Catholicism and the Support for European Integration: A Critique of the Methodological Underpinnings by Rosita Garškaitė

“…Yet, the scholarly discussion of its meaning has seldom gone beyond statistical analyses that show robust correlations, but cannot provide an understanding of why and when Catholics tend to choose commitment to European Union over skepticism or indifference to it. Three philosophical arguments are presented in the paper which indicate the flaws of positivist research and show how an interpretivist approach could shed light on the topic studied. …”
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Dante : un guide spirituel pour l’Europe moderne. Quelques remarques sur les lectures dantesques d’Ernst Troeltsch à l’occasion du jubilé allemand de la mort du poète en 1921... by Bérénice Palaric

“…Looking at the interpretations of the poet by theologian and philosopher Ernst Troeltsch, one of the major intellectuals of the young Weimar Republic, this article aims to examine how Dante is used as a guide to meet the challenges of the reconciliation of Europe, of the place of religion in modernity, and of the democratization of culture. …”
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BACON VE VICO'DA İLÂHÎ VE ÎNSANÎ BİLGİ by Sema Önal Akkaş

“…For Vico, the sphere of knowledge is human deeds. For both philosophers, the sphere of being is different. Bacon asserted that knowledge of nature could be gained, but for Vico it cannot. …”
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Les emprisonnements des maoïstes et la détention politique en France (1970-1971) by Jean-Claude Vimont

“…This protest movement gave birth to the GIP, a prison information group of intellectuals among whom French philosopher Michel Foucault played a major part.…”
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Noncoding RNAs in Health and Disease by Davide Barbagallo, Gaetano Vittone, Massimo Romani, Michele Purrello

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Georg Simmel et la mode berlinoise autour de 1900 by Philipp Jonke

“…Yet, analysis of this philosophical-sociological text rarely compares the different versions of 1895, 1905 and 1911. …”
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Alfred Sohn-Rethel en littérature ou la violence de l’abstraction by Françoise Willmann

“…This article addresses the way in which literary experience in those cases permits one to question the role of real abstraction at the heart of the commodity-form from an angle which is different from that of philosophical coherence of concepts. While real abstraction may be a fruitful tool in sciences, it’s also an instrument of bodily alienation.…”
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The Cultural and Religious Dimension of Russia and the Orthodox World in the 17th Century in the Interpretation of Slavophiles by A. V. Skizhenok

“…The publication of the monograph of the Polish historian and philosopher in Russian last year was accompanied by considerable interest both in the conclusions of the author himself and in the topic that he touched on in the book. …”
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Modern Theological Debates of Hell in the USA by Sydney Sadowski

“…The positions of annihilationism, universalism, and the traditional viewpoint are be surveyed. The differing philosophical, theological and biblical are presented for each general category. …”
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Le retour de Bouvard et Pécuchet by Patrizia Oppici

“…Bouvard et Pécuchet, the work that Flaubert devoted entirely to stupidity, is often taken up and commented from a philosophical point of view, rather than taking into consideration the psychological plausibility of the two protagonists. …”
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Conquering new frontiers in research on store atmospheres: Kinetic and synesthetic qualities by Christian Julmi

“…Second, the concept of bridging qualities from German philosopher Hermann Schmitz is introduced as a promising alternative to the study of store atmospheres avoiding the identified incommensurability. …”
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Death and Spirit in Hegel’s Philosophy of Nature by Brigita Gelžinytė

“… The text discusses the problem of the relationship between nature and thinking in Hegel’s Encyclopaedia of the Philosophical Sciences (1830). By considering the dialectics of natural life and the significance of death of the individual for the emergence of spirit in nature, it is argued that spirit, in the Hegelian perspective of speculative thinking, does not emerge from nature as its otherness, as „a more beautiful nature“ that has overcome death. …”
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Mujeres, acciones afirmativas y capacidades humanas by Luz Mireya Mendieta Pineda, Wilmar Niño Hernández, Edson Romario Pérez Martínez

“…The research suggests that the theory proposed by the american philosopher allows for a clearer response to the structural problem of inequality and discrimination that women have in the public sphere. …”
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Alfred Sohn-Rethel, die Vorsokratiker und die kritische Liquidierung des Apriorismus by Carl Freytag

“…In his attempt to liquidate Kant’s apriorism and to identify the genesis of the pure forms of thought in the form of commodities and coinage, Sohn-Rethel located a first instance of such a transformation among ancient Greek pre-Socratic philosophers. In particular, in Parmenides’ notion of “being”, he saw a reflection of the materiality of the coinage that was emerging at that time. …”
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Une solastalgie autochtone by Emma Wolton

“…Solastalgia, a term coined in 2005 by environmental philosopher Glenn Albrecht, refers to psychological distress in the face of environmental change or degradation. …”
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Algorithms, Intuition and Networked Activism by Carolyn Pedwell

“…In Thumbelina (2015), for example, the late French philosopher and media theorist Michel Serres argues that millennials are not only the first generation to experience the internet and related forms of digital media in their adolescence, they have also been comprehensively ‘[re]-formatted by the media’, and, thus, ‘no longer have the same body or behavior’ as previous generations (2015: 5-6). …”
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« Tuer pour saisir la vie » : neutralisation épistémologique et politique des animaux dans l’Antiquité by Benedetta Piazzesi

“…Retracing the intellectual background of the interviewee, we show the emergence of a new historiographical and philosophical interest in animals in ancient societies from the 1970s onwards, questioning the theoretical perspectives of Marxism, historical epistemology and structuralism. …”
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«Non muovere né l’anima senza il corpo, né il corpo senza anima». Le pratiche del ritmo nel “Timeo” e nelle “Leggi” di Platone by Simona Donato

“…In Plato's thought, rhythmic activity takes on fundamental importance: it is understood by the philosopher as the ability of human beings to tune in to the rhythms of the cosmos and to participate in the cosmogonic force of the demiurge, the orderer and “choreographer” of the universe. …”
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Взгляд извне: русская литература в творчестве украинского критика Мыколы Евшана by Halina Korbicz

“…An analysis of Yevshan’s papers shows that he referred both to the literature and philosophical thought of Western Europe as well as to Russian literary tradition. …”
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Kant a dějiny metafyziky by Karásek, Jindřich

“…It will thus be shown that Kant’s purpose was not to eliminate metaphysics, but to correct it, and especially in his work On the Progress of Metaphysics, the philosopher from Königsberg points out the importance of skepticism within the history of metaphysics.…”