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Hermeneutic Rationality
The problem of the limits of reason is by no means a privileged subject of an academic discourse. By reducing reality to what can be conceived of within the paradigms of the scientific laboratory, manipulative despotism, which positivistic notion of objectivism has established, creates in a human being a unilateral conscience of the world and of oneself; a conscience that dominates today our understanding of existence in its manifold senses of Being and the world we live in. This way of thinking, based on a powerful and skillful technique aimed at controlling human life in all its dimensions, intends to impose this limiting positivistic horizon on human beings in the name of Liberte, Egalite...
Confronting Heidegger
The question of the relation of Martin Heidegger’s thought to politics has been a subject of controversy since the 1930s, when he became an advocate of the National Socialist regime in Germany. This volume addresses this question in a unique format, as a dialogue among leading Heidegger scholars. That dialogue begins with an exchange between Gregory Fried and Emmanuel Faye about Faye’s contention that Heidegger’s work represents nothing short of “the introduction of Nazism into philosophy.” At stake are issues such as what Heidegger himself understood Nazism to be, whether a thinker’s life and actions define the meaning of his work, the enduring threat of fascism, and the nature of rationality and philosophy itself. Richard Polt, Matthew Sharpe, Dieter Thomä, William Altman, and Sidonie Kellerer join the conversation, with responses from Fried and Faye.
The Politics of Representation
Electoral and parliamentary arenas play a crucial role in the configuration and dynamics of modern polities. This book explores the practices of citizenship and unveils the fabric of representation in the Iberian countries, during a significant period of liberal politics, that is, from its apogee to its collapse (from the 1870s to the 1920s). Part One examines the evolution of electoral norms and behaviour, as well as the recruitment profile of MPs. Portugal and Spain share fundamental features, such as the extensive clientelistic mobilisation of voters, the dissemination of fraud and corruption, the supremacy of governmental parties and the prevalence of the politics of notables. Part Two f...
The Fiction of Robin Jenkins
The Fiction of Robin Jenkins is the first ever volume of essays dedicated to Robin Jenkins (1912-2005), hailed by Andrew Marr as ‘the best-kept secret in Modern British Literature’, and by the Scotsman in 2000 as ‘the greatest living fiction-writer in Scotland [...] the Scottish Thomas Hardy’. This new study of Jenkins includes essays across his entire, astonishingly varied body of work. It includes provocative new readings of a range of thematic issues by established experts on Jenkins and on Scottish Literature more broadly. This volume also includes chapters dedicated to individual novels in Jenkins’s corpus, including his best-known work, The Cone-Gatherers, as well as The Changeling, Fergus Lamont, and his posthumous novel, The Pearl Fishers. Contributors: Ingibjörg Ágústsdóttir, Timothy C. Baker, Linden Bicket, Gerard Carruthers, Cairns Craig, Douglas Gifford, Michael Lamont, Margery Palmer McCulloch, Isobel Murray, Glenda Norquay, Alan Riach, David Robb, Bernard Sellin, Gavin Wallace.
Eastern and Western Synergies and Imaginations
Eastern and Western Synergies and Imaginations traces and investigates multi-cultural interpretations of fictional and non-fictional narratives that feature people and events in East-West hubs. The Three Ladies of Macao, premièred in December 2016, is now published as appendix in this volume.
Consequences of Hermeneutics
Consequences of Hermeneutics celebrates the fiftieth anniversary of the publication of one of the most important philosophical works of the twentieth century with essay by most of the leading figurs in contemporary hermeneutic theory, including Gianni Vattimo and Jean Grondin.
Ideias sem Centro
«Pululam hoje pela indústria cultural, pelos círculos mediáticos e pela universidade estudiosos e opinion makers que fazem do populismo uma espécie de fascismo do século XXI.Após a Segunda Guerra Mundial, como é sabido, o “fascismo” deixou de ser tratado como uma corrente política e cultural para se transformar num cómodo “significante vazio” destinado a designar tudo quanto seja odioso e desprezível. Obscureceu-se o caminho de acesso ao fascismo histórico na mesma proporção em que emergiu um “fascismo eterno”. Do mesmo modo se passa hoje com o populismo.O conceito é mobilizado pejorativamente para designar um modo simplesmente ignóbil e repugnante de fazer política, e oferece-se como particularmente útil, em discussões acaloradas, para estigmatizar rapidamente adversários sem a maçada de demais discussões. Ora, esse modo de usar o conceito encerra um problema que não é despiciendo: ele não só ignora a história dos fenómenos caracterizáveis como populistas, muito variados, mas sobretudo tolda a possibilidade de encontrar no próprio conceito possibilidades à partida insuspeitadas e uma fecundidade inicialmente imprevista.»
O ser e a poesia
A tradição do pensamento ocidental – constituída a partir de Platão e Aristóteles – está marcada por uma tripla dimensão: o esquecimento do ser, o silenciamento da linguagem e a emergência do domínio da técnica, esta última mais evidenciada na Modernidade como consequência do Iluminismo. Para desconstruir tal estado de coisas, Martin Heidegger formulou o que ele próprio designou como ontologia fundamental, em contraposição à tradição petrificada da metafísica vigente desde que a Filosofia se tornou uma atividade de escola. Trata-se, portanto, de recolocar a questão do ser – ou, mais propriamente, do sentido do ser – no lugar que lhe é devido na história do pensa...
Existential Utopia
Radical political thought of the 20th century was dominated by utopia, but the failure of communism in Eastern Europe and its disavowal in China has brought on the need for a new model of utopian thought. This book thus seeks to redefine the concept of utopia and bring it to bear on today's politics. The original essays, contributed by key thinkers such as Gianni Vattimo and Jean-Luc Nancy, highlight the connection between utopian theory and practice. The book reassesses the legacy of utopia and conceptualizes alternatives to the neo-liberal, technocratic regimes prevalent in today's world. It argues that only utopia in its existential sense, grounded in the lived time and space of politics, can distance itself from mainstream ideology and not be at the service of technocratic regimes, while paying attention to the material conditions of human life. Existential Utopia offers a new and exciting interpretation of utopia in contemporary culture and a much-needed intervention into the philosophical and political discussion of utopian thinking that is both accessible to students and comprehensive.
