Tag: Philosophy
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Welt und Zeit—Illusion, 17:36—11. Februar 2025
Illusion occupies a paradoxical position at the heart of human experience, engaging solace and self-deception, hope and distortion, and binding the subject to both personal fantasy and broader cultural constructs. In its most elementary sense, illusion captivates through the promise of protection from the rigors of daily existence; yet, as analytic insight teaches, it can…
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Welt und Zeit—Ontology, 17:23—11. Februar 2025
Ontology is the relentless unveiling of what it means for anything—and everything—to be, the ceaseless attempt to articulate the fundamental structures undergirding existence and to recognize the shared horizon in which human beings encounter a world they simultaneously constitute and inhabit. Ontology is not merely a catalog of entities or a bare enumeration of concepts;…
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Not Even a God Can Save Us Now: Reading Machiavelli after Heidegger
In Not Even a God Can Save Us Now: Reading Machiavelli after Heidegger, Brian Harding makes an uncompromising examination of how Niccolò Machiavelli’s insight into violence, sacrifice, and political foundations resonates with, and even anticipates, the sometimes elusive and frequently provocative inquiries of twentieth- and twenty-first-century continental philosophy. Harding’s study combines historical awareness, hermeneutical sensitivity,…
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Heidegger’s Children: Hannah Arendt, Karl Löwith, Hans Jonas, and Herbert Marcuse
Richard Wolin’s Heidegger’s Children: Hannah Arendt, Karl Löwith, Hans Jonas, and Herbert Marcuse offers an intensely searching investigation of a painful paradox at the intersection of twentieth-century German philosophy, Jewish intellectual life, and the darkest political upheavals of modern Europe. The book revolves around the unsettling spectacle of Martin Heidegger, an unmatched philosophical presence whose…
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The Women of David Lynch: A Collection of Essays
In The Women of David Lynch: A Collection of Essays, Scott Ryan presents a philosophically charged exploration of one of modern cinema’s most perplexing paradoxes—the figure of the woman as simultaneously victim, muse, and formidable force within the enigmatic cinematic universe of David Lynch. This assemblage of essays, contributed by an eclectic array of female…
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The Oneiric in the Films of David Lynch: A Phenomenological Approach
The Oneiric in the Films of David Lynch: A Phenomenological Approach by Raphael Morschett is an ambitious, erudite, and rigorously detailed analysis of the unique dreamlike matrix that underpins the cinematic oeuvre of David Lynch, an auteur whose work has long been synonymous with the enigmatic and the surreal. In this study, Morschett makes a…
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The Shock Doctrine: the Rise of Disaster Capitalism
In an era where chaos reigns and disasters unfold with alarming frequency, Naomi Klein’s seminal work, The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism, emerged as an unsettling exploration of how power is wielded amidst turmoil. Heralded by luminaries such as John le Carré, who described it as “impassioned, hugely informative, wonderfully controversial, and scary…
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Conceptless Schemata: The Reciprocity of Imagination and Understanding in Kant’s Aesthetics
This paper examines Kant’s concept-less schematism in the Critique of Judgment and makes three key claims: 1) concept-less schematism is fully consistent with the schematism presented in the Critique of Pure Reason; 2) concept-less schematism refers to schematism that does not yield an empirical concept as its result; and 3) in light of 1) and…
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G.W.F. Hegel: The Philosophical Propaedeutic
The Philosophical Propaedeutic is a unique and invaluable entry in the corpus of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, offering an accessible yet profound encapsulation of his mature philosophical system. Composed between 1808 and 1811 as notes for his lectures, this work distills the complexities of Hegel’s thought into a form that retains both simplicity and depth,…
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A Short History of German Philosophy
A Short History of German Philosophy by Vittorio Hösle explores through the rich landscape of German philosophical thought, charting its evolution from the Middle Ages to contemporary times. With a masterful blend of clarity and depth, Hösle navigates through complex ideas, making them accessible to a broad audience without sacrificing intellectual rigor. The book opens…
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In the Wake of Thought: The Dialectics of Scientific Knowledge
In the Depth of the Concept Lies Truth’s Essence; Its True Expression Unfolds in the Scientific System, Where Negativity Becomes the Source of Life. Table of Contents Abstract This work, In the Wake of Thought: The Dialectics of Scientific Knowledge, analyses the relationship between philosophical inquiry and scientific understanding, as explored through the lens of…
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Hegel: A Biography
Terry Pinkard’s Hegel: A Biography presents a masterful examination of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel’s life and thought, contextualized in the tumultuous intellectual and political landscape of late 18th and early 19th-century Europe. Pinkard offers more than a mere chronology of events, he analyses the philosophical currents that shaped Hegel’s worldview, placing him not only as…
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Philosophy of History: An Introduction
William H. Walsh’s Philosophy of History: An Introduction, first published in 1951 and subsequently revised, stands as a pivotal exploration of how historians conceptualize, interpret, and present the past in light of philosophical reflection. It offers a long and deeply reasoned commentary on the processes by which historical knowledge is both formed and tested. Within…
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‘German Existentialism’ by Martin Heidegger
In this remarkable and deeply disquieting volume, published in 1965 by Philosophical Library and stretching across a mere sixty pages that nevertheless brim with historical significance, the reader is confronted with one of the most perplexing instances of philosophical genius entangled with political brutality. Titled simply German Existentialism, it purports at first glance to be…
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A Beginner’s Guide to the Later Philosophy of Wittgenstein: Seventeen Lectures and Dialogues on the Philosophical Investigations
In this remarkable introduction to Wittgenstein’s later philosophy, Peter Hacker takes the reader on a journey through the vast landscapes of language, thought, mind, and human understanding, all the while illuminating the conceptual subtleties of one of the twentieth century’s most influential thinkers. The book stands out by presenting Wittgenstein’s ideas in a congenial manner,…
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Philosophical Variations: Music as Philosophical Language
In Philosophical Variations: Music as Philosophical Language, Andrew Bowie presents a collection of essays that offer a sweeping examination of how musical practice, philosophy, and literary understanding converge upon, challenge, and illuminate each other, thereby reshaping our sense of what it means to think and to listen. The author, Professor of Philosophy and German at…
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The Philosophy of David Lynch
From the opening pages that invoke the dreamy strangeness of Twin Peaks to the concluding reflections on the nightmarish recesses of Inland Empire, The Philosophy of David Lynch by William J. Devlin and Shai Biderman plunges into the depths of one of cinema’s most mystifying auteurs with an unprecedented degree of rigor. In doing so,…
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