Submitted by Filipe dos Santos (fsantos@pucsp.br) on 2017-08-30T12:55:13Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Anna Paula Marques Haddad Basso.pdf: 1724717 bytes, checksum: 2d10c8675f38813e90041bd8efe95e45 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-08-30T12:55:13Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Anna Paula Marques Haddad Basso.pdf: 1724717 bytes, checksum: 2d10c8675f38813e90041bd8efe95e45 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2017-08-23 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior - CAPES / Fundação São Paulo - FUNDASP / The dissertation aimed to investigate the André Comte-Sponville´s (1952) atheism, recurring as primary reference The Treaty of Despair and Beatitude (t.1,1984; t. 2, 1989). The methodological approach followed the philosophy of religion having as parameters to conceptualise his atheism the humanism in the broad sense and more particular, the one that emerged in the second half of 20th century, or post-modern. The Epicurean materialism is part of his atheist philosophy, it establishes the basis of a structuralist ontology, conceiving the being and everything else (the values, the truth, the love, the justice, the good) as the particles´ movement epiphenomenon, which the philosopher named of upward materialism / O alvo da dissertação foi investigar o ateísmo de André Comte-Sponville (1952) sendo a referência primordial o texto O Tratado do Desespero e da Beatitude (t. 1, 1984; t. 2, 1989). A abordagem metodológica desenvolveu-se pela filosofia da religião tendo como parâmetros para a caracterização do ateísmo sponvilliano o humanismo de modo geral e o anti-humanismo da segunda metade do século XX ou pós-moderno. O materialismo epicurista está presente em sua filosofia ateísta que funda certa ontologia estruturalista, entendendo que o ser e tudo o mais (os valores, a verdade, o amor, a justiça, o bem) são como o homem, epifenômeno do mover de partículas, o que é denominado por ele de materialismo ascendente

Made available in DSpace on 2016-03-15T19:34:15Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Pedro Eduardo Zini Davoglio.pdf: 1036340 bytes, checksum: e8fc1186fd5b06a1a92378bb3a047453 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2014-08-01 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / This work aims to think, from a specific interpretation of what Kaplan and Sprinker termed "the Althusserian legacy", his theoretical system and its objects, the specific relations linking the concepts of ideology, law and subjectivity. Thus, undertakes an analysis of ideology in its theoretical and practical senses, its connections with philosophy, science and politics, to understand that while the category of Subject is banned from the materialist philosophical problematic, it plays a decisive function as a scientific concept of historical materialism. Throughout the pages we discover the connection between the question of knowledge imposed by classical bourgeois philosophy and the categories effectively operating in legal practice; between Marx s early humanism and the theoretical and practical ideologies of Man, which appears always as the couple humanism-economism; and between the constitution of the imaginary function of the subject by the ideological interpellation and the commodity circulation practices. All this is unveiled through the tools of Marxists science and philosophy, exposed in its absolute specificity in the first two chapters, analyzed from the perspective of a chronology of its incorporation within the Althusser's work, which involves a number of aporias and mobilizes reading arrangements whose inspiration is the author himself. It is, therefore, at the end, an attempt to apprehend, from Althusser's developed problematic, its possible outcomes for thinking the juridical field, its historical specificity and the functions that correspond to it in the reproduction of social relations of capitalist production. / O presente trabalho tem por escopo, a partir de uma interpretação específica daquilo que Kaplan e Sprinker denominaram o legado althusseriano , seu sistema teórico e seus objetos, pensar as relações específicas que ligam os conceitos de ideologia, direito e subjetividade. Assim, empreende uma análise da ideologia em seu sentido teórico e prático, suas conexões com a filosofia, a ciência e a política, para compreender que, enquanto a categoria de Sujeito está irremediavelmente banida da problemática filosófica materialista, ela desempenha na qualidade de conceito científico uma função decisiva no dispositivo do materialismo histórico. Ao longo das páginas vamos descobrindo a conexão existente entre a questão do conhecimento imposta pela filosofia burguesa clássica e as categorias efetivamente em operação na prática jurídica; entre o humanismo de juventude de Marx e as ideologias teórica e prática do Homem, que se constituem sempre na forma do par humanismo-economicismo; e entre a constituição da função imaginária do sujeito pela interpelação ideológica e as práticas da circulação mercantil. Tudo isso vai sendo desvendado através dos instrumentos da ciência e da filosofia marxistas expostos em sua absoluta especificidade nos dois primeiros capítulos, analisados sob a ótica de uma cronologia da sua constituição no interior dos trabalhos de Althusser, o que envolve uma série de aporias, e mobiliza expedientes de leitura cuja inspiração é o próprio autor. Tratase, portanto, ao cabo, de uma tentativa de apreender, a partir da problemática althusseriana desenvolvida, seus possíveis desdobramentos para o pensamento do campo jurídico, sua especificidade histórica e as funções que a ele correspondem na reprodução das relações sociais da produção capitalista.

