Questo volume fa seguito al International Festival Japan Contemporary Arts in Venice, The Aesthetics of Emptiness, organizzato nel 2022 dal Conservatorio di Musica Benedetto Marcello, dal ...Dipartimento di Studi sull’Asia e sull’Africa Mediterranea dell’Università Ca’ Foscari e dall’Accademia di Belle Arti di Venezia. La struttura del volume è pensata per far rivivere al lettore l’esperienza del Festival, anche attraverso contenuti multimediali, e condurlo ad approfondire alcuni dei temi emersi. Questo lavoro – fatto di suoni, silenzi, vuoti, pieni, presenze, assenze – è dedicato alla memoria di Bonaventura Ruperti.
Dal "vuoto" al "vuoto fertile" Letizia Cacciabaudo, Melina Carrubba, Sebastiana Cipponeri, Angela Ciulla, Paola Errera, Lijia Genovese, Elena Gigante, Milena Mazzara, Isabella Oddo, Salvatore Renda
Phenomena journal,
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In the twentieth century, Existentialism brings about a radical change in the history of thought. According to such approach the most crucial issue is not the search for Truth, but rather what each ...individual wants to do with one’s own existence. With Husserl, Existentialism becomes Phenomenology, the theory of intentional perception according to which each organism, through perception, gives structure and meaning to the world. This perspective supports a dynamic way of being and makes space for the “I” and the “You”, thus knowledge becomes intersubjective. Constructivism is consistent with existentialism as it introduces the concept of narrative truth rather than absolute truth. Narrative truth emerges in a space that in the Gestalt tradition is called void, in this instance, fertile void. This void is where things happen, where they can develop. Thus, avoiding the void interrupts the continuous and natural process of existence. Considering void a hardly definable, subjective experience, the idea of the current research arises from the desire to identify a common phenomenology to the experience of the fertile void. In this study shall use the method of phenomenological analysis to describe such experience. The group shall meet to reflect upon the way inwhich the fertile void is experienced how the perception of self and of the environment changes, and upon the experience of contact when void is felt and sensed. shall be organized systematically in order to build a methodological tool for a common conceptualization of theexperience of the “fertile void”.
Hermeneutics encounters three current challenges: by more quantitative orientations, by stances that reject pluralism, and by criticism that the hermeneutic field is elitist and esoteric. The ...article offers a response through Ricœur. The hermeneutic “choice in favor of meaning” insists upon the ontological value of the human condition. It shows the insufficiency of the quantitative approach, the remaining value of pluralistic consideration of what human meaning entails, and the real world consequences of interpretation. Examples in Ricœur show how a hermeneutic choice in favor of meaning is not passive but instead reads texts with a particular orientation even when the text seems engaged in another project. The article’s final part undertakes an internal critique, raising the adequacy of Ricœur’s emphasis on meaning as an affirmation of “being.” The example of Buddhist insistence on “emptiness” is offered as one counterexample. The article concludes by arguing that in our contentious times hermeneutics confirms its contemporary vitality through its choice in favor of meaning even as it retains pluralistic consideration of what that meaning entails.
A Sociology of Nothing Scott, Susie
Sociology (Oxford),
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Nothing is a sociologically neglected terrain, comprising negatively defined phenomena, such as non-identification, non-participation and non-presence. Nevertheless, these symbolic social objects are ...created and managed through meaningful social interaction. Nothing is accomplished either by active commission (doing/being a non-something) or by passive omission (not-doing/not-being something). I explore these dichotomous forms through four dimensions of negative social space: non-identity; inactivity; absence; and silence. Paradoxically, nothing is always productive of something: other symbolic objects come into being through the apprehension of phantoms, imaginaries, replacements and alternatives, which generate further constitutive meanings. A sociological analysis illuminates these processes, revealing how much nothing matters.
Background
Despite the pervasiveness of patient‐reported emptiness and the high burden it carries, emptiness is poorly understood. In the current study, we used a general inductive approach to ...examine experiences with emptiness in a diagnostically diverse sample of treatment‐seeking patients with severe and acute psychopathology. As a secondary aim, we also examined whether identified themes differed among patients with a primary diagnosis of borderline personality disorder or major depressive disorder.
