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Kierkegaard, Eve and Metaphors of Birth
No full textThere has been a recent revival of interest in reading Kierkegaard as an ontologist, as a thinker who engages with questions about the kinds of entity or process that constitute ultimate reality. This new way of reading Kierkegaard stands alongside a revival of interest in ontology and metaphysics more generally. This highly original book concentrates on the claim that Kierkegaard focuses in part on ontological questions and on issues pertaining to the nature of being as a whole. Alison Assiter asserts that Being, for Kierkegaard, following Schelling, can be read in terms of conceptions of birthing-the capacity to give birth as well as the notion of a birthing body. She goes on to argue that the story offered by Kierkegaard in The Concept of Anxiety about the origin of freedom connects with a birthing body, and that Kierkegaard offers a speculative hypothesis, in terms of metaphors of birthing, about the nature of Being
An actual and universal "woman"
No full textThe radical sociolinguistic constructivism of queer theories has reduced woman’s actuality to hetero-normative construction, female sexuality to hetero-genital practices, and post-feminist philosophy to cultural studies. The current article, by contrast, aims at re-ontologizing woman identity outside the sociolinguistic constructivism as well as the substantialist metaphysics. In the framework of the speculative and realist turn of 20th century, we will propose a minimal concept for woman determined by her material, self-differing and nascent becoming.Fil: Assiter, Alison. University of West of England; Reino UnidoFil: Binetti, María José. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentina. Universidad de Buenos Aires; Argentin
Kierkegaard, metaphysics and political theory: Unfinished selves
No full textOffers a new reading of the work of Kierkegaard in relation to metaphysics and political theory. ‘A remarkable book’ (Charles Lemert, Wesleyan University, USA); ‘Assiter has written a thoughtful and original work’ (Jane Duran, USA, from review in THE, Sep. 2010) ‘An impressive achievement’ (Bob Brecher, University of Brighton, UK); ‘An illuminating and thought provoking book’ (Janice Richardson, Exeter University, review in European Journal of Gender Studies)
DEBATE: Kant, ontology and empirical realism: Response to Assiter
No full textIn this debate article I respond to Alison Assiter’s various objections and points regarding my work on Kant’s empirical realism, his relation to ontology, and related issues. Although Assiter raises some very interesting and important issues, I do not find her ontological interpretation of Kant sufficiently supported textually, and I think her objections to my work are too dependent on omissions and mistaken assumptions to provide an effective challenge. © W. S. Maney & Son Ltd 2015
A postmodern Post-feminism without Women
No full textThis article aims at showing the way in which the discursive constructivism and ethical relativism characteristic of postmodern feminism and post-feminism leads to a neo-liberal and conservative political agenda that threatens women’s sex-based rights. The article will especially focus on the thought of Paul-B Preciado as a post-feminist activist. It draws a comparison also with the work of Saba Mahmood. In such a context, we will point out the necessity of a neo-material and realist framework able to account for the ontological reality of women, and their irreducibility to social hetero-norms.Fil: Binetti, María José. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentina. Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Filosofía y Letras. Instituto Interdisciplinario de Estudios de Género; ArgentinaFil: Assiter, Alison. University of the West of England; Reino Unid
Repositioning the graphic designer as researcher
No full textIn academic terms, the discipline of graphic design is relatively young. Consequently the position of the discipline within academic territory, and the role of the designer, continue to be debated. In part, these debates have been a product of attempts to define and defend the discipline’s borders from within, in order to establish a sense of the role of graphic design and the graphic designer as commensurate with other disciplines both within and beyond art and design. In recent years graphic designers have variously been defined as ‘authors’, ‘producers’ and ‘readers’, yet none of these definitions seem to have provided any kind of productive or lasting impact within the academy. This paper suggests that rather than continue to seek territorial definitions and positions from within, it could be more productive to look beyond the confines of the discipline. Gaining a broader, interdisciplinary perspective on, and understanding of, qualitative research methods from other disciplines may enable the graphic designer to more fully position his or her practice within the wider academy. Such a perspective could help facilitate the repositioning and redefinition of the graphic designer as ‘researcher’ - a move that would be productive in relation to the future development of postgraduate research within the discipline
Kierkegaard: About the Process and Paradox in Fear and Trembling
No full textAlison Assiter. Obtuvo el diploma de Licenciada en Filosofía en Somerville College, Oxford, y su Doc- torado en Filosofía en Sussex University, en 1984. Es investigadora en las siguientes áreas: filosofía feminista, teoría feminista, filosofía política y temas sobre enseñanza y aprendizaje. Escribió libros y artículos sobre Kant y Kierkegaard, entre ellos: Kierkegaard, Eve and Met- aphors of Birth (Londres/Nueva York: Rowman and Littlefield International, 2015); Kierke- gaard, metaphysics and political theory unfinished selves (Londres/Nueva York: Continuum International Publishing Group, 2009) y Kant and Kierkegaard on freedom and evil, Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplement 72 (2013): 275-296. -- Anna Fioravanti (traductor). Es Licenciada en Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades por la Universidad Nacional de Quilmes. Realizó estudios de Filosofía en la Facultad de Filosofía y Letras de la Universidad Nacional de Buenos Aires. Es integrante y cofundadora de la Biblioteca Kierkegaard Argentina y co-organizadora de talleres de lectura y de las Jornadas Kierkegaard desde 2005 hasta ahora. Fue co-traductora de los libros Para un examen de sí mismo recomendado a este tiempo y El instante, de Søren Kierkegaard (Madrid: Trotta, 2011/2012), y tradujo del danés El libro sobre Adler (Buenos Aires: Docta Ignorancia Editorial, 2020).Aunque es imposible explicar una paradoja, este trabajo trata de dar sentido a lo que ella significa y a lo que Abraham cree “en virtud del absurdo”. Antes que nada, se resumirán diversas interpretaciones de reconocidos autores. Luego, se detallarán algunos lineamientos marcados por Friedrich Schelling, como su filosofía del proceso y su visión del tiempo; y por Immanuel Kant, como las antinomias planteadas en la Crítica de la razón pura, su intento de pensar más allá de los límites posibles para los seres humanos finitos, lo cual conduce a la paradoja y a la conformación especial de un agente libre. Finalmente, a partir de estos fundamentos, expondré mi propia interpretación de la fe de Abraham y algunas conclusiones a partir de allí.Despite being impossible to explain a paradox, this work attempts to make sense of what it means, and what Abraham believes ”by virtue of the absurd”. First of all, various interpretations of renowned authors will be summarized. Then, some guidelines set by Friedrich Schelling will be followed, such as his philosophy of the process and his vision of time, and set by Immanuel Kant, such as the antinomies raised in the Critique of Pure Reason, his attempt to think beyond the possible limits to finite human beings, leading to the paradox and to a special conformation of a free agent. Finally, based on those foundations, I will present my own interpretation of Abraham’s faith and some conclusions from it
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