Form Of Transcendence Research Articles

Възможната свобода: от логосна метафизика към метафизична постъпка Метафизиката е „първа наука“ защото е и „последна наука“

The article highlights the main points of the specificity of metaphysics in the European philosophical tradition. The division of wisdom as a unity between knowledge and practice in ancient philosophy is emphasized. Kant's thesis that metaphysics is possible only in the realm of practical reason and only as a metaphysics of freedom is recapitulated. The forms of transcendence are revealed. Two approaches regarding metaphysics are analyzed – as a metaphysics of “questioning”, the logos type, and of a metaphysical act as overcoming causal dependencies in human individuality and truly achieving freedom.

Enacting the Anti-fascist Body: Somaterapia as Collective Liberatory Becoming

I introduce the practice of somaterapia (somatherapy), an eclectic synthesis of Gestalt therapy, capoeira Angola, anti-psychiatry, collective trust exercises, radical pedagogy, and anarchism developed as an anti-fascist practice aimed at healing the violence of oppressive forms of social organisation as they manifest in bodies. Somaterapia takes an immanent and materialist view on what constitutes a body, eschewing mind-body dualisms and transcendent forms of organisation in lieu of an affective somatic reality. The fascisms somaterapia thus seeks to eliminate are not just the macro-fascisms of the political milieu, but also the micro-fascisms that stem from and reciprocally enrich these, forming blockages of libidinal energy or tesaõ that affect everything from our thoughts and our posture to how we treat ourselves and how we treat each other. In this sense somaterapia has much in common with the enactivist view of cognition. Like somaterapia, enactivism sees brains, bodies and environments as complex, reciprocally presupposing imbrications of nested autonomous systems sustaining themselves through the maintenance and exploration of ongoing adaptive tensions between self-production and self-distinction. Viewing somaterapia through the lens of enactivism thus allows us to potentially enrich the anti-fascist potential of this revolutionary practice. 1

Denial, Responsibility, Bad Faith, and Blues in Lewis Gordon’s Fear of Black Consciousness

Lewis R. Gordon investigates myriad questions in Fear of Black Consciousness (2022). He brings out the complexity of Black consciousness and the psychological, ontological, and epistemic upheavals that it provokes in a White world. Gordon examines contradictions, paradoxes, and aporias that find their coherence in his continual call to an emerging form of transcendence. Struck by Gordon’s analysis of denial, responsibility, bad faith, and the blues, the author does not explain or summarize Gordon’s thought but rather uses it as a base for an exploration of the psychic life of White power. Denial and bad faith are not mere features of this psychic life; rather, they are fundamental conditions for its continued refusal to acknowledge the epistemic and ontological dimensions of Black humanity. This discussion essay examines how Gordon allows us to see the blues as a musical genre whose relationship to suffering reflects a responsible and liberating way of existing in the world.

Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) and Application Development

Abstract: The notion of Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) exemplifies a transcendent form of a nation’s sovereign tender, fashioned and presided over by its central banking authority. A marked departure from tangible banknotes and coinage, CBDC emanates as an ethereal presence, accessible via the conduits of digital wallets and an array of electronic platforms. This avantgarde metamorphosis signifies a profound pivot in the global financial arena toward an era of unbridled digitization and modernization.

A return to Sartre. An existential approach to the therapeutic relationship with young people with anorexia nervosa: Clinical examples from an inpatient eating disorder service

ABSTRACT The NICE guidelines (2017) for the psychological treatment of anorexia nervosa in young people recommend family-based therapy, cognitive behaviour therapy or psychodynamic therapy focused on the eating disorder, of all which externalisation is an integral technique. In contrast to this, we are challenging the premise of this method by using Sartre’s phenomenological ontology that does not presuppose the separation of the person from the illness, which is the basic premise of the externalisation. We present the key-concepts of Sartre as described in ‘Being and Nothingness’. We describe the ontological categories of the in itself and for itself, and their development into human reality in the form of facticity and transcendence. In addition, we explore the concept of the look, the psychic body and the notion of objectification through three clinical cases. We conclude by reflecting on the value of Sartre’s existential ontology to the promotion of the importance of collaboration in co-constructing treatment with patients and their families.

