mother...
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Ideology, Terror, Control: Does Totalitarianism Have a Prospect for the Future?
When totalitarianism disappears in its actual appearance in 1945 and 1989 (fascism, Nazism and communism), it is replaced by what constitutes the...
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Linguistic Twists, Turns and Dovetails in the Modern Humanities
This chapter develops the notion of formal structural models in the humanities being unable to, contain meanings by examining the poststructuralist...
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Analogical Approaches to Biosemiotic Criticism
In this chapter, I will explore what Timo Maran calls “Analogical Approaches to Biosemiotic Criticism.” I study the extent to which nature is always...
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Class Identity, Xenophobia, and Xenophilia
In 2008 and 2015, South Africa’s most deadly and violent xenophobic attacks erupted. Dozens of people were killed and thousands displaced. The...
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Theory of Literary Pneuma (Wenqi): Philosophical Reconception of a Chinese Aesthetic
Literary pneuma ( wenqi 文氣) is a foundational idea in Chinese literary thought and the theory of literary pneuma one of the major aesthetic theories...
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The DTM Among Classic Theories
In this chapter I position the original DTM amongst four classic theories: Ferdinand de Saussure’s semiotics, Wifried Sellars’ theory of language,...
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Vygotsky and Spinoza
The article analyzes Lev Vygotsky’s attempts to utilize Spinoza’s philosophical ideas in solving the methodological crisis of psychology in the 1920s...
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Power and Regimes of Truth
This chapter first develops a Foucauldian theory of power, then applies it to analyze the apparatus that controls the operation of the truth...
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Kant, Race and Anthropology from a Pragmatic Point of View
In this chapter I will demonstrate how Kant’s theory of race switches to the pragmatic understanding of the notion of the “Charakteristik.” The...
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The Wrapped Dimension of Bourbaki’s Structures Mères
The term “structures mères” (mother structures) first appeared in a paper by Bourbaki, published in 1948, under the title “L’architecture des...
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Moral Bubbles: Legitimizing and Dissimulating Violence Distributing Violence through Fallacies
Among Languageand violence theViolenceand language philosophers, Derrida Derrida, J.is the only one to clearly analyze and explore the link between...
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Confronting Dialectic of Enlightenment via Cultural Studies
Cultural Studies’ academic good fortune owes little to the Frankfurt School. From its origins in early 1970s until earlier this century, the...
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