RESEARCH SKILLS DEVELOPMENT OF FUTURE FOREIGN LANGUAGE TEACHERS THROUGH PROJECT-BASED LEARNING

We hope to believe that this article makes a certain theoretical and practical contribution to the development of research skills of future foreign language teacher. By research skills of future foreign language teachers,we understand a complex and multifaceted concept that had not received the detailed consideration in the existing literature before. We have studied and identified abilities comprising the core of the research skills. The principles of the educational process aimed at the development of research skills of future foreign language teachers on the basement of project-based learning have been highlighted. The steps of future foreign language teachers’ research skills development has been constructed using theoretical project-based learning background; essential features of project-based learning assessment have been suggested and recommendations were provided to show the efficiency of the research skills development on the basis of project-based learning.

‘Everything for Me Turns into Allegory’

While being an important tile of Jameson’s whole theoretical project, Allegory and Ideology leaves some key questions not fully answered. Briefly put, these questions concern the meanings and limits of allegory; the unstable relationship between allegory and allegoresis in the Western cultural tradition; and the special place allegory plays or could play in postmodern culture. Solving these problems – in the footsteps of Jameson’s magisterial inquiry – will be crucial especially for Marxist critics.

Corpo Transpessoal: O contributo espiritual da Performance para a construção pictórica.

After my practical-theoretical project - TRANSPERSONAL BODY - which seeks to question the meaning of the representing action of the transpersonal and numinous body in the context of the contemporary image (whether pictures and moving images). The practice is based on painting versus cinema as an expanded field, resulting from performative contexts, and on the relationship that is proposed in the experience of the poetry of the other.The paradigm underlying the pictorial processes as an extension of the performative will be considered, in the context of the practice of ritual performance, from an anthropological perspective of the body, the study of symbols and archetypes and the verification of psychology transpersonal. For this, the video will be considered not only a documentary medium of the performative records (Practice-led Research), as well as an independent artistic object — it results as another element in the construction of the narrative of the actions between the body and the image — the performative body ritualized as an video object.To the performativity intrinsic to the project, participative observation is proposed as a study method, using processes of personal and cognitive transformation in order to enhance expanded states of consciousness; as a contribution to the process of conquering the internal image (vision) and, in a concern with the transpersonal dimension, as well as for the visual (re) enchantment, relating art and spirituality.

Diálogos impertinentes: a mímesis de Luiz Costa Lima e a filosofia da diferença / Impertinent Dialogues: Luiz Costa Lima’s Mimesis and the Philosophy of Difference

Resumo: Este artigo visa estudar as linhas de força do projeto intelectual de Luiz Costa Lima, a fim de analisar como sua teoria sobre a mímesis se insere no questionamento epistemológico acerca de uma filosofia da literatura, com contribuição decisiva para se examinar os modos e as condições com as quais o discurso literário pode ser pensado na modernidade. Tomo como ponto de partida o diálogo travado pelo crítico brasileiro com o pensamento pós-estruturalista, mais especificamente, os dois ensaios por ele elaborados acerca da filosofia antirrepresentacional de Gilles Deleuze. Parto da hipótese de que, tomada sob a lógica da reivindicação da diferença, entendida seja em um prisma político-cultural, seja em um prisma ontológico, independentes, mas complementares, a antropologia literária de Costa Lima não se revela um projeto isolado no cenário de pesquisas contemporâneo acerca da literatura.Palavras-chave: mímesis; representação; diferença; ficção.Abstract: This article aims to study the strengths of Luiz Costa Lima’s theoretical project, in order to analyze how the debate on mimesis, created by him, participates in contemporary epistemological questioning, with a decisive contribution to thinking about the modes and conditions with which literary discourse can be enunciated in modernity. The starting point is the dialogue carried out by the Brazilian critic with post-structuralist thinking, more specifically, the two essays he elaborated regarding Gilles Deleuze’s anti-representational philosophy. The hypothesis is that, considered under the logic of claiming difference, understood either in a political-cultural prism or in an ontological prism, independent but complementary, Costa Lima’s literary anthropology does not reveal itself as an isolated project in the contemporary research scene that has literature as its central object.Keywords: mimesis; representation; difference; fiction.

