While Jorge Guillén needs no introduction to those interested in contemporary Spanish poetry, Juan Gil-Albert has remained largely unknown outside of Spain until fairly recently. In the past ten years he has received increased critical recognition, and in 1984 was honored in an homage dedicated to him. He has become recognized as a principal proponent of Mediterranean culture • Gil-Albert's emp...

In the pantheon of evolutionary forces, the optimizing Apollonian powers of natural selection are generally assumed to dominate the dark Dionysian dynamics of sexual selection. But this need not be the case, particularly with a class of selective mating mechanisms called ‘directional mate preferences’ (Kirkpatrick, 1987). In previous simulation research, we showed that nondirectional assortativ...

The article examines the phenomenon of iconic in its connection with everyday, social, and political practices. Based on distinction between idol icon, it was found out that violent practices are often disguised as Christian narratives, which should not really be related to violence their speech about disadvantaged or immediate reality existence. With help theory David Bentley Hart, Jean-Luc Ma...

This essay analyzes the connection between Nietzsche’s philosophy and contemporary transhumanism, on the basis of his Apollonian-Dionysian dichotomy and how it articulated in lateRomantic European culture. Nietzsche’s personal insanity, and the morbidity of the Romantic Movement in general, can serve as a warning of what transhumanism might become if it overemphasizes individualism. Nietzsche’s...

Introduction The present text attempts to approach the work through the aspects that make it different, rather than those that make it familiar. The five themes that made up the essential experimental material at the disposal of the psychologists constitute the familiar aspects of The Angel of Death. We will strive to interpret the work on the basis of all the elements that fall outside the the...

We study the orbit of R under the Bianchi group PSL2(OK), where K is an imaginary quadratic field. The orbit SK , called a Schmidt arrangement, is a geometric realisation, as an intricate circle packing, of the arithmetic of K. We define certain natural subgroups whose orbits generalise Apollonian circle packings, and show that SK , considered with orientations, is a disjoint union of all of th...

This paper gives n-dimensional analogues of the Apollonian circle packings in parts I and II. Those papers considered circle packings described in terms of their Descartes configurations, which are sets of four mutually touching circles. They studied packings that had integrality properties in terms of the curvatures and centers of the circles. Here we consider collections of n-dimensional Desc...