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Beyond totem and idol, the sexuate other — Luce Irigaray, Karen I. Burke

From nature in love: The problem of subjectivity in Adorno and Freudian psychoanalysis — Sara Beardsworth

The errant name: Badiou and Deleuze on individuation, causality and infinite modes in Spinoza — Jon Roffe

The practical absolute: Fichte’s hidden poetics — Anthony Curtis Adler

A ravaged site: on time and the law — Peg Birmingham

Richard Polt: The Emergency of Being: On Heidegger’s Contributions to Philosophy — Stuart Elden

Stuart Elden, Speaking Against Number: Heidegger, Language and the Politics of Calculation — Richard Polt

Alan Paskow, The Paradoxes of Art: A Phenomenological Investigation — Robert J. Dostal

The Indivisible Remainder: An Essay on Schelling and Related Matters by Zizek

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Matisse with Dewey and Deleuze: ERIC ALLIEZ AND JEAN-CLAUDE BONNE

Between Geophilosophy and Political Physiology: JOHN PROTEVI

Facticity and Contingency in Louis Althusser’s Aleatory Materialism: MAX HENNINGER

Immanent Description and Writing From…: STUART GRANT

Lights in the Dark: The Radical Empiricism of Emmanuel Levinas and William James: MEGAN CRAIG

Empiricism, Facticity, and the Immanence of Life in Dilthey: ERIC SEAN NELSON

Duns Scotus’ Concept of the Univocity of Being: Another Look: PHILIP TONNER

Schelling’s Positive Empiricism: RASMUS UGILT

Spinoza’s Third Kind of Knowledge as a Resource for Schelling’s Empiricism: CHRIS LAUER

What is Transcendental Empiricism? Deleuze and Sartre on Bergson: GIOVANNA GIOLI

A Superior Empiricism: The Subject and Experimentation: SIMONE BIGNALL

A review of Philosophical Investigations into the Essence of Human Freedom

Philosophical Inquiries into the Essence of Human Freedom, "the most titanic work of German idealism" (Hans Urs von Balthazar) has received a careful new translation from Jeff Love and Johannes Schmidt.  The last of Schelling's major works to be published in his lifetime, the Philosophical Investigations plays a uniquely pivotal role in Schelling's long life of scholarly productivity, at once dependent on the controversies of his youth for the context and vocabulary in which he expresses himself, yet anticipating developments in the ideas of freedom, personality, and the deep-rootedness of the human tendency to evil that were to dominate Western philosophy for the next century.

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Friedrich Schlegel (1772–1829) is of undisputed importance as a literary critic, but interest in his work among philosophers has until recently tended to be confined to a rather limited circle. However, as scholars have come to reassess in the last several years the philosophical importance of early German Romanticism—both as something of a counter-movement to German Idealism and as a contributing factor within idealism’s development—so interest in Schlegel’s distinctive philosophical contribution to his era has increased. The article below will consider the philosophical aspects of Schlegel’s development and their relation to his contributions to literary theory and practice.

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Détours: Je dois d’abord vous demander pourquoi L’Absolu littéraire et pourquoi vous avez senti le besoin d’écrire ce livre à la fin des années ‘70 ?

Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe: La fin des années ‘70 c’est le moment où le livre a été publié. Le projet, quant à lui, était plus ancien. Déjà le numéro 21 de Poétique (1975), dont Gérard Genette m’avait confié la direction, réservait, sous le titre très général de Littérature et Philosophie, une large place à la problématique du romantisme d’Iéna. Il s’agissait en réalité d’un viel intérêt. La racine du projet était double.