Eksistensi Tokoh Perempuan pada Antologi Cerpen Paraban Tuah Karya Elok Teja Suminar (Kajian Feminisme Eksistensialis)

This study describes the existence of female characters in the short story anthology Paraban Tuah by Elok Teja Suminar using the theory of existentialist feminism from Simone De Beauvoir, including her condition and existence. The problem under study is: how is the existence of female characters in the short story anthology Paraban Tuah by Elok Teja Suminar based on Simone De Beauvoir's existentialist feminism? The purpose of this research is to describe the form of existence of female characters in the anthology of short stories Paraban Tuah by Elok Teja Suminar based on existentialist feminism. This research approach uses a qualitative descriptive method. The research subjects were people who were informants in the study, including the researcher herself and the female Madurese character in the short story anthology Paraban Tuah. The collection technique is using library techniques, reading techniques, and note-taking techniques. The research instrument lies with the researcher himself using note-taking techniques in the form of a data corpus. The results of research on the existence of female characters in the short story anthology Paraban Tuah by Elok Teja Suminar obtained 88 data from 11 short stories, including the existence of female characters in subject-object relations, in the realm of marriage as (child, wife, and mother), the existence of female characters which involves her body as a power of perception and as an obstacle, as well as a form of transcendence of female characters, namely work and intellectuality.

ESTETIKA PROFETIK DALAM NOVEL LAYALI TURKISTAN KARYA NAJIB AL-KAILANI

The policies of the Chinese and Russian colonizers on cross-marriage between Turkistan women and Chinese soldiers and merchants created separate social problems for the Turkistan people. Therefore, this study uses the tools of sociology of literature to dismantle prophetic aesthetics in the novel Layali Turkistan. This study tries to describe the prophetic aesthetics in the novel Layali Turkistan by Najib Kailani with the tools of literary sociology. The main focus of this research is to dismantle the process of dehumanization that occurred to the Turkistani people as a result of the Chinese and Russian communist invaders. The process of dehumanization creates a prophetic aesthetic in the form of humanization, liberation, and transcendence for the Turkmen people. This study used the descriptive-qualitative method. This method is used because the source of research data is in the form of textual data consisting of dialogs and statements in material objects. The results of this study show that, first, the humanization value is embodied by the character Naghmatullail by marrying the Chinese commander according to Islamic law, so that Naghmah easily instills humanistic values. Second, King Komul's decision to oppose and combat Chinese communist policies is a form of aesthetic liberation for the people of Turkistan. Third, when King Komul explains the essence of heaven, the divine consciousness is deeply embedded in the person of the Turkistan people.

Freedom and Agency in The Second Sex

Freedom and Agency in <i>The Second Sex</i>

Review: The Construction of the Supernatural in Euro-American Cultures: Something Nice About Vampires, by Benson Saler

Review: <i>The Construction of the Supernatural in Euro-American Cultures: Something Nice About Vampires</i>, by Benson Saler

Just Jerry: How Drawing Shaped My Life by Jerry Pinkney

Reviewed by: Just Jerry: How Drawing Shaped My Life by Jerry Pinkney Kate Quealy-Gainer, Editor Pinkney, Jerry Just Jerry: How Drawing Shaped My Life; written and illus. by Jerry Pinkney. Little, 2023 [160p] Trade ed. ISBN 9780316383851 $17.99 Reviewed from digital galleys R Gr. 5-8 Pinkney’s lovingly crafted memoir opens with a poignant editor’s note, detailing the ultimate vision of the book that remains unfulfilled due to Pinkney’s death in 2021. Nonetheless, readers are treated to Pinkney’s jubilant, thankful reflection on his childhood in Philadelphia, where he grew from a kid palling around his close-knit neighborhood and struggling with his dyslexia to a teenager coming into his own as an artist, selling his sketches along with newspapers. Divided into three parts, the book cleverly parallels a physical space with Pinkney’s developmental arc: in “Inside My Front Door,” we get an intimate look at his relationships with his siblings and parents along with his initial love of drawing and the solace it brings him; “Outside My Front Door” brings us to school, where a patient, kind teacher encourages his art when his dyslexia makes standard classwork challenging; “Out in the World” details his time as a newspaper boy and his fateful meeting with John Liney, author of the comic strip Henry, who took Pinkney under his wing, sharing his work and studio with the young teen. The episodic narrative calls up specific moments with an engaging clarity, but there are distinct throughlines, including his search for his father’s approval and his belief in art as a transcendent form of communication. The incomplete sketches have Pinkney’s signature style and movement, and they’re a bittersweet reminder of the talent the world has lost. Readers who were engrossed by Pinkney’s works as children will similarly revel in and be grateful for this accessible invitation into his art and life. Copyright © 2022 The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois

