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"Leibnizian Perspectivism in Baumgarten. Notes on the Influence of the Concept of petites perceptions in Baumgartian Aesthetics". In 1735 Baumgarten published his Philosophical Reflections on Poetry. There he develops for the first time the idea of a science of sensibility capable of apprehending the idea of beauty in art; a science which he denominates aesthetics. This quest to determine what beauty is and what the status of aesthetic experience within the edifice of knowledge is seems to be more related to the Leibnizian approaches to sensitivity than to the Wolffian gnoseological framework, not only because of the way in which it deals with the concepts of perfection, beauty and truth, but mainly due to the fact that, in the development of Baumgarten's research on sensitivity, mechanisms of subjectivation similar to the ones presented by Leibniz seem to be deployed --mechanisms characterized by a strong perspectival background. In view of this, this paper investigates the Leibnizian influence on Baumgartian philosophy, and specifically the question about how the concept of petites perceptions, as a central element of Leibniz's perspectivist conception, influences the notion of aesthetics developed by Baumgarten. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

"Psychology, politics and poetry in Republic IV and X". In this paper, I argue that in the Republic the possibility of a good koinōnia is hindered by the emotional potency and psychological perversion of mimetic-pleasurable poetry, which stimulates and strengthens the irrational part of the soul of its recipients through the imitation of characters linked to desire and anger. To this end, I examine, first, some of the passages in Republic IV in which it is possible to subscribe to the priority of the psychic tripartition over the political tripartition. Secondly, I point out some of the central features of the psychological critique of mimetic-pleasurable poetry in Republic X. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

El morador is the first poetry collection of Javier Sologuren, published in 1944 as a brochure of the journal Historia (n°8). Many critics argue that in these poems the author demonstrates his deft skills with language and poetic forms. That rigorous work of Sologuren also operates composing the set as a structure which integrates the poems in a sequence and meaning aligned with the conception of poetry they express; however, the critics do not mention that aspect of the collection. This paper examines that point on the writing of El morador (which was conceived with a sequential structure and with stylistic unity) and interprets it on the basis of the analysis of each poem. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper, we discuss some important concepts in Jose Maria Eguren's prose, gathered in the text Motivos, such as symbol, symbolic and symbolism. The criticism has emphasized the peculiar symbolism of his poetical universe but without comparing with depth the poetry and the reflections about this poetry, besides symbol's concept. In this article, some ideas are proposed about this series of problems, and it tries to support that the egurenian symbol is a sensory image that fulfils the double and antithetic function of to discover a Nature's mystery, already existing, as well as of to create his own Nature. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]