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The Human Condition.

29 Jun 2017-Academic Psychiatry (Springer International Publishing)-Vol. 41, Iss: 6, pp 771-771
TL;DR: In some religious traditions, the myth of the ‘Fall from the Garden of Eden’ symbolizes the loss of the primordial state through the veiling of higher consciousness.
Abstract: Human beings are described by many spiritual traditions as ‘blind’ or ‘asleep’ or ‘in a dream.’ These terms refers to the limited attenuated state of consciousness of most human beings caught up in patterns of conditioned thought, feeling and perception, which prevent the development of our latent, higher spiritual possibilities. In the words of Idries Shah: “Man, like a sleepwalker who suddenly ‘comes to’ on some lonely road has in general no correct idea as to his origins or his destiny.” In some religious traditions, such as Christianity and Islam, the myth of the ‘Fall from the Garden of Eden’ symbolizes the loss of the primordial state through the veiling of higher consciousness. Other traditions use similar metaphors to describe the spiritual condition of humanity:

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Dissertation
01 Jan 2003
TL;DR: In this article, an environmental ethic based on the philosophy of Emmanuel Levinas is proposed, which is called the ethics of being with/in (with/in) subjectivity.
Abstract: Inspired by the philosophy of Emmanuel Levinas, this thesis develops an environmental ethic out of his work. While the main threads of Levinas' philosophy exclude nature from ethics, a deconstructive reading of his work finds that it remains open to the possibility of ethics beyond the interhuman. While for Levinas the other is always a human other, I contend that his ideas on thematization and totalization ultimately require us to refuse to apply the labels "human" or "nonhuman" before being obligated in ethics. We need an ethic that does not ask who the other is before hearing the other's calling of oneself to responsibility. Responding to Levinas' work, I endeavour to articulate such an ethic, adequate to all others in the more than human world, including nonhuman (and more than human) others. I call these ethics the ethics of being with/in. I write "with/in" to emphasize that we are always both with and in: with others, and within contexts of relations, embodied in the world. In addition, the conjunction "with/in" illustrates the interrupted nature of an ethical subjectivity envisioned as a decentred conjunction of relations, always interrupted by others. As Levinas teaches, in ethical subjectivity oneself is interrupted by another, torn out of one's concern for oneself, creating a sense of ethics that comes before one's own philosophy and interrupts one's own thinking.

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TL;DR: In this article, the history of Izmir's Kulturpark is read as symptomatic of Turkey's troubled relationship with its political past and urban heritage, combining insights from political theory.
Abstract: This article proposes to read the history of Izmir’s Kulturpark as symptomatic of Turkey’s troubled relationship with its political past and urban heritage. Combining insights from political theory...

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TL;DR: This article explore the phenomenon of muchness through an autoethnographic lens that focuses on events in my and my mother's lives and analyse these events through theories of new materialism.
Abstract: In the Burton, T., dir. [2010. Alice in Wonderland (Film). Burbank: Walt Disney Pictures] cinematographic reimagining of Alice in Wonderland, there is a moment when the Mad Hatter looks sincerely at Alice and tells her that inside her, something is missing – that she used to be much more muchier – that she has somehow lost her muchness. Seeing middle-class upward mobility within academia as a precarious space in which I must negotiate my own muchness, I explore and theorise the phenomenon of muchness through an autoethnographic lens that focuses on events in my and my mother's lives and analyse these events through theories of new materialism.

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TL;DR: In his new book "Stand Firm" as discussed by the authors, Svend Brinkmann has written a self-help book for those who want to break the habit of selfhelp books.
Abstract: In his new book ‘Stand Firm’, Svend Brinkmann has written a self-help book for those who want to break the habit of self-help books. In an easy, witty and conversational style Brinkmann exhorts us ...

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Cites background from "The Human Condition."

  • ...Referencing Hannah Arendt (1998) (who he views as a modern Stoic) on truth and reliability, Brinkmann tells us ‘there may be no such thing as absolute truth but that is exactly why it is up to us to create it in our own lives....

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  • ...Referencing Hannah Arendt (1998) (who he views as a modern Stoic) on truth and reliability, Brinkmann tells us ‘there may be no such thing as absolute truth but that is exactly why it is up to us to create it in our own lives.’ Lacan (1977), among others, has pointed out that, rather than self-determining, the being of the being is ‘subject to’ and the ego has only the illusion of autonomy....

