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15 January 2007, Volume 14 Issue 1

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Sergio Sismondo’s Comment on Social Constructivism

AN Wei-fu

2007, 14(1):  7-11 . 

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Sergio Sismondo is called one of the classical authors of social constructivism because he distinguishes between two kinds of social constructivism and gives a description of six concepts about it.

Material Body, Cultural Body and Technological Body——A Brief Analysis of Don Ihde’s Theory of the Three Bodies

YANG Qing-feng

2007, 14(1):  12-17 . 

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With the rise of the body theory, Don Ihde, the philosopher of technology, puts forward his theory about three kinds of bodies. According to him, the first is the material body, which comes from phenomenology from Husserl; the second is the cultural body, from Michel Foucault; and the third takes technological factors into account and constructs the technological body. Here the meaning of technology is emphasized. This account, in essence, marks a new stage on critique of instrumental technology.


Baudrillard’s Postmodernist Critique of the Society of Technology

XU Qin;ZENG De-hua

2007, 14(1):  18-23 . 

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As a leading figure in modernism in the world, Baudrillard makes a deep and featured criticizing of the modern society of technology, mainly about following three aspects: the nature of modern technology; the relationship between the society of technology and consumerism; and the nature accomplishment in mass media. The criticizing, in a sense, draws an inspiration from Marxism and inherits the Frankfurt school’s theory of the critique of the society, but basically, it embodies the nature of postmodernism. Therefore, from the views of Marxism, his criticizing of the modern society of technology, although deep and homestricken, has an evident limitation, that is, lacking of the positive, constructive basis, and finally resulting in a mere formality.

Intersubjectivity：An Analysis of the Philosophic Basis of Ecological Aesthetics

ZHANG Hai-rong

2007, 14(1):  24-28 . 

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For the change from the subjective philosophy to the intersubjective philosophy, there is a realistic cause of human thinking in the present time, that is, the crisis of global environment pushing inevitably forward a question of the subjective philosophy based on the practice aesthetics. This essay analyzes the intersubjective philosophies of Husserl, Heidegger and Martin Buber, and points out that the intersubjective philosophy seeks for dialogues with nature and, on the basis of the balance and harmony of the global ecological relationship, aims at a progress and development in the holistic anima and matter.

The Problems Caused to the Academic World by Using Bureaucratic Methods of Judging Productivity

Lindsay Waters;ZHANG Jian-qin (translator)

2007, 14(1):  29-33 . 

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At the present time when the university system in China is growing, it is necessary for people to reconsider the process of evaluating scholarly productivity. The model of the Western university is honored because people believe that it leads to innovation, the creation of value. Therefore a closer understanding of scholarly productions, especially publications of books and journal articles, should be under going. Are there objective methods for the assessment of productivity? How valuable is counting numbers of publications, the simplest, crudest form of measuring productivity? The author urges Chinese scholars to understand that they should depend on close judgment of the content of scholarly work other than simple numbers.


What Is the Poetry for: Tarkovski’s View on Movies

HUANG Wen-da

2007, 14(1):  35-40 . 

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Tarkovski’s poetic wisdom differs from ones of prosaic movies or Russian's “poetic films”. This essay, from the view of etymology, sorts out the development of the poetry and points out that poems are both the product of human creativity at the primitive age and the embodiment of his original creativity and imagination. It is on this basis that Tarkovski sets up his view on movies. He considers the poetry as a philosophical guide of life and holds that the production of films should borrow the imagination of the human original life so as to create images of poetic wisdom. His films interact, resonate and deal with the reality of nature and soul, thus creating a new aesthetic experience in the film history.