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...Do we really know what meaning to give to the term PERSON? In this book, the author proposes, through an in depth dialog with the students of the S.U.R. (Sophia University of Rome), the following answer: a PERSON is a spiritual, unifying principle that is endowed with its own freedom and its own identity, it is an end unto itself and unto no other, and its const...

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...In aesthetics, the paradox means the apparent resolution of an enigmatic situation (the result of such a process is the satisfaction of a distention), the emotional moving force being the unforeseen, the unexpected (which generates and also perturbs a new tension). Therefore, the...

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...TITU POPESCU THE AESTHETICS OF PARADOXISM (second edition) American Research Press Rehoboth 2002 2... ...) American Research Press Rehoboth 2002 2 Titu Popescu THE AESTHETICS OF PARADOXISM (second edition) Translated from Romanian by P. Georgelin, ... ... ordered in microfilm format from: Bell and Howell Co. (University of Microfilm International) 300 N. Zeeb Road P.O. Box 1346, Ann Arb... ...rge of a subuniverse”, constrained to this by the reality of an essential aggression: “the thoughts always persecute us”. Don’t the exercises of p... ...rs, do you sell your sentiments? Do you create gifts for money? Not only crime, sex and terror books are published? Where is the true art? Look fo... ... in whose consequence it has been edified a diagnosis of the annihilating aggressions, that here takes the aspect of a speech that conjugates Whitma... ... means of giving. The absurd shows an alarming imbecility and the power’s aggression against individual security. The author is ceaselessly concerned... ...eman is very watchful searching for the one who committed an “ideological crime”, that is the ascension to “spiritual heights”. A “play” without act...

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