In this paper, I have argued that whatever might be said about his attack on other German philosophers, Santayana’s attack on Kant, despite its subtlety, its force and its intelligence, is fundamentally misguided. Teasing out where Santayana’s attack rests on misunderstandings of Kant’s philosophy is a useful exercise: it is useful for Kantians, for it gives us a chance to show Kant at his best; it is useful for Santayana scholars, for it reminds us that Santayana, for all his brilliance, (...) was not infallible; and it is useful more generally, for the mistakes Santayana makes about Kant are, perhaps in part because of Santayana’s well-deservedly wide influence, still prevalent today. (shrink)

Everybody knows that Superman is Clark Kent. Nobody knows that Superman is Clark Kent. Located between these two absolute statements is the epistemological limit that separates the superhero fictitious universe from our universe of causal reality. The superheroic double identity is a secret shared by the superhero and the reader of the comic or the viewer of the movie, and quite often the superhero winks at the outside world, thus breaking the 4th wall and establishing this collusive relationship. However, in (...) our hypothesis, we are interested in Superman not as a fictitious archetype, but rather as a fictitious metaphor. We are not interested in his double identity as the matrix of superheroic attributes and narratives, but rather as the differential limit between superhuman and human within the fictional universe. Because, the reader or the viewer may share the secret identity with Superman and also with Spiderman or Batman or any other superhuman, but the secret equivalence of Superman and Clark Kent contains another hidden antithesis. (shrink)

Arbind Kumar Choudhary, the propagator of the cultural beauty of India to the world, needs no recognition in the contemporary literary society in India and abroad who credits more than 1200 sensational poems published in India, Mongolia , Canada, China, Cyprus, Greece, Malta and England besides two journals, national and global awards and fifty published interviews in Malta, Romania, Albania and India for the prosperity of Indian culture all around the corner. There are a number of his poetry suitors in (...) India and abroad, the chief among them consist: Bernard. M. Jackson, Les Merton,Kurt.F.Svatek, JoyRaineyKing,John.B.Lee,Stephen Gill,Prof.NDRChandra, Prof.SCDwivedi,Prof.Mahendra Bhatnagar,Prof.TVReddy, poet Mahashweta Chaturvedi,Biplab Majumder, B.K. Dubey and a host of others. As an explorer Dr.Choudhary has been credited with two new models of versification --- Indianized version of sonnets and racy style unanimously called Arbindonean Sonnets and Arbindonean Racy Style by a number of the poetry lovers in India and abroad. ‘Poetic Pigments of A.K.Choudhary’, a critical anthology on his works is already published in 2010. His name is enlisted in Cambridge Dictionary of International Writers ,and World Poetry Almanac,Mongolia.This quatrain- king explores the new technique of this chronological sequence of the alphabets in a single quatrain that promotes his poetic personality to the rank of global celebrity. The rhyming pattern of his quatrain legs behind even the big stalwarts of the creative milieu in which innovation has become his poetic mission to stir a man of action for sanctification. Like Keats’ Odes his quatrains are also the literary jewels so far the composition, racy style, philosophy and thought are concerned. Arbind Kumar Choudhary, a big shot, a master spirit, a sphinx and, above all, a game person of the literary world, sets the Thames on fire with nine wonderful poetry collections, two literary journals, several international awards in India, China and America, a number of literary titles – Indian Keats, quatrain king, phrasal king, proverbial Samarat, mythical messiah, poet’s poet ,Indian sonneteer and many more and more than fifty published interviews in India, Malta, Mongolia and Romania in the history of Indian English poetry that glitter like butter even in sun and shower for the cluster of the aster. (shrink)

Serial murders are not an unprecedented sort of violence, neither are they geo or ethnoconcentrated crimes, as it has been shown by Richard von Krafft-Ebing, who, in the nineteenth century, wrote some essays on violent crimes, especially those of sexual connotation. Serial murders have comparative low incidence. It is estimated that they correspond to less than 1% of homicides per year. However, its media appeal is conversely proportional to the estimation above, and dates back to 1888 with the serial killing (...) of prostitutes in the Whitechapel area of London. Such crimes where carried out by a stranger who called himself "Jack, the Ripper". In the 1970's and 1980's, a new generation of serial killers, such as Ted Bundy, BTK (Dennis Rader), Green River Killer (Gary Ridgeway) renewed the interest and the fear of the public on these crimes. Awe, in fact, was renewed because of the high recidivism and heinousness of the serial killer in detriment of the public order. But, paraphrasing Habermas (1990), what is the co-natural ius-philosophical discourse to the serial murder phenomenon? The perspective of Hans Kelsen embodies such discourse, whose subtext in a purely formallogical sense, can deduce a solution so heinous as the actual serial killer. (shrink)

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