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This essay engages with the question of how to open a sense of the world that would be capable of de-totalizing the world's totalization. It discusses the works of Jean-Luc Nancy on the end of the sense of the world today and on the way this end and the void it exposes existence to are already an open sense, the open sense of existence existing—transitively—every single existence. The void of sense demands the distinction between sense and signification or meanings, proposing sense as the praxis of transitive existence. It opens an open sense of the open itself by reconsidering the difference between world and cosmos and by showing the urgency of thinking today an acosmic cosmology or a acosmology that would correspond to this praxis of transitive existence.

Cecilia Sjöholm is Professor of Aesthetics at Södertörn University. Her books include Doing Aesthetics with Arendt: How to See Things, Kristeva and the Political, and The Antigone Complex: Ethics and the Invention of Feminine Desire. Marcia Sá Cavalcante Schuback is Professor of Philosophy at Södertörn University. Her books include Time in Exile: In Conversation with Heidegger, Blanchot and Clarice Lispector, The End of the World and Dis-orientations: Philosophy, Literature and the Lost Grounds of Modernity.

Foreword : Phytophonies : echoes of Hildegard of Bingen today / by Marcia Sá Cavalcante Schuback -- Prelude -- Verges -- Analogies -- Resonances -- Missives -- Ardencies -- Anarchies -- Kisses -- Postlude -- Afterword : composer's notes / by Peter Schuback

"This is the first English translation of the seminar Martin Heidegger gave during the Winter of 1934-35, which dealt with Hegel's Philosophy of Right. This remarkable text is the only one in which Heidegger interprets Hegel's masterpiece in the tradition of Continental political philosophy while offering a glimpse into Heidegger's own political thought following his engagement with Nazism. It also confronts the ideas of Carl Schmitt, allowing readers to reconstruct the relation between politics and ontology. The book is enriched by a collection of interpretations of the seminar, written by select European and North American political thinkers and philosophers. Their essays aim to make the seminar accessible to students of political theory and philosophy, as well as to open new directions for debating the relation between the two disciplines. A unique contribution, this v. makes available key lectures by Heidegger that will interest a wide readership of students and scholars."--