Implementation of Jogo Tonggo: Living Hadits in RW V Kedungwuluh Environment, West Purwokerto as A Prophetic Solution in The Middle of the Covid-19 Pandemic

Based on Circular Number 1 of 2020, the Governor of Central Java Province instructed all Regents and Mayors throughout Central Java to form the Jogo Tonggo movement. This policy aims to invite all elements of society to work together to prevent and contain the spread of Covid-19. This is in line with the prophetic solution in responding to the pandemic contained in the Prophet's hadith. Namely, solutions based on prophecy in the form of humanization (amar ma'rūf), liberation (nahī munkar), and transcendence (tu'minūna billāh). The application of these three prophetic values ​​has positive implications for the life of hadith in the midst of society. This study aims to discuss the living hadith phenomenon of the Jogo Tonggo movement in RW V, Kedungwuluh Village, West Purwokerto District, Banyumas Regency. This research is doctrinal normative using a statutory approach, a conceptual approach, and a case approach. The results showed that the Jogo Tonggo policy had been implemented well. In their daily practice, local residents have been educated to implement health protocols in a disciplined manner so that the spread of Covid-19 can be minimized.

شعرية الوصيّة في نماذج من السّرد العربيّ الكلاسيكيّ

This research aims to examine the ambiguous relationship between discourse, structure and deception, on the assumption that the disruption of the cultural and social structure in the Dar al-Islam (kingdom of Islam) necessarily leads the tongue (language) to tend towards production of deception. This will infiltrate the most transcendent form of classical Arab narrative texts: the discourse of command (testament or will), which would be affected by an essential imbalance in the values ​​and virtues that must be contained therein. Consequently, such texts became vulnerable to linguistic abuse, whereby mendicant fathers advise their sons to become professional in begging, fraud and transgressing the structure.

Virtual Subjects, Fugitive Selves: Fernando Pessoa and his Philosophy by Jonardon Ganeri

Reviewed by: Virtual Subjects, Fugitive Selves: Fernando Pessoa and his Philosophy by Jonardon Ganeri Paulo de Medeiros Virtual Subjects, Fugitive Selves: Fernando Pessoa and his Philosophy. By Jonardon Ganeri. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2021. xii+165 pp. £55. ISBN 978-0-29-886468-4. Jonardon Ganeri's book opens with a bold claim: 'Fernando Pessoa's invention of the heteronym represents a singular moment in the history of subjectivity' (p. 1). A compelling and grandiose promise, designed to whet the reader's appetite, does not disappoint: from beginning to end, the multitude of brief chapters—nineteen alongside a Preamble and Postscript—link Pessoa to an array of philosophical concepts and thinkers. The book is replete with insights and original suggestions for even the most seasoned of Pessoa scholars, while the clear and accessible style will retain appeal for the more general reader. Erudite without ever retreating into unnecessary obscurity, Ganeri marshals point upon point and shows a detailed, specialized knowledge not only of various strands of philosophy, but also of the intricacies of Pessoa studies. Exemplary referencing showcases an ability to combine originality with intellectual generosity. The end result is a landmark study, refreshingly free of the usual pieties, conscious of the most recent developments, and with the potential to galvanize the field of Pessoa studies. The book's title is as distinctive as it is memorable. Ganeri takes the notion of 'virtual subject' beyond the usual sense, be it in reference to Pessoa's heteronyms, or [End Page 306] the author's intense exploration of 'virtual' realities, dream images, and mindscapes. Indeed, for Ganeri '[v]irtual subjects are metaphysically dependent on landscapes of presence; they are not metaphysically "distinct" from "awareness-space"' (p. 92). Contrasting Pessoa's 'heteronymic philosophy of self' with both Cartesian and Humean figurations of the self, Ganeri credits the Portuguese author with having developed a unique phenomenological approach to the principle of selfhood. Construing Pessoa as a philosopher—and not just as one of the great modernist writers—is hardly a new claim. Even if Ganeri does not refer to them, Alain Badiou, Judith Balso, and José Gil have long established that Pessoa's thought singles him out even among other celebrated modernists. But it is Ganeri's notion of a 'fugitive self' that is arguably more intriguing and holds more potential. Ganeri cites a poem by Pessoa dated 5 April 1934 that starts with the line 'Sou um evadido' ('I'm a fugitive' in Richard Zenith's apt translation). This is clearly not the same poem as the rightly celebrated 'Autopsicografia' ('O poeta é um fingidor' ('The poet is a faker')), so the author's use of that title to refer to the poem he cites is somewhat confusing. Leaving such details aside, the key insight is Ganeri's notion that a 'fugitive self', a self that can never be at peace with itself, can be employed to transcend a philosophical reading of Pessoa to develop a Pessoan reading of cosmopolitan philosophy. The Postscript leaves no room for doubt as regards the esteem in which the author holds Pessoa. For Ganeri, Pessoa's 'first-personal "meditations" went much further than those of Descartes' and '[h]is phenomenology [was] much more poetic than that of the prosaic Husserl' (p. 150). But the prose never lapses into simplistic hagiography. Ganeri is open to criticisms and also notes, for example, that, though 'Pessoa believed himself to be exploring the outer reaches of experiential possibility [...] he did not consider the possibility of nested and circular heteronymy, nor that of uncentred minds, nor the implications of total sensory deprivation. Nor did he fully explore the idea that we might all be heteronyms of some single cosmic self' (p. 150). A partial explanation might be sought in Pessoa's suspicions concerning any form of transcendence and metaphysics unless grounded in sensual empiricism. In any case, it serves as a useful reminder that Pessoa had a prodigious and progressive mind—not only in relation to contemporaries in Portugal, but also as regards general tendencies in twentieth-century thought (with its finest illustration arguably in his Book of Disquiet)—but that he hardly exhausted the human possibilities for expanding our mental...

