Democracy on the Sidelines: The Erosion and Potential of Youth Sports as Democratic Education by Kurt Stemhagen, Kathy Hytten

“…In this philosophical paper, we argue that youth sports, both in and out of schools, are a largely unrealized space for democratic/civic education. …”
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Pour une communication organisationnelle affective : une perspective préindividuelle de l’action et de la constitution des organisations by Nicolas Bencherki

“…By starting from the preindividual – a notion coined by French philosopher Gilbert Simondon – rather than from the individual, it is possible to study the concrete ways by which entities capture each other’s action to engage in an individuation process. …”
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On Experience and Thinking to Come in the Late Schelling by Brigita Gelžinytė

“…The question is raised as to what extent his proposed transformation of the modern concept of experience is important for questioning the future of the contemporary philosophical discourse in the context of the “inaccessibility of experience,” as proposed by Benjamin and Agamben. …”
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Marcel Gauchet, lecteur critique de Jürgen Habermas by Camille Roelens

“…Being in presence of two major contemporary intellectuals, both of them having proposed a comprehensive historical and philosophical interpretation of democratic modernity, gives this intertextual approach a clear theoretical and heuristic interest. …”
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Le post-humanisme chinois et la science-fiction politique de Chen Qiufan by Ron S. Judy

“…., affiliated with philosophical humanism) insofar as it remains deeply concerned with the Marxisthumanist idea of alienated agency.…”
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L’éducation de Nietzsche. Réactualisation des considérations sur l’honneur : une des valeurs de l’ethos universitaire by Olivier Marty

“…Nietzsche is a philosopher of education who participates the European lifelong learning policy : based on Homeric contests, he gives a meaning within education to the value of honor – honor that we take as raw material for an exegesis of his youth works. …”
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«Sempre così sperduta ai margini della vita reale…» by Chiara Pasetti

“…Pozzi is the first in Italy to have dealt with Flaubert’s juvenilia, which she analyzes in detail for their literary and philosophical influences as well as their themes and style. …”
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Les consoles de l’Éternité, à l’ombre des ordinateurs : Les Cordelettes de Browser de Tristan Garcia by Arnaud Despax

“…Philosopher and novelist, Tristan Garcia provides in Les Cordelettes de Browser (2012) the strangely archaic image of unnamed computers : the characters of « Eternity » use smalls wood consoles to arrange reality, in order to maintain their whole life as eternal and be constantly comfortable. …”
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The "turn" to spirituality by C. Kourie

“…There are diverse spiritualities, each one culture-specific, expressing its own historical, sociological, theological, linguistic and philosophical orientation. Post-patriarchal and telluric, contemporary spirituality affects all areas of society, including the business world, education, health care, the arts, ecology, politics, religion and particularly the academy, where new programmes in spirituality are attracting a large number of students. …”
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THE PHENOMENON OF “SIMULACRUM” IN THE WORKS OF TITUS LUCRETIUS CARUS by Mariia A. Oleshchenko

“…We are going to analyze the understanding of simulacra in the works of the ancient philosopher Titus Lucretius Carus, to determine the features of the phenomenon of "simulacrum" in his paper "On the Nature of Things". …”
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Rethinking Moses Òkè on the Recolonisation Project by David A. Oyedola

“…The study employs the methods of conceptual analysis and philosophical argumentation. …”
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La grammaire en première personne (I) by Pierre Cotte

“…A distinction between a first-person perspective and a third-person one is common in philosophical discussions of consciousness. As it is generally understood, the first-person perspective, informally, relates to a person’s ‘felt’ experience of situations, while a third-person perspective is an external look at things. …”
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Translating Merwin: Navigating Nature, Place, and the Apo Koinou by Helmbrecht Breinig

“…The paper emphasizes the need for retaining the semantic and philosophical openness of Merwin’s poetry but also the importance of following the various thematic focuses and formal features of his later works, notably in The Shadow of Sirius. …”
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Cuba's Basic Units of Cooperative Production by José Alvarez

“…This change is especially significant from a philosophical point of view when one considers that Fidel Castro had consistently referred to state farms and CPAs as “superior forms of agricultural production.” …”
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« Ever step you take is forever » : fin de l’héroïsme et vacuité spirituelle dans No Country for Old Men by Martin Berny

“…Addressing more directly two of their favorite themes, namely existential misplacement and the end of heroism, they bring a certain skepticism to their film. As a philosophical step orchestrated by the Coens, what seems to be missing or elided from the novel by Cormac McCarthy elicits a tumble into chaos. …”
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The Shipwreck and the Wreath. Dissolution of Identities in Ruta Sepetys’ Salt to the Sea by Ewa Lukaszyk

“… The article presents a reading of Ruta Sepetys’ novel Salt to the Sea in the context of the philosophical proposal of Hans Blumenberg, who tried to capture the dynamics of European cultural and intellectual history through the metaphor of shipwreck. …”
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Illusion in Du Châtelet's Theory of Happiness

“…I offer an account of Du Châtelet’s theory of illusion by drawing upon the previously unexamined influence of other French philosophers’ accounts of the connection between passion and illusions, including Descartes, Malebranche, and Anne-Thérèse, Marquise de Lambert. …”
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İNSAN DOĞASI ÜZERİNE by Halilrahman Açar

“…This essay attempts to bring a new approach into clarifying human nature from a different philosophical point of view. The author argues that past and present opinions on human nature cannot directly assert truth upon the subject because they are not adequate in nature. …”
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Böhmes Morgen-Röte und Andreaes Chymische Hochzeit by Virginie Pektas

“…This paper intends to clarify the possible links, both historical and philosophical, uniting the two thinkers, but also their dissonance. …”
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The Modernist Poem or the Infinite Prolegomena by Aurore Clavier

“…Refusing its own closure, the page of the poem, through the fluctuations of its contours and the engagements it stages, joins the tentative field of the essay, thereby abolishing generic categories as much as the Platonic scission between philosophical and poetical words.…”
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