Concrete Reality Research Articles

The Unfading Eros of Love in the Latest Poetry by Kornelijus Platelis

The object of this article is the eros of love in the latest poetry by K. Platelis: books Palimpsestai (2004) and Įtrūkusios mėnesienos (2018). Theoretical-methodological scope – phenomenology; the main references – M. Merleau-Ponty and E. Levinas. The phenomenology, reflecting eros subjectivity, corporeality, time and space, allows for more actualization and understanding of the phenomenon of the eros of love. It suggests new categories through which individual and subjective poetic meanings come through. Love and its eros is one of the dominants in works of poets of K. Platelis’ generation. This phenomenon, related not only to the experiences of love, but also to the experiences of death, encompassing not only individuals, but also things, in works of this author gets into the complex cultural, historical, mythological context, grows out of this context and gives it a distinct poetic form. The hunger of eros (eros as a hunger), set up at the beginning of the article, and its analysis allow a better understanding of the otherness of mythopoetic transformations typical to K. Platelis’ poetry, as well as the dynamics of the eros of love and death, the interaction of eros of different times, reality and its simulation, the connection between passion and the world of things. Time, as one of the most important phenomena in the eros world, makes it possible to feel the particular dynamics of eros, a certain rhythm based on contradictions and ambiguities, and refers to the dynamics of the roles of different subjects in the eros situation. One of the main phenomena in the latest poetry is the middle aged eros, characterized by the autoironic rehabilitation of eros. Poems of Platelis have a distinctly erotic space. From the wide spectrum of the spatial eros imagination, it is worth highlighting its cultural aspect. It is necessary for identifying intersubjective relations, emotional and material experiences of eros. The eros, arising from the subjective observation of space and its objects, is characterized by the tension of a real and simulated world, metaphysical and concrete physical reality.

SIMON L. FRANK: LIFE AND DOCTRINE

The article discusses major biographical milestones and provides a general evolution of philosophical views of the Russian philosopher Simon L. Frank. At the initial stage of the creative way, Frank is an economist and critical Marxist. Appeal to philosophy in the 1900s characterized by the influence of neo-Kantianism, the immanent philosophy and philosophy of life. Around 1908-12 Frank’s transition to the position of metaphysics begins to take shape his own philosophical system, absolute realism. One of the main features of the work of Frank is consistency. Throughout his creative career, the philosopher developed the deepened and detailed original philosophical intuition - the intuition of the supra-rational unity of being - which was already fixed in his early philosophical works. Absolute being is a concrete metalogical reality, revealed in the living knowledge Simultaneously, the potentiality and transfiniteness of absolute being acts as the basis of individuality and creativity of man, the source of his freedom. The philosophical method of Frank, rational comprehension of rationally incomprehensible, based on the principle of antinomic monodualism. Philosophy of religion unfolds as a phenomenological analysis of religious experience. In the social political field Frank justifies the position of liberal conservatism and Christian realism.

O movimento estudantil paranaense sob vigilância do serviço nacional de informações (1964-85)

The following paper aimed to analyze the political-ideologic clash between Paraná Student Movement (ME) and the agents of National Information Service (SNI) during the period of Brazilian military dictatorship (1964-1985). Were intentionally selected six investigative files from the unpublished documents archive from SNI-PR, available for public consultation at NDPH-UEL. The documental sources were approached by the lukácsian’s perspective of ontological analyzes of ideology, which recognizes ideologies as teleological projection that are conditioned and limited by concrete reality and aim to directly interferes in class antagonism. Were identified the persecuting actions, of the information agents, that objectified the disarticulation of ME with their pairs and other movements that composed the period social reality, intending to ensure the reproduction of bourgeois political-autocratic model that characterizes colonial-prussian way of capitalism development.

