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Welt und Zeit—Disgusting Sexuality, Sex & Disgust, 20:35—23. February 2025
The intersection of sexuality is struck with the immediate affective realm of disgust, and one is invariably drawn into an ever-expanding contemplation that touches upon the most fundamental nature of being. The trajectory of this reflection, framed within the broader horizon often invoked by the name of World & Time, finds itself confronted by contradictions,…
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Welt und Zeit—Of the Abyss & the Void, 20:27—22. February 2025
In the tremors of our contemporary world, where the horizon of certainty has fractured under the weight of unprecedented shifts, one confronts two primordial dimensions that shape every aspect of existence: the abyss and the void. The two, at once unsettling and generative, stand at the heart of the human project, calling into question the…
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Welt und Zeit—The Fragmentation of Ontology, 20:21—21. Februar 2025
In the unfolding of world and time, understood here in the broadest sense as both a continuation of what has been laid down before and as a new philosophical investigation into the essence of Being, we confront the horizon of ontology in its most expansive form. The present text seeks to disclose the subtle yet…
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Whispered Legacies: Unraveling Rumors, Subjectivity, and Political Enigma in Lacanian Thought
Mladen Dolar is often seen as a towering figure in contemporary psychoanalytic philosophy, whose intellectual trajectory merges Lacanian thought with critical reflections on politics and cultural dynamics. His journey, marked by formative years in Paris studying with Lacan, is deeply embedded in the historical and political ferment of the late 1960s and early 1970s—a period…
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Welt und Zeit—The Failure of Internationalism, 18:16—14. Februar 2025
If we endeavor to trace the contours of our contemporary age, through the manifold events that burn across our collective horizon, we find ourselves facing an astonishingly volatile condition that might, in the broadest of senses, be named the failure of international democracy. Such a disintegration is neither confined to a single geographical region nor…
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Welt und Zeit—Censorship, 18:01—12. Februar 2025
Censorship is the strategic suppression of expression, a force that operates in the intercourse of power and knowledge, visibility and invisibility, silence and speech. It is at once an act of negation—the erasure of words, ideas, and images from the public sphere—and an act of production, shaping what can be thought, said, and ultimately, what…
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Welt und Zeit—Destiny, 10:47—12. Februar 2025
Destiny names the abiding sense that certain outcomes or paths in life are foreordained, bound up in a cosmic or existential ordering that transcends conscious decision. Thrust into popular imagination as well as philosophical discourse, destiny often merges with fate, suggesting a hidden design or necessity that governs the arc of events. Although they both…
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Welt und Zeit—Disaster, 18:19—11. Februar 2025
Disaster is a threshold concept that captures the rupture, the sudden and devastating break, that disrupts the continuity of collective life. It conjures visions of apocalypse, catastrophe, cataclysm, ruin, and end, all of which speak to the collapse of presumed orders and the shattering of expectations. While the word “disaster” can be applied to singular…
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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…