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Radu I. PetrescuPages 130-141DOI: 10.5840/cultura20085121 ABSTRACT ”The Barometer of Flaubert or Literature and Reality”. Discussing the relationship between literature and reality, this study focuses on the analysis of the “reality effect” (effet de réel) which is applied to the narrative technique in Gogol’s novel Dead Souls by revisiting it through a Nabokovian perspective.

Phyllis VandenbergPages 142-156DOI: 10.5840/cultura20085122 ABSTRACT Looking closely at Adam Smith’s account of the spectator perspective – along with the compatible spectator accounts in Hutcheson and Hume – is especially helpful to understanding one of the main themes of the Scottish Enlightenment. The Scots in response to Hobbesian egoism described a morality that does not need

Alexandru BobocPages 7-21DOI: 10.5840/cultura2007421 ABSTRACT The “Pragmatic Turn” in Actual Thinking . The study of a pragmatic dimension to semiotics appears only late in the history of the discipline. „Pragmatic” seems the last one called into the dispute of signs. The study capitalizes on semiotics and the theory of action, with the distinction operated between

Teresa Castelão-LawlessPages 22-36DOI: 10.5840/cultura2007422 ABSTRACT What counts as scientific ideology for Canguilhem and Kuhn is functionally distinct. However, in this article I argue that metaphysical and other non-scientific beliefs brought about by scientists into their research traditions and that Kuhn sees as generating scientific change coincide closely with Canguilhem’s conception of scientific ideology. Kuhn failed

Fernando CiprianiPages 37-49DOI: 10.5840/cultura2007423 ABSTRACT A socioanthropological debate in the 17th Century. The Myth of the Good Savage. The myth of the Good Savage was born and developed especially in the 17th century, but it already had its ethnological bases in the geographical discoveries of the 15th century and in the colonial conquests. The French

Mobeen ShahidPages 50-58DOI: 10.5840/cultura2007424 ABSTRACT In Ideen II Edmund Husserl delineates the three spheres which constitute the reality which human being is and this way introduces us to a different anthropology which is fruit of his phenomenological analysis. The tri-partite analysis of the human subjectivity, in Ideen II provides us with an anthropology which is

loan Alexandru TofanPages 59-80DOI: 10.5840/cultura2007425 ABSTRACT This article discusses the response which Hegel gives in his Lectures on the History of Philosophy to a problem which is first posed in his early writings. The problem is that of the possibility to comprehend the Absolute, the Infinity („Life” is the term Hegel uses in his Early

Ovidiu BalanPages 83-89DOI: 10.5840/cultura2007426 ABSTRACT In this article I argue that attendant on the acceptance of the idea of an immortal soul is a legitimate question concerning the soul’s status before the individual’s birth and after its death. Whether the Greeks were the originators of the doctrine of the transmigration of souls or this was

Angela Ales BelloPages 90-108DOI: 10.5840/cultura2007427 ABSTRACT In the study of the soul between psychology and phenomenology in Edith Stein works it becomes clearer that it is only phenomenology that really comes to grips with the question of psychic causality by correlating the two moments and it is therefore only phenomenology that can respond to Hume’s

Carmen CozmaPages 109-116DOI: 10.5840/cultura2007428 ABSTRACT Among other modalities of arts” approach, phenomenological apparatus offers us a fruitful one in the endeavour to disclose part of the rich and in-depth meanings that art in general unfolds through its products. Here, we are especially interested in phenomenology as a style of philosophizing and as a method of