Marina Marren
Biographic Data
| ID | 5635262 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Marina Marren |
| GIVEN NAMES | Marina |
| FAMILY NAME | Marren |
| SIGNATURE | MARREN M |
| AFFILIATIONS | United Arab Emirates University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6597-3917 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
The Mythological Aspect of Plato’s Phaedo as Disclosing the Soul’s Ontological Significance
This essay offers an interpretation of Plato’s Phaedo, which proceeds in two parts: (1) methodological interpretation of myth and (2) application of the method to the analysis of the soul. The paper claims that the myths in this dialogue are not limited to the explicitly mythical sections but that the entirety of the Phaedo—including the arguments that it presents—is saturated with myth. Through this interpretive lens, the soul, as it appears in …
Environmental Degradation, Socio-economic Disparity, and Western Economic Interests in Egypt
Egypt not only suffers from a history of colonial exploitative practices, but also lives in a present that is shaped by new forms of oppression. One clear indication of this fact is the clash between economic interests and environmental concerns. The pattern of Western investments into Egyptian industry and the Egyptian government’s deal-making with the Western stakeholders shows utilization of the region for profit-making without sufficient reso…
Repression and Return of Nature in Hegel and Beyond
Taking its departure from the destruction of ethicality (Sittlichkeit), as envisioned by Hegel in the Phänomenologie des Geistes (PG §443–475), this paper constructs a concept of a contemporary subject whose self-reliant autonomy fractures in the face of the truth. This truth is revealed as an upsurge of nature, whose role and significance has been denied in favor of comfort and security of the subject. The move to yoke and subdue nature by placi…
Achilles’ Character as an Internal Critique of Warmongering Ideals in the Iliad
In this paper, I show how Achilles’ faults work as a lens through which we more readily see the problematic nature of ideals that cast war – and especially an aggressive war of conquest – in a poeticized and desirable light. I argue that in Homer’s Iliad, idealized images of war, which promise super-human glory, in the end, serve to undo and waste human life. I do not mean to say that in this archetypal war epic we find an outright critique of wa…
The Power of Political Theology
In this paper, I draw together Carl Schmitt’s take on sovereign power and its dictatorial exceptionalism with his political theology and his insistence on the friend-enemy distinction in order to take steps towards a critique of his work. To explain why we would be remiss to take Schmitt’s insights into political theology prescriptively, I turn to Friedrich W. J. Schelling’s 1809 Freiheitsschrift. I then take-up Sigmund Freud’s 1929 Das Unbehange…
In Dialogue with Plato’s Politics and Education
There can be no doubt that we are beset in our current political reality by what Plato – at the inception of Western political thought – saw as the fertile conditions for tyranny. Book VIII of Plat
Sketches of Oedipus in Sophocles’s Play about Tyranny
The Enemy within
The strong thesis of this essay is that evolution in Carl Schmitt’s thinking, reflected in the differences between such works as the Nomos of the Earth and the much earlier Political Theology, for example, succeeds in this way—it solidifies Schmitt’s reliance on the exceptional power of the sovereign. In his final recourse to Plato, Schmitt finds, although he does not acknowledge this discovery, the justification for his earlier work on the trans…
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Sketches of Oedipus in Sophocles’s Play about Tyranny
The Enemy within
The strong thesis of this essay is that evolution in Carl Schmitt’s thinking, reflected in the differences between such works as the Nomos of the Earth and the much earlier Political Theology, for example, succeeds in this way—it solidifies Schmitt’s reliance on the exceptional power of the sovereign. In his final recourse to Plato, Schmitt finds, although he does not acknowledge this discovery, the justification for his earlier work on the trans…
In Dialogue with Plato’s Politics and Education
There can be no doubt that we are beset in our current political reality by what Plato – at the inception of Western political thought – saw as the fertile conditions for tyranny. Book VIII of Plat
Repression and Return of Nature in Hegel and Beyond
Taking its departure from the destruction of ethicality (Sittlichkeit), as envisioned by Hegel in the Phänomenologie des Geistes (PG §443–475), this paper constructs a concept of a contemporary subject whose self-reliant autonomy fractures in the face of the truth. This truth is revealed as an upsurge of nature, whose role and significance has been denied in favor of comfort and security of the subject. The move to yoke and subdue nature by placi…
Achilles’ Character as an Internal Critique of Warmongering Ideals in the Iliad
In this paper, I show how Achilles’ faults work as a lens through which we more readily see the problematic nature of ideals that cast war – and especially an aggressive war of conquest – in a poeticized and desirable light. I argue that in Homer’s Iliad, idealized images of war, which promise super-human glory, in the end, serve to undo and waste human life. I do not mean to say that in this archetypal war epic we find an outright critique of wa…
The Power of Political Theology
In this paper, I draw together Carl Schmitt’s take on sovereign power and its dictatorial exceptionalism with his political theology and his insistence on the friend-enemy distinction in order to take steps towards a critique of his work. To explain why we would be remiss to take Schmitt’s insights into political theology prescriptively, I turn to Friedrich W. J. Schelling’s 1809 Freiheitsschrift. I then take-up Sigmund Freud’s 1929 Das Unbehange…
The Mythological Aspect of Plato’s Phaedo as Disclosing the Soul’s Ontological Significance
This essay offers an interpretation of Plato’s Phaedo, which proceeds in two parts: (1) methodological interpretation of myth and (2) application of the method to the analysis of the soul. The paper claims that the myths in this dialogue are not limited to the explicitly mythical sections but that the entirety of the Phaedo—including the arguments that it presents—is saturated with myth. Through this interpretive lens, the soul, as it appears in …
Environmental Degradation, Socio-economic Disparity, and Western Economic Interests in Egypt
Egypt not only suffers from a history of colonial exploitative practices, but also lives in a present that is shaped by new forms of oppression. One clear indication of this fact is the clash between economic interests and environmental concerns. The pattern of Western investments into Egyptian industry and the Egyptian government’s deal-making with the Western stakeholders shows utilization of the region for profit-making without sufficient reso…
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