Worldlessness After Heidegger

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roland Végsö
Keyword(s):  
Sigmund Freud ◽  
Jacques Derrida ◽  
Hannah Arendt ◽  
Jacques Lacan ◽  
Alain Badiou ◽  
Phenomenological Tradition ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of

The book opens up a new debate in favour of abandoning the very idea of the world in both philosophy and politics. Beginning with a reconsideration of the Heideggerian critique of worldlessness, it traces the overlooked history of this concept in the works of Hannah Arendt, Sigmund Freud, Jacques Lacan, Jacques Derrida and Alain Badiou. This critical genealogy shows that the post-Heideggerian critique of the phenomenological tradition remained limited by its enduring investment in the category of the ‘world’. As a way out of this historical predicament, the book encourages us to create affirmative definitions of worldlessness.

scholarly journals Neuer Atheismus: New Atheism in Germany

2012 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 36-51 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas Zenk
Keyword(s):  
Sigmund Freud ◽  
Public Discourse ◽  
Karl Marx ◽  
Natural Phenomenon ◽  
Daniel Dennett ◽  
The Public ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
Two Phases ◽  
New Atheism

Matthias Knutzen (born 1646 – died after 1674) was the first author we know of who self-identified as an atheist (Schröder 2010: 8). Before this, the term had solely been used pejoratively to label others. While Knutzen is almost completely forgotten now, authors such as Ludwig Feuerbach, Karl Marx, Friedrich Nietzsche, or Sigmund Freud are better remembered and might even be considered classic writers in the history of the atheist criticism of religion. Whatever may be said about the influence of any one of these authors, there is no doubt that Germany looks back on a notable history in this field. About a decade ago, Germany’s capital Berlin was even dubbed ‘the world capital of atheism’ by the American sociologist Peter L. Berger (2001: 195).Given this situation, I am bewildered by the expression ‘New Atheism’. Yet, undoubtedly, the term has become a catchphrase that is commonly used in the public discourse of several countries. The most prominent authors to be labelled ‘New Atheists’ are Richard Dawkins (The God Delusion, 2006), Daniel Dennett (Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon, 2006), Sam Harris (The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason, 2004, and Letter to a Christian Nation, 2006), and Christopher Hitchens (God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Every­thing, 2007). These authors and their books – all of them international bestsellers – have been intensely discussed around the world, including in Germany. In this paper, I intend to illuminate some of the characteristics and remarkable traits of the German discourse on the ‘New Atheism’. Here we can distinguish between two phases. The German media initially characterised ‘New Atheism’ as a rather peculiarly American phenomenon. However, it soon came to be understood to be a part of German culture as well.

scholarly journals Da verdade historial

rth | ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
pp. 147-166
Author(s):  
Diego Avelino Moraes Carvalho
Keyword(s):  
Sigmund Freud ◽  
Hannah Arendt ◽  
Jacques Lacan

Esse trabalho tem como objetivo estabelecer uma confluência entre a teoria e clínica psicanalítica, a ciência histórica e a filosofia. Notadamente, articulando autores como Hannah Arendt, Sigmund Freud e Jacques Lacan. Esse esforço de aproximação pressupõe articular um debate que incida sobre a função do historiador e o estatuto de verdade para a filosofia e a psicanálise. Inicialmente, apresentaremos a leitura arendtiana sobre a tarefa do storyteller [historiador-narrador] enquanto aquele que extrai a novidade do acontecimento histórico. Posteriormente, a proposta é apresentar o debate em torno das noções de verdade material e histórica para a psicanálise, em especial para a ética e clínica lacaniana. Ao fim, pretende-se dar sentido a essa interlocução apontando o quanto certas categorias se confluem ofertando um interessante exercício para o ofício do historiador. 

