Papers by Alexandra do Carmo
In the line of thought put forward by the existential attitude – philosophy of existence and exis... more In the line of thought put forward by the existential attitude – philosophy of existence and existential analysis – the experience of beingwith-others is thought outside the abstract and a priori systematizations of essentialism and deepened in its most original instances, among which, that of crisis. Starting from the assumption that the "crises" of the contemporary world are replicas of an original crisis not yet overcome, this text questions the availability of contemporary culture to open up and integrate transformations claimed by crises, and that inherent to the way in which we originally are with each other. The scope of this inquiry is developed on the horizon of Heidegger's conception of existence [Existenz] while also resorting to some of the theoretical conceptions of the neurologist Viktor von Weizsäcker and the philosopher Henri Maldiney.
Phainomenon
In the debate over the ontological structures of the entity that exists as being-in-the-world, th... more In the debate over the ontological structures of the entity that exists as being-in-the-world, the French philosopher Henri Maldiney focuses his theoretical developments on the unintentional and pre-predicative dimension of experience, where sensing (sentir) takes its origin, and based on which the Existentials of “encounter”, “surprise” and “rhythm”, that are key to understanding the aesthetic-artistic experience, are explained in the horizon of transpassibility and transpossibility. Given that that dimension is the privileged field of encounter with art, this paper will raise the question of the nexus of the articulation between art and image. This question will be developed through the opposition of form and image, of the reality of image and the image of reality, and the aesthetic vision and imaginative vision. In this analysis, we will rely upon the Heideggerian conception of Existence, as well as some of Husserl’s and the neuro-psychiatrist Erwin Straus’s researches into the p...
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Papers by Alexandra do Carmo