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Rethinking Weimar: Habermas on Cassirer in the 1920s
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Notes on German philosophy of the Weimar era (1918-33) and visionary writing. Monday, 29 April 2013. Habermas on Cassirer in the 1920s. I want to underline three particular aspects of Ernst Cassirer’s intellectual life in the 1920s which Habermas draws attention to in the opening lecture in his The Liberating Power of Symbols. 8216;The library was to lead from the visual image, as the first stage in man’s awareness, to language and hence to religion, science and philosophy, all of them products of ...
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Rethinking Weimar: Scheitern
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Notes on German philosophy of the Weimar era (1918-33) and visionary writing. Wednesday, 18 July 2012. 65279; In the last of this series of posts drawing heavily on Chris Thornhill's work on Karl Jaspers, I want to present a summary of Thornhill’s account of a central concept within Jaspers’ thought: that of foundering or failing ( Scheitern. And Sebastian Samay’s categorization of his thought as ‘ negative ontology’. 8217; – ‘in which the conditions for authentic human-being recede ceasel...8217; whi...
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Rethinking Weimar: English Existentialism
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Notes on German philosophy of the Weimar era (1918-33) and visionary writing. Thursday, 5 April 2012. Iain Sinclair, in his review last week of Robert Fraser's. Night Thoughts: The Surreal Life of the Poet David Gascoyne. Reminds us of Gascoyne's status as a 'Christian existentialist'. So maybe I got all this from absorbing. The Sun at Midnight. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Scheitern, part 2. The Existentialist Poetic of Thoreau's Journal. Suzanne Kirkbright's Life of Karl Jaspers.
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Rethinking Weimar: Suzanne Kirkbright's Life of Karl Jaspers
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Notes on German philosophy of the Weimar era (1918-33) and visionary writing. Friday, 9 December 2011. Suzanne Kirkbright's Life of Karl Jaspers. In his ‘World History of Philosophy’, Karl Jaspers underlined the potential of genuine thinking to create a dialogue with the transcendental capacities of the singular human who thinks. ‘If we hear true philosophy, we enter into communication with human Existenz. Schelling’s ‘illumination’) and Lichtpunkte. Jaspers’ poetic language of light – of lig...The airy,...
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Rethinking Weimar: The Existentialist Poetic of Thoreau's Journal
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Notes on German philosophy of the Weimar era (1918-33) and visionary writing. Monday, 16 December 2013. The Existentialist Poetic of Thoreau's Journal. In person.’ (3 February 1852). Thoreau drew a direct link between the plenitude and degree of illumination of a reader’s or student’s cognition, and that student’s ability to immerse himself in studies which enable him to become charged by sensual experience. 8216;His thought must live with and be inspired with the life of the body’:. The sum of what the ...
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Rethinking Weimar: February 2013
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Notes on German philosophy of the Weimar era (1918-33) and visionary writing. Thursday, 14 February 2013. Bergman on Dialogical Philosophy. Shmuel Hugo Bergman’s little-known but intensely readable primer, Dialogical Philosophy from Kierkegaard to Buber. Later sections of Bergman’s study address other thinkers of central importance to. Bergman emphasizes that the I-Thou relation, the relationship of man to man, is the concern of post-Kierkegaardian dialogical philosophy:. 8216;The relationship between ma...
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Rethinking Weimar: Heidegger, Prynne and 'Parataxis'
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Notes on German philosophy of the Weimar era (1918-33) and visionary writing. Thursday, 31 October 2013. Heidegger, Prynne and 'Parataxis'. In Cambridge, let's split'. Iain Sinclair, Red Eye. In an attempt to get an initial grasp on the Heidegger-Prynne interface, I have reached for my little pile of back issues of the. Most of which I bought from Drew Milne around 17 years ago. Edited largely by Milne, from 1991 to 2001, the content in Parataxis: Modernism and Modern Writing. Also voices Prynne’s ...
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Rethinking Weimar: September 2013
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Notes on German philosophy of the Weimar era (1918-33) and visionary writing. Wednesday, 4 September 2013. J H Prynne’s poem, from his 1971 volume Brass. Not going forward let alone re-. Turning upon itself, the old fat in the can. The old fat rises to a reason and. Seems because of its can, not going. Forward but in its rank securely,. So as to be ready. Divinity rises to. No higher reason since going up alone. Is returning itself to the can. You choose. If you like whether we stay in the rank. But of c...
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Rethinking Weimar: Bathos Monotone
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Notes on German philosophy of the Weimar era (1918-33) and visionary writing. Wednesday, 4 September 2013. J H Prynne’s poem, from his 1971 volume Brass. Not going forward let alone re-. Turning upon itself, the old fat in the can. The old fat rises to a reason and. Seems because of its can, not going. Forward but in its rank securely,. So as to be ready. Divinity rises to. No higher reason since going up alone. Is returning itself to the can. You choose. If you like whether we stay in the rank. But of c...
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Rethinking Weimar: June 2013
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Notes on German philosophy of the Weimar era (1918-33) and visionary writing. Saturday, 22 June 2013. Note on Not Posting. My next post, which will stem from last year's important essay collection. Will still be 'purely philosophical'. But because of my altered plans now, I will not be producing an entire post puffing this year's sensation, the. The Weimar Republic Sourcebook. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Scheitern, part 2. The Existentialist Poetic of Thoreau's Journal. Heidegger, Prynne and 'Parataxis'.