DEFINING A 0-6 YEARS FRAMEWORK

Abstract The new Italian legislative perspective on early childhood education and preschool services - as laid down in Law 107/2015 and Decree 65/2017 - provides for an “Integrated education and schooling system from birth to six years”, thereby introducing key changes to the existing system from both the organization/management and cultural/pedagogical points of view. The definition of educational continuity, professional development of educators and teachers, local coordination of services, and setting up of childhood service hubs [“Poli dell’infanzia”] are all new themes that need to be explored and translated into concrete reality on the ground. The new regulatory framework paves the way for a new wave of experimentation and innovation, but at the same time raises critical issues for early years education and preschool services, which if unaddressed, may impede the effective creation of novel and higher quality educational opportunities for children.

Representation and the Internal View of the Instruments of Scenic Creation

Abstract The actor, through his/her memories, images and own representations, will confer the perfect resonance to his/her gestures and scenic actions. Linked to the performance, the representation, the mental images and the internal view give life, uniqueness, beauty and truthfulness to the part, construct the scenic imagery in an expressive and original manner. The actor, in his/her creation, uses on one hand his/her memory (sensorial, visual, auditive, gustatory, olfactive, kinesthetic, imagistic, voluntarily cognitive, involuntary and affective) and his/her past experiences and, on the other hand, sensations, perceptions, representations and reproductive imagination. Memory and imagination, the representations and mental images, thus become primordial tools in scenic creation, having the extraordinary power of updating on an intuitive level, relevant and significative, the actor’s experiences. If through memory the actor has the possibility of reproducing, evoking and experiencing sound, image, situations, spaces, circumstances and relations from his/her prior experience, through representations, images and his/her reproductive memory, he/she detaches him/herself from this concrete reality and is able to create a new world, imaginary and fantastic. The actor has to be aware of the tools he/she works with, has to develop his/her flexibility and the mobility of his/her imagination through the reconstruction and recombination of certain representations, by elaborating images: evoking an image, studying it in detail, completing, developing and direct influence of the image through subtle intervention, suggestion and collaboration, as to incorporate it in his/her scenic performance.

The Unrealized Eschatology of Michel Henry: Theological Gestures from his Phenomenological Aesthetics

AbstractThis study responds to readings of Michel Henry’s eschatology as over‐realized through an analysis of his frequently neglected phenomenological aesthetics in Seeing the Invisible: On Kandinsky in light of the theological articulation of his phenomenology of life. It argues for a distinctly unrealized thrust to his program by foregrounding the notion of monumental art and the rootedness of human praxis, artistic and otherwise, in concrete sensible reality. The conclusion suggests that Henry’s project, while theologically problematic, opens a path towards the development of a theological phenomenological cosmology when supplemented.

Existential–Jungian Analysis: Reconciling the Personal and Archetypal Realms in the Consulting Room

C. G. Jung’s openness to the transcendent nature of the psyche has appealed to those seeking an alternative to the more ego-centered approach promoted by traditional Freudian psychoanalysis. Yet despite the significant philosophical implications of Jung’s ideas, he always emphasized their pragmatic and clinical nature: helping grapple with neuroses/psychoses and sundry symptoms borne of mental conflict. While abstract concepts from analytical psychology provide a useful schema to make sense of suffering, such theoretical conceptualizations can, when dogmatically misapplied in the consulting room, permit both analyst and patient to by-pass the concrete existential reality of the analytic relationship. The ability and willingness to be fully present to the angst of both patient and “self-as-therapist” is perhaps the most essential aspect of existential psychotherapy. In this article, the authors propose a concordance between existentialist and Jungian approaches that positions the work of analysis as a creative engagement with patients’ subjective experiences without avoiding or diminishing the here-and-now experience of the therapeutic encounter, arguing that such cross-fertilization could offer an integrative form of treatment more faithful to the unique existence of each individual and analytic pair than either approach on its own.

