In its late phase, Beckett’s project of subtraction, the reduction of material to the “meremost minimum” faces the significant technical problem of how to preserve the necessary dynamics in the prescribed monotony and colourlessness of stage action, which can, if nothing else, bring it to an end. It is shown that the key instrument of this dynamics is precisely the element that on the other hand produces the effect of stasis – pause.
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The paper adresses the key question – wheather or not – the Cartesian cogito had already been articulated in the philosophies of St. Augustine and St. Thomas. The analysis shows that the epistemological idea of cogito, was in fact already present in St. Augustine. However, the formal structures of the arguments, as well as the ontological statuses of the two essential points of reflection, differ significantly. One of the key arguments is built upon a modified version of Hintikka's theory on the performative structure of Cartesian argument.
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The article analyses the way in which Michel Foucault first introduced the notion of “biopolitics” through the referential frame of sexuality and psychoanalysis. It focuses on the concept that is utterly and conspicuously missing from Foucault’s account, in The History of Sexuality, of the psychoanalytic take on sexuality – namely the unconscious. It argues that this omission has important and far-reaching consequences for the (Foucauldian) concept of biopolitics as such.
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