Kant’s “Categories of Freedom” as the Functions of Willing an Object
... content from the functions of thinking underlying each category. Furthermore, Kant justifies by means of a transcendental deduction the fact that the categories of freedom necessarily relate to all objects of the will. I argue that the categories are concepts constitutive for the object of the will: the role they play is that of the functions of willing an object. Finally, I show that the categories of freedom reach beyond Kant’s foundation of moral philosophy. They point to the later Metaphysics ...
Kant on War and Peace in the Philosophy of the Enlightenment and German Idealism. Report of the Fourth Immanuel Kant International Summer School
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Krouglov, A. N., 2023. Hegel’s Bellicis View of War. Mature Works. RUDN Journal of Philosophy, 27(2), pp. 390-405.
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Krouglov, A. N., 2024. The Kantian Concept of Human Dignity Today. Kantian Journal, 43(1), pp. 47-75.
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Kant, perpetual peace, war, pacifism, republicanism, federalism, civil society
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Lyubov Axelrod on Kant: Reflections on Marxist Discussions of the 1920s and 1930s in the USSR
... and historical materialism in this country without censoring, obfuscating, or simplifying issues in order to assess the prospects of their development. They focus on the work of a follower of Georgy Plekhanov, Lyubov Axelrod, who, in developing the concept of historical materialism, turned to Kant. Axelrod’s published works (from early articles and a dissertation on Tolstoy’s worldview, to her mature works on the history of materialism and philosophical-sociological texts on literary classics) ...
Die Bibel als moralisches Bilderbuch? Kants ‚doktrinale Hermeneutik‘ und ihr Nutzen für die moralische Kultur des Menschen
... locate the entirety of ideas within a taxonomy. Finally, it is explored the specific purpose of such “symbolic interpretation”, and it is demonstrated that the value in question lies precisely in the ability to bridge the gap between intuition and concepts of pure reason. In this way, we can approach the incomprehensibilities and paradoxes faced by the human being who, while under the authority of the moral law, is nevertheless constituted “naturally”. This type of moral interpretation also ...
Problems of transliteration and translation of Kazakh geographical names
... Petersburg University. Language and Literature, 19 (1), pp. 103—124,
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Pravila russkoi orfografii i punktuatsii [The Rules of Russian Spelling ...
Translation of the absurdist literature as an example of cultural transfer (“Cases” by Daniil Kharms in Korean translations)
The article explores the semiotic aspects of the theory of cultural transfer, translation, and (non)translation, with a specific focus on the translator's comment. It unravels discursive and interpretative concepts that illuminate the transformation of an original text into a secondary text, encompassing reception, interpretation, cultural transfer, and literary translation, showcasing their interdependence and connection. The analysis centres on the ...
Analysis and translation of the Old English poem Instructions for Christians in the context of the Christian tradition
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Technological Metaphor and Communicative Models in Contemporary Russian Poetry
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Treatise Disguised as Poem: the Border-Line Genre and its Linguistic Features
The hybrid genre of poetic treatise occupies a somewhat marginal position within the literary genres landscape. Nonetheless, it holds particular interest as a realm of interaction between artistic and scientific discourses, sometimes intertwining with everyday speech. In the twentieth century, the interplay between scientific and poetic texts, as well as between verse and prose, took on new experimental forms. Western literature saw the influence of Ludwig Wittgenstein and his philosophical treatise...
Linguocognitive Bases for the Integration of the Poetic Text into Cinematic Discourse
... of integrating poetic texts into the discourse of authorial cinema. It begins by examining the multifaceted interaction between cinema and poetry within contemporary artistic culture, framing author cinematography through the lens of the poetic concept. Intermediality and interdiscursivity are explored as intrinsic properties of cinema, serving as tools for shaping the unique style and aesthetics of filmmakers. Two films, “Stalker” by Andrei Tarkovsky and “Ugly Swans” by Konstantin Lopushansky,...
“The Voice of Hotness from the Margins”. On the interaction of poetry and politics
... be like poetry." This article seeks to explore the poetic dimensions that underpin the political necessity for poetry, namely, the attributes of poetry that establish a connection with the political sphere. The focus of this exploration is the concept of poetic defamiliarization and its interaction with the political within Jacques Rancière's theoretical framework. Rancière posits that the political function of poetry, and art more broadly, lies in its ability to disrupt the established ...
