François Raffoul approaches the concept of responsibility in a manner
that is distinct from its traditional interpretation as accountability of the
willful subject. Exploring responsibility in the ...works of Nietzsche, Sartre,
Levinas, Heidegger, and Derrida, Raffoul identifies decisive moments in the
development of the concept, retrieves its origins, and explores new reflections on
it. For Raffoul, responsibility is less about a sovereign subject establishing a
sphere of power and control than about exposure to an event that does not come from
us and yet calls to us. These original and thoughtful investigations of the
post-metaphysical senses of responsibility chart new directions for ethics in the
continental tradition.
With over 450 clearly written definitions and articles by an international team of specialists, this dictionary covers the thinkers, topics, and technical terms associated with the many fields know ...as 'continental philosophy.'
The Artificial and the Natural Bensaude-Vincent, Bernadette; Newman, William R; Staden, Heinrich von ...
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Notions of nature and art as they have been defined and redefined in Western culture, from the Hippocratic writers and Aristotle of Ancient Greece to nineteenth-century chemistry and twenty-first ...century biomimetics.
There has been renaissance of interest in the work and thought of Paul Ricoeur, one of the great hermeneutic scholars of the twentieth century. It is time to assess the future landscape for ...hermeneutics as a scholarly field and an educational curriculum after the momentous impact of Paul Ricoeur, who extended and deepened its trans-disciplinary reach, and pushed its profile substantially beyond its German legacy. There exits a misunderstanding that his thought is simply an extension or revision of Heidegger and Gadamer; Hermeneutics After Ricoeur ably sets out the differences and tensions, establishing the originality of Ricoeur’s thought and its application beyond hermeneutic studies, with a thematic focus on education, the humanities, and the liberal arts.
A discussion of the rapidly growing field, from a thinker at the forefront of research at the interface of technology and the humanities, this is a must-read for anyone interested in contemporary ...developments in Continental philosophy and philosophy of technology. Philosophy of technology regularly draws on key thinkers in the Continental tradition, including Husserl, Heidegger, and Foucault. Yet because of the problematic legacy of the ‘empirical turn’, it often criticizes ‘bad’ continental tendencies - lyricism, pessimism, and an outdated view of technology as an autonomous, transcendental force. This misconception is based on a faulty image of Continental thought, and in addressing it Smith productively redefines our concept of technology. By closely engaging key texts, and by examining ‘exceptional technologies’ such as imagined, failed, and impossible technologies that fall outside philosophy of technology’s current focus, this book offers a practical guide to thinking about and using continental philosophy and philosophy of technology. It outlines and enacts three key characteristics of philosophy as practiced in the continental tradition: close reading of the history of philosophy; focus on critique; and openness to other disciplinary fields. Smith deploys the concept of exceptional technologies to provide a novel way of widening discussion in philosophy of technology, navigating the relationship between philosophy of technology and Continental philosophy; the history of both these fields; the role of imagination in relation to technologies; and the social function of technologies themselves.
Ereigniskritik Espinet, David
2017, 2017-05-08, Letnik:
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Der Begriff des Ereignisses wird in der philosophischen Moderne so zentral wie konträr entwickelt. Naturalistische und antinaturalistische Auffassungen des Ereignisses stehen sich, meist entlang des ...,,continental divide", bis heute antinomisch gegenüber. Während auf Seiten der analytischen Philosophie ein Ereigniskonzept kausal volldeterminierter Geschehnisse vorherrschend ist, zielt die (post)phänomenologische Kontinentalphilosophie auf ein tendenziell antinaturalistisches Ereigniskonzept der radikalen Indetermination und Diskontinuität bzw. Alterität. Mit einer an Kant (und dessen für die Moderne gültige Diagnose einer fundamentalen Ereignisantinomie) gewonnen Ereigniskritik argumentiert vorliegende Studie sowohl gegen die naturalistische Trivialisierung des Ereignisses als auch gegen dessen antinaturalistische, letztlich idealistische Hyperbolisierung. Stattdessen wird für einen kritischen Realismus des Ereignisses argumentiert, welcher die Verträglichkeit von Indetermination und Determination konsistent konzeptualisiert. Gezeigt wird, dass Normativität auf epistemischer, ethischer und ästhetischer Ebene kontingenzsensibel gedacht werden kann, ohne dass deshalb doch der Anspruch auf objektive Verbindlichkeit aufzugeben ist.
The philosophy of Habermas Edgar, Andrew
The philosophy of Habermas,
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In The Philosophy of Habermas Andrew Edgar covers the full range of Habermas's ideas from his early work on student politics, the public sphere, and the development of Marxist theory to his current ...work on communicative action, ethics, and law. Edgar examines Habermas's key texts in chronological order and charts and assesses the continuities and discontinuities in his thought, both in terms of subject matter and methodology. He also identifies Habermas's unfulfilled potential, or unresolved challenges remaining from earlier projects, highlighting those points in Habermas's career where clear choices of direction have been made and their implications evaluated. Each chapter focuses on one or more key texts and can therefore be read as a self-standing essay on that key reading and the point that it represents in Habermas's development. However, material in each chapter also serves to identify the links between Habermas's texts and to give shape to Habermas's broader project. Some of the themes that are examined are Habermas's early reshaping of Marxist theory and practice, his characterization of critical theory, his conception of universal pragmatics, his theories of communicative action and discourse ethics, his accounts of the rationalization and colonisation of the lifeworld and his defence of the project of modernity. Edgar engages with Habermas's critics throughout and contrasts his views with the ideas of contemporaries such as Adorno, Gadamer, Foucault, Rawls, Luhmann and Rorty to give a clear sense of Habermas's place and importance in contemporary philosophy and social theory.
In Kierkegaard and Modern European Philosophy: An Introduction Michael Weston argues that, despite being acknowledged as a precursor to Nietzsche and post-Nietzschean thinkers such as Heidegger and ...Derrida, the radical nature of Kierkegaard's critique of philosophy has been missed. Weston examines and explains the metaphysical tradition, as exemplified by Plato and Hegel, and the post-metaphysical critiques of Nietzsche, Heidegger and Derrida. He shows how Kierkegaard's ethical critique of philosophy undermines the former and escapes the latter. He considers another ethical critique of philosophy, that of Levinas, before identifying ethics as the non-philosophical site where philosophy can be criticised. Kierkegaard and Modern European Philosophy: An Introduction argues that, by refusing to allow philosophy jurisdiction over ethics and religion, Kieregaard's critique applies as much to modern continental thought as to the metaphysical thought it seeks to undermine.
Since the 1930s, philosophy has been divided into two camps: the analytic tradition which prevails in the Anglophone world and the continental tradition which holds sway over the European continent. ...A Parting of the Ways looks at the origins of this split through the lens of one defining episode: the disputation in Davos, Switzerland, in 1929, between the two most eminent German philosophers, Ernst Cassirer and Martin Heidegger. This watershed debate was attended by Rudlf Carnap, a representative of the Vienna Circle of logical positivists. Michael Friedman shows how philosophical differences interacted with political events. Both Carnap and Heidegger viewd their philosophical efforts as tied to their radical social outlooks, with Carnap on the left and Heidegger on the right, while Cassirer was in the conciliatory classical tradition of liveral republicanism. The rise of Hitler led to the emigration from Europe of most leading philosophers, including Carnap and Cassirer, leaving Heidegger alone on the continent.
