Mr. Anghelache’s Case Ispas, Roxana Cotruș
Acta Marisiensis. Seria Philologia (Online),
09/2022, Letnik:
4, Številka:
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Abstract One of the characters in Romanian Literature left to these days in a mystery area is Anghelache, a humble public servant and the protagonist of the short story Inspecțiune, written by I.L. ...Caragiale. What surprises most is the tragic end offered by his suicidal act, apparently for no reason, an act that will prove to be, in fact, the only way out of the trap of corruptibility.
El propósito de este trabajo es trazar los límites de la conciencia histórica de la modernidad, para lo cual reconstruiremos las investigaciones y reflexiones que al respecto desarrolló Reinhart ...Koselleck desde la memoria estética, la historia conceptual, hasta la historia y sus temporalidades. Para este historiador las guerras motivadas políticamente constituyeron el eje fundamental para la fundación de la conciencia histórica de la modernidad. La muerte sistemática y masiva de población civil en la Segunda Guerra Mundial marcó un límite a la fundación de este sentido histórico de las guerras exponiendo el fondo absurdo de la historia. Para entender este límite de la historia resulta central recuperar las expresiones icónicas en los diversos monumentos que se han ido creando en memoria de los muertos por las guerras y el Holocausto. Esta experiencia del absurdo tiene su paralelo en la forma de comprensión de la historia.
Albert Camus and Rachel Bespaloff had an undeniable influence on the existential thought of the twentieth century. The former, by claiming the world to be silent to our search for meaning, based the ...concept of happiness in the inherent value of life. The latter grounded her happiness in music and transcendence rather than in the acceptance of the absurd human condition, though the two thinkers seem to agree on the importance of subjective contemplation. In this article, I will offer a reading of Camus’s works that emphasizes his view of happiness in awareness of the absurd. I will then argue for the ethical and political challenges that such happiness causes. Finally, by putting into dialogue the philosophies of Camus and Bespaloff, I wish to show that the two thinkers advocate for the possibility of happiness despite the suffering of the world, and show that this concept, understood as contemplation, can be rooted in the absurd as well as in transcendence.
The goal of this paper is to present the characteristics of Eugène Ionesco’s dramatic texts, a reason why the genre of avant-garde and theatre of the absurd are also considered, with a view to ...revealing their major ways of functioning. By pointing out the different dimensions of dramatic language, the emphasis is on those elements that differ from current oral and written language. Starting from the times of decadentism, a crisis of character can be noted in the theater around a type of individual who, as an alienated individual, cannot find his identity in a hostile surrounding world. One of the direct consequences of this crisis will be the impossibility of interpersonal communication, which will be best demonstrated with the concept and tenets of the theater of the absurd. In this context, the study of the theater of the 20th century is done from the perspective of cognitive semantics, as an autonomous level of language. The approach is organised around two notions: dramatic conventions and the actual language of the dramatic texts. The interpretative theory rooted in semantics is applied while analysing Ionesco’s short plays. The starting point is the linguistics of the text as described by Eugen Coşeriu. Capturing the meaning and the means by which it is constructed is one of the objectives in accord with the main principles of cognitive linguistics. The way of analysing the meaning in a text is given by the presence of some textual functions, as possibilities provided by language through relationships that the linguistic sign establishes in the discursive act. The specificity of the discourse comes from the combination of verbal and non-verbal elements, in order to highlight the playwright’s original style. The particularities of this type of language based on an ontological representation of the actional nature in human existence are also investigated. There are two dimensions recognisable in the language of literature: one is specific to the genre and the other one is particular, giving originality and uniqueness. The textual meaning in between these dimensions needs to be reconstructed from all their constituents identifiable at different levels of analysis. Ionesco distanced himself from the conventional and traditional theatre, finding a new formula for the dramatic genre in his own vision of what drama should be like. Ionesco’s dramatic work includes short plays and extensive plays in which the author expresses his adversity against totalitarian regimes. He is the representative of the theater of the absurd and anti-theater. The corpus for this research is composed mainly of the plays The Bald Soprano, The Lesson and The Chairs, the most representative plays for the avant-garde spirit, short plays on the theme of language emptied of meaning and non-communication. Language has an impact on thinking and the resulting actions, which relates it to the ontology of human existence. As dramatic language is preponderently structured on dialogical interactions (and less on monologues, soliloquies and asides), its essence can be revealed by decomposing and recomposing them, from the angle of the conventions specific to the dramatic genre. The analysis of the selected fragments from the corpus has the role to highlight their semantic features in terms of conceptual representations.
Anger and Absurdity Coren, Daniel
Ethical theory and moral practice,
07/2021, Letnik:
24, Številka:
3
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I argue that there is an interesting and underexplored sense in which some negative reactive attitudes such as anger are often absurd. I explore implications of this absurdity, especially for our ...understanding of forgiveness.
The report of the Royal Commission into the Robodebt Scheme was published in July 2023. It found that the scheme was a 'costly failure of public administration, in both human and economic terms'. ...'The Trial' by Franz Kafka is a seminal literary metaphor for how bureaucracy can give way to corruption and dystopia. In a brief parallel reading, I show how the findings made by Commissioner Holmes conform with Kafka's blueprint of an absurd bureaucratic machine. I also explore some broader implications of this argument
En interrogeant la présence de l’œuvre d’Albert Camus dans le roman Meursault, contre-enquête (Barzakh, 2013et Actes Sud, 2014) de Kamel Daoud, apparaissent les marques d’un engagement politique et ...poétique qui surgit aujourd’hui comme hier d’une inquiétude face à l’absence de repères. Deux auteurs, écrivains et journalistes, dialoguent ainsi d’un bout à l’autre de l’histoire coloniale, pour soulever la question fondamentale de la raison de la haine. Daoud avec son Arabe, comme Camus avec son Meursault, trouvent la réponse en dehors des idéologies, dans l’absurde. Est-ce le prix à payer pour se libérer d’un récit hanté par la fracture coloniale ?
Bridging third wave HCI with infrastructure studies, this paper examines the relationship between infrastructural visibility, breakdown, and experience through an existentialist lens. We present and ...theorize a state of infrastructural functionality - which we term 'hyper-functionality' - that renders infrastructure visible because of its experiential effects on end-users, not necessarily because of malfunction. We introduce this term through the presentation of a story from the life of one of the authors in which an infrastructural assemblage behaved unexpectedly, giving rise to the experience of the absurd - a feeling of alienation from oneself and the technological assemblages that constitute one's daily world. We explore the applicability of hyper-functionality for the interpretation and theorization of larger-scale scenarios by using it to interpret reactions to the role that social media - Facebook in particular - played in the troubled United States presidential election in 2016. We contend that the existentialist-tinted lens of hyper-functionality constitutes a novel and meaningful way of analyzing the human experience of the mundane in relation to infrastructures, thus forming the basis for a humanistic infrastructure studies.
By questioning the presence of the work of Albert Camus in the novel Meursault, contre-enquête (Barzakh, 2013 and Actes Sud, 2014) by Kamel Daoud, the marks appear of a political and poetic ...commitment that arises today as yesterday from a concern due to the absence of landmarks.Two authors, both writers and journalists, from one side to the other of colonial history, raise the fundamental question of the reason of hate. Daoud with his Arab, like Camus with his Meursault, find the answer beyond ideologies, but in the absurd. Is this the price to pay to free oneself from a story haunted by the colonial fracture ?
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