Productive Waqf Management of UNISMA Foundation in the Perspective of Kuntowijoyo’s Prophetic Social Theory

Waqf is able to create a big contribution if it is managed productively. Therefore, there are many waqf institutions that are developing waqf productively, one of which is the UNISMA Foundation. By having good management, the UNISMA Foundation has succeeded in making productive waqf continues to grow through the establishment of business units. This study aims to obtain an overview and analyze the productive waqf management at the Waqf Institution of UNISMA Foundation in the perspective of Kuntowijoyo's prophetic social theory. This research applies a qualitative approach with the type of case study. The results showed that the management of productive waqf management was carried out through the implementation of management functions in the form of planning, organizing, directing and controlling functions. The analysis of Kuntowijoyo's prophetic social theory shows that in the management of productive waqf at the Waqf Institution of UNISMA Foundation, there are elements of Kuntowijoyo's prophetic social in the form of humanization, liberation and transcendence.

‘Mort vivant’: Physical, Psychological, Social, and Spiritual Death in Génocidé by Révérien Rurangwa

Abstract Génocidé (2006) by Révérien Rurangwa is an autobiographical testimony of the trauma he endured during the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda. This article examines the physical, psychological, social, and spiritual dimensions of his death and reconstruction, as well as the narrative strategies used to make his death hearable to the reader. Rurangwa suffered brutal physical attacks that led to the annihilation of his being. Tonic immobility (feigning death to avoid detection) contributed to his psychological death, and the massacre of his entire family provoked a loss of collective and individual identity. While Rurangwa’s exclusion from society and dehumanization constituted a form of social death, his spiritual death included a loss of faith and the death of God within him. Overall, Rurangwa expresses trauma in ways that are consistent with Rwandan beliefs about the body, and his testimony is best understood in relation to ihahamuka, a specifically Rwandan model of trauma. Rurangwa’s narrative challenges academic discourse on the unspeakability of trauma because he uses pre-existing cultural concepts, proverbs, literary passages, and religious texts to narrate his own death. Rurangwa also draws upon individual, collective, and transcendent forms of self to articulate trauma and reconstruct a sense of self.

The Vertical and Horizontal Spiritual Fitness Inventory and meaning in life in secular, Christian, and non-Christian samples

ABSTRACT Using the new 11-item Vertical and Horizontal Spiritual Fitness Inventory, the study examines whether vertical spirituality (which is traditional spirituality), and horizontal spirituality (which is a worldly form of transcendence) jointly contribute to purpose, meaning, and well-being across secular, Christian, and non-Christian samples in accordance with the US Department of Defense’s concept of spiritual fitness. Results across the secular, Christian, and non-Christian samples suggested that the Vertical and Horizontal Spiritual Fitness Inventory appeared to be valid and predictive of outcomes over and above the Sources of Meaning in Life Questionnaire. Vertical spirituality was important primarily for religious populations, but horizontal spirituality was important in all populations. Overall, results suggested that both vertical and horizontal spirituality are important in understanding well-being and resiliency. Furthermore, the Vertical and Horizontal Spiritual Fitness Inventory appears to be a valid and economical measure of spiritual fitness that can be used in pluralistic populations.