Method
Participants (n = 150) ranged from 18 to 69 years old (M = 33.15, SD = 12.41; 79.3% non‐Hispanic White; 57.3% females). All patients completed the borderline personality disorder module of the Structured Clinical Interview for the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition, Personality Disorders and the Mini International Neuropsychiatric Interview. Interviewers documented patients' responses to follow‐up questions. Patients were included in the study if they endorsed chronic feelings of emptiness and elaborations were documented.
Results
We identified 10 themes associated with patient‐reported emptiness: (1) purposeless, (2) lack of connection, (3) numbness, (4) self‐deprecation, (5) lack of identity, (6) lack of motivation, (7) hopelessness, (8) lack of pleasure, (9) physical sensation, and (10) dissociation. Themes were consistent across diagnostic status, with one exception: patients with borderline personality disorder were more likely to report that emptiness was associated with dissociation relative to patients with major depressive disorder.
Conclusion
Our results suggest that emptiness may reflect a multifaceted and transdiagnostic construct. Identified themes may help to support the assessment of emptiness and can be used to guide individualized treatments.
Цель статьи - анализ топографии романа С. Лебедева "Предел забвения", понимаемой как цельная система природных компонентов, актуализирующих вопрос о заброшенном и забытом постсуществовании советских ...лагерей. Природа представляется как разрушительная стихия, превращающая Гулаговскую Атлантиду в мир абстрактных смертей, лишенных культурно-общественного значения. Природный ландшафт не является носителем исторической памяти, напротив - это свидетель, молчание которого ставит под вопрос само существование Гулага как места преступления.
This essay explores whether ontology is internal to traditional Chinese culture from the perspective of the view from above. Ancient Chinese philosophy, poetry, and art abound with all kinds of ...descriptions of viewing from above. Such views from on high, as illustrated by famous works discussed in this essay, usually admit of no fixed focus; that is, there is no ontic being, concealed or disclosed, controlling the perceiving eyes. The gaze from above, which is either fluid or decentered, in some cases does not even focus on any real object. It merely reveals an abstract historical review or an attitudinal stance. As such, the fushi gaze, devoid of any concrete object of perception or any central point of reference, always points to the absence of ontology.
Heidegger’s early philosophical project was identified with a nihilistic philosophy of nothingness after the 1927 publication of Being and Time—with its depiction of the radical existential anxiety ...of being-towards-death—and his 1929 lecture “What is Metaphysics?”—with its analysis of the loss of all orientation and comportment in the face of an impersonal self-nihilating nothingness. Heidegger’s philosophy of nothingness would be contrasted in both Germany and Japan in the 1930s and 1940s with “Oriental nothingness” by authors such as Kitayama Junyū, a neglected Japanese philosopher active in Germany and an early interpreter of Heidegger and Nishida. In this contribution, I trace how Heidegger’s reflections on nothingness and emptiness (which are distinct yet intertwined expressions) become interculturally entangled with East Asian discourses in the early reception of his thought, particularly in Kitayama and the introduction of Nishida’s philosophy into Germany, and their significance in Heidegger’s “A Dialogue on Language”.
Background: Retirement may cause some problems in people and cause incompatibility and symptoms called retirement syndrome.Objectives: The present study was conducted with the aim of investigating ...the effect of existential therapy on the feeling of helplessness and failure, the feeling of old age and emptiness, and the feeling of confusion and conflict in retired teachers.Methods: This study was semi-experimental with a pre-test and post-test design with a control group. The statistical population included all retired teachers in Kermanshah, Iran. Among them, 40 teachers were selected by available sampling method and randomly assigned into two experimental and control groups. The participants completed the retirement syndrome questionnaire in two phases: pre-test and post-test. Multivariate covariance analysis method was used to analyze the data.Results: There is a difference differences between the retired teachers of the existential therapy group and the retired teachers of the control group in the variables of feelings of helplessness and failure (p=0.0001, f=10.11), feelings of aging and emptiness (p=0.0001, f=10.10) and feelings of confusion and conflict (p=0.0001, f=10.11). Existential therapy led to a decrease in the mean score of the participants of the experimental group in the variables of retirement syndrome.Conclusion: The current findings showed that the holding of existential therapy sessions had a positive effect on reducing the symptoms of retirement syndrome in retired teachers, and with the training of existential therapy in old age, it is possible to deal with or reduce the symptoms of retirement syndrome by creating preparation for retirement.
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