Beş Duyu, Tat Alma Duyusu ve Lezzetin Alegorisi

Aristotle's theory of five senses attracted the attention of many thinkers in the field of fine arts, literature and philosophy, as well as medical sciences in Europe. The art of painting often interpreted senses as instruments to gather information about earthly realities and to understand the divine world through concrete realities. Within this approach, the representations of the five senses in the art of painting were generally referred to holy books. This study, which aims to acquire more understanding about eating and taste, examines the representations of five senses and especially the sense of taste in the art of painting. While doing this, the researcher advances religion, history, mythology and iconography and reveals the symbolic meanings hidden behind the surface. One of the findings of the study reveal that the sense of taste is a primitive sense that humans have in common with animals, and that the misuse of this sense will lead to lust and sin. Another finding is that the act of eating and leading into temptation is usually represented by female figures in the painting.

Interacciones de gobernanza en las pesquerías a pequeña escala de Galicia: percepciones y dinámicas en las cofradías de pescadores

La pesca a pequeña escala cuenta con dinámicas específicas en las relaciones entre sistemas de recurso, sistemas de gobernanza y actores. En Galicia, esta realidad tiene un punto central en la organización de los mariscadores y pescadores en las llamadas Cofradías de Pescadores, entidades asociativas con reconocimiento administrativo y participación en la gestión de los recursos pesqueros. Estas organizaciones poseen una naturaleza público-privada, donde los miembros comparten y se benefician del uso y la explotación de los recursos marinos.En este escenario, el trabajo estudia las interacciones de gobernanza en las pesquerías de pequeña escala de Galicia, partiendo de las percepciones de las cofradías de pescadores como actores de gobernanza. En concreto, el caso de estudio analiza los cambios en la gestión de las actividades desarrolladas por las cofradías, como la producción y comercialización, y la influencia de la Administración Pública y de otras entidades sociales en su organización. Para avanzar en estos objetivos, se aplican los marcos de análisis institucional, específicamente el sistema socio ecológico de E. Ostrom y su entorno y el marco de evaluación de la gobernabilidad de Jentoft y Chuenpagdee, los cuales permiten estudiar realidades concretas sin limitarse a una estructura específica.

On Bion’s Concepts of Negative Capability and Faith

Bion left us an important technical principle. We can summarize it in the concepts of negative capacity and faith. They are two sides of the same coin, but they are also widely misunderstood. It is not easy to accept the idea that the analyst must listen to the patient by actively depriving himself of memory, desire, and understanding; not only, but that the analyst has also to focus on the here and now and radically put concrete and historical reality in parentheses. What does it mean for the analyst that the only real world is psychic reality? Why is it so important to favor the “oscillating” work of dream and imagination? The author discusses these concepts, relates them to Freud's concept of evenly suspended or free-floating attention and to the concept of empathy. Finally, he gives some clinical vignettes showing these principles have been reinvented in the post-Bionian field theory.

Aggressive Reader and Submissive Spectator: A Revision of Self-Redescription

ABSTRACTBoth Richard Rorty and Siegfried Kracauer considered the question of self-redemption in an ideologically shelterless age; both thinkers realized that the spontaneous state of daily life is beguiling and that one needs to break out from it; and both sought to break the bond between Being and Thought. For Kracauer, redemption came from the strangeness of concrete physical reality presented by films. For Rorty, redemption stood for the strangeness of imaginative self-redescription achieved by reading books. Based on the analysis of Rorty’s aggressive book reader and of Kracauer’s submissive movie spectator, this article aims to answer the question: how can Kracauer’s redemption of physical reality contribute to Rorty’s self-redescription? Self-redescription paradoxically sustains the abstractness it fights against. The ironist’s flippant attitude toward language leads to the nonchalant and traumatic attitude toward life. Kracauer’s from-bottom-to-top approach to the redemption of physical reality can benefit Rorty’s self-redescription in three concrete ways: as a possible description, as a possible method, and as a possible attitude to life. The theological core of Kracauer’s redemption of physical reality enlightens Rorty’s ironist through the desubjectivized stance: to encounter existence in its purity, free of personal subjectivity, and thereby to find a de-anthropocentric world-view.

