The present article proposes a reading of the novel Elfriede Jelinek’s The Piano Teacher as a deconstruction of the configuration of female sexuality in Freud. For this, it investigates the theoretical elaborations of Foucault and Derrida and the main elements of the differentiation of Freudian female sexuality: preoedipal phase, mother-daughter bond, castration fantasy. Finally, we try to show that The Piano Teacher deconstructs the way in which psychoanalytic discourses install subjectivation regimes that place women in a position of inferiority.

These two volumes provide a completely new translation of the philosophical works of Descartes, based on the best available Latin and French texts. They are intended to replace the only reasonably comprehensive selection of his works in English, by Haldane and Ross, first published in 1911. All the works included in that edition are translated here, together with a number of additional texts crucial for an understanding of Cartesian philosophy, including important material from Descartes? scientific writings. The result should meet (...) the widespread demand for an accurate and authoritative edition of Descartes? philosophical writings in clear and readable modern English. (shrink)

Theory of Literature was originally published in 1949. It is not a textbook introducing the young to the elements of literary appreciation nor a survey of the techniques employed in scholarly research. The authors have sought to unite "poetics" (or literary theory) and "criticism" (evaluation of literature) with "scholarship" ("research") and "literary history" (the "dynamics"of literature, in contrast to the "statics" of theory and criticism).

In his paper “Double Vision, Phosphenes and Afterimages: Non-Endorsed Representations rather than Non-Representational Qualia,” Işık Sarıhan addresses the debate between strong representationalists and qualia theorists. He argues that qualia theorists like Ned Block and Amy Kind who cite double-vision, afterimages, etc., as evidence for the existence of qualia are mistaken about the actual nature of these states. According to Sarıhan, these authors confuse the fact that these states are non-endorsed representational states with the fact that they are at least partly (...) non-representational. I argue that Sarıhan’s argument contains gaps that suggest that he misidentifi es the mistake that leads these qualia theorists to their conclusion. In my view, these qualia theorists do not confuse the fact that the states in question are non-endorsed states with the fact that they are non-representational, but rather mistake certain representational contents, or certain aspects of these contents, for qualia. (shrink)

"Six Metaphysical Meditations" by René Descartes (translated by William Molyneux). Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to (...) everyone in a high-quality digital format. (shrink)

En son principe, la raison semble etre exigence de fondement: etre rationnel, c'est expliquer les evenements en leur trouvant des causes, justifier ses affirmations en les demontrant a partir d'autres affirmations, organiser son action en la soumettant a un plan ou a un principe.[...] Il y a des lors, et c'est l'idee essentielle de Popper, une forme de pensee rationnelle, c'est-a-dire non arbitraire: c'est la pensee critique. Le principe de celle-ci, c'est de mettre a l'epreuve toutes les idees que l'on (...) emet: en partant du principe qu'elles ne peuvent acquerir de valeur qu'apres une telle mise a l'epreuve.[...] Popper ne cherche pas l'originalite mais la verite, et les theses qu'il avance n'ont pas de sens pour elles memes, mais par l'argumentation qui les soutient contre d'autres theses, parfois plus originales et seduisantes, mais a la fois non rigoureuses et pleines de prejuges dangereux pour la science comme pour la morale. (shrink)

1. cahier. Connaissance et existence--2. cahier. L'existentialisme athée devant la philosophie--3. cahier. L'existentialisme religieux devant la philosophie. Phénoménologie et arabisme--4. cahier. Marxisme et méditerranée.

Obwohl nur in einer anonymen Kopie überliefert, zählt die in diesem "Gespräch" von 1648 vollzogene Erörterung der wesentlichen Punkte der cartesischen Lehre zu den meistzitierten Texten Descartes'. Die Ausgabe bietet die aufgrund des Manuskripts bereinigte lateinische Originalfassung mit Lesarten und parallel dazu eine erste deutsche Übersetzung.