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  • ...Referencing Hannah Arendt (1998) (who he views as a modern Stoic) on truth and reliability, Brinkmann tells us ‘there may be no such thing as absolute truth but that is exactly why it is up to us to create it in our own lives.’...

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TL;DR: For instance, the authors suggests that aesthetic experience is an occasion for making critical judgments about not only cultural forms but social forms of our being-in-the-world, or if it is li...
Abstract: If, as Susan Buck-Morss (2003) suggests, aesthetic experience is an occasion for “making critical judgments about not only cultural forms but social forms of our being-in-the-world,” or if it is li...

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Cites background from "The Human Condition."

  • ...Whether as an alternative form of rationality that is counter to the instrumentality of capitalist systems (Marcuse, 2007), a model of intersubjective experience (Adorno, 1997 [1970]; Dewey, 2005), a space of social contestation (Dubin, 1992) or one of encountering difference (Kompridis, 2011; Ranciere, 2009), art and aesthetic forms have been linked to normative questions that go to the heart of how we inhabit a world with others. If aesthetic experience is, as Susan Buck-Morss (2003) suggests, a means or an occasion for reflecting on our common life, or if it is linked, in David Hesmondhalgh’s (2013) account, to the possibilities of collective flourishing, potential changes in the nature of that experience merit critical attention....

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  • ...Adorno saw aesthetic experience as “a refuge for mimetic comportment” (1997 [1970]: 53) a receptive orientation that creates the potential for nonviolent, non-dominative relations between subject and object. As we encounter the aesthetic object, we are drawn into it but we neither merely succumb to stimuli nor remove the object from experience through the classifying procedures of formal reason. Mimesis is a form of “being with” rather than of mastery that, according to Nikolas Kompridis, can be understood in early critical theory as a form of “receptivity to the claims of the “other” (be it a person or a “thing,” a subject or an object)” (2006: 103). Kompridis himself conceptualizes receptivity as an active process in which “rather than willing something to happen, we allow ourselves to be affected by experience, allow ourselves to be decentered” (2006: 206). But receptivity is not merely openness to anything that comes along, in what would be a dangerous suspension of judgment. Rather, it is a form of normative agency in which we are called upon not only to let another voice become audible, but also to respond (2011). Beyond its clear ethical implications, Kompridis claims that receptivity also has a political dimension, as openness to change, to the possibility that things might be otherwise, is a foundation of critique....

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  • ...Adorno saw aesthetic experience as “a refuge for mimetic comportment” (1997 [1970]: 53) a receptive orientation that creates the potential for nonviolent, non-dominative relations between subject and object. As we encounter the aesthetic object, we are drawn into it but we neither merely succumb to stimuli nor remove the object from experience through the classifying procedures of formal reason. Mimesis is a form of “being with” rather than of mastery that, according to Nikolas Kompridis, can be understood in early critical theory as a form of “receptivity to the claims of the “other” (be it a person or a “thing,” a subject or an object)” (2006: 103). Kompridis himself conceptualizes receptivity as an active process in which “rather than willing something to happen, we allow ourselves to be affected by experience, allow ourselves to be decentered” (2006: 206). But receptivity is not merely openness to anything that comes along, in what would be a dangerous suspension of judgment. Rather, it is a form of normative agency in which we are called upon not only to let another voice become audible, but also to respond (2011). Beyond its clear ethical implications, Kompridis claims that receptivity also has a political dimension, as openness to change, to the possibility that things might be otherwise, is a foundation of critique. Other philosophers, including Kant and Arendt (2006 [1954]), have made an explicit connection between aesthetic experience, judgment and politics....

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  • ...Adorno saw aesthetic experience as “a refuge for mimetic comportment” (1997 [1970]: 53) a receptive orientation that creates the potential for nonviolent, non-dominative relations between subject and object....

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  • ...Whether as an alternative form of rationality that is counter to the instrumentality of capitalist systems (Marcuse, 2007), a model of intersubjective experience (Adorno, 1997 [1970]; Dewey, 2005), a space of social contestation (Dubin, 1992) or one of encountering difference (Kompridis, 2011; Ranciere, 2009), art and aesthetic forms have been linked to normative questions that go to the heart of how we inhabit a world with others....

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