Burnout der Autorität

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Avital Ronell
Keyword(s):  
Jacques Derrida ◽  
Hannah Arendt ◽  
Alexandre Kojeve ◽  
Sarah Kofman ◽  
The World ◽  
Forms Of Life

Avital Ronell is currently one of the world´s most renowned and stimulating literary scholars; she has worked with Jacques Derrida and Sarah Kofman, among others. Her new book analyses the decline of various forms of authority. In writing about Alexandre Kojève, Sarah Kofman and Hannah Arendt, Ronell examines the melancholy which accompanies the diagnosis of the burnout of authority. Didn´t we conceive of authority as a stabilizing factor for many forms of life, criticizing which was always borne by respect for what was criticized? Indeed, deconstruction never simply equals destruction. In times of widespread political regression, of which populism is only one manifestation among others, Ronell's inventive ideas have a contemporary significance.

Introduction

2020 ◽  
pp. 9-32
Author(s):  
Gareth Williams
Keyword(s):  
Hannah Arendt ◽  
Jacques Lacan ◽  
Philosophy Of History ◽  
Commodity Fetishism ◽  
Capitalist Development ◽  
Alain Badiou ◽  
The Enlightenment ◽  
The Subject

Building on the thought of Alain Badiou, Hannah Arendt, Jacques Lacan, and Alberto Moreiras, the Introduction proposes globalization as the disastrous passing of a historical limit. Faith in the relations between the modern production of wealth in the form of commodity fetishism, capitalist development, human progress, the freedom of the subject, and the philosophy of history that has anchored all of them since the Enlightenment is succumbing before a generalized sense of expiration and of growing stupefaction. The Introduction presents recent debates on the notion of infrapolitics as a thinking dedicated to the question of clearing a way through the problem of globalization, in the name of existence. The Introduction explains the question of the historical limit, the terms of the debate on infrapolitics, the structure of the ensuing Passages, and the raison d’etre of the entire book.

Wounds of the Past: Andrei Tarkovsky and the Melancholic Imagination

2020 ◽  
pp. 178-194
Author(s):  
Linda Belau ◽  
Ed Cameron
Keyword(s):  
Sigmund Freud ◽  
Jacques Lacan ◽  
Julia Kristeva ◽  
Complex Nature ◽  
The Past ◽  
The World ◽  
Andrei Tarkovsky ◽  
Reality Principle

This chapter provides a psychoanalytically-inflected analysis of the complex nature of Tarkovsky’s melancholia as the predominant affect in his films, functioning as a poetic critique of the reality principle, eschewing our symbolic separation from the Thing. Engaging with the theories of melancholia developed by Sigmund Freud, Jacques Lacan, and Julia Kristeva, the authors trace its various configurations in Tarkovsky’s last three Soviet films: Solaris (1972) exhibits the melancholic clinging to the impossible past brought about by narcissistic withdrawal and interminable mourning; Mirror (1974) dramatizes the impossible return to a pre-symbolic childhood; the story of Stalker (1979) circulates around the unknown that grounds the world of the melancholic.

“The Creative and the Resolvent”

2012 ◽  
Vol 66 (4) ◽  
pp. 466-493 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul Hurh
Keyword(s):  
Analytical Method ◽  
Jacques Derrida ◽  
Jacques Lacan ◽  
Dynamic Processes ◽  
Historical Sources ◽  
Interpretive Analysis ◽  
History Of ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Renaissance History ◽  
Scientific Debates

Beginning with the influential readings by Jacques Lacan and Jacques Derrida, poststructuralist fascination with Edgar Allan Poe's detective tales has treated them as fables of analytical method and exposed them as posing an insoluble challenge to totalizing frameworks of interpretive analysis. These studies overlook an excised paragraph from Poe's first detective tale in which Poe displays the debt his model of analysis owes to historical sources. This essay discovers the origins of Poe's model of analysis by recovering its discursive context and argues that the poststructuralist conclusions are anticipated in part by Poe's deliberate attempts to translate that model into narrative. This model, inherited from scientific debates in Renaissance history, defines analysis as comprised of two reciprocal processes—the process of resolution and the process of composition. The first part of this essay addresses the original first paragraph of “The Murders in the Rue Morgue” (1841) and the definition of analysis that its restoration enables. The discoveries there lead to a reading of “The Man of the Crowd” (1841) as a failed first attempt to translate the dynamic processes of resolution and composition into a narrative system. By recovering a first paragraph that the poststructuralist criticism misses, this study finds “The Man of the Crowd” central to Poe's strategies of narrative deferral and yields an important pre-history of the deconstructive critical aporia that is their legacy.

