collapse of the christian church in the west is the beginning of enlightenment era in which western theorists constituted a new base in theoretical and practical thoughts with dominance of positivist thoughts and with disregard to metaphysical principles. meanwhile, when these new schools of thought became unable to lay a solid foundation to give meaning to the world and human life and when the...

Resumo: Este artigo possui o propósito de colocar à prova a interpretação heideggeriana acerca das noções nietzschianas vontade potência e eterno retorno do mesmo. Para levar cabo referido objetivo, início, apresentaremos argumento desenvolvido por Heidegger nas suas preleções textos sobre Nietzsche, editadas publicadas em dois volumes, no ano 1961. Num segundo momento, examinaremos, Nietzsche:...

El artículo trata de las fuentes del concepto «nihilismo» en Nietzsche. Es bien conocido que el término adquiere un significado filosófico gracias a Martin Heidegger y menor medida Karl Löwith han contribuido luego la transformación filosófica final término. Sin embargo es igualmente Nietzsche no creador término/concepto. La literatura secundaria sobre tema nos informa probablemente tomó presta...

A fine-grained analysis of the transcript of a Bangladeshi woman's lament is used to argue for an anthropology of "madness" that attends closely to performance and performativity. The emergent, interactive production of wept speech, together with the conflicting use to which it is put by the performer and her relatives, is linked problematically to performance genres and to ethnopsychiatric ind...

Scarcely twelve months ago tlie whole country was shocked by a disaster to school children so horrible in its details that men in distant cities wept in street-cars as they read the account in the morning papers. Immediately, everywhere, school buildings were inspected and hundreds of thousands of dollars were expended in alterations and fire escapes. Since then, in the city of that sad disaste...