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57This Article does not have an abstract
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36Japan Transformed: Political Change and Economic RestructuringThe European Legacy 18 (5): 649-651. 2013.No abstract
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33Virtual Reality: The Last Human Narrative?Brill | Rodopi. 2015.Is virtual reality the latest grand narrative that humanity has produced? This book attempts to disentangle the common characteristics of human reality and posthuman virtual reality by examining discourses on psychoanalysis, gene-technology, globalization, and contemporary art.
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597Confucianism, Puritanism, and the TranscendentalProtoSociology 28 153-172. 2011.Max Weber examined Chinese society and European Puritanism at the beginning of the Twentieth Century in order to find out why capitalism did not develop in China. He found that Confucianism and Puritanism are mutually exclusive, which enabled him to oppose both in the form of two different kinds of rationalism. I attempt neither to refute nor to confirm the Weberian thought model. Instead I show that a similar model applies to Jean Baudrillard’s vision of American culture, a culture that he dete…Read more
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60"Iki," style, trace: Shūzō kuki and the spirit of hermeneuticsPhilosophy East and West 47 (4): 554-580. 1997.There are parallels between the Japanese philosopher Shūzō Kuki and the European philosophers Heidegger and Derrida with regard to their philosophical discourses on the idea of style and their respective elaboration of this notion as a playful quantity that needs to be seized by equally playful philosophical approaches
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25The Heated French Debate on Comparative Philosophy Continues: Philosophy versus PhilologyPhilosophy East and West 64 (1): 218-228. 2014.
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29European Transfigurations—Eurafrica and Eurasia: Coudenhove and Trubetzkoy RevisitedThe European Legacy 12 (5): 565-575. 2007.The Eurasianist movement launched a theory according to which Russia does not belong to Europe but forms, together with its Asian colonies, a separate continent named “Eurasia” whose Eastern border is the Pacific Ocean. Similarily, in the early 1920s, Richard Coudenhove-Kalergi, the founder of the Pan-European movement, developed, the idea of “Eurafrica.” I compare the writings of Coudenhove and those of Nicolas S. Trubetzkoy and show how the idea of Europe was used as an anti-essentialist model…Read more
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53Contingency and the "time of the dream": Kuki shūzō and French prewar philosophyPhilosophy East and West 50 (4): 481-506. 2000.There are many links between Kuki Shūzō and the French philosophy of the 1920s that treated the phenomenon of contingency. Examined are (1) the problem of time as it presented itself to French philosophers at the beginning of the twentieth century and its reception by Kuki as an Oriental philosopher and a Buddhist; (2) the problem of liberty and of existence in these French philosophers and in Buddhism; and (3) the phenomenon of the dream as a psychic and aesthetic phenomenon for Kuki and for th…Read more
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67Style and Substance in The Matrix : Stacy Gillis. Ed. (2005) The Matrix Triology: Cyberpunk ReloadedFilm-Philosophy 12 (1): 107-116. 2008.
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12Born in Vyborg in 1884 by parents of German descent, Vasily (Wilhelm) Sesemann grew up and studied in St. Petersburg. A close friend of Viktor Zhirmunsky and Lev P. Karsavin, Sesemann taught from the early 1920s until his death in 1963 at the universities of Kaunas and Vilnius in Lithuania (interrupted only by his internment in a Siberian labor camp from 1950 to 1956). Botz-Bornstein's study takes up Sesemann's idea of experience as a dynamic, constantly self-reflective, ungraspable phenomenon t…Read more
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120Genes, memes, and the chinese concept of Wen : Toward a nature/culture model of geneticsPhilosophy East and West 60 (2). 2010.The Chinese concept of wen is examined here in the context of contemporary gene theory and the "cultural branch" of gene theory called "memetics." The Chinese notion of wen is an untranslatable term meaning "pattern," "structure," "writing," and "literature." Wen hua—generally translated as "culture"—signifies the process through which one adopts wen. However, this process is not simply one of civilizational mimesis or imitation but the "creation" of a new pattern. Within a gene-wen debate we ar…Read more
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58The Conscious and the Unconscious in History:Lévi-Strauss, Collingwood, Bally, BarthesJournal of the Philosophy of History 6 (2): 151-172. 2012.Claude Lévi-Strauss holds that history and anthropology differ in their choice of complementary perspectives: history organizes its data in relation to conscious expressions of social life, while anthropology proceeds by examining its unconscious foundations. For R. G. Collingwood historical science discovers not only pure facts but considers a whole series of thoughts constituting historical life. Also Lévi-Strauss sees this: “To understand history it is necessary to know not only how things ar…Read more
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86Dreams in buddhism and western aesthetics: Some thoughts on play, style and spaceAsian Philosophy 17 (1). 2007.Several Buddhist schools in India, China and Japan concentrate on the interrelationships between waking and dreaming consciousness. In Eastern philosophy, reality can be seen as a dream and an obscure 'reality beyond' can be considered as real. In spite of the overwhelming Platonic-Aristotelian-Freudian influence existent in Western culture, some Western thinkers and artists - Valéry, Baudelaire, and Schnitzler, for example - have been fascinated by a kind of 'simple presence' contained in dream…Read more
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56Realism, Dream, and 'Strangeness' in Andrei TarkovskyFilm-Philosophy 8 (3). 2004.At the centre of theories of film form is the idea that the montage of different scenes produces cinematic time. Montage creates a conflict between different shots, and time (as a purely functional relationship between shots) arises out of montage as an abstract element
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66Mapping Film Studies: Symposium on Dominique Château's Cinéma et philosophieFilm-Philosophy 10 (2): 82-86. 2006.
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38John Orr (2014) The Demons of Modernity: Ingmar Bergman and European CinemaFilm-Philosophy 19 (1). 2015.
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23The New Surrealism: Lost Stories, Reality Television and Amateur Dream-CensorsJanus Head 9 (1): 181-186. 2006.“Reality television” is inspired by a particular fascination with “reality.” The detached way of “narrating” events with its occasional emergence of all-too-human constellations comes closer to that of dreaming than to that of analysis, consumption, or first-degree simulation. In the end, however, reality television adopts the form of an anti-narrative in which conventional narrative and receptive devices have not been overcome in order to create a real aesthetic of dreams, but have been overtur…Read more
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16Films and Dreams: Tarkovsky, Bergman, Sokurov, Kubrick, and Wong Kar-WaiLexington Books. 2007.Films and Dreams considers the essential link between films and the world of dreams. Thorsten Botz-Bornstein reveals a common structure of "dreamtense" in the works of major filmmakers like Tarkovsky, Sokurov, Bergman, and Wong Kar-wai
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40Cardboard houses with wings: The architecture of alabama's rural studioJournal of Aesthetic Education 44 (3): 16-22. 2010.The Rural Studio, which was founded by Samuel Mockbee in 1992 and lead by him until his death in 2001, continues its activities. Its specialty is, now as before, the design of innovative houses for poor people living in Alabama's second-poorest county, Hale County, by relying largely on donated and salvaged materials. The houses are made of car windshields, surplus carpet tiles, baled cardboard, old street signs, license plates, etc. Alexis de Tocqueville has said that democracy lowers the stand…Read more
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25Shûzô Kuki et la 'philosophie de la contingence' françaiseRevue Philosophique De Louvain 97 (1): 113-126. 1999.
Thorsten Botz-Bornstein
Gulf University For Science And Technology
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Gulf University For Science And TechnologyProfessor
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