Rereading Lacan’s animal philosophy in an era of ontological violence and mass extinction

Rereading Lacan’s animal philosophy in an era of ontological violence and mass extinction

The Philosophy and Functions of Verbal Violence in Harold Pinter’s Mountain Language: A CDA Approach

The present study considers the issue of verbal violence in the language of drama. In the evaluation of verbal violence, Jeanette Malkin (2004) proposes six maxims, through which language may be considered as an arrogant element. The characters in dramatic texts (as in other literary texts) are created, developed, evolved and - in some cases - destroyed by language. In a considerable numb...

Weapons of Mass Destruction in Context; Investigating the Links between Militarization and Godlessness of Modern Politics

Modern brutality, which found its culmination in using weapons of mass destruction (WMD) against humanity, is the dark side of the principal teachings of the Enlightenment. The great thinkers of the Enlightenment, blaming religion as the main source of violence, removed God from the center of Western political and social thought to replace it with human. Although they were not conscious of the ...

Ethics in Ishraq Philosophy

As is known, Ishraq philosophy is of some sorts of mystical teachings. Ishraqi ethics is also a mystical ethics and has taken such a direction that with the help of Ethical Journey may release human from nature’s darkness, mundane attachments and his own alien homesick and to return human to his original homeland. Sheikh Ishraq has recommended some instructions for God seeker’s achievement to p...

Philosophy in John Gardner’s Grendel

John Gardner’s Grendel is a celebrated example of the ontological postmodernist fiction. Along with a discovery of self with which Grendel the narrator of the novel is concerned, grand narratives such as philosophy are questioned. Grendel denies the external objective reality and generously allows the legitimacy of fantastic and non-realistic methods by using “life-affirming fabulous art” as it...