Philosophy Today back issues from January 2001:
Ontological disclosure and ethical exposure: Heidegger and Levinas on meaning, subjectivity, and non-indifference
Jan 01, 2001; ... For both Martin Heidegger and Emmanuel Levinas, meaning involves a certain non-indifference. For Heidegger, the non-indifference of "mineness" (Jemeinigkeit) defines Dasein as non-indifferent to the possibilities of its own existence. Such "mineness" is a central feature of Heidegger's account ...
Writing for liberation: Simone De Beauvoir and woman's writing
Jan 01, 2001; ... In both The Ethics of Ambiguity and The Second Sex, Simone de Beauvoir appeals to writing as a means to transcendence. Insofar as the writer does not attempt to set up an absolute through his or her work, Beauvoir's proposal explicitly links the project of writing with freedom both for the ...
Good ane evil under the Swastika
Jan 01, 2001; ... Those who have survived the terror of extermination often feel that all they can do is "tell the story." What they have experienced and suffered remains incomprehensible and impossible to cope with; as Irving Howe says, they "can only live with it, in a state of numb agitation."1 Like many ...
"Complete Nihilism" in Nietzsche
Jan 01, 2001; ... Whatever I create and however much I love it- soon I must oppose it and my love; thus my will wills it. And you too, lover of knowledge, are only a path and footprint of my will; verily my will to power walks also on the heels of your will to truth.1 Nietzsche's assessment of modernity ...
The virtual body: Merleau-Ponty's early philosophy of imagination
Jan 01, 2001; ... The imagination is a central theme in Merleau-Ponty's philosophy. It is by means of the imagination that we are able to free ourselves from ordinary experience and explore a world of possibility. The artist creates new structures and symbols that allow the audience to see reality in a new way ....
Scheler's argument for God's existence from religious acts
Jan 01, 2001; ... In spite of a growing literature on Scheler's philosophy of religion, one of its most interesting elements has produced more controversy than clarity, namely, Scheler's argument for God's existence based on religious acts. Indeed, a survey of recent literature on Scheler's argument might suggest ...
The territory is not the map: Place, Deleuze and Guattari, and African philosophy
Jan 01, 2001; ... At the beginning of "1227: Treatise on Nomadology-The War Machine" in A Thousand Plateaus, Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari contrast chess with Go in terms of the relation between the pieces and the kind of space they create. "Chess," they maintain, "is a game of state ... chess pieces are ...
Buber or Levinas? A response to Maurice Friedman
Jan 01, 2001; ... Maurice Friedman has written defending Buber against Levinas (Philosophy Today, spring 2001), or trying to establish that at least when it comes to moral philosophy Levinas has not rendered Buber aufgehoben. Many of his points are well taken. Certainly, for instance, we look to Levinas in vain ...
Editors' introduction
Jan 01, 2001; ... This 2001 Supplement to Philosophy Today contains Volume 28 of Selected Studies in Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy. The essays in this Volume are selected from the program of the fortieth annual meeting of the Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy (SPEP), hosted in ...
Visibility and history: Giorgio Agamben and the exemplary
Jan 01, 2001; ... (Proquest Information and Learning: Foreign text omitted.) In the third chapter of The Coming Community, Giorgio Agamben turns his attention to the "example" insofar as it stands in relation to "the antinomy of the individual and the universal" that has its origin in language.1 The ...
Phenomenological literature: From the natural attitude to "recognition"
Jan 01, 2001; ... The element which makes up the life of phenomenology ... is "fiction." Edmund Husserl, Ideas I In this essay I aim to discuss a few writers of phenomenological literature as seen in the wake of Husserlian phenomenology, and to summon a response from these writings to some ...
Husserl's phenomenologization of Hume: Reflections on Husserl's method of Epoche
Jan 01, 2001; ... Historically speaking, it is not entirely clear where the roots of Husserl's method lie buried. In this essay I argue that at least in part, Husserl's method grew out of a conscious attempt to avoid the logical absurdities that plague Hume's epistemology. In fact, in this limited respect, we may ...
Tradition, crisis, and the work of art in Benjamin and Heidegger
Jan 01, 2001; ... Tradition, in the popular imaginary, refers to the cultural practices, rituals, artifacts, symbols, emblems, narratives, etc., that individuals both instantiate and appropriate within their own experience, through which they become insinuated within an historical community, and through which ...
