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The Passions and Disinterest: From Kantian Free Play to Creative Determination by Power, via Schiller and Nietzsche
I argue that Nietzsche’s criticism of the Kantian theory of disinterested pleasure in beauty reflects his own commitment to claims that closely resemble certain Kantian aesthetic principles, specifically as reinterpreted by Schiller. I show that Schiller takes the experience of beauty to be disinterested both (1) insofar as it involves impassioned ‘play’ rather than desire-driven ‘work’, and (2) insofar as it involves rational-sensuous (‘aesthetic’) play rather than mere physical play. In figures like Nietzsche, Schiller’s generic notion of play—which is itself influenced by Kant’s claim that aesthetic pleasure is orthogonal to desire-satisfaction—becomes decoupled from his (further) Kantian view that aesthetic play essentially involves a harmony of sensuous receptivity and rational spontaneity. The result, I suggest, is a self-standing opposition between desires and passions. This motivates a recognizably Romantic vision of aesthetic disinterestedness, as freedom from desire realized in a state of creative determination by passion
Non-local Coulomb interactions and metal-insulator transition in TiO: a cluster LDA+DMFT approach
We present an ab initio quantum theory of the metal-insulator transition in
TiO. The recently developed cluster LDA+DMFT scheme is applied to
describe the many-body features of this compound. The conventional single site
DMFT cannot reproduce a low temperature insulating phase for any reasonable
values of the Coulomb interaction. We show that the non-local Coulomb
interactions and the strong chemical bonding within Ti-Ti pair is the origin of
the small gap insulating ground state of TiO
First-principles studies of water adsorption on graphene: The role of the substrate
We investigate the electronic properties of graphene upon water adsorption
and study the influence of the SiO2 substrate in this context using density
functional calculations. Perfect suspended graphene is rather insensitive to
H2O adsorbates, as doping requires highly oriented H2O clusters. For graphene
on a defective SiO2 substrate, we find a strongly different behavior: H2O
adsorbates can shift the substrate's impurity bands and change their
hybridization with the graphene bands. In this way, H2O can lead to doping of
graphene for much lower adsorbate concentrations than for free hanged graphene.
The effect depends strongly on the microscopic substrate properties.Comment: 4 pages, 3 figure
Correlation effects in electronic structure of PuCoGa5
We report on results of the first realistic electronic structure calculations
of the Pu-based PuCoGa5 superconductor based on the dynamical mean field
theory. We find that dynamical correlations due to the local Coulomb
interaction between Pu f-electrons lead to substantial modification of the
electronic structure with a narrow peak being formed in vicinity of the Fermi
energy, in agreement with the experimental photoemission spectra, and in
contrast with the recent calculations within the LDA+U method, where only
static electronic correlations have been included. Both Pu and Co contribute in
equal footing to the narrow peak on the density of states at the Fermi level,
the Co partial density of states being prominently affected by electronic
correlations on the Pu sites. The k-resolved spectral density is calculated and
the theoretical spectral function resolved extended Van Hove singularity near
the Fermi energy. This singularity may lead to enchancement of the magnetic
susceptebility and favour d-wave superconductivity
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