Changing times and postmodern perspectives have disrupted the taken-for-granted relationship between child development knowledge and the preparation of early childhood teachers. Despite ongoing exchanges about how best to respond to the critique of the developmental knowledge base, few descriptions of how particular teacher educators have gone about reconceptualizing their curriculum exist. Emp...

Abstract Through the many reinterpretations of Freud’s essay Das Unheimliche (1919) within French Postmodernism, in recent decades, uncanny has become a vague synonym for methodology deconstruction. The article aims to disambiguate by reestablishing its characterizing nucleus and relocating it aesthetics through philosophy Stanley Cavell. American philosopher claims that this feeling can be gen...

In his article "Borges's Postmodern Landscape" Mario Vrbančić examines specific constructs of space -among them heterotopia (Michel Foucault) and hyperreality (Jean Baudrillard) -and applies them to narration and narrative strategies in Jorge Luis Borges's texts. Vrbančić posits that postmodern mapping undermines our known familiar geography and that authors like Borges who experimented with di...

Abstract This paper analyzes Russian-French philosopher Alexandre Kojève’s dialogue with proponents of Hegelianism and phenomenology in Soviet Russia the 1920–30s. Considering works by Dmytro Chyzhevsky, Ivan Ilyin, Gustav Shpet, Koyré, I retrace Hegelian themes Kojève, focusing on relation between method time. argue that original reflections played a key role both Russian work, from his famous...

Abstract The Polaire Brotherhood ( La Fraternité polaire ) was an occult society active in interwar Paris. Some of the important names French scene period were among its members. According to reports bulletin society, there also a branch operating Belgrade 1930s. However, this has not previously been confirmed. Archive materials used for paper attest existence group first time. Its most figure ...

What is the influence of music on brain? And in what cases can this cause dysfunctioning? Among different examples analyzed by Oliver Sacks, one particularly significant: phenomenon synesthesia. Synesthesia connected to having an extra that associates kinds sensory information, music, and color. It sometimes transform hearing as a painful experience, transforming it into pure literal meaning – ...

Despite significant resistance, psychology is being dragged into the postmodern era. While many debate whether the postmodern era has officially begun, others argue that the postmodern era has already past by. This said, the emergent consensus is that these are postmodern times. Much of contemporary Western culture and academia is beginning to embrace this paradigm shift, though the field of ps...

The idea of a 'good death' is one which has been central to the palliative care movement but which in fact predates it. A number of recent articles have grappled with the concept. It is a subject which is difficult to quantify scientifically and this article explores the territory using a number of philosophical, theological, historical and literary sources. The changing meaning of the concept ...

O ensaio visual do Dossiê Deleuze: Modos de Usar apresenta pinturas da artista e filósofa francês Anne Sauvagnargues que compõem seu Carnet Japon avril 2015, uma coleção imagens capturadas em cotidiano deslocamentos no transporte público. inicia com apresentação Lilian Hack. Japan April 2015 notebookAbstract: The essay which is part of the Modes Use features paintings by French artist and philo...

The contributions of “the turn to religion” in continental philosophy have begun find their place South African theological and philosophical circles. This article asks: how are we position this phenomenon the context what implications it might for future systematic theology? After situating “turn general, traces historical development philosophy’s creative relationship theology by focu...