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Eidos. A Journal for Philosophy of Culture
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ISSN 2544-302X · University of Warsaw · 374 articles in the index
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Confessions of The Critical Shusterman
Preview: / Richard Shusterman interviewed by Crispin Sartwell / In the context of contemporary philosophy, Richard Shusterman occupies a singular position. As one of the most influential figures revitalizing and extending the pragmatist tradition into new domains of aesthetic, somatic, and…
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The Art of Making Values Explicit
Preview: / Sue Spaid interviewed by Mateusz Salwa / MS: Your recent book (Making Values Explicit. On How We Are Moved to Do, Act, Care, and Change, Ethics International Press Ltd: Bradford 2025) is mainly devoted to values. Interestingly, you claim that the very notion of “values” is undervalued in…
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Between Myth and Fantasy: On the Application of Psychoanalytic Tools to the Analysis of Political Discourse
This article is a critique of the research perspective that analyzes political myths based on the methods of the study of myths. The author points to the need to supplement this perspective with the Lacanian theory of fantasy, which allows for capture of subjective desire manifested in myths…
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Philosophical Historiography, Military History, and 2020s Crisis War
Military history has to date shown little interest in war periodicity. It will soon witness the confirmation or disproof of a war forecast made over thirty years ago, by a socio-political model of Anglo-American culture that predicted a major civic and war crisis for the 2020s. Extending that model…
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The End of the Will to Power: From Aesthetics to Theology
In a critical commentary on the final paragraph of The Will to Power (Der Wille zur Macht, ¶1067 (1885)) it is argued that Nietzsche ironically presupposes the metaphysics, and even the theology, he putatively eschews and repudiates. Nietzsche’s anti-realism about aesthetics, in its broadest…
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Performative Aesthetic Properties in Everyday Design Practice
Chairs, cups, books, and utensils populate our everyday lives and are protagonists of much of our ordinary aesthetic experience. It would seem natural, therefore, for the philosophy of design and everyday aesthetics to constitute intersecting fields of inquiry. Yet the contemporary philosophical…
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On the Proper Aesthetic Appreciation of Nature in Design
I will defend a thesis about the proper way to aesthetically appreciate instances of design that incorporate natural elements. My main case studies will be drawn from the work of fashion designer Alexander McQueen, such as a bodice incorporating mussel shells from the Voss collection (Spring/Summer…
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Design’s Ontology: Emergent Properties and Affordance
This essay proposes a visualist ontological framework for understanding design, rooted fundamentally in the theories of emergent properties and affordances. Opposing functionalist and intentionalist paradigms, the framework underscores design’s visuality and relational engagement as its core…
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Design and Aesthetics: New Ontological and Epistemic Perspectives
Preview: “The study of aesthetics proceeds along many lines, containing both the theory of beauty and the theory of art, and investigating both aesthetic objects and aesthetic experiences, employing description, prescription, analysis, and explanation.” Thus begins Władysław Tatarkiewicz’s seminal…
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War Experience and the Breakdown of the World: Ukrainian War Literature
This article examines contemporary Ukrainian war literature as a site where the experience of war reveals a fundamental breakdown of meaning, knowledge, and selfhood. Analyzing works by Artur Dron, Artem Chapeye, Artem Chekh, and Oleksandr Mykhed, it argues that war produces an irreducible gap…
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Reading Isabella Hammad and Beyond: THE UNSAID – The Point of Recognizing Turning Points, Narratives (Stories), and Strangers
The essay is a reflection on Isabella Hammad’s book, Recognizing the Stranger: On Palestine and Narrative (2024). The essay’s approach is to follow the four themes that reflect the title and the subtitle of the book and to draw out what is unsaid from what is said by Hammad. The unsaid reflects my…
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Understanding this Dire Historical Moment – an Essay
The purpose of this essay is to explain this extraordinary historical moment – through the crises that constitute the malaise of modernity and the root cause of this malaise – modernity’s flight from the ascetic norms. But although worthy, this historical method cannot explain why history appears…
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Music as a Model of Aesthetic Experience in Arnold Berleant’s Environmental Aesthetics
This article explores Arnold Berleant’s environmental aesthetics with a focus on his innovative use of music as a model for aesthetic experience. Berleant challenges the dominant Kantian framework of disinterested contemplation by proposing an aesthetics of engagement – an immersive, participatory…
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Modality Against Stigmas: Avoidance of Totalization in the Self Narratives
The article analyzes three cases through which the avoidance of stigmatization is revealed in very different modes of auto-narration. Each case suggests that the narrators intuitively use a strategy of modal shift: they find ways to resist the metaphorization or universalization of their lives by…
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Retracing Bazin’s Phenomenological Approach to Realism in Film
The essay is an introductory reexamination of the notion of realism in film by way of returning to the writings of André Bazin. In a moment when the relation between images and the physical world appears increasingly unstable, Bazin’s phenomenologically inflected understanding of reality offers a…
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The Entity as Being: On the Ontological Aspects of Style
This article approaches style as an ontological aporia: the condition of appearing that cannot be grasped either as a property of an entity or as Being itself. Beginning from the etymological constellation of stilus/stylus and στῦλος, it reconstructs a tension between writing and architectural…
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“Do it for the Plot”: A Ricoeurian Approach to Social Media Performativity
This paper analyzes the social media trend “Do it for the plot” through Paul Ricoeur’s theory of narrative identity. Although the trend frames itself as enriching, its emphasis on isolated and casual actions conflicts with the ethical depth that a narrative identity entails. Drawing on Ricoeur’s…
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From Ricoeur Back to Heidegger on Narrative and Self-Understanding
A Heideggerian conception of our narrative self-understanding is compared to Paul Ricoeur’s more familiar version. Where Ricoeur’s threefold mimesis conceives of literary texts as configuring unformed temporal experience and mediating between a writer’s and reader’s understanding, the Heideggerian…
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Hegel and the Task of Biographical Narrative
This paper explores some of Hegel’s key philosophical commitments concerning biographical narrative, drawing on the narrative aspects of his philosophy of agency in the Phenomenology of Spirit and Philosophy of Right. The important philosophical claim that lies behind both works is that the self is…
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The Temporality of the Life-Story: A Conversation on Phenomenology and Narrative
Preview: / David Car interviewed by Filip Gołaszewski / David Carr is among the philosophers who have done most to make phenomenology’s contribution to the study of narrative both explicit and systematic. His engagement with the philosophy of history began with his work on the translation of…