SEYLA BENHABIB COM HANNAH ARENDT CONTRA A FILOSOFIA DO SUJEITO

<div class="trans-abstract"><p>A partir dos textos reunidos no livro <em>Situating the self: gender, community and postmodernism in contemporary ethics</em> (1992), sabe-se que Seyla Benhabib responde aos excessos racionalistas de Habermas e aos limites da tradição universalista moderna com uma releitura da concepção arendtiana de “pensamento alargado”. Neste artigo, eu me proponho a mostrar que a presença de Arendt no pensamento de Benhabib é ainda mais radical do que parece à primeira vista, pois a autora de <em>A condição humana</em> está na raiz do seu projeto teórico orientando o enfrentamento filosófico que Benhabib faz com a tradição, na sua primeira grande obra, <em>Critique, norm, and utopia: a study of the foundations of Crítical theory</em> (1986). A minha hipótese interpretativa é a de que a tese central deste livro, segundo a qual a teoria crítica é assombrada pela filosofia do sujeito, carrega as marcas da crítica arendtiana à filosofia política ocidental.</p><p><strong>Palavras-Chave: </strong>Hannah Arendt; Seyla Benhabib; Filosofia do Sujeito; Filosofia Política; Pluralidade</p></div><div class="trans-abstract"><p class="sec"><span>SEYLA BENHABIB WITH HANNAH ARENDT AGAINST THE PHILOSOPHY OF THE SUBJECT</span></p><p class="sec">ABSTRACT</p><p>From <em>Situating the self: gender, community and postmodernism in contemporary ethics</em> (1992), we know that SeylaBenhabib answers Habermas’ excesses and the limits of the modern universalist tradition with a reinterpretation of the Arendtian conception of “enlarged thought”. In this article, I propose to show that Arendt’s presence in Benhabib’s thought is even more radical than it seems at first, because the author of The human condition is at the root of Benhabib’s theoretical project, guiding her in her philosophical confrontation with tradition at her first major work,<em>Critique, norm, and utopia: a study of the foundations of Crítical theory</em>(1986). My interpretive hypothesis is that the central thesis of this book, according to which Crítical theory is haunted by the philosophy of the subject, bears the marks of Arendt’s criticism to Western political philosophy.</p><p><strong>Key words: </strong>Hannah Arendt; Seyla Benhabib; Philosophy of the Subject; Political Philosophy; Plurality</p></div><div class="trans-abstract"><p class="sec"><span>SEYLA BENHABIB AVEC ARENDT CONTRE LA PHILOSOPHIE DU SUJET</span></p><p class="sec">ABSTRACT</p><p>A partir des textes rassemblés dans le livre Situating the self: gender, community and postmodernism in contemporary ethics (1992), on sait que Seyla Benhabib répond aux excès rationalistes d’Habermas et aux limites de la tradition universaliste moderne par une réinterprétation de la conception arendtienne du «mentalité élargie». Dans cet article, je propose de montrer que la présence d’Arendt dans la pensée de Benhabib est encore plus radicale qu’il n’y paraît au premier abord, car Arendt est à l’origine de son projet théorique guidant la confrontation philosophique que Benhabib fait avec tradition, dans son premier grand ouvrage, Critique, norm, and utopia: a study of the foundations of crítical theory (1986). Mon hypothèse interprétative est que la thèse centrale de ce livre, selon laquelle la théorie critique est hantée par la philosophie du sujet, porte les marques de la critique arendtienne de la philosophie politique occidentale.</p><p><strong>Key words: </strong>Hannah Arendt; Seyla Benhabib; Philosophie du sujet; Philosophie politique; Pluralité</p></div>

Artur Kozak’s Juriscentrist Concept of Law: a Central European Innovation in Legal Theory

Artur Kozak (1960–2009) was one of the most original and innovative philosophers of law to emerge from the so-called ‘middle generation’ of Polish post-War jurisprudence. Kozak’s principal achievement was to break away from the analytical paradigm of legal theory, dominant in the in Poland at the time, and engage legal theory in a fruitful dialogue with contemporary sociology and philosophy, including such currents as social constructionism or postmodernism. To name his original theoretical project, Kozak coined a new term – ‘juriscentrism’ (juryscentryzm), consciously evoking Richard Rorty’s concept of ethnocentrism. Juriscentrist legal theory was mainly focused on providing legitimacy for the newly gained power of the legal community in a post-socialist society, but its theoretical resonance is universal. Kozak’s premature death made it impossible to complete the theoretical project of juriscentrism, nonetheless he managed to elaborate its main tenets, including the concept of juristic discretional power and a juriscentrist concept of law. Kozak’s legacy in contemporary Polish legal theory is particularly visible in Wrocław, where not only the post-analytical paradigm in Poland is the strongest, but also the first Polish school of critical legal theory has recently emerged.

An urban political ecology for a world of cities

The critical considerations in this commentary have been stimulated by the articles joined together in this inspiring collection. Specifically, this commentary reflects on how one might imagine an urban political ecology for the age of planetary urbanisation. While the editors of and contributors to this special issue have done an admirable job of providing intellectual coherence to this project, there remains work to do, especially on the conceptual and theoretical front. The conveners of this symposium lay out an ambitious agenda for the papers in this issue and ultimately for the field: They ask: ‘why does everyone think cities can save the planet?’. It is part real inquiry, part rhetorical question. These questions also provide the entry point into a coherent and serious theoretical project that lies at the bottom of the assembled papers here and is elegantly laid out by the special issue editors in their introduction. This commentary takes up the challenges posed by the theoretical and empirical projects discussed in this issue and discusses them in light of past advances in thinking across the city–nature divide, technological politics and the changing spaces and times of current urbanisation.

Transmedia narratives and binging experiences: Ricardo Piglia’s Los casos del comisario Croce as a theoretical project

From a narratological perspective the paper argues that Ricardo Piglia’s posthumous book Los casos del comisario Croce offers readers a theoretical project on transmedia narratives and storytelling. The reading of Los casos del comisario Croce as a transmedial narrative centers in two aspects: 1) Piglia’s use of a text written by Marx on productivity and the professions as threshold for his transmedial narration; 2) binging engagement from the transmedial logic used for characterizations and the transmedial whodunit structure logic.

Community with Nothing in Common?

The Protagoras examines how community can occur between people who have nothing in common. Community, Protagoras holds, has no natural basis. Seeking the good is therefore not a theoretical project, but a matter of agreement. This position follows from his claim that “man is the measure of all things.” For Socrates community is based on a natural good, which is sought through theoretical inquiry. They disagree about what community is, and what its bases and goals are. But Plato illustrates the seriousness of Protagoras’s position through the repeated breakdown of their conversation. The dialogue leads us to question both speakers’ assumptions about community. Socrates must face the problem that not everything can be brought to language. Protagoras must recognize that there is a basis of community even in what cannot be shared. Community is grounded in an event that is both natural and not up to us, and cultural and articulate.