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Ein Leben ohne Schmerz? Eine kritische Analyse transhumanistischer Anliegen zur technologischen Überwindung von Schmerzen
No full textDa Schmerzen und Leid aus transhumanistischer Sicht wesentliche Faktoren sind, die ein gutes Leben verhindern, fordern Transhumanistinnen und Transhumanisten, dass die Erkenntnisse der modernen Wissenschaften im Zuge der Gestaltung und Transzendierung des Menschen genutzt werden, um ein schmerz- und leidbefreites Leben zu ermöglichen. Im Folgenden wird nach einer vertiefenden Analyse der transhumanistischen Anliegen zunächst die komplexe Natur des Schmerzes sowie seine existentielle und moralische Bedeutung analysiert. Anschließend wird dafür argumentiert, dass eine vollständige Eliminierung von Schmerzen nur um den Preis der Eliminierung der Möglichkeit eines authentischen und selbstbewussten Lebens zu haben ist.Since pain and suffering are, from a transhumanist point of view, factors that essentially prevent a good life, transhumanists demand that insights from modern science be used in shaping and transcending human life to enable a life free from pain and suffering. After providing a thorough analysis of the transhumanist objective, this article analyzes the complex nature of pain as well as its existential and moral significance. Finally, it argues that a complete elimination of pain would only be possible at the price of eliminating the possibility of an authentic and self-conscious life as well
Rezension zu Caroline Helmus: Transhumanismus – der neue (Unter-)Gang des Menschen? Das Menschenbild des Transhumanismus und seine Herausforderung für die Theologische Anthropologie
No full textA positive legacy – against all odds Olympic facilities at the 1994 Olympic Winter Games
No full textThe aim of this study is to explore the concept of legacy in mega sporting events. More precisely, it examines how one of the smallest cities to host the Olympic Winter Games, Lillehammer in 1994, more than 25 years after the Games, has a rather positive legacy of the investments in sporting facilities, opposite to a majority among the hosts of the Winter Games. The research, which entailed qualitative documentary analysis (e.g. bidding documents, government guarantees, white papers and minutes of meetings in the Parliament, supplemented with interviews), shows how the concept was changed after Lillehammer was awarded the event in 1988. Lillehammer went from an extreme compact Games model to place the venues in five municipalities. Also important was the establishment of government funding to maintain the different arenas. For many hosts of mega/major events, sport facilities end up with a negative legacy because of poor or insufficient planning. Today, the ‘after-use fund’ has been depleted, which is challenging for Lillehammer because several municipalities in the Olympic region are also responsible for the funding. It remains to be seen if the positive legacy will remain positive in the years to come
Marco Agnetta: Ästhetische Polysemiotizität und Translation. Glucks Orfeo ed Euridice (1762) im interkulturellen Transfer. Hildesheim/Zürich/New York: Olms/Weidmann, 2019. ISBN 978-3487157825. 569 Seiten.
Full text linkStefano La Via / Claudio Cosi: Bossa Nova Canção. Prospettive teoriche e analisi poetico-musicali. Lucca: Libreria musicale italiana, 2017. ISBN 9788870969122. 304 pages.
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Roland Barthes : musique et poésie
Full text linkIt has often been asked why poetry occupied a secondary place only in Roland Barthes’ work. What if the explanation were related to the separation of poetry and music? His diploma thesis of higher studies in 1941, which he devoted to “Evocations and Incantations in the Greek Tragedy”, shows how sensitive the young Barthes was to the profound union of words and sounds. This harmony between the arts allowed Aeschylus to call out to the dead and bring them back from the underworld. But now that it is no longer possible to believe in the omnipotence of poetry set to music, all that remains for Barthes is to explore its distant avatars: prayer, prosody, magic, and fiction
Location decisions of sport manufacturing businesses in tourism destinations – analysing factors of attractiveness
Full text linkBusiness location criteria and destination attractiveness have been widely studied a) in international business research and b) in tourism research. By contrast, studies about the attractiveness of tourism destinations as possible business locations for sport manufacturing companies have barely been examined. In order to contribute to closing this research gap, the present quantitative study provides insights based on destination attractiveness by analysing sport, tourism, and specific economic attractiveness variables (conducted in the German-speaking Alps; N=119 sport manufacturing companies; based on the Competitiveness Theory of Porter). These variables are represented by nine factors measured by 36 items considered pertinent for alpine tourism destinations. This quantitative study offers an approach to the analysis of attractiveness factors specifically in the context of location decisions by sport manufacturing companies. Results show that 1) sport-specific factors like “Sport Events” and “Sport & Infrastructure” influence a sport manufacturing business’s choice of location, 2) cross-cultural differences were identified relating to the importance of specific factors. Furthermore, implications for governments and destination managers were derived, allowing conclusions about competitive advantages. Based on the results, benchmarking destinations and benchmarking initiatives can be identified for the future
Poésie et musique chez Baudelaire et Verlaine
No full textThis article investigates the relationship between poetry and music using Baudelaire’s examination of Richard Wagner’s music as an example. Starting from the question of the ‘translatability’ of music into language, which Baudelaire himself poses on the basis of the Lohengrin prelude, the article fundamentally questions the possibility of an association between the two arts, arguing that such an association, if it does not want to remain purely metaphorical, seems possible at best in the area of a ‘contact zone’, in which the logical-semantic references recede into the background or assume a high degree of generality, while at the same time formal structures can be designed in such a way that the abstract statements are thereby ‘represented’. This is illustrated by the example of two poems byBaudelaire (“La musique”) and Verlaine (from Romances sans paroles)