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The Migration of Metaphysics into the Realm of the Profane
Ansgar Martins’s The Migration of Metaphysics into the Realm of the Profane is the first book-length study focusing on Adorno’s idiosyncratic appropriation of Jewish mysticism in the light of his relationship to Gershom Scholem and their shared intellectual contexts.
The Natural Problem of Consciousness
The “Natural Problem of Consciousness” is the problem of understanding why there are presently conscious beings at all. Given a non-reductive naturalist framework taking consciousness as an ontologically subjective biological phenomenon, how can we rationally explain the fact that the actual world has turned out to be one where there are presently living beings that can feel, rather than having developed as a zombie-world in which there would be no conscious experiences of any kind? This book introduces the Natural Problem by relating it to central problems in the philosophy of mind (metaphysical mind-body problem, Hard Problem of consciousness) and emphasizing the distinctive interest of its diachronic dimension. Ranging from philosophy to biology and neuroscience, it offers a thorough analysis aimed at better understanding what could explain why phenomenal consciousness has been preserved throughout evolution by natural selection. This is an original, engaging, and thought provoking philosophical study of a neglected but fundamental question regarding the nature and origin of consciousness.
Negative Knowledge
The advent of Modernity was accompanied by a radical criticism of traditional metaphysics. In particular since the 20th century, rationality is predominantly conceived of as positivistic and scientistic, reducing reality to what is positively knowable. The price to pay is the cutting out of any kind of phenomenon of negativity. The present volume explicitly explores the philosophical and epistemological potential of negativity. The contributions brought together in this book tackle the question of negativity from historical as well as from systematical perspectives. From different angles, they defend the claim that philosophical approaches recurring to negativity can build a non-reductive conceptualization of rationality, and thus offer a valuable contribution to the orientation of humankind in the 20th and 21st century. This volume contains contributions in English, French, and German.
Perspectives on the Self
The volume develops the concepts of the self and its reflexive nature as they are linked to modern thought from Hegel to Luhmann. The moderns are reflexive in a double sense: they create themselves by self-reflexivity and make their world – society – in their own image. That the social world is reflexive means that it is made up of non-subjective (or supra-subjective) communication. The volume's contributors analyze this double reflexivity, of the self and society, from an interdisciplinary perspective, focusing both on individual and social narratives. This broad, interdisciplinary approach is a distinctive mark of the entire project. The volume will be structured around the following axes: Self-making and reflexivity – theoretical topics; Social self and the modern world; Literature – self and narrativity; Creative Self – text and fine art. Among the contributors are some of the most renowned specialists in their respective fields, including J. F. Kervégan, B. Zabel, P. Stekeler-Weithofer, I. James, L. Kvasz, H. Ikäheimo and others.
The Dynamic of Play and Horror in Adorno's Philosophy
Long before Wittgenstein drew attention to its complexities, the concept of play had captured the interest of theorists for millennia. How do games contribute to our knowledge of the world? Wherein lies their universal appeal? Play is usually associated with a certain blitheness and buoyancy - could it nevertheless be argued that playfulness is not quite as innocent as it might seem? Bence Kun draws on Adorno's writings to explore the relation between philosophical play (understood here as imaginative thought as well as experimental expression) and an experience of dread Adorno links to children's first encounter with death. By investigating his less familiar works, some of which have not yet been translated, Kun challenges the received view on Adorno's approach to metaphysics, the role of systematic inquiry and the modern condition. As he has Adorno say, the originary impression of shock at the heart of philosophical reflection can only be fully apprehended through an open-ended and defiantly creative intellectual practice.
How to Measure a World?
What does it mean to wonder in awe or terror about the world? How do you philosophically understand Judaism? In How to Measure a World?: A Philosophy of Judaism, Martin Shuster provides answers to these questions and more. Emmanuel Levinas suggested that Judaism is best understood as an anachronism. Shuster attempts to make sense of this claim by alternatively considering questions of the inscrutability of ultimate reality, of the pain and commonness of human suffering, and of the ways in which Judaism is entangled with the world. Drawing on phenomenology and Jewish thought, Shuster offers novel readings of some of the classic figures of Jewish philosophy while inserting other voices into th...
Ultima Philosophia
Metaphysik scheint nicht zu retten – aber ohne Metaphysik ist ein Begriff wie Rettung gar nicht denkbar. Die alten Fragen nach Gott, Freiheit und Unsterblichkeit mögen zwar zu groß, zu abstrakt oder zu gutgläubig gestellt gewesen sein. Ein Denken, das sie achtlos links liegen lässt, versäumt jedoch, die eigenen Voraussetzungen zu reflektieren und über den eigenen Horizont hinauszublicken: Postmetaphysische Philosophie nimmt in Kauf, im schlechten Sinne naiv zu werden, eben weil sie sich, um die großen Fragen loszuwerden, auf das innerweltlich Vorfindbare und Evidente beschränkt, während die Fragen selbst nicht einfach verschwinden. In dieser Lage konstatiert die Gesellschaftskriti...
Auf den Spuren der Kritischen Theorie und der modernen Sozialphilosophie
In 7 Kapiteln wird die Kritische Theorie als moderne Sozialphilosophie in Grundzügen von ihren Anfängen bis zur Weiterentwicklung in der Gegenwart dargestellt und mit Erkenntnissen aus zwei anderen Wissenschaften ergänzt. Der Bogen spannt sich von Walter Benjamin über Th. W. Adorno und Günther Anders zum Mittelpunkt Jürgen Habermas bis hin zum Soziologen Hartmut Rosa, der mit seiner Resonanztheorie einen neuen Akzent setzt. Auch die beiden Kommunikationswissenschaftler Bernhard Pörksen und Friedemann Schulz von Thun ebenso wie der Arzt und Neurobiologe Joachim Bauer kommen zu Wort.
Natur und Freiheit
Die Kongressakten des 12. Internationalen Kant-Kongresses, der im Jahr des 650-Jahrjubiläums der Universität Wien zum Thema „Natur und Freiheit“ vom 21.–25. September 2015 an der Universität Wien stattgefunden hat, versammeln die Ergebnisse dieses Kongresses. Mit dem Thema „Natur und Freiheit“ wurde zwei tragenden Begriffen des Kritischen Werks Kants Rechnung getragen. Kants Philosophie wird bis heute weltweit diskutiert, was sich auch in den Teilnehmerinnen und Teilnehmern des Kongresses spiegelte. Gleichwohl wurden und werden immer wieder Zweifel an der Berechtigung einer Philosophie der Freiheit laut, wie sie insbesondere für Kants Moralphilosophie grundlegend ist. Spannung ...
Zur Kritik der reinen Erfahrung
Kritik ist mehr als der Gegenstand dieses Buches. Sie ist auch der ursprüngliche Impuls des Denkens, der es methodisch und inhaltlich strukturiert: In 19 aufeinander aufbauenden Abschnitten drängt Kritik das Denken zur produktiven Auseinandersetzung mit dessen Negativität. Angelpunkt dieser Selbstbewegung des Denkens ist die "reine Erfahrung". In ihr stehen klassisch kantische Problemkomplexe im konstellativen Zusammenhang mit existenzialphilosophischen und phänomenologischen Paradigmen; Urteilslogik verschwistert sich mit Verzweiflung, Unsicherheit, Kreativität, und schliesslich: mit der Kunst.