Il y avait tout d’abord que Jan-Luc Nancy et moi, pour des raisons qu’il serait trop long d’exposer ici, avions concentré l’essentiel de notre travail depuis le début des années ‘70 sur Nietzsche, sur le “premier Nietzsche”. En traduisant ou retraduisant, en allant voir ce qui se passait du côté de l’enseignement de Nietzsche, en interrogeant les présupposés d’un livre comme La Naissance de la tragédie, nous nous sommes aperçus qu’il n’y avait pas seulement un arrière-fond philosophique ou métaphysique, comme Heidegger l’avait magistralement fait venir au jour, mais toute une réélaboration de thèmes ou de motifs venus de la “théorie littéraire” du romantisme ou du pararomantisme. Nietzsche nous est apparu assez largement tributaire du romantisme sur lequel Heidegger, il ne faut pas l’oublier, a très peu insisté. Cela nous a conduit naturellement à vouloir en savoir un peu plus, à lire ou à relire les textes majeurs. c’est le moment où Nancy a entrepris la traduction du Cours préparatoire d’Esthétique de Jean Paul, réputé intraduisible. C’est aussi le moment où je me suis surpris à travailler sur la Lucinde de Friedrich Schlegel qui apparemment n’intéressait pas grand monde.

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Christian Lotz reviews Fichte: The System of Ethics 

During the last two decades, German Idealism has become more attractive and acceptable in the Anglophone world, especially given the slow breakdown of naturalism. Almost all important philosophy departments in the US have someone working in this area (though it is still not the case that the scholarly output is as high as it is on the Continent). Not only have important commentaries appeared on the main works of Hegel, but also, some of Schelling's works have been translated into English. Finally, even Fichte — though often held to be the most obscure thinker within 18th and 19th century German thought — celebrates his revival, especially due to the work of Daniel Breazeale and Tom Rockmore. Whereas Fichte's theoretical philosophy (in the form of his Science of Knowledge) has still not found much attention, his practical philosophy — especially in its relation to Hegel — has made its way into the heart of contemporary debates. For instance: Stephen Darwall has taken up Fichte's concept of intersubjectivity from a systematic point of view (see Darwall, Stephen, "Fichte and the Second-Person Standpoint," in Internationales Jahrbuch des Deutschen Idealismus, 3/2006, 91-113), Alan Wood takes Fichte to be the main important thinker within an Anti-Cartesian paradigm (see Wood, Alan, "Fichte's Intersubjective 'I,'" in Inquiry, 49/1, 62-79, 2006, 62-79), and even Axel Honneth, from the perspective of social philosophy and the Frankfurt School, has rediscovered Fichte's practical philosophy (see Honneth, Axel, "Die transcendentale Notwendigkeit von Intersubjektivitaet," in Honneth, Axel, Unsichtbarkeit. Stationen einer Theorie der Intersubjektivitaet, Frankurt: Suhrkamp 2003, 28-48).

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As a result of some of the historical factors and influential caricatures and misinterpretations I have discussed, a number of the so-called myths or legends about Hegel’s philosophy arose and found fertile ground to take root and flourish. In the course of time, these have developed into a sort of common lore among students and nonspecialists. I cannot here pretend to be able to recount exhaustively all of the regrettable misconceptions that have plagued the reception of Hegel’s philosophy; however, in what follows, by way of introducing the essays included in this collection, I catalog the caricatures of Hegel and his philosophy that have been most widespread.

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In his book Imagination in Kant's Critique of Practical Reason, Freydberg offers three provocative arguments. First, Freydberg argues that even though the significance of imagination for practical reason is never mentioned by Kant, the role of this faculty in Kant's Critique of Practical Reason is central. Second, following Fichte, Schelling, and more recently Heidegger, he seeks to provide an account of the unity of the Kantian system. Freydberg argues that Kant's system owes its unity to the central role of imagination in Kant's philosophy as a whole. Third, guided by Kant's claims about the primacy of the practical, Freydberg argues that "the Critique of Practical Reason provides the linchpin of that unity" (p. 2).

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Special Kant Issue

Table of Contents:

Osler, Margaret J. — Jan W. Wojcik 1944-2006

Wuerth, Julian. — Kant's Immediatism, Pre-Critique

Sutherland, Daniel.– Kant on Arithmetic, Algebra, and the Theory of Proportions

Pollok, Konstantin — Kant's Critical Concepts of Motion

Nuzzo, Angelica — Kant and Herder on Baumgarten's Aesthetica

Zuckert, Rachel — The Purposiveness of Form: A Reading of Kant's Aesthetic Formalism

Frierson, Patrick R. — Character and Evil in Kant's Moral Anthropology

Caswell, Matthew — The Value of Humanity and Kant's Conception of Evil