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Brolly
Vol. 6, No. 3
Dec. 2025
Vol. 6, No. 3
Dec. 2025
Odysseus’ Nest: American Identity and the Obsession with Territorial Mobility in Jack Kerouac’s “On the Road” and “The Dharma Bums”
The paper situates Kerouac’s nomadic protagonists within a tradition where movement across space becomes both an act of resistance and a symptom of cultural schizophrenia. Kerouac’s ceaseless East-West and North-South trajectories echo the Odyssean myth of return. Yet, the impossibility of a final home destabilises the very notion of belonging, mirroring the ambivalent nature of American identity itself.
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Performative Contradiction as Ontological Revelation: Elenctic Normativity and the Grounds of Reason after Discourse Ethics
Discourse ethics promises universality without substantive metaphysics. (...) I reconstrue performative contradiction as a failure of signification, not merely a pragmatic inconsistency, and retrieve Aristotle’s elenctic defence of the Principle of Non-Contradiction (PNC) in Metaphysics Γ as a model of non-demonstrative grounding.
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(Bio)Politics & (Bio) Power: Reconfiguring Michel Foucault’s “Dispositifs” for Contemporary Research
The terms exemplifies the fluidity of scientific concepts when granted epistemic autonomy. “Biopolitics” has been often imprecisely employed, leading to a fragmented and highly contested conceptual landscape. This paper seeks to recover Foucault’s original articulation, focusing on his dispersed and indirect treatment of the term.
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Educating Through Philosophy:Critical Thinking and Meaningful Dialogue
The value of philosophy as a tool for reflection and critical thinking, emphasising its epistemological dimension as a lifelong approach to inquiry and scientific reasoning. Conceptual understanding, truth-seeking, argumentation, and dialogue: the study’s primary contribution lies in promoting “inquiry into the meaning of concepts”, a key benefit of the P4C (Philosophy for Children) initiative. The approach draws on Greek philosophy, the Socratic method, Protagoras’ homo mensura, the Sophistic Enlightenment, and Platonic dialectic.
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Ancient Myths in the Mirror of the 21st Century: Strategies of Interpretation and Artistic Functions
It is shown that myth functions not only as cultural heritage but also as a dynamic code of modernity. Key strategies and artistic functions are identified, including identity formation, engagement with trauma, aesthetic play, and philosophical reflection. The study concludes that through continual renewal, myth remains highly relevant within the contemporary literary process.
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Where the Harm Comes From: Ethics of Mediating Collectives
We target three domains of global injustice: economic, environmental, and gender-related, following the threads of briefly stated cases in these domains. Our conclusion suggests recommendations for dealing more realistically and more efficiently with global injustice (...)
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Scottish Enlightenment Philosophy as a Theoretical Framework of Wine Rhetoric
Wine rhetoric encompasses the unique discourse, vocabulary, and tastes of sommeliers, restaurateurs, and other wine professionals. (...) The rhetorical skills they develop are reflective of Scottish Enlightenment theories on Taste and Beauty.
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Pre-Raphaelite Intertextualities and Love as Melancholy in Constantin Christomanos’ Tagebuchblätter
Romantic aesthetics and Pre-Raphaelite fashion inspired Constantin Christomanos (late 19th century) to write about his virtual interaction with Empress Elisabeth...
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When “Knowing How to Read Texts” Means Understanding and Inferring Meanings
(...) a vision of reading comprehension as a dynamic process of decoding and linguistic understanding, which suggests how the relationship between decoding and linguistic understanding should be integrative rather than additional.
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“Gabriel de Pedro Quintet”: Decisions in Search for a Sonority
The production process and musical performance of the album "La mujer árbol" (2018). (...) The theoretical framework conceives music as a process and performance, not as an isolated object. The research field is organized by (...)
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