Philosophy Today back issues from October 2003:
SORROWS AND THE MAKING OF LIFE-STORIES
Oct 01, 2003; ... All sorrows may be borne if you may put them into a story or tell a story about them. Hannah Arendt uses Isak Dinesen's beautiful proverb as the epigraph to her great chapter "Action" in The Human Condition. This chapter is based on the remarkable theme of the "disclosure of the agent in ...
FORGIVENESS AND SUBJECTIVITY
Oct 01, 2003; ... To forgive is as infinite as it is repetitive. . . Julia Kristeva1 Hannah Arendt predicts that "without being forgiven, released from the consequences of what we have done, our capacity to act would, [as it were,] be confined to one single deed from which we could never recover; ...
MAKESHIFT: PHENOMENOLOGY OF ORIGINAL TEMPORALITY
Oct 01, 2003; ... When questions are raised about principles, the network of exchange that they have opened becomes confused, and the order that they have founded declines. A principle has its rise, its period of reign, and its ruin. Its death usually takes disproportionately more time than its reign.1 In ...
HOW TO READ ONCE AGAIN: DERRIDA ON HUSSERL
Oct 01, 2003; ... It is a truism that the agents of intellectual fashions inspire equal and opposite reactions in many of their prospective but unwilling patients. Up to the early 1990s, proponents and opponents of Derrida's "deconstruction" tended to make panoramic evaluations of his thought that were not based ...
THE NECESSITY OF EMBODIMENT: THE DREYFUS-COLLINS DEBATE
Oct 01, 2003; ... In order to contest Hubert Dreyfus's claim that having a human body is a necessary condition for exhibiting intelligent behavior in our world, artificial intelligence researcher (henceforth, AI) Douglas Lenat presents what he takes to be the counter-example of Madeleine, "a wheel-chair bound ...
THE SOUL OF DASEIN: SCHELLING'S DOCTRINE OF THE SOUL AND HEIDEGGER'S ANALYTIC OF DASEIN
Oct 01, 2003; ... Certain versions of contemporary intellectual history demonstrate a preference for viewing the undermining of the Cartesian separation of "thinking substance" and "extended substance," of mind from body, as, primarily, a twentieth century accomplishment. Through the insights gained by the ...
JUSTICE AND FORGIVENESS
Oct 01, 2003; ... While it is commonly believed that forgiveness is virtuous, even essential, in personal relationships between family and friends, there are few people who feel comfortable advocating forgiveness in the realm of government, in the criminal justice system, or in relations between oppressors and ...
Benjamin's Feast of Booths
Oct 01, 2003; ... In exile and fleeing the Nazis, carrying his most recent work on his back, Walter Benjamin attempted to crawl over the Pyrenees, like a snail, completing his life's work in August, 1940 when he died anonymously in a hotel room in Port Bou, Spain. As Benjamin noted in the crystallizations of the ...