"Philosophy is born when certain individuals realize that they can no longer feel part of a people, that a people like the one poets believed they were addressing does not exist, or that it has become something foreign or hostile." ~ Agamben on Hölderlin's philosophy

Alfred Verdross, through his theory of a newly globalized 'Common Good', bonum commune humanitatis, became one the most important international jurists after the clearing made in 1945. His fusion of the liberal normativism of his teacher Kelsen and catholic natural law represents

En tres ocasiones Tolstói recorrió a pie el camino que va de Moscú a Yásnaia Poliana: unos 200 kilómetros. Le gustaba llevar un saco a la espalda y una vara larga a guisa de bastón. “Voy para descansar de la vida de lujos y adentrarme, aunque sea un poco, en la vida verdadera.”

I found another (rather short) article in English about the tradition of political psychology in Germany that discusses the development of a critical psychoanalytic theory of the subject by Alexander Mitscherlich, Alfred Lorenzer, Peter Brückner, Klaus Horn, and Helmut Dahmer.

Am 23. Februar 1929 wird Hans-Georg Gadamer an der Universität Marburg mit der Schrift „Platos dialektische Ethik“, einer Interpretationen von Platons Philebos, habilitiert. meiner.de/fmv_de/platos-…

Kojève on Hegel's messianic Bonapartism: "To be sure, only the head of the universal and homogenous state (Napoleon) is really "satisfied" (that is to say, recognized by all in his personal reality and value). He alone is therefore truly free (more than all the heads of state

Hegel’s anxious preference for the prevailing order over threatened subversion of the existing society rendered his later work reactionary in so far as the social order is so, progressive in so far as it's that.

"Quand on regarde le monde, il y a de quoi devenir mélancolique et ici aussi toute conversation se transforme irrémédiablement en discussion politique" Lettre de Stefan Zweig à Joseph Roth - Vienne, 29 mars 1935

20 ans de la disparition de Simon Nora: « Rien ne lui a paru plus désirable qu’une grande œuvre intellectuelle. Il avait longtemps hésité entre l’Inspection des finances (l’École d’administration n’existait pas encore) qui miroitait aux yeux de son père, et une agrégation de

“The idea that some "radicals" in Spain have had of connecting their own democratic politics with the rise of civic communities in the Middle Ages merely reveals the ignorance of history which is a permanent attribute, like some innate vice, of radicalism. Modern democracy is not

A verdade é que a vida acadêmica nas humanidades acabou. Para a maioria de 2018 em diante, o doutorado não realizou sonhos. No máximo, estás num lugar precário de fronteira. Não adianta ler Deleuze, Adorno, Heidegger ou Platão. Nem ouvir Safatle, Chauí, João Cezar etc. Acabou.

"No me considero un intelectual completo, porque entiendo que un intelectual es una persona que tiene ideas preconcebidas que trata de adaptar a la realidad. A toda costa quiere interpretar la realidad a través de esas ideas. En cambio, yo no. Vivo de la anécdota, de los

"O povo não é de esquerda nem de direita. O povo defende ao mesmo tempo a ordem e a liberdade, um Estado poderoso e a justiça social, a força e as férias contínuas. O povo une facilmente os opostos sem sequer perceber. O povo vive de acordo com uma lógica particular que nada tem

"Los cafés irán cerrando uno tras otro, para dejar paso a sucursales bancarias y garajes. Los poetas comprarán la ropa interior a crédito y trabajarán para las agencias de publicidad. No quedará nada." (Léon-Paul Fargue, 1939)

Hegel e o Marquês de Sade têm a mesma visão de consubstancialidade: Eu – Outrem – Nós ou seja, Eu que com Outrem se torna um nós; em Sade o papo é que "Nós" tem a mediação do voyeur.

"Para mi, un intelectual es alguien que produce nuevos conocimientos haciendo uso de su creatividad. Un campesino, cuando comprende que un nuevo tipo de injerto puede producir una nueva clase de manzana, está desarrollando una actividad intelectual, mientras que un catedrático

Oxford don Isaiah Berlin once caught wind of two overeager undergraduates who were planning to drop everything and travel to Hungary to be swept up in the Hungarian Revolution of 1956. This is what he told them: “I lectured them both on the fact that one must not take oneself

Habermas na Korčulanskoj letnjoj školi, 1968. godine (pored njega sedi Vojin Milić).

En Europe, nous avons beaucoup de mal à comprendre qu’un lecteur de Kant n’est pas nécessairement kantien, qu’on peut avoir lu Voltaire sans devenir voltairien. Cette naïveté nous met en danger : nous croyons que qui connaît la culture européenne, ses idéaux, ses traits, les