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Heidegger And The Historical-Political Character Of The Artwork, Andre De Macedo Duarte Jan 2007

Heidegger And The Historical-Political Character Of The Artwork, Andre De Macedo Duarte

Andre de Macedo Duarte

The text discusses the historial-political character attributed by Heidegger to the artwork in his 1936 essay “The origin of the work of art”. The main argument is that Heidegger’s analysis of the artwork is simultaneously an inquiry into the possibility of a new beginning in history by means of a genuine appropriation of history, a subject-matter that was altogether absent during the project of fundamental ontology. The essay on the artwork is considered as a first step in Heidegger’s formulation of his later thesis concerning Western history as the history of Being. Incidentally, this shift in Heidegger’s understanding of history …


Ideological History And The Secession Rhetoric Of Texas Politicians, William J. Chriss Jan 2007

Ideological History And The Secession Rhetoric Of Texas Politicians, William J. Chriss

William J Chriss

This article deals with an episode in the ideological history of Texas. It analyzes the rhetorical strategies employed by Texas politicians during the Secession debate, in order to better understand the political thinking of the people who responded to them. The primary prism through which the strategies of each side are viewed is the extent to which they marshaled analogies from classical history and literature in support of their arguments. Because the unionists in Texas adopted for themselves the role of wise philosophers denouncing mob violence, they often used classical literature and examples from ancient and medieval republican history to …


Memoirs Of Louis Xiv To His Son, 1663/1667, Charles E. Reesink Mr Jan 2007

Memoirs Of Louis Xiv To His Son, 1663/1667, Charles E. Reesink Mr

Charles E Reesink

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