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From the Visual to the Auditory in Heidegger’s Being and Time and Augustine’s Confessions 从海德格尔《存在与时间》和奥古斯丁《忏悔录》中的视觉到听觉

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Open Philosophy Pub Date : 2024-06-25 DOI: 10.1515/opphil-2024-0018

Andrew Fuyarchuk

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Reanimating Public Happiness: Reading Cavarero and Butler beyond Arendt 重塑公共幸福：超越阿伦特解读卡瓦列罗和巴特勒

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Open Philosophy Pub Date : 2024-05-29 DOI: 10.1515/opphil-2024-0008

Kurt Borg

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Das Unabgeschlossene (das Glück). Walter Benjamin’s “Idea of Happiness” 未完成的（幸福）。瓦尔特-本雅明的 "幸福观"

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Open Philosophy Pub Date : 2024-05-28 DOI: 10.1515/opphil-2024-0009

Vivian Liska

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Self-abnegation, Decentering of Objective Relations, and Intuition of Nature: Toomas Altnurme’s and Cao Jun’s Art 自我否定、客观关系的去中心化和对自然的直觉：托马斯-阿尔特努尔梅和曹俊的艺术

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Open Philosophy Pub Date : 2024-05-18 DOI: 10.1515/opphil-2024-0003

Marina Marren

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Happiness and the Biopolitics of Knowledge: From the Contemplative Lifestyle to the Economy of Well-Being and Back Again 幸福与知识的生物政治学：从沉思的生活方式到幸福经济再到幸福经济

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Open Philosophy Pub Date : 2024-05-17 DOI: 10.1515/opphil-2024-0004

Antonio Cimino

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Albert Camus and Rachel Bespaloff: Happiness in a Challenging World 阿尔贝-加缪和蕾切尔-贝斯帕洛夫：挑战世界中的幸福

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Open Philosophy Pub Date : 2024-05-16 DOI: 10.1515/opphil-2024-0007

Cécilia Andrée Monique Lombard

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The Poetics of Listening 聆听的诗学

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Open Philosophy Pub Date : 2024-04-27 DOI: 10.1515/opphil-2024-0006

Paul Mendes-Flohr

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A Strategy for Happiness, in the Wake of Spinoza 斯宾诺莎之后的幸福战略

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Open Philosophy Pub Date : 2024-04-11 DOI: 10.1515/opphil-2024-0001

Sonja Lavaert

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Sonic Epistemologies: Confrontations with the Invisible 声波认识论：与无形的对抗

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Open Philosophy Pub Date : 2024-04-08 DOI: 10.1515/opphil-2024-0002

Salomé Voegelin

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Badiou and Agamben Beyond the Happiness Industry and its Critics 巴迪欧和阿甘本超越幸福产业及其批评者

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Open Philosophy Pub Date : 2024-02-21 DOI: 10.1515/opphil-2022-0276

Ype de Boer

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