Direito e Justiça em Derrida e Levinas

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Paracoccidioidomicose em crianças e adolescentes

Paracoccidioidomycosis (PCM) is an important systemic mycosis; it is restricted to Latin America, and Brazil is the most affected country. Children and adolescents account for approximately 5 to 10% of all cases with the acute form of the disease, which afflicts the mononuclear phagocytic system, in particular, lymph nodes and abdominal organs. Involvement of bones and joints has been observed ...

Exercício, obesidade e asma em crianças e adolescentes

Overweight has become increasingly common in children around the world. Unfortunately, Brazil is no exception. Additionally, due to increased access to many modern conveniences, the physical activity levels in this age group have declined. Besides metabolic sequelae, obesity combined with a sedentary activity level can also negatively affect multiple organ systems throughout the body. Data are ...

The Nudity of the Ego. An Eckhartian Perspective on the Levinas/Derrida Debate on Alterity

The present paper examines the Eckhartian motives in Derrida's critique of Levinas' concept of the "Other". The focus is put on the Husserlian concept of alter ego that is at the core of the debate between Levinas and Derrida. Against Levinas, Derrida argues that alter is not an epithet that expresses a mere accidental modification of the ego, but an indicator of radical exteriority. Interestin...

A histeria em Freud e Flaubert

Hysteria in Freud and Flaubert. This article reviews Freud’s course in his texts about hysteria and others related to it, and, following the suggestion of the inventor of psychoanalysis, intends to consider the character of a literary classic, Flaubert’s “Madame Bovary”, aiming to point out the structural aspects of hysteria from the course of both, the character already mentioned, and the cons...