Le Flaubert de Charles Du Bos by Jacques Neefs

“…The connection between his essay “Sur le milieu intérieur chez Flaubert”, written in 1921, and extracts from his Journal, from 1923 to 1937, the comparisons with Gogol, Thomas Hardy, Tolstoy, Baudelaire, and Henry James that run through the writings of Du Bos, allow us to follow what he terms “the spiritual experience” of a materiality encompassed in the conquest of the triple demand of the Beautiful, the Living, the Truth. …”
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Cultural heritage and energy transition – A lesson from the past by Xavier Casanovas, José A. Alonso Campanero, Tiziana Campisi

“…The energy adaptation associated with conserving this heritage must preserve the Mediterranean identity this essay aims to address; traditional technologies are still relevant today, while modern energy technologies require harmonious integration. …”
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The Resilience of urban agriculture in the European context by Maicol Negrello, Daniele Roccaro, Kevin Santus, Isabella Spagnolo

“…Through a historical excursus and a subsequent analysis of contemporary case studies, the paper provides design tools for intervening in the built environment with strategies ranging from the urban to the architectural scale. The essay presents a replicable morpho-typological approach that can be applied and used by planners and policymakers to increase urban resilience. …”
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Ìwà l’ẹwà: Towards a Yorùbá Feminist Ethics by Olayinka Oyeleye

“…The theoretical implications of Feminist narrative ethics is then applied to the philosophical imports of Yorùbá proverbs about women as a way to tease out how female subordination is grounded in Yorùbá ontology and ethics. Spe[1]cifically, the essay interrogates the ethical and aesthetical trajectory that leads from ìwà l’ẹwà (character is beauty), a Yoruba moral dictum, to ìwà l’ẹwà obìnrin ([good moral] character is a woman’s beauty). …”
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Moradores de cortiço, capitães da areia e cobradores urbanos: personagens excluídos da construção da ordem nacional by Eliana Kuster

“…This essay provides an overview of urban issues in Brazil from the point of view of the construction of a national order that accrues for the organization of urban space and their dilemmas concerning the issues of dwellings. …”
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Resilient Design. A synoptic framework by Claudio Germak

“…It has learned to plan for what can place the system in crisis, developing collaborative actions to adapt to the internal causes such as exceeding the limits of development, migration, ageing, as well as mitigation regarding those external causes, such as natural disasters, even if these often depend on the first causes. This essay is intended to provide a wide panorama, almost a synoptic framework, of the contribution that Design can offer society in terms of ‘resistance’ and ‘resilience’, also considering critical events as an opportunity to evolve its orientations and practices.…”
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TO EMPTY THE SEA WITH A THIMBLE: READERLY EXPLOITS, DISCOVERIES AND LOSSES by Piotr Nowak

“…On the one hand, there will be the minority of those who read ceaselessly, even obsessively; on the other - those who never touch books unless planning to make a purchase. This essay examines the consequences of non-reading for culture. …”
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The Interface Between the Written and the Oral in lfa Corpus by Omotade Adegbindin

“… While the modernists in the field of African philosophy embrace writing as a precondition for philosophy and forcefully maintain the need to cast philoso­phy in the image of science, the traditionalists insist that African philosophy is essentially a philosophical reflection on African oral traditions, morals, and re­ligious practices. This essay argues that the intransigent relationship between the modernists and the traditionalists persists because the two dominant schools have failed to recognize the need to furnish a paradigm of interaction between their projects. …”
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Trasversal territories. Rural and industrial small towns in Sicily and Spain by Guido Cimadomo, Renzo Lecardane, María Isabel Alba Dorado

“…Although very different from each other in terms of topographical location, traditions and cultural and linguistic specificities, it is possible to find constants of criticality and potential. This essay illustrates new readings and settles meanings to initiate a collaborative work in Sicily and Spain along the Trasversale Sicula and in the mining landscape of the Minas de La Reunión in the province of Seville. …”
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The role of violence in the classics of Brazilian Social Thought by Bruno de Souza Lessa, Jaqueline Silinske

