![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | Dandy Prince and the Ping Pong King - Floris Solleveld
Described as a 'late capitalist commedia dell'arte', the satirical poem cycle Dandy Prince and the Ping Pong King has been markedly written for the ear. Here in the author's reading. duration 4'57". pdf attached
Keywords: poetry; satire; dandyism; commedia dell'arte
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| Iblis - Floris Solleveld
Poem, Dutch/German/English, read by the author. duration 1'17". pdf attached.
Keywords: poetry
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![[texts]](/images/mediatype_texts.gif) | De Kritik der Urteilskraft en het Bildungsideaal - Floris Solleveld
This would have been my BA thesis if I hadn't choosen to graduate old style (Dutch 'doctoraal'). I can still read it without feeling embarrassed. 2005, 26pp.
Keywords: Kant; Bildung; Herder; Schiller; Schelling; enlightenment; romanticism
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| Love to hate the modern world - Floris Solleveld
"Love to hate the modern world - Benjamin and Baudelaire on modernity" is a paper after a presentation held in 2005. Not my 'deepest' philosophical text, I still like it as an essay.
Keywords: philosophy; Baudelaire; Benjamin; modernism; modernity; dandyism
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| Davidson's metaphors - Floris Solleveld
"Davidson's metaphors - desiderata for a theory of meaning" views Davidson's idea that metaphors mean nothing from an inferentialist perspective. Its main claims are that when we have language we have metalanguage, and that whenever we have structure enough to reason we have metaphor. 2005, 19pp.
Keywords: metaphor; Davidson; Sellars; theory of meaning
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| Language, History and the Ideal of Bildung - Floris Solleveld
MA thesis in philosophy from the University of Amsterdam, 2007. Advances the bold thesis that ideals perform a constitutive role in reasoning and hence in attributions of meaning. Combines a discussion of the use of the notion 'Bildung' in contemporary philosophy of language with a contrasting perspective on attributions of meaning in historical interpretations. Graduated cum laude. Tutors: Michiel Leezenberg, Josef Früchtl 100pp...
Keywords: Bildung; Davidson; Rorty; McDowell; Sellars; Koselleck; Gadamer; Philosophy of language
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| New Meanings in the History of Ideas - Floris Solleveld
"New Meanings in the History of Ideas" was the most painful of my papers in the making. Attacking Foucault and Gadamer on the attribution of meanings in historical interpretation, it introduces the argument about the role of ideals in reasoning that shaped my MA thesis. 21pp.
Keywords: historical interpretation; Foucault; Gadamer; Sellars; philosophy of language; conceptual change
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| The dark side of Bildung? - Floris Solleveld
"The dark side of Bildung? - Language, History and Religion in Friedrich Schlegel's 'Ueber Sprache und Weisheit der Indier'" attempts to give my ideas about the role of ideals in reasoning some historical substance, by showing how romantic ideals run astray in Schlegel's pioneer work of Sanskrit philology. 2006, 25pp.
Keywords: Bildung; Sanskrit philology; history of linguistics; Schlegel; romanticism
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