Continental Philosophy

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La notion de Weltanschauung : généalogie d’un concept et d’un processus
ÉLODIE BOUBLIL
Inter et Inter: A Report on the Metamorphosis of an Actress
ISOBEL BOWDITCH
Spirit and/or Flesh: Merleau-Ponty’s Encounter with Hegel
DAVID STOREY
Les objets intentionnels – à la frontière entre les actes et le monde
MARIA GYEMANT
Est-il possible de dire l’éthique de la proximité? Contribution au dossier Kierkegaard – Levinas
DOMINIC DESROCHES
The “Inversions” of Intentionality in Levinas and the Later Heidegger
ADAM KONOPKA

Autonomy, Reciprocity, and Responsibility: Darwall and Levinas on the Second Person, Michael D. Barber

Locke, Kierkegaard and the Phenomenology of Personal Identity, Patrick Stokes

Belief and Self-consciousness, David Hunter

Postmetaphysical Thinking or Refusal of Thought? Max Horkheimer’s Materialism as Philosophical Stance, J. C. Berendzen

Seebohm’s Hermeneutics and Gadamer, Robert Dostal

Schutz, Seebohm, and Cultural Science, Lester Embree

Seebohm, Husserl, and Dilthey, Thomas Nenon

Three Responses, Thomas M. Seebohm

Alan Schrift, Questioning Authority: Nietzsche’s Gift to Derrida

Brian T. Prosser and Andrew Ward, Kierkegaard’s “Mystery Of Unrighteousness” In The Information Age (via wood’s lot)

Zizek, “The Secret Clauses of the Liberal Utopia”:

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

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Naturalistic and Transcendental Moments in Kant’s Moral Philosophy — Author: Paul Guyer

Comments on Guyer — Author: Allen W. Wood

Comments on Guyer — Author: Henry E. Allison

Comments on Guyer — Author: Sebastian Rödl

Response to Critics — Author: Paul Guyer

Knowing at Second Hand — Author: Benjamin McMyler

Kierkegaard, MacIntyre and Narrative Unity – Reply to Lippitt — Author: Anthony Rudd

Being Jewish– Emmanuel Levinas

The welcome wound: emerging from the il y a otherwise — Merold Westphal

The neighbor and the infinite: Marion and Levinas on the encounter between self, human other, and God — Christina M. Gschwandtner

The drama of being: Levinas and the history of philosophy — John Caruana

Adorno vs. Levinas: Evaluating points of contention — Nick Smith

Gestures of work: Levinas and Hegel — Silvia Benso

Ethical alterity and asymmetrical reciprocity: A Levinasian reading of Works of Love — Michael R. Paradiso-Michau

The publisher has made the etext available for free:

Editor Charles E. Moore has done us an invaluable service by putting together arguably the most accessible and complete Kierkegaard volume to be published in decades. Here is a book for anyone who takes the search for authenticity seriously.

Divided into six sections, Provocations contains a little of everything from Kierkegaard’s prodigious output, including his wryly humorous attacks on what he calls the “mediocre shell” of conventional Christianity, his brilliantly pithy parables, his amazing insights on the human condition, and his incisive attempts to dig through the fluff of theological jargon and clear a way for the basics: decisiveness, obedience, passion, and recognition of the truth.

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Editorial Introduction: The Inaugural Special Topics Issue On Resurfacing Tragedy: John Duncan

The Soul of Tragedy: Some Basic Principles in Aristotle’s Poetics: John Baxter     

Introduction to Hegel's Theory of Tragedy: Mark W. Roche

Kierkegaard on Abraham's Tragedy: the Loss of Community: Elsebet Jegstrup     

Culture, Tragedy and Pessimism in Nietzsche's Birth of Tragedy: John Duncan

The Spectacle of Suffering: On Tragedy in Nietzsche’s Daybreak: Thomas Bartscherer

The Tragic Double Bind of Heidegger’s Techne: David Edward Tabachnick    

Articles available here

The Crowd is Untruth: a Comparison of Kierkegaard and Girard

by Charles K. Bellinger

The purpose of this essay is to provide an introductory comparison of the writings of Søren Kierkegaard and René Girard. To my knowledge, a substantial secondary article or book has not been written on this subject.[1] Girard’s writings themselves contain only a handful of references to Kierkegaard.[2] This deficiency is unfortunate, since, as I hope to show in the following pages, these two authors do share common insights into the psychology of violence.

