JBSP: Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology

Finitude: History & Politics

ANTONIO CALCAGNO: Michel Henry’s Non-Intentionality Thesis and Husserlian Phenomenology

FABIO PRESUTTI: Giorgio Agamben, Gilles Deleuze and the ‘Idea of Language’ in the Synthesis of ‘Being’

BETH LORD: The Virtual and the Ether: Transcendental Empiricism in Kant’s Opus Postumum

JAMES N. McGUIRK: Aletheia and Heidegger’s Transitional Readings of Plato’s Cave Allegory

TRACY COLONY: The Wholly Other: Being and the Last God in Heidegger’s Contributions to Philosophy

FARHANG ERFANI: Fixing Marx with Machiavelli: Claude Lefort’s Democratic Turn

TOC: Volume 12 Issue Number 1 Spring 2008

Violence and Embodiment — JAMES MENSCH

Personnage, pensée, perception: Entre figure esthétique et personnage conceptuel, oscille le personnage du cinéma — CAROLINE SAN MARTIN

The Sublimity of Violence: Kant and the Aesthetic Response to the French Revolution –RADU NECULAU

Qu’est-ce qu’un dispositif? L’analytique sociale de Michel Foucault — SVERRE RAFFNSØE

Deleuze’s Other-Structure: Beyond the Master-Slave Dialectic, but at What Cost? — JACK REYNOLDS

Le commun et le capital: Réflexions sur le récit thérapeutique d’Antonio Negri — DALIE GIROUX

Erfahren and Erleben: Metaphysical Experience and its Overcoming in Heidegger’s Beiträge — JIM VERNON

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.

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The being-with of being-there — Jean-Luc Nancy

Heidegger on overcoming rationalism through transcendental philosophy — Chad Engelland

Between the face and the voice: Bakhtin meets Levinas — Daphna Erdinast-Vulcan 

Being, aevum, and nothingness: Edith Stein on death and dying — Antonio Calcagno
 
At the same time — Robin Durie

Foucault’s turn from literature — Timothy O’Leary
 
Alan D. Schrift, Twentieth-Century French Philosophy: Key Themes and Thinkers — Ann V. Murphy

The Spirit of the Age: Hegel and the Fate of Thinking

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Table of Contents

The Spirit of The Age and the Fate of Philosophical Thinking — Paul Ashton, Toula Nicolacopoulos, George Vassilacopoulos
Would Hegel Be A ‘Hegelian’ Today? — H. S. Harris
Hegel, Idealism and God: Philosophy as the Self-Correcting Appropriation of the Norms of Life and Thought — Paul Redding
Hegel, Derrida and the Subject — Simon Lumsden
Hegel’s Science of Logic and the “Sociality of Reason” — Jorge Armando Reyes
The Ego as World: Speculative Justification and the Role of the Thinker in Hegel’s Philosophy — Toula Nicolacopoulos, George Vassilacopoulos
Hegel Today: Towards a Tragic Conception of Intercultural Conflicts — Karin G de Boer
Sein und Geist: Heidegger’s Confrontation with Hegel’s Phenomenology — Robert Sixto Sinnerbrink
Hegel, Recognition And Rights: ‘Anerkennung’ As A Gridline Of The Philosophy Of Rights — Jürgen Lawrenz
Hegel’s Theory of Moral Action, its Place in his System and the ‘Highest’ Right of the Subject — David Rose
Being and Implication: On Hegel and the Greeks — Andrew Haas
The Relevance of Hegel’s Logic — John W Burbidge
Agamben, Hegel, and the State of Exception — Wendell Kisner
Gathering and Dispersing: The Absolute Spirit in Hegel’s Philosophy — George Vassilacopoulos
Hegel and the Becoming of Essence — David Gray Carlson
Dialectical Reason and Necessary Conflict—Understanding and the Nature of Terror — Angelica Nuzzo
The Spirit (of our Time) is and is not a Bone. — Johan Vandycke
The Beginning Before the Beginning: Hegel and the Activation of Philosophy — Paul Ashton
Kierkegaard’s Ethical Stage In Hegel’s Logical Categories: Actual Possibility, Reality And Necessity — María J. Binetti
El estadio ético de Kierkegaard en las categorías lógicas de Hegel: posibilidad, realidad y necesidad actuales – María J. Binetti

Richard Polt’s essay:

The typewriter is in the process of becoming a thing of the past, along with dial phones and vinyl records. “Things of the past” are still present, of course — it’s their world that is absent (as Heidegger says somewhere about museum pieces). The context in which these things once fit, which gave them their appropriateness and integrated them into human lives, has slipped away — disappearing, piece by imperceptible piece, until one day we recognize that the Gestalt has already changed, that we live in a new world. This doesn’t mean that the things of the past, these ambassadors from a world that has sunk like Atlantis, have been reduced to merely useless chunks of matter, merely “present-at-hand entities.” Again, Heidegger’s phenomenology of the “ready-to-hand” is instructive: when a piece of equipment loses its smooth integration into a practical environment, it doesn’t immediately become a mere object, but instead, the environment as such is lit up. When a spoke breaks on my bicycle, the entire “world” of bicycle riding, its purposes and requirements, is made annoyingly evident. In the case of typewriters, the problem is not that they have broken and no longer fit in their world — instead, the world to which they belong is breaking up like a melting iceberg, to be replaced by a new configuration which we are only beginning to grasp under the name “cyberspace.” But like the broken spoke, the typewriter draws attention to its world. A thing of the past evokes its world, speaks of it, by appealing to our imagination — by pleading that we draw analogies between what we do now and what once was done with this thing. A thing of the past has magical power because it is a window — a hole in the wholeness of our world (which is never a seamless wholeness), through which we can imagine another world.

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(via wood’s lot)

Ours does not promise to go down in literary history as a great age of religious poetry. Yet if contemporary poetry is not often religious, it is still intensely, covertly metaphysical. Human nature, it seems, compels us to keep asking about the first things, even if we no longer accept the same answers that our ancestors did, or even the same kind of answers. The more widely you read, in fact, the clearer it becomes that our poetry has a distinctive metaphysics, a set of principles or intuitions held in common by poets as different as Seamus Heaney, Charles Simic, and Billy Collins. This metaphysical sensibility, I think, is what will give our period a retrospective unity, when readers of the future come to survey what looks to us like chaos. And the best document of that sensibility—the single piece of writing that does the most to explain what our poetry believes, and the ways it expresses that belief—is an essay by Martin Heidegger, “The Origin of the Work of Art.”

Today, Heidegger’s name is most often heard in debates about his collaboration with the Nazis. Though he lived from 1889 to 1976, his life and work must be judged by his behavior during the early thirties, when the Nazi Party came to power with a promise to renew the German spirit. Because this was also Heidegger’s goal—in a different, but not unrelated sense—he was happy to add his intellectual prestige to the Nazi cause, serving as rector of his university under the new government. He was soon disillusioned with Hitler, but he never fully came to grips with his catastrophic moral and intellectual failure. It was left to writers in our own time, like Richard Wolin and Charles Bambach, to show the full implications of Heidegger’s Nazism for his immensely influential work.

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I had posted these before but those videos are no longer available. Here they are again, from a different site:

1 - Nietzsche

2 - Heidegger

3 - Sartre

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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