2018-03Thematic Section
Cassirer: The Coming of a New Humanism

08/11/2018  / 
DOI: 10.26319/5812

Abstract: The various efforts to put the idea of humanity on a secure ethical, political, and social base have not succeeded. The various post-humanist and transhumanist programs are inadequate. Our deep-seated suspicion of our deepest selves and motives is understandable in light of the barbarity of the twentieth century, but humanism is not to blame….

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2018-03Editorial
The Inevitability of Symbols

08/11/2018  / 
DOI: 10.26319/5811

Preview: The contemporary culture is marked by an essential heterodoxicality, where opposing cultural factors are constantly and effectively at play. For what we experience is unprecedented dynamics of social-cultural reality contrasted with a paradoxical form of stagnation (if not of regression). As if all changes were only meaningless variations on the same theme. What we experience are…

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