In ancient times, metalwork belonged to the arts of tectonics and was primarily used for warlike and decorative purposes, while its architectonic potentials remained almost unexplored. As opposed to Gottfried Semper, who understood metal tectonics in analogy to carpentry and textile work, we argue that tectonics is neither restricted to “carpentry” nor does it have to be monumental to display its [....]
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From Common Land to Urban Commons: Accessing the City through the Squares
The commons as a historical phenomenon and a sociocultural category has received much attention from diverse groups of scholars over the past two decades. Not just historians and sociologists have shown keen interest in the concept, but also political thinkers and urbanists have made their contribution to reconceptualizing the commons in late modernity. Very few have, however, researched deeper i [....]
Ethics of friendship: A critical study of a forgotten concept
The article takes as starting point an essay on civil friendship by Pedro Cerezo Galán in order to show the ethical and political relevance of friendship. Cerezo sheds new light on what could be called an ethics of friendship which goes back to ancient Greek philosophy. Drawing on Plato and Aristotle, the article discusses critically the concepts of ethos and of friendship in relation to the inter [....]
Rethinking Dwelling and Building. On Martin Heidegger’s Conception of Being as Dwelling and Jørn Utzon’s Architecture of Well-being
The German philosopher Martin Heidegger’s seminal essay “Building, Dwelling, Thinking”, published in 1954, is one of the texts which has had most influence on architectural thinking in the second half of 20th and early 21st century. What much of modern and postmodern architectural thinking extracts from Heidegger’s text and revolves around is the understanding of building and dwelling as more or l [....]
Re-educating the Body
The paper means to investigate the philosophical concept of human embodiment in relation to physical education. As human beings we do not only have a body that we can control, but we ”are” our body and live embodied in the world, as the German thinker, Helmuth Plessner, puts it in one of his many contributions to the philosophical anthropology of the 20th century. Elaborating on this concept of hu [....]
The Ethical Dimension of Teaching – Based on a Main Theme in Levinas’ Totality and Infinity
The article discusses the relationship between ethics and teaching in one of the most important works in 20th century philosophy, Emmanuel Levinas' Totality and Infinity. The discussion draws on a pedagogical understanding which Levinas considers to be opposed to his own ethical understanding of teaching, Socratic maieutics. A more thoroughgoing interpretation of the two "positions" will show that [....]
Friendship in Friedrich Nietzsche’s work
This paper in Spanish is an early work of my thesis, Ethics of Friendship, which came out in Danish in 2013. The paper takes as its starting point a concept which Friedrich Nietzsche recovered from "philosophical oblivion", namely friendship, and offers an interpretation of its multi-faceted significance in his work. Friendship opens up an ethical way towards self-overcoming, through which each hu [....]
Hospitalidad como iniciación a la ética en Totalidad e infinito de Emmanuel Lévinas
The article offers an interpretation of Emmanuel Lévinas' Totality and Infinity taking as its starting point the term "hospitality", which plays a key role in his work. Hospitality opens up the way to another conception of ethics which differs from traditional moral philosophy and presents subjectivity as open towards the outside, towards the extraneous and infinite, receiving the other. In this s [....]