The present study argues that the central notion and practice unifying Edward Said’s oeuvre is that of “secular” criticism, which he conceives of as the defining activity and tool of the humanistic intellectual. We also argue that Said sees the intellectual’s moral mission of “secular” criticism as based in Said’s understanding of “humanism” as intellectual production aimed at concrete change in the real world of human struggles for universal justice and human emancipation from oppression of all types. Related to Said’s particular and perennial upholding of a particular understanding of humanism, Said wields a religious-secular rhetoric as a weapon to expose and question the ironic fact of the “religiosity” of those persons, movements, and ideologies claiming their basis in the unswervingly “secular.” Within the overall body of Said commentary, Said’s effort to recover humanism as a useable praxis of human emancipation from oppressive systems has been largely neglected. This is largely due to the misrecognition of Orientalism as Said’s defining project and the consequent sublation of equally if not more significant, defining elements in the Saidian oeuvre than Orientalism , e.g. “secular” criticism. This study finds that the religious-secular trope conveys Said’s notion of what criticism is and does in a re-constructed humanism, a “humanism of liberation,” as Saree Makdisi has aptly called it, and not, as some commentators have seen it, an expression of a self-contradictory disdain for religion with a concomitant defensive posture toward Islam. In this thesis, Said’s religious-secular rhetoric is analyzed for its meaning, for its role in Said’s idea of criticism, and for its significance in Said’s effort to re-construct humanism as an emancipatory practice. Finally, this study argues that Said’s writing to and on the Arab-Islamic world, and particularly his writing on Palestine-Israel, exemplifies what Said means by the term “secular” criticism. In this sense, Said’s work on the problematic of Palestine-Israel is a synechdoche of his entire critical project. This interpretation is unique in that it challenges the idea that Said’s work on Palestine-Israel is an endeavor outside his professional vocation as a humanist and is motivated merely by Said’s passionate attachment to his homeland. This thesis aims to show how Said’s work on the problematic of Palestine-Israel is not only a model of what Said means by the term “secular criticism,” but avers further that, coupled with Said’s writing to and on the Arab Islamic world, his work on Palestine-Israel represents the most significant labor of his “non-humanist” humanism, or the “humanism of liberation” as a still valid practice, and as an intellectual, ethical framework, and a means of concretely furthering the struggle for universal human emancipation—which Said defines as completely in line with his work as a humanist. In other words, Said’s work on the problematic of Palestine-Israel is not a political side-line apart from his work as a man of letters but is a body of quintessentially humanistic production at the heart of the concept of “secular criticism.” The present study argues that the central notion and practice unifying Edward Said’s oeuvre is that of “secular” criticism, which he conceives of as the defining activity and tool of the humanistic intellectual. We also argue that Said sees the intellectual’s moral mission of “secular” criticism as based in Said’s understanding of “humanism” as intellectual production aimed at concrete change in the real world of human struggles for universal justice and human emancipation from oppression of all types. Related to Said’s particular and perennial upholding of a particular understanding of humanism, Said wields a religious-secular rhetoric as a weapon to expose and question the ironic fact of the “religiosity” of those persons, movements, and ideologies claiming their basis in the unswervingly “secular.” Within the overall body of Said commentary, Said’s effort to recover humanism as a useable praxis of human emancipation from oppressive systems has been largely neglected. This is largely due to the misrecognition of Orientalism as Said’s defining project and the consequent sublation of equally if not more significant, defining elements in the Saidian oeuvre than Orientalism , e.g. “secular” criticism. This study finds that the religious-secular trope conveys Said’s notion of what criticism is and does in a re-constructed humanism, a “humanism of liberation,” as Saree Makdisi has aptly called it, and not, as some commentators have seen it, an expression of a self-contradictory disdain for religion with a concomitant defensive posture toward Islam. In this thesis, Said’s religious-secular rhetoric is analyzed for its meaning, for its role in Said’s idea of criticism, and for its significance in Said’s effort to re-construct humanism as an emancipatory practice. Finally, this study argues that Said’s writing to and on the Arab-Islamic world, and particularly his writing on Palestine-Israel, exemplifies what Said means by the term “secular” criticism. In this sense, Said’s work on the problematic of Palestine-Israel is a synechdoche of his entire critical project. This interpretation is unique in that it challenges the idea that Said’s work on Palestine-Israel is an endeavor outside his professional vocation as a humanist and is motivated merely by Said’s passionate attachment to his homeland. This thesis aims to show how Said’s work on the problematic of Palestine-Israel is not only a model of what Said means by the term “secular criticism,” but avers further that, coupled with Said’s writing to and on the Arab Islamic world, his work on Palestine-Israel