Simona ModreanuPages 171-186DOI: 10.2478/v10193-011-0011-2 ABSTRACT The well-known label of “theater of the absurd” is based on the Aristotelian logic of the nonincluded middle, the common interpretation being that of the chaotic and irrational character of the universe, human destiny, and language. However, we propose another view on the subject, relying on the discoveries of quantum […]
Mario PerniolaPages 187-212DOI: 10.2478/v10193-011-0012-1 ABSTRACT In order to properly understand the period which begins at the end of the ’60s last century, this must not be described anymore using the traditional categories of culture and politics. Facing events like those in May ’68 in France, the Italian revolution in 1979, the fall of the Berlin
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Simona MitroiuPages 213-222DOI: 10.2478/v10193-011-0013-0 ABSTRACT Following the distinctions made by Susan Pearce between souvenir collections, fetishism collections and systematic collections, the present study will underline the idea that, for Walter Benjamin, collection was a way to reconnect with the past and to reconstruct an image of what was destroyed. Every object collected by Benjamin was
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Radu Vasile ChialdaPages 223-235DOI: 10.2478/v10193-011-0014-z ABSTRACT In order to redefine barbarism, a hermeneutical framework is needed. The contemporary socio-cultural context and the transformations that have occurred during the last decades represent the premises for a new barbarism. In redefining barbarism, its relationship with civilization and culture should be first considered. Cultural mutations, together with the