Girard’s writings usually take the form of a scientific analysis of historical data. He is attempting to frame a theory of culture which takes into account all of the data which he has encountered. It would seem that Kierkegaard’s mode of thought is very different, since he is primarily concerned with the meaning of personal existence before God. But Kierkegaard was in his own way and in his own time a kind of social scientist. He engaged in an extended “anthropological contemplation” (1967-1978, v. 1: #37), in which he attempted to map out the territory of the human spirit. Girard’s thought, for its part, occasionally steps outside of the methodological atheism of the scientific guild to speak in theological terms. Thus in both realms, the scientific and the theological, there is the possibility of fruitful dialogue between these two authors.

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(Via Korrektiv)

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The Paradox of Beginning: Hegel, Kierkegaard and Philosophical Inquiry — Daniel Watts

Getting the Story Straight: Kierkegaard, MacIntyre and Some Problems with Narrative — John Lippitt

Kierkegaard’s Mirrors: The Immediacy of Moral Vision — Patrick Stokes

The Comically Infinite Man — Michelle Grier

On the Advantages and Disadvantages of Reading Heidegger Backwards: White’s Time and Death — Iain Thomson

From the Chronicle: 

Pessimism is back. That will not surprise anyone who has been keeping track of the nation's pulse over the past several months — or perhaps the last several years. Jimmy Carter's "malaise" speech, which may have cost him a second term, would not be at all inappropriate today. Our famous American optimism faces a mortal threat in the combination of an unwinnable war, a collapsing dollar, a sagging economy for most people, trouble on the job front for graduating students, and lowered expectations generally. And that's aside from the recent scandals among our religious, corporate, and political leaders, and the pervasive suspicion that results.

 

So opined Adam Cohen recently in the International Herald Tribune, and so, too, according to a recent book by Joshua Foa Dienstag, a political scientist at the University of California at Los Angeles, Pessimism: Philosophy, Ethic, Spirit (Princeton University Press, 2006). In his defense of pessimism as an appropriate and realistic philosophy, Dienstag points to the usual suspects: Arthur Schopenhauer, of course, the great 19th-century pessimist; but also Friedrich Nietzsche, and Albert Camus and the modern movement called existentialism.

 

I do not disagree with the diagnosis, but I am disturbed by the continued reference to existentialism as a pessimistic, negative philosophy.

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(via Arts and Letters Daily)

A review of Jacob Howland's Kierkegaard and Socrates: A Study in Philosophy and Faith

Jacob Howland's study is an essentially modest and exegetical work that, in large part, delivers what it sets out to do. It does so in a clear and unabashedly enthusiastic manner, mostly making good its claim not to presuppose that the reader has 'more than a general knowledge of the vocabulary of philosophy' (p. 2). Howland opens his Introduction by telling us how he first came to read Kierkegaard's Philosophical Fragments and of the impact its 'brilliance', 'ardor', and 'mystery' made on him. He acknowledges that this present book was conceived in that first passionate response, however much it may also have been subsequently informed by and be addressed to the discourse of contemporary academic philosophy — all of which is very much in line with the role that Kierkegaard and Kierkegaard's Socrates gives to passion in the quest for truth, philosophical or religious. For it is central to Howland's argument that passion — or, to use the Socratic-Platonic term, eros — is, as he puts it, capable of becoming 'a ladder by which one could climb up to an understanding of faith' (p. 137).

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I am putting together a comprehensive list of e-texts of canonical works. If you have any in mind, please feel free to email me. It is a task with its own share of problems — broken links, copyright issues, etc.

Let's begin with Kierkegaard's Fear and Trembling.

An ethics of reading: Adorno, Levinas, and Irigaray — Michelle Boulous Walker
Being and givenness in Kierkegaard’s pseudonymous authorship — Travis O’brian
Finding uses for used-up words: thinking weltanschauung “after” Heidegger — J Aaron Simmons
Lyotard and posthuman possibilities — Richard White
Sartre and the communicative paradigm in critical theory — JC Berendzen
Sartre, critical theory, and the paradox of freedom — David Sherman
The complexity of the tragicomic vision ethical implications — Ronald Mckinney
Toward a philosophy of food history — S K Wertz