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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 …


Michael Winterbotton Encontra Giorgio Agamben: Biopolítica E Cinema, Andre De Macedo Duarte Jan 2007

Michael Winterbotton Encontra Giorgio Agamben: Biopolítica E Cinema, Andre De Macedo Duarte

Andre de Macedo Duarte

This article intends to theoretically think with Michael Winterbotton’s movies 'In this world' (2002), 'Code 46' (2003) and 'The road to Guantanamo' (2006). These movies are interpreted as ‘texts’ which interrogate main dilemmas of contemporary and near future politics, such as: illegal immigration, illegal detention and biopolitical control. In order to do so, Giorgio Agamben’s concepts such as ‘biopolitics’ and ‘state of exception’ constitute main theoretical references since they illuminate the chocking powerfulness of Winterbotton’s images. The common feature of both Winterbotton’s movies and Agamben's concept of biopolitics relates to the unstable frontier that politically and economically separates bare life …


Heidegger Y El Otro. Ser Y Tiempo: Una Ética Postmetafísica, Andre De Macedo Duarte Jan 2006

Heidegger Y El Otro. Ser Y Tiempo: Una Ética Postmetafísica, Andre De Macedo Duarte

Andre de Macedo Duarte

Criticizing current interpretations that stress the existential solipsism of the resolute Dasein, the present investigation emphasizes Heidegger’s contribution to the question of the acknowledgment of otherness in Being and Time. The key to uncover the post-metaphysical ethical dimension of the existential analytic is to be found in the theoretical articulation between the phenomenological analysis of anguish and that of the call of conscience. The main argument is that by responsibly hearing to the strange appeal of conscience, resolute Dasein is simultaneously opened to the acknowledgment and welcoming of the other as other.


Biopolitics And The Dissemination Of Violence: The Arendtian Critique Of The Present, Andre De Macedo Duarte Jan 2006

Biopolitics And The Dissemination Of Violence: The Arendtian Critique Of The Present, Andre De Macedo Duarte

Andre de Macedo Duarte

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Hannah Arendt: Repensar O Direito À Luz Da Política Democrática Radical., Andre De Macedo Duarte Dec 2005

Hannah Arendt: Repensar O Direito À Luz Da Política Democrática Radical., Andre De Macedo Duarte

Andre de Macedo Duarte

As contribuições arendtianas para os debates jurídicos contemporâneos estão marcadas pela reflexão crítica a respeito dos limites do direito em face da crise política de nosso tempo. Nada mais distante do pensamento arendtiano do que conceber o direito, ou os direitos humanos, como a instância política única ou privilegiada para o exercício ativo da cidadania e para a compreensão da política em suas (im)possibilidades contemporâneas. Nada mais contrário ao pensamento político arendtiano do que considerar a política como fundada no direito, fazendo do direito, e dos direitos humanos em particular, a política par excellence. Neste texto, gostaria de argumentar que …


Heidegger E Foucault, Críticos Da Modernidade: Humanismo, Técnica E Biopolítica, Andre De Macedo Duarte Dec 2005

Heidegger E Foucault, Críticos Da Modernidade: Humanismo, Técnica E Biopolítica, Andre De Macedo Duarte

Andre de Macedo Duarte

I intend to discuss Foucault’s and Heidegger’s critical diagnosis of Modernity emphasizing its continuities. Generally speaking, it is possible to argue that in Heidegger philosophical reflection assumes itself as essentially historical, while in Foucault’s case historical investigation assumes itself as an essentially philosophical task. Although recognizing the differences between Foucault’s and Heidegger’s general theoretical approaches, I argue that both consider that, in order to understand who we are today, it is necessary to elaborate a critical understanding of Modernity. In both cases, Modernity is viewed as a historical epoch characterized by humanism, i.e., by the projection of human beings as …


Heidegger E A Linguagem: Do Acolhimento Do Ser Ao Acolhimento Do Outro, Andre De Macedo Duarte Jan 2005

Heidegger E A Linguagem: Do Acolhimento Do Ser Ao Acolhimento Do Outro, Andre De Macedo Duarte

Andre de Macedo Duarte

This text investigates the ethical implications of Heidegger’s conception of language, starting with Being and Time and then analyzing his mature texts of the fifties. It develops itself around two interrelated hypothesis: the first one is that Heidegger’s mature understanding of the essence of language was already defined in its major lines in Being and Time, although at that moment it had not yet received its full development. The second hypothesis is that the welcoming of Being that underlies and constitutes the core of Heidegger’s meditation on the essence of language brings with itself intrinsic ethical implications, since it provides …


Heidegger E A Possibilidade De Uma Antropologia Existencial, Andre De Macedo Duarte Jan 2004

Heidegger E A Possibilidade De Uma Antropologia Existencial, Andre De Macedo Duarte

