Olgária Chain Féres Matos

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  From the paradigmatic reference and example of Socratic discipline (I Zen) in the Xenophon’s writings the reflections about the re-integrating principle facing the inexhaustible, uncertain and unknown reality can be developed, searching the proportional reconciliation, the dynamic harmony the satisfactory and reasonable integrity for the human being to acquire not only the philosophical …

  The principle of integrity as the principle of potency in Socrates according to Xenophon’s writings, PUB.LVR.BR

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  This dissertation defends the presence of philosophy in Giacomo Leopardi's work (1798-1837). By defending the idea that Leopardi is also a philosopher, it goes beyond the discussion aroused by many scholars that Leopardi is either a philosopher or a poet. This discussion contributed to reinforce the dichotomy between the poet and the philosopher and to deny the philosophical dimension in …

  The critique of modernity according to Giacomo Leopardi: searching a ultra-philosophy, PUB.LVR.BR

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  The project deals with the elaboration of the relations between nature and history in seventeenth-century philosophy, seeking not only the concepts of the period but also their renaissance sources, as well as the critiques and reformulations of the concepts in later philosophy, particularly in the French enlightenment and German idealism, and in such contemporary philosophers as Nietzsche…

  Rupture and continuity: research on the relations between nature and history since the great rationalism of the seventeenth Century, AP.TEM

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  One of the outstanding matters of the Contemporary Political Philosophy is the emergence and the hegemony of neoliberal thought and practices. The effects of neoliberalism have been discussed not only on economy as also on government, on public realm, on way of life and on subjectivity. Taking that into account, this research proposal aims at thinking over one of the elements which have b…

  Governance and the new management of political action, BP.PD

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  The current Postdoctoral Research Project aims to profound the acknowledgements regards the proposal and the concepts about hospitality, in cosmopolitanism point of view, formulated by Jacques Derrida. Based upon an interdisciplinary approach, between Philosophy and International Relations, the research attempt to comprehended the formulations of Derrida in order to systematize and promot…

  Derrida and Ethics: hospitality and international relations, BP.PD

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  This project is an inquiry into the notion of concretezza that is at the core of the historiographical practice of Eugenio Garin (1909-2004). Its intention is to assess if and how this concept, which is peculiar to the author, is capable of providing elements for the articulation of an original theory of culture that would go beyond the study of the Italian Renaissance, Garin's primary ob…

  La Concretezza: elements of a philosophical theory of culture in Eugenio Garin's Renaissance, BP.PD

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  The research "In search of the lost experience: the breakdown of democracy" is the issue of axis political, social and cultural reordering of contemporaneity, from the end of the nation State, which resulted in the eclipsamento of politics, whose empty came to be occupied by the technology and the "Government of the numbers", translated in the language of the dominant political action, li…

  Acosmism and filiation: in search of the lost experience, BE.PQ

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  The objective of this research is to analyses the relations between the genealogical crisis of the present and the crisis of the transmission of fundamental values, of generational solidarity that formed the intersubjective molds of professional and institutional identity. Without heritage, without susceptible memory to supplement this modern amnesia, the political and social institutions…

  Modernity: from autonomy to processes without subject, BE.PQ

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  The aim of this research is to reflect about the acceleration of time in modernity with its incidence in contemporary culture in regard to the consequences of the rupture with the tradition that happened at the end of the First World War . According to Walter Benjamin, this is what we find at the base of violence in modern time. The time acceleration and the intensification of nervous s…

  Time acceleration and post-democracy: violence and communication, BE.PQ

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