Obstinate thought,or how the humanities defend themselves

ABSTRACT

With the humanities under attack, this essay suggests the virtue of obstinacy and fortitude in the face of the continual erasure of spaces for study. Drawing from Henry David Thoreau as an exemplar of obstinate thought, I suggest a hermeneutically inflected communicative ethic that responds to the need for the humanities to defend themselves by turning to the material objects of study: books. Obstinacy is defined here not as stubbornness or inflexibility, but as persistence in the face of adverse circumstances through the practices of reading and writing.     

Parrhesia-stases (The Preamble)

Operating between the obscene and methods of estrangement and displacement, parrhesia-stases interrogates the agendas of aesthetics present in repulsiveness, condemnation and punishment. François Roche and Camille LacadÉe here present a body of work by their Bangkok-based practice New-Territories/M4, which speculates on the ramifications of architecture as a paradigm of disobedience. Deeply rooted in Michel Foucault's proposal for a re-evaluation of an ethico-political approach, the work investigates an alternative architectural position that utilises strategies of transfiguration to provoke pathological behaviours.     

梭罗自然中心主义生态观研究

梭罗认为万物有灵,人类是自然之子,应该回归自然,其生态思想体现了自然中心主义的生态观,而梭罗的自然中心主义生态观来源于并超越了超验主义哲学的思想,强调精神的作用,又克服了人类中心主义以人为中心、忽略自然本身存在意义的缺陷。对美国文学家和哲学家梭罗的主要代表作品进行解读,分析其生态思想并追溯其哲学根源,有其哲学意义。