Let’s start this interview with a question about the staggering persecution against you. In November 2019 you fled Albania, having sought political asylum in a European country, as well as being a writer, you were distinguished as a professor of literature and the director of the Institute for the Studies of Crimes and Consequences of […]
This article describes and comments on the ideas and fundamental principles of the American philosopher John Rawls, according to whom the supposed conflict between freedom and equality is illusory. This philosophy of economic and political structure leads to the veil of ignorance, revealing the principles that should shape a society of free, equal and moral
This study discusses four novels by Rexhep Qosja: Death comes to me from such eyes, One love and seven sins, The night is our day and The sons of no one. For the article’s author, Qosja’s novels are expressions of great aesthetic possibility and formal and thematic richness. She addresses the question of representation and
This article analyzes the spiritual novel Saint Manuel Bueno, Martyr by the Spanish author Miguel de Unamuno, exploring references from religion, philosophy and literature, and representing the work as a manual of the life of Manuel. In accordance with the theory of paratext, the piece analyzes five paratextual indicators: the name of the author, the
In this article the author perceives imagology as comparative investigation connected with the cognitive process in relation to the other. She addresses the image of the other, the foreign, as the starting point for inter-cultural communication, and poses the question: what images does Albanian literature offer the world today? What is cultural identity, as a
This article addresses diverse issues of bioethics, invoking many philosophers and scholars who have discussed the ethical problems of medical science, beginning with Francis Bacon and Francis Fukuyama. As euthanasia, genetics, organ transplants, reproduction and abortion are not merely medical problems but also ethical, different philosophers and thinkers have offered their opinions about them and
Perceiving the novel Hadji of Frakulla as a new departure for Vath Koreshi, the author of this article discusses the elements that differentiate the work from the methods of socialist realism, and reads the work as homage to the age of the poets – whom he refers to as bejtexhinj, or “couplet makers”. The novel
This research paper describes the confrontation between vice and virtue by means of an illuminist dialogue realized concretely between the authorial self (I) and the other self (he), as a philosophical strategy based on Socratic maieutics as adopted and applied by the French philosopher Denis Diderot, in the treatise Rameau’s Nephew. Dashi perceives this treatise
In his study Nymphs, the Italian philosopher Agamben explores the origin of iconography, examining video and other indications. He develops a poetics of dance, putting time and not movement at its core, and discusses image. This study, though it takes as its pretext an exhibition by the video artist Bill Viola, establishes numerous links with
In this article, Eshelman analyses Ali Smith’s novel Hotel World and Olga Tokarzcuk’s story Hotel Capital, both as a performatist works, commenting on the setting and technique of the narrative. His hypotheses are grounded in the semiotics of literary text and the ideas of such noted scholars as Mircea Eliade and Peter Sloterdijk.Eshelman deconstructs the
