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Title: Technology and nature: analysing Jonas and Heidegger through Hayao Miyazaki's Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind Abstract: This review will consider a film by Hayao Miyazaki which echoes some of the ideas of Martin Heidegger and Hans Jonas on our relationship with technology and nature. The manner in which this film represents and questions the theories put forth by these thinkers makes them accessible to children and adults alike. I will outline the ideas proposed in Heidegger's The Question Concerning Technology (1977) and Jonas's Imperative of Responsibility (1984), drawing on similarities in their positions. The review will also discuss prior ethics, challenging-enframing, and the saving power, considering how they are represented in Miyazaki's art.

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Title: Finding the self through meaninglessness: anxiety in Heidegger's Being and Time Abstract: Heidegger's Being and Time differs greatly in its emotive focus from the usual Western ontological philosophy. Whereas the ontological tradition had long considered persons to be fundamentally rational and dependent on logic for self-awareness, Heidegger stood apart in his focus on the importance of moods in the understanding of both the self and the world in which it is oriented. For Heidegger, the source of all knowledge is to be found in the disclosure or Erschlossenheit of Dasein as being-in-the-world. This awareness of oneself is realised in various ways, and while logic is one form of disclosure, Heidegger determined moods to be a more primordial and widely applicable kind.

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Title: Heidegger and phenomenology: on the circulation of the ontological difference Abstract: This paper engages with the notion of phenomenology in the vicinities of what is commonly known as die Kehre, i.e., 'the turn' that takes place in Heidegger's thought in the 1930s. The shifts in Heidegger's understanding of phenomenology and of the ontological difference are recalled and discussed. Thanks to Catherine Malabou's work, it is possible to reconcile the otherwise discontinuous phases of Heidegger's thought and to elaborate a concept of phenomenology unconstrained by the metaphysical dualisms of matter and form, content and method. The notion of plasticity is seen to better describe the metabolic deformability of philosophical thought itself.

2017-01-01T00:00:00Z /library/oar/handle/123456789/105755 2023-01-31T06:59:18Z 2017-01-01T00:00:00Z

Title: In conversation with Monika Beisner Abstract: Gabriel Zammit and Luke Scicluna meet Monika Beisner and her friend, theatre director Cecilia Istria-Dorland, in Monika's house in Gozo. They speak about life and art, both her own and those of others. Monika Beisner was born in Germany, where she studied painting in Braunschweig and Berlin. Fellowships allowed her to continue her studies in New York and London, where she now lives. Her illustrations for children's books have earned her an international reputation, and she has exhibited worldwide. Her illustrations of Dante's Divine Comedy have been published in Germany and Italy, and, more recently, she has completed illustrations for Ovid's Metamorphoses. She is currently working on a new collection of works related to Gilgamesh.

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