“The Origin of Culture in Kant. The Hiatus Between Life and Morality”. This paper attempts to investigate the meaning and function that culture plays as an existential activity in the work of Kant, driving special attention to the Critique of Judgment and to the materials furnished by the Anthropology from a pragmatic point of view, having as key goal the survey of its anthropological and social sources. From this perspective, I intend first to argue that the Kantian analysis of life and the intrinsic nihilism recognized in it largely explain the origin of the concept of culture in Kant, basically understood as a set of practices that allow human beings to extract some teleological performance from time passing. Secondly, I will discuss the phenomenon of entertainment as an anthropological key subject to deepen in the necessity of the advent of culture in human society. Both p...

“Maria Zambrano’s Neoplatonism. The Flesh of the Shadows”. This paper explores the impact of Maria Zambrano’s acquaintance with Neoplatonic sources of Late Antiquity in her thought. The objectives of this investigation are twofold: first, to conduct an in-depth study of a lesser-known source of Zambrano’s legacy; and, second, to explore the reasons behind the current interest on thinkers like Plotinus, particularly in light of the significance of the struggle between intelligence and corporality within the Enneads. The paper has three main sections. Firstly, I present Zambrano’s vindication—on a plebeian key—of the figure of Plotinus, which aligns with the views of Cuban poets that were part of her circle during her early exile, such as Fina García Marruz, and is closely related to her—more extensively studied—recovery of Stoicism. Then, I contextualize the use of Pl...

El trabajo se propone indagar el sentido y función que la cultura desempeña como actividad existencial en la obra de Kant, con especial atención a la Crítica del Juicio y a los materiales suministrados por la Antropología en sentido pragmático, adoptando como principal propósito la indagación de sus fuentes antropológicas y sociales. Desde esta perspectiva, pretendo argumentar que el análisis kantiano de la vida y el intrínseco nihilismo reconocido en ella explican en buena parte el origen de la cultura en Kant, entendida en un sentido muy básico como conjunto de prácticas que permiten a los seres humanos extraer cierto rendimiento teleológico del transcurso del tiempo. Por último, me ocuparé de singularizar el fenómeno del entretenimiento como clave antropológica para profundizar en la necesidad del advenimiento de la cultura en una sociedad humana. Ambos propósitos e...

This paper explores the impact of Maria Zambrano’s acquaintance with Neoplatonic sources of Late Antiquity in her thought. The objectives of this investigation are twofold: first, to conduct an in-depth study of a lesser-known source of Zambrano’s legacy; and, second, to explore the reasons behind the current interest on thinkers like Plotinus, particularly in light of the significance of the struggle between intelligence and corporality within the Enneads. The paper has three main sections. Firstly, I present Zambrano’s vindication—on a plebeian key—of the figure of Plotinus, which aligns with the views of Cuban poets that were part of her circle during her early exile, such as Fina García Marruz, and is closely related to her—more extensively studied—recovery of Stoicism. Then, I contextualize the use of Plotinian motifs within the Neopythagorean path, a path that Zambra...

“The Origin of Culture in Kant. The Hiatus Between Life and Morality”. This paper attempts to investigate the meaning and function that culture plays as an existential activity in the work of Kant, driving special attention to the Critique of Judgment and to the materials furnished by the Anthropology from a pragmatic point of view, having as key goal the survey of its anthropological and social sources. From this perspective, I intend first to argue that the Kantian analysis of life and the intrinsic nihilism recognized in it largely explain the origin of the concept of culture in Kant, basically understood as a set of practices that allow human beings to extract some teleological performance from time passing. Secondly, I will discuss the phenomenon of entertainment as an anthropological key subject to deepen in the necessity of the advent of culture in human society. Both p...

“Maria Zambrano’s Neoplatonism. The Flesh of the Shadows”. This paper explores the impact of Maria Zambrano’s acquaintance with Neoplatonic sources of Late Antiquity in her thought. The objectives of this investigation are twofold: first, to conduct an in-depth study of a lesser-known source of Zambrano’s legacy; and, second, to explore the reasons behind the current interest on thinkers like Plotinus, particularly in light of the significance of the struggle between intelligence and corporality within the Enneads. The paper has three main sections. Firstly, I present Zambrano’s vindication—on a plebeian key—of the figure of Plotinus, which aligns with the views of Cuban poets that were part of her circle during her early exile, such as Fina García Marruz, and is closely related to her—more extensively studied—recovery of Stoicism. Then, I contextualize the use of Pl...