represents the most significant labor of his “non-humanist” humanism, or the “humanism of liberation” as a still valid practice, and as an intellectual, ethical framework, and a means of concretely furthering the struggle for universal human emancipation—which Said defines as completely in line with his work as a humanist. In other words, Said’s work on the problematic of Palestine-Israel is not a political side-line apart from his work as a man of letters but is a body of quintessentially humanistic production at the heart of the concept of “secular criticism.” The present study argues that the central notion and practice unifying Edward Said’s oeuvre is that of “secular” criticism, which he conceives of as the defining activity and tool of the humanistic intellectual. We also argue that Said sees the intellectual’s moral mission of “secular” criticism as based in Said’s understanding of “humanism” as intellectual production aimed at concrete change in the real world of human struggles for universal justice and human emancipation from oppression of all types. Related to Said’s particular and perennial upholding of a particular understanding of humanism, Said wields a religious-secular rhetoric as a weapon to expose and question the ironic fact of the “religiosity” of those persons, movements, and ideologies claiming their basis in the unswervingly “secular.” Within the overall body of Said commentary, Said’s effort to recover humanism as a useable praxis of human emancipation from oppressive systems has been largely neglected. This is largely due to the misrecognition of Orientalism as Said’s defining project and the consequent sublation of equally if not more significant, defining elements in the Saidian oeuvre than Orientalism , e.g. “secular” criticism. This study finds that the religious-secular trope conveys Said’s notion of what criticism is and does in a re-constructed humanism, a “humanism of liberation,” as Saree Makdisi has aptly called it, and not, as some commentators have seen it, an expression of a self-contradictory disdain for religion with a concomitant defensive posture toward Islam.

This thesis examines the possibilities for feminism that arise from the work of Michel Foucault, which I explicate by comparison it with humanist existentialism. I begin with The Second Sex, Simone de Beauvoir's application of existentialism to women. I expose the problems that arise in Beauvoir's project. Woman's body is an obstacle to her transcendence, and further, she must abandon her feminine desires and values, and accommodate herself to masculine patterns if she is to overcome her immanence and subordination. To understand why such problems recur in The Second Sex, I turn to Sartre's Being and Nothingness. After examining the conceptions underlying his thought, I conclude that his philosophy is unable to encompass difference, and is therefore antithetical to the feminist project. ¶ Foucault's philosophy offers solutions to these problems by eliminating consciousness as universal subject of action, and by making subjectivity a product of time, through showing how subjects are formed though the changing effects of power upon bodies. His thought encompasses difference at a fundamental level, through understanding human beings as particular 'events' in time. I argue that Foucault's philosophy does not depend fundamentally, as does Sartre's, upon woman as Other. ¶ Foucault shows how our particular historical form of rationality, created within power relations, sets limits on what we can think, be and do. He shows how thought can overcome some of these limits, allowing us to become authors of our own actions. Misunderstandings are common, particularly of his conception of power and its relation to subjectivity. Many commentators demand changes that reinstate the concepts he fundamentally rejects. Others do not see the unity of his philosophy. I show its importance to women's emancipation and to a feminist ethics. ¶ Finally, I compare Foucault's thought with feminism of difference. With the help of Heidegger, I argue that Foucault offers a superior but complementary way to know who we are, through understanding the history of our making. I show how the masculine and the feminine can be reconciled through a reconceptualisation of the relation of sex to time. All told, Foucault is a philosopher of freedom and for him the practice of freedom is an ethics.

TITLE: The Philosophy of Louis Althusser in his ‚theoreticist' period AUTHOR: Petr Kužel DEPARTMENT: Social Sciences and Philosophy, Department SUPERVISOR: Mgr. Michael Hauser Ph.D. ABSTRACT: The thesis focuses on a philosophy of Louis Althusser in his "teoreticist" period, i.e. 1960-1967. The work is divided to four essentials sections: epistemology, ontology, psychoanalyse and ideology. We put accent on epistemological problematic, which is in this period of a development of Althusser's philosophy unequivocally dominant. In introduction of this text is explained historical and political context, in which Althusser realized his "theoretical intervention". The thesis treat on Althusser's conviction, that inadequate theory leads to deformed political practice and that Marxist theory exists till now in his "applied form", notably in The Capital. According to Althusser this Marxist theory wasn't adequately theoretically formed. Our work characterises Althusser's tentative to create and theoretically formulate this theory. This Althusser's tentative is connected with an effort to draw a "line of demarcation" between the Marxism and the pre-Marxist idealist notions, which are foreign to authentic Marxism. Althusser's critique focuses on Stalinism, "theoretical humanism", empiricism and Hegelianism. In present...