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Empathy versus Abstraction in Twentieth-Century German and Russian Aesthetics
Full text linkIn his paper, Empathy versus Abstraction in Twentieth-Century German and Russian Aesthetics, Thorsten Botz-Bornstein argues that Alexander Koyré has shown how the crisis of belief incited by Bacon, Montaigne, Pascal, and Descartes made that man lost his place in the world. The German term Einfühlung (empathy) played an important role in the transformation of the relationship between the person and his/her world at the moment when modern science began to emerge. Botz-Bornstein examines the conceptual links between empathy and Verfremdung (in Russian ostranenie), and style by showing how German and Russian literary critics of the 1910s attempted to retrieve the world with the help of these concepts. Among these theorists were Wilhelm Worringer, Adolf Hildebrand, Oskar Sievers and Russian Formalists such as Victor Shklovsky and Boris Ejxenbaum. Botz-Bornstein retraces the concept of Einfühlung from Schleiermacher through Theodor Lipps to positivism and he also reconsiders the Oskar Walzel\u27s theory of aesthetics. Botz-Bornstein argues that a later generation of formalists managed to retrieve the world not in the form of a presence but of a trace or some other kind of elusive, dynamic structure, or style. The stylizing effect of ostranenie in skaz, for example, lets elements of oral speech shine through as a kind of absent structure
Leslie Pingus, Authentificating Culture in Imperial Japan : Kuki Shûzô and the Rise of National Aesthetics
No full textBotz-Bornstein Thorsten. Leslie Pingus, Authentificating Culture in Imperial Japan : Kuki Shûzô and the Rise of National Aesthetics. In: Annales. Histoire, Sciences Sociales. 54ᵉ année, N. 3, 1999. pp. 776-778
Book review: Jean Baudrillard: from the ocean to the desert, or the poetics of radicality
No full textStraightforward, combative, and radical with regard to both contents and method, this book considers Jean Baudrillard’s contributions to the literature on theory as poetry. With lashings of quotes from the works of this unique intellectual voice and thought-provoking takes on Baudrillard’s ideas, the book will certainly appeal to many intrigued readers, finds Thorsten Botz-Bornstein
Pan-asianisme et eurasianisme : développements philosophiques de l’espace culturel en Russie et au Japon 1900-1945
Full text linkThorsten Botz-Bornstein L’objectif de ce séminaire était de montrer comment au Japon et en Russie certains philosophes réussissaient à combiner les notions de temps et d’espace afin de décrire une sorte de « développement spatial » (mestorazvitie en russe). Des idées complexes comme celles d’autarcie (pravitenl’niza en russe) visaient à garantir une autonomie culturelle aux différents peuples tout en les inscrivant dans un système plus large. Près de la moitié du séminaire a servi à éclaircir..
Pan-asianisme et eurasianisme : développements philosophiques de l’espace culturel en Russie et au Japon 1900-1945
Full text linkThorsten Botz-Bornstein L’objectif de ce séminaire était de montrer comment au Japon et en Russie certains philosophes réussissaient à combiner les notions de temps et d’espace afin de décrire une sorte de « développement spatial » (mestorazvitie en russe). Des idées complexes comme celles d’autarcie (pravitenl’niza en russe) visaient à garantir une autonomie culturelle aux différents peuples tout en les inscrivant dans un système plus large. Près de la moitié du séminaire a servi à éclaircir..
Review of: Thorsten Botz-Borstein's Organic Cinema: Film, Architecture, and the Work of Béla Tarr
Full text linkReview of: Thorsten Botz-Borstein’s Organic Cinema: Film, Architecture, and the Work of Béla Tar
Feminism (Islamic) in ODIP: The Online Dictionary of Intercultural Philosophy a cura di Thorsten BotzBornstein
No full textShûzô Kuki et la «philosophie de la contingence» française. Une communication unique entre l'Orient et l'Occident
No full textWhile even a larger public is rather well informed about the link between Shûzô Kuki and Heidegger, an analysis of the forces which have pushed Kuki towards French philosophy has almost never been undertaken. Still there exist many links between Kuki and the French philosophy of the 20ies which treated the phenomenon of contingency and especially the problems of liberty and of time. Kuki absorbed a certain tendency inherent in French philosophy and put it in relation with Asian thought.
The article concentrates on three points: 1. The problem of time as it presented itself to French philosophers at the beginning of the 20th century and its reception by Kuki as an Oriental philosopher and a Buddhist. 2. The problem of liberty and of existence in these French philosophers and in Buddhism. 3. The phenomenon of dream as a psychic and aesthetic phenomenon for Kuki and for the French philosophers in question.Tandis que le lien entre Shûzô Kuki et Heidegger est bien connu, une analyse des forces qui poussaient Kuki vers la philosophie française, n'a presque pas été entreprise. Il y a pourtant des liens entre Kuki et la philosophie française des années 20 qui traitait le phénomène de la contingence et surtout les problèmes de la liberté et du temps. Kuki absorbait une certaine partie de la philosophie française et la mettait en relation avec la pensée asiatique.
L'article se concentre sur trois points essentiels: 1. Le problème du temps tel qu'il se posait aux philosophes français au début du 20e siècle et sa réception par Kuki en tant que philosophe oriental et bouddhiste. 2. Le problème de la liberté et de l'existence chez ces philosophes français et dans le Bouddhisme. 3. Le phénomène du rêve en tant que phénomène psychique et esthétique pour Kuki et pour les philosophes français en question.Botz-Bornstein Thorsten. Shûzô Kuki et la «philosophie de la contingence» française. Une communication unique entre l'Orient et l'Occident. In: Revue Philosophique de Louvain. Quatrième série, tome 97, n°1, 1999. pp. 113-126
Russian Philosophy of National Spirit from the 1970s to the 1980s
No full textThe predominance and global expansion of homogenizing modes of production, consumption and information risks alienating non-Western and Western people alike from the intellectual and moral resources embedded in their own distinctive cultural traditions. In reaction to the erosion of traditional cultures and civilizations, we seem to be witnessing the re-emergence of a tendency to “re-ethnicize the mind” through renewed and more or less systematic cultural revivals worldwide (e.g., “hinduization,” “ivoirization,” “sinofication,” “islamicization,” “indigenization,” etc.). How do and should philosophers understand and assess the significance and impact of this phenomenon? Authors acquainted with the contemporary situation in Africa, Asia, the Middle-East, South-America, and Europe try to answer this question. In the final analysis, the authors of this original and groundbreaking collection of essays plead for a full critical engagement with one’s own particularity while at the same time rejecting any form of cultural, national or regional chauvinism. They consider various ways in which local and global conceptions as well as practices can and already do judiciously inform and positively fertilize each other. At this juncture of history, they argue, societies and peoples must articulate their self-identity by looking critically at their respective cultural resources, and beyond them at the same time
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