Navigating paradoxical tensions through the interplay of temporal structures

Organizations at the boundary of two institutional fields are often required to meet contradictory but interrelated demands. While transcendence – accepting both sets of demands as necessary and complementary – has been shown to be an important response to such paradoxes, achieving it places significant cognitive and behavioural strain on managers. Despite the importance of ‘and/both’ approaches for the survival of institutionally pluralistic organizations, we still know little about the practices that managers resort to when initial efforts to achieve transcendence break down. Through a longitudinal study of a joint-venture spanning two institutional fields, we demonstrate that managers can address otherwise insurmountable paradoxical tensions through an emphasis on the interplay of their temporal structures. By deconstructing conflicting demands into their respective temporal qualities of temporal depth – defined as the span into the past and future that they typically consider – and temporal horizons – measured by the frequency of milestones within this span – managers can process paradoxical demands in novel ways. Through a process of temporal work, managers on both sides of the institutional divide were able to negotiate a new, shared temporal depth that accommodated the temporal horizons of both sides. We show that this process enabled managers to achieve a form of transcendence, providing a structure within which to consider the demands on both sides as necessary and complementary, which was not previously possible. We suggest that ‘zooming in’ to focus on the complexity of temporal structures can unveil novel and surprising sensemaking processes amongst managers navigating paradoxes.

Shadowing Shakespeare

In his 1980 film Kagemusha or Shadow Warrior, Akira Kurosawa presents the sixteenth-century Takeda clan engaging a lower-class thief to impersonate their recently deceased leader, Takeda Shingen. I examine Kagemusha as a critical engagement with Shakespeare’s English history plays and ‘shadow’ counterpart to Kurosawa’s trilogy of Shakespeare adaptations, Throne of Blood (1957), The Bad Sleep Well (1960) and Ran (1985). In keeping with Shakespeare’s dramatisation of English history, Kurosawa creatively reworks historical sources, incorporating stories of intergenerational rivalry and fulfilled prophecies, to depict the transition from medieval civil conflict to the early-modern nation-state. Kurosawa also deploys the motif of the double to explore the distinctively Shakespearean theme of power as performance, engaging in a dramatic examination of Machiavelli’s ideas about politics. I argue that Kurosawa’s use of the double posits a theory of influence, drawing on Japanese cultural traditions, in which doubling can achieve a form of transcendence through self-annihilation.

Bernard Lonergan e a Probabilidade Emergente

In Insight, an essay on human understanding, (1957, 1st edition) Lonergan presents a heuristic model of emerging probability in order to define, explain and extract norms from the dynamism common to all nature, including human nature, a dynamism that mirrors the reality of intellection. Continuity between different levels of nature discloses a directed, upward, but indeterminate dynamism of the emerging generalized probability. In addition to the ethical consequences that he elaborates, Lonergan remains in an open hermeneutic framework, beyond being proportionate to discursive reason; he opens the way for a surprising final manifestation of this universal dynamism through what he calls transcendent conjugated forms of generalized probability emerging – faith, hope and charity – that are proposed to human freedom.

Schelling as a Thinker of Immanence: contra Heidegger and Jaspers

Among the different interpretations of the philosophy of Schelling, there is no doubt that the ones developed by Martin Heidegger and Karl Jaspers played a prominent role within the most recent Schelling scholarship. Both Heidegger and Jaspers focused on Schelling’s discourse on freedom, pointing out the fundamental incompatibility of its key elements, i.e. ‘ground’ and ‘existence’, as well as the fallacious conception of Seynsfuge that emerges from it. Moreover, Heidegger argues that Schelling’s ontology ultimately falls back into traditional metaphysical subjectivism, ignoring the question of Being as such and in fact paving the way to nihilism. Similarly, Jaspers criticizes Schelling’s arbitrary account of the relation between freedom and existential being and his misleading conception of transcendence. However, I argue against Jaspers that Schelling’s discourse on freedom must be read as a philosophy of immanence, which aims at maintaining the concreteness of the concepts and at avoiding any form of transcendence. Consequently, I also argue against Heidegger that not only does Schelling’s discourse successfully show the compatibility of ground and existence, but that Schelling’s understanding of the ‘subject’ does not comply with Heidegger’s notion of ‘metaphysical subjectivism’ and is immune to Heidegger’s criticism.