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Hy Brasil: The Metamorphosis of an Island: From Cartographic Error to Celtic Elysium
Brasil Island, better known as Hy Brasil, is a phantom island. In the fourteenth century Mediterranean mapmakers marked it on nautical charts to the west of Ireland, and its continued presence on maps over the next six hundred years inspired enterprising seafarers to sail across the Atlantic in search of it. Writers, too, fell for its lure. While English writers envisioned the island as a place of commercial and colonial interest, artists and poets in Ireland fashioned it into a fairyland of Celtic lore. This pioneering study first traces the cartographic history of Brasil Island and examines its impact on English maritime exploration and literature. It investigates the Gaelicization process that the island underwent in nineteenth century and how it became associated with St Brendan. Finally, it pursues the Brasil Island trope in modern literature, the arts and popular culture.
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Habermas e Heidegger: uma discórdia filosófica. Reflexões sobre os Cadernos negros de Heidegger
Pretendo abordar neste trabalho, no tempo de fala que me foi concedido, três tópicos entre si interligados, da matéria apresentada em minha posse recente na Academia Brasileira de Filosofia (ABF), em junho de 2015, no Rio de Janeiro: 1. Habermas exigia de Heidegger pelo menos uma explicação de por que aderira ao partido nazista - National Sozialistlische Deutsche Arbeyter Partei -, de por que jamais se manifestara contra a violência e matança dos judeus, e até 1953 nunca fizera um mea culpa ou um pedido de desculpas aos alemães por tê-los incentivado a seguir a política de Hitler e a praticar os crimes de guerra, pelos quais a população alemã teria de pagar um elevado preço moral e financeiro até o final do século XX. Essa coletânea contém uma crítica ainda mais virulenta contra Heidegger, por jamais ter se manifestado sobre os anos sangrentos da Segunda Guerra e mais, por ter reeditado, de forma maquiada, seus seminários e aulas do período de 1924 a 1945, apagando em parte os traços mais óbvios de antissemitismo, nazismo, ou tentando deletar qualquer responsabilidade por ter - enquanto membro do partido judaico - denunciado colegas por sua ascendência judaica e cobrado da juventude de então a adesão cega e sem questionamentos ao Wehrdienst, ao Arbeitsdienst e ao Wissensdienst (serviços prestados à guerra, ao trabalho e ao saber, salpicado de termos nazistas). Isso não corresponderia a uma decisão que só agora amadureceu de ausentar-me de tudo que tivesse a ver com ciência ou colegiado docente...
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THE GAELICIZATION OF BRASIL ISLAND: FROM CARTOGRAPHIC ERROR TO CELTIC ELYSIUM
Brasil Island, better known as Hy Brasil, is a phantom island. In the mid-fourteenth century Mediterranean mapmakers marked it on nautical charts to the west of Ireland, and its continued presence on maps over the next five hundred and fifty years inspired many an enterprising seafarer from England to search for it. Writers, too, fell for its lure. In seventeenth-century English literature it is envisioned as a place of commercial and colonial interest. A century later, in the vision of Ulster writers the island becomes bound up with questions of national identity and millenarian prophecy. With the development of cultural nationalism in Ireland Brasil Island acquires a new identity: having fabricated an Irish pedigree (including a Gaelic name and an ancient pagan as well as a medieval Christian track record) artists and poets, in both the North and the South, fashion it into a wondrous fairyland of Celtic lore.
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Hy Brasil
Brasil Island, better known as Hy Brasil, is a phantom island. In the fourteenth century Mediterranean mapmakers marked it on nautical charts to the west of Ireland, and its continued presence on maps over the next six hundred years inspired enterprising seafarers to sail across the Atlantic in search of it. Writers, too, fell for its lure. While English writers envisioned the island as a place of commercial and colonial interest, artists and poets in Ireland fashioned it into a fairyland of Celtic lore. This pioneering study first traces the cartographic history of Brasil Island and examines its impact on English maritime exploration and literature. It investigates the Gaelicization process that the island underwent in nineteenth century and how it became associated with St Brendan. Finally, it pursues the Brasil Island trope in modern literature, the arts and popular culture.
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The Familistery of Guise: A Utopia Realized
The Guise Cooperative, a project out carried in northern Paris by Jean-Baptiste André Godin (1817-88), who was inspired by the utopian ideas of Charles Fourier (1772-1837), put into practice a model that: (a) was politico-democratic in its self-management by the workers in a foundry; (b) was socio-economic in combining for the first time international competition and social benefits; (c) anticipated ecological arguments in developing industrialization processes; (d) embodied religious tolerance; (e) outlived the genuine socialism inspired by Marx. Godin’s ‘Palais Social’ in Guise, still lived in today by around 300 descendants of the workers, was proclaimed a Human Heritage monument and handed over to the European Union in 1991.
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Global Cities in Informational Societies
Modern cities have recently evolved as centres for material and intangible exchanges and this obliges us to rethink the urban scene. The passing from the industrial era to the new age of information has rendered obsolete the models envisaged by Max Weber, Georg Simmel and Walter Benjamin. Basing her argument on the typology put forward by Saskia Sassen, Barbara Freitag sketches out the different profiles of contemporary cities. Urban centres are now defined by the level, scale and intensity of the exchanges to which they give rise. On the first level is the global city, nerve centre of the globalized economy (Tokyo, New York, London...) and capable of challenging the power of the state. On the second level are the megalopoles (Mexico, São Paulo...), which are only prevented from joining the ranks of the global cities because much of their population is excluded from the global economy. Next come the metropoles, cities like Paris (‘19th-century capital’), which have retained a way of life global centres can no longer provide. However, most of the world’s population is concentrated in the peripheral boroughs of the information society’s global economy. It is for the sake of this population that attention must be paid to the transformations endured by 21st-century cities.
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