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Sublime Sufferings
The violence of reading, as Robert Musil conceives of it in his debut novel, is not reducible to the violence of a given represented content. The...
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Introduction: Allegories of Bleeding
Whenever I permit myself to meet new people, the question inevitably posed to the “literature professor” is one that haunts me in my darkest hours:...
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Shockwaves of Rape and Shattering of Power in the Contemporary Indian Web Series: The Case of Delhi Crime, Made in Heaven, and Judgement Day
I examine how recent historic incidents surrounding sexual violence that registered emotional shockwaves across India have been portrayed in Indian...
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The impoverishment problem
Work in philosophy of mind often engages in descriptive phenomenology, i.e., in attempts to characterize the phenomenal character of our experience....
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Power from indirect pain: a historical phenomenology of medical pain management
The article aims at reconstructing how pain is used in contemporary societies in the process of engraving power. Firstly, a social phenomenological...
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Empathy and Its Critics
I started to explore the flaws of empathy several years ago, develo** my critique in essays in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, and Boston Review, and...
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Torturous Violence: A Phenomenological Approach to the Violence in the Acts of Torture
Following in the phenomenological tradition, I aim to ground my chapter in the lived experience of a particular form of violence: torture. Torture,...
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Eco-phenomenology of Ambient Urbanism, Earth and Sky (Along the Aesthetic Lane)
Eco-phenomenology is a common denominator for various research initiatives, striving to respond philosophically to the emergency of a situation...
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Eine biographische Lebenskunst des Leidens. Einleitung in das Themenfeld
Der Text versucht zu verdeutlichen, warum es Sinn macht, sich auf einen experimentellen Umgang mit Krisen, Krankheiten, Schmerzen und Leiden...
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Neo-Platonic Love in Fictional Obsessions
Twentieth century novels present sexuality as a source of mystifying pleasure often challenging the conventions of heterosexual relationships by...
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Belief that Matters: Religion, Anti-Black Racism and the Future of the Philosophy of Religion
The category of “belief” has been at the forefront of the philosophy of religion. Nonetheless, a number of scholars of religion have recently...
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Transformation: Malte Laurids Brigge, Second Part
Malte’s anxiety is something like an illness and something like a cure. It is exorcizing parts of his psyche that burden him and disallow him to...
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Tyranny of Idiocy
This essay argues that tyranny and idiocy reinforce one another through shared paranoid delusions. By means of the entertainment industry, of the...
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Torture and Torment
Torture is one of the central evilstransnational evils of the world. It has all the characteristics of evildoing set out in Chapter 5. Torture...
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Stories of the Dear Lord, First Part: The Separation of Hand from Spirit
This chapter begins the author’s study of Rilke’s Stories of God, a collection of stories written for children around 1900. In one of the stories,...
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Fungierende Leiblichkeit
Merleau-Ponty unterscheidet in seiner Phänomenologie der Wahrnehmung zwischen einer Aktintentionalität und einer fungierenden Intentionalität....
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An African Feminist Approach to Forgiveness: Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela Considered
Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela is the most important African woman’s voice in South Africa, quite possibly in Sub-Saharan Africa, on the topic of political...
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Public Reason and the Right to Healthcare
In this chapter, I consider the prospects for deploying the concept of public reason in settling practical bioethical questions, focusing in...