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Hans Ruin: Being with the Dead—Burial, Ancestral Politics, and the Roots of Historical Consciousness
  • Language: en
Enigmatic Origins
  • Language: sv

Enigmatic Origins

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2015
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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The Emergency of Being
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 306

The Emergency of Being

"The heart of history, for Heidegger, is not a sequence of occurrences but the eruption of significance at critical junctures that bring us into our own by making all being, including our being, into an urgent issue. In emergency, being emerges."—from The Emergency of Being The esoteric Contributions to Philosophy, often considered Martin Heidegger's second main work after Being and Time, is crucial to any interpretation of his thought. Here Heidegger proposes that being takes place as "appropriation." Richard Polt's independent-minded account of the Contributions interprets appropriation as an event of emergency that demands to be thought in a "future-subjunctive" mode. Polt explores the ...

The Cambridge Companion to Gadamer
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 340

The Cambridge Companion to Gadamer

The most convenient and accessible guide to Gadamer currently available.

A Real Mind
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 283

A Real Mind

This comprehensive presentation of Axel Hägerström (1868-1939) fills a void in nearly a century of literature, providing both the legal and political scholar and the non-expert reader with a proper introduction to the father of Scandinavian realism. Based on his complete work, including unpublished material and personal correspondence selected exclusively from the Uppsala archives, A Real Mind follows the chronological evolution of Hägerström’s intellectual enterprise and offers a full account of his thought. The book summarizes Hägerström’s main arguments while enabling further critical assessment, and tries to answer such questions as: If norms are neither true nor false, how can...

The Enduring Fantastic
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 232

The Enduring Fantastic

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2021-06-09
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  • Publisher: McFarland

Fantastic fiction is traditionally understood as Western genre literature such as fantasy, science fiction, and horror. Expanding on this understanding, these essays explore how the fantastic has been used in Western societies since the Middle Ages as a tool for organizing and materializing abstractions in order to make sense of the present social order. Disciplines represented here include literature studies, gender studies, biology, ethnology, archeology, history, religion, game studies, cultural sociology, and film studies. Individual essays cover topics such as the fantastic creatures of medieval chronicle, mummy medicine in eighteenth-century Sweden, how fears of disease filtered through the universal and adaptable vampire, the gender aspects of goddess worship in the secular West, ecocentrism in fantasy fiction, how videogames are dealing with the remediation of heritage, and more.

The White Horse of the Peppers, Etc
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 46

The White Horse of the Peppers, Etc

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1838
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Nietzsche on Memory and History
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 354

Nietzsche on Memory and History

History and memory rank as central themes in the philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche. As one of the last philosophers of the 19th century, Nietzsche naturally belongs to the so-called ‘historical century’. The contentious exchange with the past and with antiquity – as much as the mechanisms, the dangers, and the lessons of memory and tradition – are continually examined and stand in close relationship with Nietzsche’s vision of life and his project of human development. As Jacob Burckhardt once wrote of the cultural critique to his Basel colleague: "Fundamentally, you are always teaching history" (9/13/1882). Following Burckhardt’s judgment, the contributors focus on the analysis o...

Evaluations
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 188

Evaluations

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Ernst Cassirer on Form and Technology
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 259

Ernst Cassirer on Form and Technology

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2012-08-21
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  • Publisher: Springer

Ernst Cassirer's thought-provoking essay Form and Technology (1930) ascribes to technology a new dignity as a genuine tool of the mind in equal company with language and art. Translated here into English it is accompanied by critical essays that explore its current relevance.