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This article aims to investigate the limits and possibilities of the constitution of subjectivity and its narrative meaning in Michel Pêcheux from a comparison of the notions of décalage, interdiscourse and hetero-constitution with certain Derridean ideas. Pêcheux (1975) develops the concept of interdiscourse by investigating its relationship with discursive formations and the way in which they “hold” the subject, constituting it through a series of subtractions/forgettings that, far from vanishing, are the paradoxical condition of possibility of a kind of memorial montage; memory that ultimately depends on an archive that inscribes traces on the surfaces of meaning (corporeal-biographical but especially social). Both the Pecheutian décalage and the Derridean différance can be thought of as that dynamic instance that, in its differing, in turn enables and disables any archive and, therefore, any event (biographical or not). It is from this “bad” differentiating archive, from this auto-bio-thanato-hetero-graphic enunciative scene, that we can consider whether or not it is viable to think about the narrativity of a life and what ontological, subjective and discursive implications are played there.

Michel Henry stated in many occasions that the goal of his philosophy is to clarify the meaning of subjectivity. This theme persists throughout his philosophical work, although the perspectives and elements that define it change significantly. In order to shed some light on this modifications, this paper concentrates fundamentally on the variations of the concept of passivity that emerge in the context of a growing concern about the relation between absolute Life or God and the livings, so characteristic of the Henrian writings of the nineties. I would claim that this period cannot be reduced to this concern, but that Henry’s late philosophy seeks to discover an “archeology of the Self”, by finding a new kind of passivity and, thus, the deepest layers of ipseity and corporality.

Jewish philosophy has always had its own way of making it´s answers to the different questions that have been appearing in the history of thought. This indeed happen with the question about language, that involve Jewish thought not only from the philosophical point of view, but also from the religious one. Thereby, a current of thought arises, which can be called “Jewish nominalism” that proposes a new way to think about language, directly confronting the main intellectual tradition in Western thought that stretches from Ionia to Jena and inspires Martin Buber´s conception of language and anthropology. The objective of this work is to analyze the understanding of language from this “Jewish nominalism” and the strong influence it had on Martin Buber. The hypothesis that it presents is that the understanding of the name and the naming for the thinkers of “Jewish nominalism” gives shape and bases to the possibility of the human being to say Thou in Martin Buber, making, at the same time, Buber´s anthropology’s bases a valuable contribution to the philosophy of language.

In this paper we will deal with some aspects of the controversy between Wallis and Hobbes concerning the foundations of infinite mathematics and the use of infinite and infinitely small quantities in mathematics. Thus, after some initial clarification on Wallis’s arithmetic of infinities, we will focus particularly on three main topics of this discussion: the nature of infinitesimals and the validity of their use in mathematics; the infinite number and the supposition of what we will call “the completeness of the series”; and the conception that the “excess” disappears, taking the series to infinity.

First, a survey of the history of philosophy is undertaken to show how different thinkers have recognised the agency of the image. By picking up the threads offered by the ancient concept of active images, the late medieval multiperspectivity in relation to images, the founding theory of the modern state, the elements of image activity found in philosophy from Leibniz to Vico, from Hegel to Peirce, and, finally, various returns to these traditions that took place in the 20th century, an updated systematisation becomes possible: schematic, substitutive and intrinsic image acts. Thirdly, the relationship between image act theory and contemporary philosophy, mainly new realism and the philosophy of incarnation, is analysed.

The purpose of this analysis is to stablish the basis of the cinematic expression, that is, what means does the cinema use to express itself. The focus of this paper will be the cinematic image and its expression through photogénie. The concept of photogénie is of interest given that, as claimed by Louis Delluc, “photogénie is the law of cinema”. Furthermore, it will be taken into account the way in which Jean Epstein will resume the intellectual sketches of Delluc in vistas of highlighting what makes and image photogenic and why does the cinema use it in order to express itself.

The notion of event is presented as one of the fundamental philosophical concepts to understand and interpret reality. In this article we propose to show the critical functionalities that are synthesized in the notion of event anchored in the Heideggerian theoretical position. We maintain that these three functions that we collect around the event turn out to be a relevant and original contribution to contemporary philosophical reflections.

Management decisions from the beginning have been paramount within companies, they mark business success or decline, because through these, the reins of the business are taken, a bad decision increases the risk of organizational failure. As companies are exposed to changing environments, their interpretation becomes complex, hence the importance of carrying out a correct analysis that involves the external analysis that examines the threats and opportunities to which the company is exposed and in the internal analysis weaknesses and strengths, given this, two theories are proposed, contingency theory that studies the external environment and the theory of resources and capabilities that examines the internal environment. Both theories allow senior managers to enhance business wealth, seeking a balance in the face of constant changes, the Proper use of essential resources and capabilities Starting from this point, this research aims to analyze the influence of the external and internal environment in managerial decision making, for this, the quantitative methodology is proposed that begins with the review of the literature using a content analysis methodology, whose research tool stigation for data collection is the questionnaire composed of 10 questions divided into two parts, the first five correspond to the external environment and the subsequent ones to the internal structured on the Likert scale, for the analysis a company from Ecuador, from the Santa Rosa Canton, is selected surveying only the bosses, concluding after applying the aforementioned method that the bosses make their decisions based on empirical knowledge, leaving aside many factors to take into account in decision making such as statistical systems, resources and capabilities. 

Corporate Social Responsibility has become a competitive advantage in the market, thanks to the fact that consumers value to a greater extent the contribution of companies to their community and natural environment, transforming it into a factor that influences consumer behavior and their image, making it a successful strategy. For these reasons, the objective was established to analyze the influence of Corporate Social Responsibility on perceived value, engagement, and purchase intention, since these are decisive variables in consumer behavior. Therefore, exploratory research with a quantitative approach was carried out, using a theoretical model of relationships on a sample of 384 consumers of hypermarkets in El Oro (province of Ecuador), contrasted through a structural equation model SEM with PLS 3 and IBM SPSS. The results revealed that Corporate Social Responsibility has a positive influence on consumers, because it allows them to gain a reputation that is reflected through positive perceptions by them, giving way to generate a mutual engagement that influences their purchase intention. Thus, it was concluded that Corporate Social Responsibility should be the object of investment by hypermarkets, for its development and application as a long-term strategic decision, aimed at strengthening their corporate image and fostering lasting relationships, which will allow them to find the desired success in the current and future market.