Archaeologies of Working-Class Culture and Collective Action

The nineteenth-century emergence of an American working class is studied by historians as an abstract awareness of shared experiences grounded in material conditions and concrete reality (Oestreicher 1986). Historical archaeology is appropriate to track the rise in class consciousness through: (1) shared material culture in workers’ domestic lives; (2) archaeological or archival evidence for class distinctions and hierarchical dissent; and (3) material evidence, archival and oral histories of working-class efforts to affect change through labor organizing or political action. These markers of class consciousness are compared among historical sites of labor contestation, and used to understand experiences of workers in the company town of Mono Mills, California. Identification of a working-class culture contributes to theorizing how class structures crosscut differences (e.g., ethnic, gendered, and racial) as well as built solidarity in opposition to other tiers of the labor hierarchy.

To Perform Road Signs Recognition for Autonomous Vehicles Using Cascaded Deep Learning Pipeline

Autonomous vehicle is a vehicle that can guide itself without human conduction. It is capable of sensing its environment and moving with little or no human input. This kind of vehicle has become a concrete reality and may pave the way for future systems where computers take over the art of driving. Advanced artificial intelligence control systems interpret sensory information to identify appropriate navigation paths, as well as obstacles and relevant road signs. In this paper, we introduce an intelligent road signs classifier to help autonomous vehicles to recognize and understand road signs. The road signs classifier based on an artificial intelligence technique. In particular, a deep learning model is used, Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN). CNN is a widely used Deep Learning model to solve pattern recognition problems like image classification and object detection. CNN has successfully used to solve computer vision problems because of its methodology in processing images that are similar to the human brain decision making. The evaluation of the proposed pipeline was trained and tested using two different datasets. The proposed CNNs achieved high performance in road sign classification with a validation accuracy of 99.8% and a testing accuracy of 99.6%. The proposed method can be easily implemented for real time application.

Didáctica para la formación de investigadores desde la investigación vivencialista - intuitiva

The article describes the investigative process that was developed with a group of novice researchers in the Faculty of Social and Humanistic Sciences-Social Work- Uncia Headquarters of the Tomas Frias Autonomous University during the 2018 management. Its purpose was to promote an alternative process in the training of social workers, in order to investigate, understand and transform their object of study and intervention: social problems inside families’ community. It corresponds to a qualitative investigation from the experientialist-intuitive theory; by giving the student the possibility to interfere on specific problems, applying scientific research techniques, the fundamental characteristic was to start from the close experience of some facts abstracted from the reality of each family and then be projected at higher levels of cognitive perception. As a result, the students managed to get closer to the concrete reality, know the problems that afflict the families, understand their reality and with it to face an investigative process involving people as social actors capable of assuming a leading role in the transformation of their reality. Keywords: Didactic; training of researchers; experientialist-intuitive research.

Gender Biasness of Traditional Ethics : A Brief Analysis

Traditional ethics has excluded all questions of ‘gender’ from its purview on the presumption that philosophy as a general discipline should have been concerned with human qua human or with the universal human nature as such. It is argued that the scope of philosophy is not desired to be narrowed down by any limited or partial concern, since its concern has always been a universal one. Questions of one’s contingent attributions inclusive of gender would speak of the concrete realities of individual existence, specific to her nature. These would not form a part of the so-called invariably common, abstract and formal essence of humans. Therefore, they should in no way constitute any genuine concern for philosophy. The form of ethics that requires some sort of commitment toward the claims of universal applicability is expected to assume a sex/gender neutral character. But feminists opine that instead of fulfilling its avowed norms the traditional ethics has taken a biased stance in viewing woman’s nature all throughout and hence portrayed its corrupt character. They have identified the traditional ethical theories as basically male-centric because those accounts have failed to theorize woman’s moral experience and agency. Feminists say that the only possible way to eliminate this gender biasness is to bring gender from the periphery to the centre of disciplinary pursuits. Hence, gender mainstreaming of each and every discipline inclusive of ethics is an urgency.