“…This essay had the objective of problematizing the role of violence in Brazilian social life and of discussing the relevance it poses in three classics of Brazilian Social Thought. …”
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Participation as “attingere” and Saint Thomas’ commentary on John 6:57 by Johannes von Voorst

“…Saint Thomas Aquinas’ notion of participation is developed by Cornelio Fabro with the notion of ‘attingere’. In this essay I address the importance of ‘participare’ as attingere by uncovering it in Aquinas’ commentary on John 6:57. …”
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Language and the African Philosophical Traditions by Kọ́lá Abímbọ́lá

“…Building on these and other works, this essay argues that: (i) incommensurability of “worldviews,” “perspectives,” “paradigms,” or “conceptual schemes” springs from deeper, more fundamental cognitive categories of logic that are coded into natural languages; and that (ii) consequently, as long as African reflective reasoning is expressed solely (or predominantly) in European languages, the authenticity of the “African” in African philosophy is questionable. …”
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Quando a linguagem é imprescindível à sobrevivência: Ó, de Nuno Ramos by Mayara Ribeiro Guimarães

“…Following this track, Nuno Ramos’ novel breaks lose from the traditional concept of realism and representation in literature on behalf of the staging of both literary tradition and the act of writing. This essay tries to portrait the problems engaged in this novel involving the debate of how contemporary brazillian literature brings back important issues questioned by brazillian literary tradition represented by pioneers of contemporary literature, such as Clarice Lispector.…”
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Mulheres, arte e poder: uma narrativa de contrapoder? by Ana Gabriela Macedo

“…My aim in this paper is to build on a fundamental essay by Linda Nochlin preci- sely titled “Women, Art and Power” (1988), where the author convincingly inves- tigates this triad while, in her own words, she “disentangles various discourses about power related to gender difference existing simultaneously with – as much surface as substractum – the master discourse of the iconography or narrative”. …”
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Collaborative energy districts – Urban workshops for proximity energy by Davide Crippa, Barbara Di Prete, Raffaella Fagnoni, Carmelo Leonardi

“…Within this framework, the essay analyses some experimental urban laboratories and potential incubators of innovative policies for energy transition; these are climate-neutral pioneer districts investing in inclusive processes, local energy markets, and active citizenship, promoting conscious and virtuous energy behaviour. …”
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C. McGinn. Selfish Genes and Moral Parasites / trans. from Engl. A. V. Nekhaev by A. V. Nekhaev

“…The essay raises questions about the origins of altruistic behaviour. …”
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The Limits of Computer Science. Weizsäcker’s Argument by Olszewski Adam

“…The main purpose of this paper, which takes the form of an essay, is an attempt to answer the question of the limits of artificial intelligence (AI). …”
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Youth as actors and mediators in Tuareg theater and social life (Urban Niger and Mali) by Susan Rasmussen

“…In particular, there is widespread preoccupation with what many refer to as the experience of youth. This essay analyzes enactments and reformulations of the meanings of youth and intergenerational relationships in popular play plots in Agadez, Niger, and Kidal, Mali, explores what it means to be culturally defined, among Tuareg, as “youth(s),” and examines the connections between acting and its performing specialists, many of whom are culturally defined as “youthful” in emerging new plays considered by many local audiences as “modern.” …”
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Apollo in the North: Transmutations of the Sun God in Walter Pater’s Imaginary Portraits by Lene Østermark-Johansen

“…Walter Pater’s fascination with the Hyperborean Apollo, who according to myth resided north of the home of the northern wind, is explored in two of his pieces of short fiction, ‘Duke Carl of Rosenmold’ (1887) and ‘Apollo in Picardy’ (1893). The essay discusses some of Pater’s complex dialogue with Victorian science, mythography and folklore in the texts, in an attempt to map the topicality of his fiction. …”
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