The role of aesthetics in the politics of Hannah Arendt
Jan 01, 2001; ... Hannah Arendt's work is often interpreted as promoting an aesthetic form of politics. For Arendt, political action discloses who someone is in words and deeds, and reveals her unique character. Because political actions disclose the uniqueness of the individual actor, Arendt's politics seems to ...
The ethics of air: Technology and the question of sexual difference
Jan 01, 2001; ... For Luce Irigaray, the emergence of the scientific-technological-industrial worldview in late modern society is marked by an ever-pressing need to address the possibility of an ethics, specifically an ethics of sexual difference. For Irigaray, the articulation of this ethics must begin via ...
The horror of language: Irigaray and Heidegger
Jan 01, 2001; ... ProQuest Information and Learning: Foreign text omitted. He is a professional. He has read at least ten poems a day for sixty years-that's 220,000 poems and probably a lot more. Not one of them was about breathing. Hayden Carruth Luce Irigaray's work The Forgetting of ...
The enigma of the natural in Luce Irigaray
Jan 01, 2001; ... Here, I want to take seriously the space that the text The Forgetting of Air1 holds in relation to the others in the Irigarayan corpus. Irigaray herself has emphasized the continuity that the text bears in relation to her later work,2 but Forgetting is most frequently grouped with her earlier ...
Abject images: Kristeva, art, and the third cinema
Jan 01, 2001; ... If it is true that all fantasies are structured analogously and return to unconscious fantasy, then you understand that the whole life of the subject appears to be modeled on the "fantasmatic." (RI, 124) Without the horror of the feminine the power of horror would be nothing. (VC, 127) ...
Frantz Fanon's phenomenology of black mind: Sources, critique, dialectic
Jan 01, 2001; ... One may, no doubt, expect that given the title of my essay, my intention is to present something of an overview of the thought of Frantz Fanon. As the title would suggest, Fanon's 1952 Black Skin, White Masks is the specific object of such a description, a project that has had more than a few ...
Justice and action in otherwise than being
Jan 01, 2001; ... Are we not at this very moment in the process of barring the issue that our whole essay attempts, and of encircling our position from all sides? (OB, 169). One of the most provocative aspects of the work of Emmanuel Levinas, for many readers, seems to be his misuse of the term "ethics" ...
Merleau-Ponty and Bergson: Bodies of expression and temporalities in the flesh
Jan 01, 2001; ... The attempt to address the question of difference, within and between bodies, becomes an important theme in Merleau-- Ponty's work at the time of The Visible and the Invisible.1 Already in the Phenomenology of Perception, there are indices pointing to singular bodies and unique styles of ...
"For love is as strong as death"
Jan 01, 2001; ... Taking Another Look at Levinas on Love Set me as a seal upon your heart. For love is as strong as death. Shir Hashirim [Song of Songs] In "Questions to Emmanuel Levinas," Luce Irigaray criticizes Emmanuel Levinas's conception of love by claiming that for Levinas, "to ...
"With arms wide open": Of hospitality and the most intimate stranger
Jan 01, 2001; ... The arrangement of furniture in space provides pathways for habits-the reading lamp placed just here, the television just here, the particular spices on the rack placed just so in relation to this person's taste and cooking habits. Iris Marion Young 1 I was making spaghetti ...
Why Heidegger's hermeneutics is not a "diahermeneutics"
Jan 01, 2001; ... ProQuest Information and Learning: Foreign Text Omitted Are hermeneutics and dialectic to be seen as mutually exclusive opposites and is it really so completely wrong to speak of a dialectic in Heidegger, though admittedly one of a different sort from the usual one? Marly ...
Nietzschean agonism and the subject of radical democracy
Jan 01, 2001; ... "A democratic society," Ernesto Laclau writes, "is not one in which the 'best' content dominates unchallenged but rather one in which nothing is definitely acquired and there is always the possibility of challenge." Laclau goes on to note that "the danger for democracy lies in the closure of ...
Hegel and Nietzsche: Recognition and master/slave
Jan 01, 2001; ... One of Hegel's main contributions to critical theory is his concept of recognition and the related concepts of master and slave. For these have become central to any account of oppression, marginal ization, and communicative freedom or liberation. Hegel's analysis of desire, the need to raise ...
Equality and democratic societies
Jan 01, 2001; ... Why should I surrender my private liberties and rights to collective interests? This question has long been fundamental to political thought, particularly since the Enlightenment. Any just political order must in some way manage tensions between members' public obligations and their individual ...