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Carl Schmitt's Critique of Liberalism
This is the first in-depth critical appraisal in English of the political, legal, and cultural writings of Carl Schmitt, perhaps this century's most brilliant critic of liberalism. It offers an assessment of this most sophisticated of fascist theorists without attempting either to apologise for or demonise him. Schmitt's Weimar writings confront the role of technology as it finds expression through the principles and practices of liberalism. Contemporary political conditions such as disaffection with liberalism and the rise of extremist political organizations have rendered Schmitt's work both relevant and insightful. John McCormick examines why technology becomes a rallying cry for both right- and left-wing intellectuals at times when liberalism appears anachronistic, and shows the continuities between Weimar's ideological debates and those of our own age.
The Tragedy of Optimism
Steven S. Schwarzschild (1924–1989) was arguably the leading expositor of German-Jewish philosopher Hermann Cohen (1842–1918), undertaking a lifelong effort to reintroduce Cohen's thought into contemporary philosophical discourse. In The Tragedy of Optimism, George Y. Kohler brings together all of Schwarzschild's work on Cohen for the first time. Schwarzschild's readings of Cohen are unique and profound; he was conversant with both worlds that shaped Cohen's thought, neo-Kantian German idealism and Jewish theology. The collection covers a wide range of subjects, from ethics, socialism, the concept of human selfhood, and the mathematics of the infinite to more explicitly Jewish themes. This volume includes two of Schwarzschild's previously unpublished manuscripts and a scholarly introduction by Kohler. Schwarzschild shows that despite its seeming defeat by events of the twentieth century, Cohen's optimism about human progress is a rational, indeed necessary, path to peace.
Turning Traditions Upside Down
Proceedings of a colloquium held in 2008 at Central European University.
The Enemy
The writings of Carl Schmitt form what is arguably the most disconcerting, original, and yet still unfamiliar body of twentieth-century political thought. In the English-speaking world, he is terra incognita, a name associated with Nazism, the author of a largely untranslated oeuvre forming no recognizable system, coming to us from a disturbing place and time in the form of fragments. The Enemy is a comprehensive reconstruction and analysis of all of Schmitt's major works-his books, articles and pamphlets from 1919 to 1950-presented in an arresting narrative form. The revelation of his work is that, unlike mainstream Nazi ideology, Schmitt makes a strong philosophical claim for the necessity of confrontational politics within a democratic system; a claim that has resonance in today's hegemony of consensual politics.
Gadamer & a Educação
Considerado o maior expoente da Hermenêutica Filosófica, Hans-Georg Gadamer exerceu profunda influência no cenário intelectual do século XX. Do Direito à Medicina, da Ética às Ciências Naturais, da Literatura às Ciências Humanas, suas contribuições estão cada dia mais presentes. Colocando-se contra a validade exclusiva da ideia de objetividade, tão central nas ciências modernas, Gadamer defende uma postura intelectual que pretende dar conta de condições existenciais do saber, com destaque para a linguagem, a história e o ambiente social. No Brasil, observa-se um interesse crescente pelas relações entre a Hermenêutica Filosófica e a Educação. De fato, a concepção gadameriana problematiza as pretensões universalistas da Pedagogia e traz argumentos que podem esclarecer problemas centrais, com os quais a Pedagogia contemporânea vê-se confrontada. Assim, é em boa hora que a Coleção Pensadores & Educação inclui, entre seus títulos, este Gadamer & a Educação, escrito por um filósofo do porte do Professor Doutor Hans-Georg Flickinger, reconhecido internacionalmente por sua competência no campo da Hermenêutica Filosófica.
Marx, Spinoza and Darwin
Marx, Spinoza and Darwin presents a common thread in its argument: it shows how these authors—certainly with differences among themselves—consolidated a field of investigation that does not resort to transcendent or religious premises in approaching the phenomena they analyze. Thus, when Spinoza declared that the “will of God” is the “sanctuary of ignorance,” when Marx provocatively maintained that “criticism of religion is the premise of all criticism,” or when Darwin polemicized against a millennial creationist approach, all were taking a stand that invited us to view our world through a secular and immanent lens. In addition to this common thread, Martins discusses other issues present in the works of these thinkers, for instance the space that exists for human subjectivity from a Marxist perspective (which is not to be confused with philosophical “objectivism”): men and women are encouraged to act in the world. With this conceptual background, the concluding chapters of the book address the proliferation of some less examined Christian fundamentalisms in contemporary world, presenting an explanatory hypothesis for the phenomenon.
