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See also: Luz ASCARATE, Quentin GAILHAC, Circé FURTWÄNGLER (Eds), Phenomenology and Transcendental Idealism [Table of Contents] 16. Husserl‘s Idealism at Work: The Example of the Transcendentalization of Value Alexis Delamare (University College Dublin) French interpreters of Edmund Husserl, influenced by Heidegger (2006, 82–83), have long emphasized that the founder of phenomenology defends the primacy of […]

ARON L. OUWERKERK, Mapping the ‘Republic of Letters’ in East Central European Correspondences [OPEN ACCESS]Abstract: The significance of the ‘Republic of Letters’ as a Pan-European and cross-national concept is often addressed in scholarship on early modern intellectual history. Focusing on an extensive digital epistolary corpus of authors of East Central European descent from c. 1600

OBERTO MARRAMA, “The Habit of Virtue”: Spinoza on Reason and Memory [OPEN ACCESS]Abstract: In this paper I explain how, for Spinoza, humans can acquire the “habit of virtue” from “fatal necessity” (Ep.58). Spinoza claims that no decision can be made without memory of the thing that one wants to do. However, his rejection of free will

Abstract: Emotions, feelings, and passions shape the quality of our existence, but we are not always aware of the ways in which our emotional life is expressed. In fact, we tend to live irreflectively. What self-care enables us to cultivate the affective side for the benefit of the quality of existence? And how is it possible

ADRIAN WILSON: The Great Instauration of the Eighteenth Century. In Journal of Early Modern Studies vol. 12.1 (2023) Abstract: This paper argues that there took place in the eighteenth century a specific, distinctive and essential phase in the emergence of modern science, a phase which can be characterised as “the Great Instauration” in that it

CLICK HERE FOR THE PDF VERSION [OPEN ACCESS] En à peine vingt ans, de son arrivée à Rome à sa fin tragique à Porto Ercole, Michelangelo Merisi (1571-1610), dit Le Caravage, a bouleversé l’histoire de la peinture : brutalement et irréversiblement, il l’a fait entrer dans ce que l’on appelle « la modernité ». Un art sans précédent

CLICK HERE FOR THE PDF VERSION [OPEN ACCESS] Abstract: We provide a phenomenological explanation of the particular function mental images play in the realization of enjoyment and their significance for human freedom on the basis of the idea, drawn from Sartre, that images are not things but rather a way consciousness behaves towards objects. The mental