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New SEP entry: Existentialist Aesthetics

Farhang Erfani — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 04:08:53 +0000

Many of the philosophers commonly described as “existentialist” have made original and decisive contributions to aesthetic thinking. In most cases, a substantial involvement in artistic practice (as novelists, playwrights or musicians) nourished their thinking on aesthetic experience. This is true already of two of the major philosophers who inspired 20^th century existentialism: Søren Kierkegaard and Friedrich Nietzsche. For reasons of space, however, this entry is restricted to 20^th century thinkers who at one point or another accepted the tag “existentialist” as an accurate characterisation of their thinking, and who have made the most significant contributions to aesthetics: Albert Camus, Simone de Beauvoir, Gabriel Marcel, Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Jean-Paul Sartre.

The rest

Inquiry An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy, Volume 52 Issue 1 2009

Farhang Erfani — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 03:32:03 +0000

TOC

The Pregnancy of the Real: A Phenomenological Defense of Experimental Realism, Pages 1 – 25
Author: Shannon Vallor

Knowledge, Freedom and Willing: Hegel on Subjective Spirit, Pages 26 – 52
Author: Damion Buterin

Between Internalism and Externalism: Husserl’s Account of Intentionality, Pages 53 – 78
Author: Lilian Alweiss

Mental Capacity and Decisional Autonomy: An Interdisciplinary Challenge, Pages 79 – 107
Authors: Gareth S. Owen; Fabian Freyenhagen; Genevra Richardson; Matthew Hotopf

Ron Aronson on his book Living Without God

Farhang Erfani — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 04:26:03 +0000

An Alienation Artist: Kafka and His Critics

Farhang Erfani — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 04:28:43 +0000

Link

Existentialism and Football

Farhang Erfani — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 19:30:07 +0000

Just in case you missed this:

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(h/t: Joe R)

Farhang Erfani — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 00:00:10 +0000

A correspondence between Hannah Arendt and the theologian Hans-Jürgen Benedict (in German)

Foucault Live

What Schopenhauer taught Beckett

On Nietzsche

Farhang Erfani — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 14:32:27 +0000

Special issue of the South African Journal of Philosophy (2007)

Todd, Cain (2007) Aesthetic, Ethical, and Cognitive Value.

Schoeman, Marinus (2007) Generosity as a central virtue in Nietzsche’s ethics.

Olivier, Bert (2007) Nietzsche, immortality, singularity and eternal recurrence.

Kotzee, Ben (2007) Our Vision and our Mission: Bullshit, Assertion and Belief.

Tännsjö, Torbjörn (2007) Social Psychology and the Paradox of Revolution.

Hurst, Andrea (2007) Supposing Truth is a Woman – What Then?

KRITIKE: An Online Journal of Philosophy

Farhang Erfani — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 20:02:01 +0000

We are pleased to release the June 2008 Issue of KRITIKE: An Online Journal of Philosophy

The journal website: http://www.kritike.org
Current issue: http://www.kritike.org/Current_Issue.html
Call for papers: http://www.kritike.org/Call_for_Papers.html

KRITIKE VOLUME TWO NUMBER ONE (JUNE 2008)

1. Editorial: Marking the First Year of KRITIKE: An Online Journal of Philosophy – The Editor

Articles:

2. Interruptions: Derrida and Hospitality – Mark W. Westmoreland

3. Iris Murdoch’s The Bell: Tragedy, Love, and Religion – Kenneth Masong

4. ‘To Philosophize is to Learn How to Die?’ – Saitya Brata Das

5. A Comparative Study on the Theme of Human Existence in the Novels of Albert Camus and F. Sionil Jose – F. P. A. Demeterio

6. The War on Concepts: The Thought of Jan Patocka and the War on Terror – Katy Scrogin

7. Mass Mentality, Culture Industry, Fascism – Saladdin Said Ahmed

8. The Causal Relevance and Heterogeneity of Program Explanations in the Face of Explanatory Exclusion – Wilson Cooper

9. A Freewheeling Defense of Kant’s Resolution of the Third Antinomy – Todd D. Janke

10. The Structures of Perception: An Ecological Perspective – Michael James Braund

Book Reviews :

11. Powell, Jason, Jacques Derrida: A Biography – Marko Zlomislic

12. Evans, C. Stephen, Kierkegaard on Faith and the Self: Collected Essays – Robert C. Cheeks

13. Drake, David, Sartre and Bernasconi, Robert, How to Read Sartre – Marella Ada Mancenido

Sartre

Farhang Erfani — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 16:46:21 +0000

His birthday is June 21, so one day late is not too bad:

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And Critique de la raison dialectique (both volumes)

New Book: Rethinking Facticity

Farhang Erfani — Mon, 19 May 2008 03:41:38 +0000

Description of Rethinking Facticity, eds, Francois Raffoul and Eric Sean Nelson

The concept of facticity has undergone crucial transformations over the last century in hermeneutics and phenomenology, but it has not yet received the attention that it warrants. Following a suggestion by Merleau-Ponty that philosophy is not about essences but rather the facticity of existence, prominent philosophers examine the significance of facticity in its historical context and reflect on its contemporary relevance. Focusing on the works of Husserl, Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty, Sartre, Lacan, and Fanon, among others, they trace its significance from life-philosophy to contemporary European thought and explore its philosophical implications. The following questions are addressed: What thoughts of experience, of subjectivity, of finitude, of nature, of the body, of racial and sexual difference does facticity provoke? What thinking of language, of history, of birth and death, of our ethical being-in-the-world does it mobilize? Exploring these questions, the contributors offer new interpretations of facticity.

See the publisher’s site for more details, such as the table of contents and the pdf of the introduction.