Andre de Macedo Duarte

The present investigation intents to discuss Heidegger’s reflections on science by focusing both on his analysis of it in Being and time and on his reflections concerning the possibility of an existentially grounded anthropology, exposed in the Zollikoner Seminare. In spite of the important transformations that affected Heidegger’s thinking concerning science after the Kehre, I shall argue that what unifies his understanding of it throughout his work is the deconstructive subordination of science to the ontological investigaton. By thus proceeding, Heidegger was able to criticize the dangerous objectifying and reifying tendencies implied by traditional scientific approaches of the human being, …


Biopolitica Y Diseminación De La Violencia: La Crítica De Arendt Al Presente, Andre De Macedo Duarte Jan 2004

Biopolitica Y Diseminación De La Violencia: La Crítica De Arendt Al Presente, Andre De Macedo Duarte

Andre de Macedo Duarte

In his work Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life, Giorgio Agamben affirms that Arendt and Foucault were the contemporary political theorists that best understood the modern dramatic political shifts that culminate in the Nazi and Stalinist extermination camps. This text explores this insight and proposes to establish an Arendtian diagnosis of the present under the paradigm of biopolitics, defined as the unifying character of different contemporary violent phenomena such as: preventive and humanitarian wars; fanatical suicidal terrorist attacks aiming at the complete annihilation of its opponents; the utilization of chemical and bacteriological mass destructive weapons by States against civilian …


Hannah Arendt E O Pensamento Político Sob O Signo Do Amor Mundi, Andre De Macedo Duarte Dec 2002

Hannah Arendt E O Pensamento Político Sob O Signo Do Amor Mundi, Andre De Macedo Duarte

Andre de Macedo Duarte

O conceito agostiniano de “Amor Mundi” é essencial para o pensamento político de Hannah Arendt, pois lhe inspirou uma alternativa em relação à atitude teórica dos pensadores da política de inspiração marxista ou liberal. O presente texto apresenta dois objetivos. Trata-se tanto de compreender o sentido que Arendt atribuiu ao conceito agostiniano de “Amor Mundi” em A Condição Humana (1958), estabelecendo, para isso, uma comparação com sua interpretação prévia deste mesmo conceito na Tese de Doutorado, O Conceito de Amor em Agostinho (1929), bem como, também, de explorar as implicações teóricas decorrentes de sua orientação do pensamento político para o …


Foucault À Luz De Heidegger: Notas Sobre O Sujeito Autônomo E O Sujeito Constituído, Andre De Macedo Duarte Jan 2002

Foucault À Luz De Heidegger: Notas Sobre O Sujeito Autônomo E O Sujeito Constituído, Andre De Macedo Duarte

Andre de Macedo Duarte

Partindo da distinção informal proposta por Foucault entre os filósofos sobre os quais ele escreveu, e aqueles a partir de cuja leitura ele orientou seu próprio pensamento, pretendo mostrar que a filosofia de Heidegger permite iluminar certos aspectos difíceis e problemáticos do pensamento foucaultiano, sobretudo aqueles relativos ao seu derradeiro interesse pela constituição ética do ‘si mesmo’ autônomo. O problema que cumpre discutir aqui reside em que nos textos das fases arqueológica e genealógica, Foucault tornara-se célebre por demonstrar a constituição do ‘homem’ por uma trama de discursos de saber e de relações poder, em análises que desmontaram impiedosamente as …


Hannah Arendt E A Modernidade: Esquecimento E Redescoberta Da Política, Andre De Macedo Duarte Jan 2001

Hannah Arendt E A Modernidade: Esquecimento E Redescoberta Da Política, Andre De Macedo Duarte

Andre de Macedo Duarte

Hannah Arendt views Modernity as the epoch of the forgetfulness of politics in its democratic determinations, since the political and the public sphere were either totally reduced to the specter of violence and terror, as it happened in the case of totalitarian regimes, or totally absorbed by the bureaucratic administration of society’s economic interests. In this article I intend to discuss the main arguments that constitute her critical diagnosis of Modernity, retracing them to their inspirational origins, that is, Nietzsche’s and Heidegger’s critical assessments of Modernity. Finally, I try to demonstrate that Arendt has balanced her critical understanding of politics …


Hannah Arendt Entre Heidegger E Benjamin: A Crítica Da Tradição E A Recuperação Da Origem Da Política, Andre De Macedo Duarte Jan 2001

Hannah Arendt Entre Heidegger E Benjamin: A Crítica Da Tradição E A Recuperação Da Origem Da Política, Andre De Macedo Duarte

Andre de Macedo Duarte

O pensamento arendtiano elaborou-se à sombra das rupturas decisivas que obscureceram o presente, iniciando-se com a análise crítica do fenômeno totalitário para complementar-se com uma vigorosa crítica da tradição do pensamento político ocidental, cujas categorias não mais permitiriam a compreensão dos eventos políticos contemporâneos, nem ofereceriam alternativas capazes de revigorar a política e obstar a reinstituição do mal totalitário. O argumento deste texto é o de que, impossibilitada de fiar-se na tradição do pensamento político, Arendt não se contentou em simplesmente lamentar a perda da dignidade da política no presente por meio de uma rememoração nostálgica do passado greco-romano. Refletindo …