Time and Form

Time and Form is a collection of essays on philosophy, logic, art, and politics based on courses held by Swedish and Brazilian scholars between 2006 and 2013, under an academic cooperation between Södertörn University (Sweden) and Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro (Brazil).

In times of globalization, where traditional forms of life as well as established theoretical approaches are shaken in their most fundamental grounds, the search for new modes of coexistence and reflection becomes a matter of special urgency.

The different approaches and questions discussed in the present volume mirror this search for new forms of life and of theory: they are pursued here both as subjects of reflection and as ways to reflect upon traditional philosophical issues. In this sense, the question about the relation between time and form can be considered the common thread that weaves and connects the different contributions together.

With contributions by Luisa Buarque, Marcia Sá Cavalcante Schuback, Pedro Duarte, Stefan Jonsson, Helena Martins, Luiz Camillo Osorio, Luiz Carlos Pereira, Hans Ruin, Nicholas Smith, Fredrika Spindler, Sven-Olov Wallenstein, and Charlotta Weigelt.

Contents

Introduction
Marcia Sá Cavalcante Schuback
Luiz Carlos Pereira

Technology, Time, and Existence. On Heidegger’s Thinking of Techne
Hans Ruin

Negative Responsibility
Marcia Sá Cavalcante Schuback

Association in Husserl and Freud – Passivity and the Unconscious
Nicholas Smith

Forms of Collectivity: Georg Simmel’s Mass Theory and the Transformation of Social Philosophy in Weimar Germany
Stefan Jonsson

Multitude and Democracy
Fredrika Spindler

What Art Can Do? Politics, Experimentation and Museums
Luiz Camillo Osorio

Aristotle’s Logical Analysis of Motion in Physics I
Charlotta Weigelt

On the Constructive Notion of Truth and a New Sea-battle Problem
Luiz Carlos Pereira

Aristophanes in the Cratylus
Luisa Buarque

This Dust of Words
Helena Martins

Neo-, Post-, and Anticlassicism: Modernity in Early German Romanticism
Pedro Duarte

The Vicinity of Poetry and Thought
Sven-Olov Wallenstein