The article discusses the relationship between the quality of economic institutions and the level of subjective well-being across countries. The findings unequivocally suggest countries with better economic institutions tend to be much happier than the ones with mediocre institutions. Over time, higher levels of economic freedom appear to be associated with slightly but persistently decreasing levels of subjective well-being.
COBISS.SI-ID: 22435814
The paper takes as its starting point the figure of the owl as the emblem of philosophy; it looks at its history and takes up its most significant philosophical use, the notorious passage where Hegel uses the owl as the indication of philosophy’s necessary belatedness. Thus, the research article provides the ground for reconsidering the methodological premise of the project, which attempts to problematize philosophically the idea of the end of history.
COBISS.SI-ID: 59537762
The paper discusses the question of the (im)possibility of aesthetic representations of the Holocaust and highlights two thesis: Adorno’s thesis on the impossibility of writing poetry after Auschwitz, and Žižek’s thesis on the lack of the common symbolic substance as such. The paper then focuses on the logic of reminder that shakes the thesis on the impossibility of articulating the Real, and draws attention–against the backdrop of Adorno’s interpretation of Schoenberg’s cantata The Survivor from Warsaw–to the third possible reading of this impossibility, namely to the possibility of formalizing the impossibility of symbolizing the Real. The paper concludes with two possible readings of Schoenberg’s cantata in relation to Beethoven’s Ode to Joy.