الفلسفـة الوضعیــة عند أوغسـت کونـت وأسبــاب ظهــورهـا

الفلسفـة الوضعیــة عند أوغسـت کونـت وأسبــاب ظهــورهـا

ESPIRITUALIDADE DO DESERTO: UMA PROPOSTA MODERNA PARA UMA ESPIRITUALIDADE DE EXÍLIO E ENCONTRO

O presente artigo quer ser uma contribuição da Teologia da Espiritualidade aos questionamentos hodiernos sobre a escassez de sentido e efemeridade do tempo presente, propondo a espiritualidade do deserto como caminho de solidão, silêncio e oração. A solidão nos mostra o caminho para deixar que nosso comportamento seja moldado não por nossas compulsões, mas por nossa nova mente: a de Cristo. O silêncio nos impede de ser sufocados por nosso mundo repleto de palavras vãs e nos ensina a falar a Palavra de Deus. Por fim, a oração dá à solidão e ao silêncio uma realidade concreta, um solo fértil em que possam florescer. Essa é uma oração capaz de ser realizada com a mente ao coração. Assim, entramos no “coração de Deus”, que abraça toda a história com seu amor eternamente criador.

El Turismo como objeto de estudio y campo de actuación profesional: Un tema de identidad

En los últimos años mucho se ha discutido sobre si el turismo es o no una ciencia, discusión que hoy por hoy resulta más que inútil, vana, ya que es indiscutible que en la denominada “realidad concreta”, esto es el mundo que nos rodea, y que tangible o intangiblemente los seres humanos podemos percibir, entender e intentar explicar a efectos de acometer su manipulación y transformación a través de lo que se conoce como ciencia. El presente artículo de análisis reflexivo busca apuntalar dicha postura, de que efectivamente el turismo es una ciencia (turismología) cuyo objeto de estudio es precisamente el turismo como epifenómeno complejo sumamente dinámico, constituido en cinco niveles de análisis y aproximación (hecho, actividad, proceso, sistema y fenómeno). Situación que resulta esencialmente clave para entender su articulación a niveles superiores de formación en el ámbito de lo universitario, así como de cara al ejercicio profesional efectivo de ese neo profesional que el mundo actual ha dado en llamar “turismólogo”, cuya identidad profesional aún se debate entre las marismas de una visión reduccionista del turismo como servicios y negocios, a nivel de proceso; y no como el hombre de ciencia, y/o profesional superior que hoy el mundo reclama.

Educação, civismo e religião durante a ditadura civil‐militar no Brasil

O presente artigo apresenta como objetivo a análise da relação entre educação, civismo e religião durante a ditadura civil‐militar no Brasil, no período de 1964 a 1985. Nestes anos o Estado assumiu características autoritárias em defesa supostamente contra o perigo comunista. Neste cenário, o sistema educacional era visto como elemento estratégico na difusão dos valores convenientes aos interesses burgueses associados ao capital estrangeiro. Desta forma, para atingirmos o objetivo proposto tomou-se como fonte os documentos produzidos pelo Ministério da Educação e a legislação educacional referente ao período em estudo. Desenvolveu-se a análise alicerçada no materialismo histórico e dialético, que compreende que as ideias não explicam a realidade. Portanto, deve-se analisar a forma concreta pela qual elas foram produzidas.

Problematización de determinantes sociales en la planificación urbana

Con base en el postulado de Jane Jacobs que recomienda conocer la ciudad, descifrar sus dinámicas y descubrir su vitalidad antes de cambiarla o intervenirla, este artículo plantea algunas preguntas –muy lejos de ser todas las posibles– que pretenden problematizar las realidades consideradas determinantes sociales para la planificación, por su altísima complejidad. Se enfoca en las dinámicas criminales del narcotráfico, los territorios venéreos y los sitiados, y hace una muy breve mención a las vidas desperdiciadas. La reflexión gira en torno a la realidad concreta de Bogotá y usa como fuente de información las visitas realizadas a diez localidades con el objeto de actualizar datos para el nuevo Plan de Ordenamiento Territorial, POT. Los resultados, en tanto problematización, son una provocación para recordar una perspectiva que nos obliga a repensarnos.