This article is dedicated to exploring the creative potential of expressive phenomena, following Maurice Merleau-Ponty's phenomenology of expressivity. Expressivity is revealed here as a transitional phenomenon, whose emergence and processuality are investigated. By exploring expressive phenomena in their eventfulness, the article resorts to a form of mediality that precedes both pure activity and rigid passivity. The argument culminates in the theory of a relational fabric of subjectivity, sense, sociocultural world, and expressivity
In order to advance our investigation into the relationship between acts of perception and attention, we address in this article some little-known Husserlian women in Brazil. Among them, we highlight important considerations of Husserl in the works: (i) Perception and Attention (Wahrnehmung und Aufmerksamkeit); and, (ii) Analyses on passive synthesis (Analysen zur passiven Synthesis). The goal is to add the later genetic perspective on the act of perception and attention. For this reason, we point out significant aspects with the intention of explaining: (i) the fulfillment synthesis [Erfüllungssynthese] and (ii) the function of apperception [Apperzeption] in the perceptual act.
This paper aims to create tension between the philosophy of two of the greatest European philosophers and theorists of the 20th century, Michel Foucault and Hannah Arendt. To this end, how the first conceptualize Power will be shown, especially from Clausewitz and Hobbes's point of view concerning the war. Parallelly, regarding Hannah Arendt, the conceptual duality of this notion will be exposed, just as the different nuances in her works, especially in The Human Condition (2010) and On Revolution (1988). In conclusion, both authors perceive an ascending, positive, relational, and non-materialist notion of power, which would split with modern liberal and Marxist traditions.
It aims to demonstrate that human life is the primordial value in the philosophy of human rights of Norberto Bobbio (1909-2004). The “bobbian trilogy” is analyzed: human rights, democracy and peace; human life is presented as a fundamental “human” right; the ethical principle Do not kill is established! as a “categorical imperative”. This research is justified because the life of “homo vivens” is a condition for all other ethical and legal values. Keeping within the limits established by the proposed theme, the research will cover the rights to life and to live, being methodologically conducted by analyzing the main works of Bobbio on this theme. It is intended to demonstrate the importance of the imperative not to kill! as moral conduct to be followed by all, in a “categorical” sense, based on the primordial value of human life, conditio sine qua non for all other values that guide human conduct in society.
