Commonality and Human Being: working through heraclitus
In: Angelaki: journal of the theoretical humanities, Band 11, Heft 3, S. 5-19
ISSN: 1469-2899
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In: Angelaki: journal of the theoretical humanities, Band 11, Heft 3, S. 5-19
ISSN: 1469-2899
In: Angelaki: journal of the theoretical humanities, Band 9, Heft 2, S. 55-66
ISSN: 1469-2899
In: Thesis eleven: critical theory and historical sociology, Band 75, Heft 1, S. 39-53
ISSN: 1461-7455, 0725-5136
Walter Benjamin's writings on fashion need to be read as engagements with the problem of historical time and a related politics of time. The aim of this article is to develop this position. Its point of orientation is Thesis XIV from the Theses on the Philosophy of History. What is argued is that close attention to the temporality of change and novelty within fashion may allow an insight into a conception of interruption and the 'new', however, it cannot yield a politics. Moreover, the link between fashion and utopianism allows for the development of a critique of the utopian dimension of Benjamin's thought. The basis of that critique is the inherent politics of time in his own writings.
In: Angelaki: journal of the theoretical humanities, Band 8, Heft 1, S. 27-41
ISSN: 1469-2899
In: Thesis eleven: critical theory and historical sociology, Heft 75, S. 39-53
ISSN: 0725-5136
In: Angelaki: journal of the theoretical humanities, Band 5, Heft 3, S. 51-56
ISSN: 1469-2899
The role of friendship & the problem of friendship as a particular or universal are investigated, drawing on one moment from each of G. E. Lessing's plays, Die Juden ([The Jews] 1754) & Nathan der Weise ([Nathan the Wise] 1779). These works address the possibility of friendship between non-Jews & Jews, & the temporality of friendship. The plays define friendship as a relationship between individuals & a more intense form of the general relationship possible between individuals. Friendship overcomes particularity in the name of generalized humanity, because particularity stands in the way of friendship. Thus, friendship does not have its particular politics independent of the politics of a generalized humanity. Friendship has a singularity that is confirmed by the decision that it already exists. This singularity leads to the possibility of intimacy, but friendship is still not absolutely private. Within such a concept, friendships between non-Jews & Jews abound. M. Pflum
In: Iride: filosofia e discussione pubblica, Band 13, Heft 31, S. 467-488
ISSN: 1122-7893
In: Social Theory after the Holocaust, S. 179-196
In: European journal of social theory, Band 2, Heft 3, S. 397-399
ISSN: 1461-7137
In: The Oxford literary review: OLR ; critical analyses of literary, philosophical political and psychoanalytic theory, Band 11, Heft 1, S. 37-72
ISSN: 1757-1634
In: Cambridge studies in literature and philosophy
"The volume shows how both the distinction and connection between literature and poetry is staged within Heidegger's thought. It offers Heidegger's perspective on a range of key themes, topics, poets, and writers, including Friedrich Hölderlin, Thomas Mann, Paul Celan, Euripides and Sophocles"--
In: Warwick studies in philosophy and literature
In: Warwick Studies in European Philosophy
In: Warwick Studies in European Philosophy Ser.
This collection explores, in Adorno's description, `philosophy directed against philosophy'. The essays cover all aspects of Benjamin's writings, from his early work in the philosophy of art and language, through to the concept of history. The experience of time and the destruction of false continuity are identified as the key themes in Benjamin's understanding of history
In: Theoria: a journal of social and political theory, Band 66, Heft 159, S. 1-7
ISSN: 1558-5816
This special issue arose from a workshop on "Peace and Concord from Plato to Lessing", organised by the editors and which took place at the University of Sydney on 18 and 19 September 2017. Central to the work of both the editors is the relationship between the concepts of 'concord', 'peace' and 'dignity' within a setting created by a concern with the development of a philological anthropology. Their work combines both intellectual history and philosophy, a combination that is reflected in the contents of the special issue of Theoria. The importance of these terms is that they allow for another interpretation of the ethical and the political. Central to both is the location of human being within a larger cultural context. That context demands an approach in which philosophy does not exclude
history, and history recognises that it is already informed philosophically. If there is a unifying term, it is 'culture'. The approach taken within the larger project starts with the centrality of culture as that which demands to be thought. And yet culture is neither tranquil nor unified. As Walter Benjamin argued, there 'is no document of culture which is not at the same time a document of barbarism'. Allowing for culture's centrality entails a reconfiguration of both philosophy and intellectual history.