From Theorist to Thinker: Encounter with Yuri Lotman under the Mentorship of Boris Egorov
... supervision of Professor Boris Fedorovich Egorov and, after returning to his native country, intensively exploring Lotman's last years (the so-called ‘Lotmanian explosion’). In particular, the author attempts to reconceptualize the intriguing concept of the ‘mechanism of Smuta’ that Lotman developed in his later years in terms of the "unpredictability of the past" and to highlight its profound implications for Lotman, who, the author argues, should be seen not only as a theorist ...
Brian Bilston’s multimodal poetic practices: interactions between the digital and the analogue
This article examines texts by the modern British poet Brian Bilston from the perspective of their semantic and syntactic organisation and the lines of the author's investigation into paralinguistic, i. e. visual, elements. To this end, it draws on contemporary research into complex communication objects — multimodal texts. The study provides an overview of the principles of new media: modularity, numerical representation, automation and variability. Formulated by Lev Manovich, these precepts find...
Digital poetry between the printed page and cinema: the difference in agency structures
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Russian folk verse and the main approaches to its study
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The history of verse studies and formalism
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Solidarity strategies in adolescent communication
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Should there be biomolecular pragmatics?
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Languages of unfolding hereditary information in еmbryogenesis: linguo-semiotic analogues and analogies
... on the specificity of biological signs in these processes and on the special nature of biological texts. We focused on the information aspects of these processes and, in order to demonstrate the analogies between them and with linguistic-semiotic concepts, we describe the problems of complexity and hierarchy of genetic mechanisms for the implementation of genetic information in embryogenesis, as it is seen in systems biology.
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Kant and Gender Oppression: Privileged Eighteenth-Century Women, ‘Indirect Domination’ and Gender Emancipation
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Digital twin as a tool for modeling and optimization of complex natural and technical systems
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The use of artificial intelligence to visualize architectural style as a branding element
... was employed to model hotel branding based on a set of predefined parameters, focusing on two historic districts of Kaliningrad. The results indicate that the architectural styles and hotel designs generated by AI largely aligned with the intended concepts of the historic sites and could be successfully integrated into the contemporary architectural landscape of Kaliningrad. Additionally, the hotel names proposed by AI were consistent with the descriptions of the districts and took into account ...
Assessment Primorsky Krai coastal zone suitability for the offshore wind energy development
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Kant in Russian Police Law: Unknown Pages
....V. on the Occasion of the Centenary of Immanuel Kant’s Death. 1904”. It is devoted to Kant’s philosophy of law, the origins of which are traced back to the French Revolution. In addition, the author of the manuscript claims that Kant’s legal conception influenced the development of the science of police law and the reforms of Alexander II. Finally, it is interesting to note that its author describes Kant as “a nationalist in terms of personal qualities” and “a world genius in terms ...
Plekhanov as “Defender” of Kant from Neo-Kantians
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The Problem of the Unity of Experience from the Transcendental Perspective
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Kant’s Philosophy of Chemistry and Nietzsche’s Cosmology: On the Material Hermeneutics of Alchemy and Cinnabar. Part I
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Pragmatics of epistemic warrants of the real, the possible and the probable in discourse
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Innovative meaning-generating structures in the early formation of a literary tradition: the case of Kosta Khetagurov
... acquires a special emotional strength, which puts it on a par with the verbal and interjective titles so characteristic of Kosta Khetagurov's poetry. This ‘blurring’ is due to the need to bring to a common denominator both Christian theological concepts, in this case, of a sacrifice, and also the ideology of the Ossetian spiritual tradition, which reveals itself in prayer and ritual tradition in general. It is also concluded that, in terms of semantics, Kosta Khetagurov, proceeds from the etymological ...
Pragmatics beyond cognition: a perspective of Charles Peirce’s unfinished conception for (bio-)semiotics
... intelligence and the new understanding of biomolecular processes for transmitting genetic information have emphasized the necessity to consider semiotic activity, that may operate autonomously from human cognition. In this regard, Charles Peirce’s latest conception of semiosis is of particular interest. For Peirce, semiosis is an interpretation that doesn't necessitate an external interpreter. A sign is viewed as a quasi-mind, and semiotic processes are carried out by these signs, specifically through ...
Quantitative corpus analysis of implicit evaluativeness: the case of ‘sovershit’sya’ and ‘svershit’sya’ in Russian internet discourse
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The phenomenon of heterogeneity of the speech subject in German retrospective discourse
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