A History of the World Semiconductor Industry

IEE Review ◽  
1991 ◽  
Vol 37 (10) ◽  
pp. 355
Author(s):  
D.A. Gorham
Keyword(s):  
Semiconductor Industry ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of

The problem of periodization of the history of religion

1997 ◽  
pp. 3-8
Author(s):  
Borys Lobovyk
Keyword(s):  
Religious Studies ◽  
Human Being ◽  
Religious Development ◽  
History Of Religion ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
Role Of Religion

An important problem of religious studies, the history of religion as a branch of knowledge is the periodization process of the development of religious phenomenon. It is precisely here, as in focus, that the question of the essence and meaning of the religious development of the human being of the world, the origin of beliefs and cult, the reasons for the changes in them, the place and role of religion in the social and spiritual process, etc., are converging.

Mülteci olmak: Mersin’de yaşayan Filistinli mültecilerin göç hikâyeleri

2016 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 200-224
Author(s):  
Bilge Deniz Çatak
Keyword(s):  
Oral History ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
Palestinian Refugees ◽  
Emotional Bonds ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
Oral History Interviews ◽  
Refugee Experience

Filistin tarihinde yaşanan 1948 ve 1967 savaşları, binlerce Filistinlinin başka ülkelere göç etmesine neden olmuştur. Günümüzde, dünya genelinde yaşayan Filistinli mülteci sayısının beş milyonu aştığı tahmin edilmektedir. Ülkelerine geri dönemeyen Filistinlilerin mültecilik deneyimleri uzun bir geçmişe sahiptir ve köklerinden koparılma duygusu ile iç içe geçmiştir. Mersin’de bulunan Filistinlilerin zorunlu olarak çıktıkları göç yollarında yaşadıklarının ve mülteci olarak günlük hayatta karşılaştıkları zorlukların Filistinli kimlikleri üzerindeki etkisi sözlü tarih yöntemi ile incelenmiştir. Farklı kuşaklardan sekiz Filistinli mülteci ile yapılan görüşmelerde, dünyanın farklı bölgelerinde mülteci olarak yaşama deneyiminin, Filistinlilerin ulusal bağlılıklarına zarar vermediği görülmüştür. Filistin, mültecilerin yaşamlarında gelenekler, değerler ve duygusal bağlar ile devam etmektedir. Mültecilerin Filistin’den ayrılırken yanlarına aldıkları anahtar, tapu ve toprak gibi nesnelerin saklanıyor olması, Filistin’e olan bağlılığın devam ettiğinin işaretlerinden biridir.ABSTRACT IN ENGLISHPalestinian refugees’ lives in MersinIn the history of Palestine, 1948 and 1967 wars have caused fleeing of thousands of Palestinians to other countries. At the present time, its estimated that the number of Palestinian refugees worldwide exceeds five million. The refugee experience of Palestinians who can not return their homeland has a long history and intertwine with feeling of deracination. Oral history interviews were conducted on the effects of the displacement and struggles of daily life as a refugee on the identity of Palestinians who have been living in Mersin (city of Turkey). After interviews were conducted with eight refugees from different generations concluded that being a refugee in the various parts of the world have not destroyed the national entity of the Palestinians. Palestine has preserved in refugees’ life with its traditions, its values, and its emotional bonds. Keeping keys, deeds and soil which they took with them when they departed from Palestine, proving their belonging to Palestine.

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