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From: Tamkang Review[(essay date 2011) In the following essay, Huang analyzes the play in the context of the ethical theories of Emmanuel Levinas.] “Did your food have a face?” a poster from the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals...
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From: Education, Dialogue and Hermeneutics[(essay date 2010) In the following essay, Grondin contends that Gadamer’s basic theory of education rejects the notion of a downward transmission of ideas from teacher to pupil and instead celebrates self-education.]...
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From: The New York Times Book ReviewThe influence, direct and indirect, of [“Being and Time” (“Sein und Zeit”)], not only in philosophy but literature and psychology, has reached a point where its admirers characterize it as a work that has changed the...
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From: Cambridge Quarterly[(essay date June 2011) In this essay, Marshall investigates Bellow's use of Mr. Sammler as a means of dissecting the notions of the private self and one's public speech and persona.] Near the beginning of Saul...
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From: Theory, Culture and Society[(essay date 2006) In the following interview, conducted in 1996, Gadamer assesses his life and career with Grondin, and the philosopher relates that, for him, “from the very beginning the study of philosophy was …...
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From: American Indian Quarterly[(essay date 1985) In the following essay, Jahner discusses Vizenor’s use in Earthdivers of metaphor as a tool for knowing and understanding the world, a way of connecting specific places visible in the present with...
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From: Witnessing the Disaster: Essays on Representation and the Holocaust[(essay date 2003) In the following essay, LaCapra scrutinizes the methods and conclusions of Agamben’s Remnants of Auschwitz, which discusses the implications of the Holocaust for Postmodern ethics and aesthetics....
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From: The New Republic[This review of Victor Farias's Heidegger et le Nazisme provides background on Heidegger's life, views, and writing.] At the beginning of 1933, Martin, Heidegger was the most admired and celebrated philosopher in...
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From: Hermeneutics and Praxis[(essay date 1985) In the following essay, Caputo comments on Rorty’s “daring and imaginative appropriation” of German philosopher Martin Heidegger’s work on metaphysics.] I Although hailed as a sign of a thaw in the...
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From: Heidegger and Modern Philosophy: Critical Essays[This essay offers a critical overview of Heidgger's life, writing, and philosophy.] Martin Heidegger's eightieth birthday was also the fiftieth anniversary of his public life, which he began not as an author—though he...
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From: Flannery O’Connor Review[(essay date 04) In the following essay, Edmondson argues that “Good Country People” both demonstrates the seductive power of nihilism and presents fiction as a way to reveal the spiritual dangers of that viewpoint.]...
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From: The French Review[The following essay reviews Heidegger's Ecrits Politiques .] Martin Heidegger's enormous prestige in France is in no small way creditable to the prodigious influence his philosophy of Being has exercised on such...
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From:Philosophy East and West (Vol. 69, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedIn Confucianism, ritual propriety (liyi) (1) is commonly understood as an instrument for guiding people's actions. In this essay, however, I argue that taking ritual propriety merely as an instrument external to human...
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From:Existential Analysis (Vol. 31, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedIn psycho-therapy, methods of therapy have been more richly developed and better understood than the subject matter--psyche--they endeavour to treat. This paper clarifies the ontological nature of psyche by considering...
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From:Cultural Critique (Issue 69) Peer-ReviewedIn order to adequately understand Heidegger's geopolitical orientation after 1945, it is first necessary to outline the changes in his orientation and to analyze the reasons behind those changes. In 1934, Heidegger...
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From:Texas Studies in Literature and Language (Vol. 39, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedHermeneutics and historical interpretation are intertwining activities, for, in a strict sense, hermeneutics asks what are the grounds for textual exegesis, especially of ancient texts whose worldview may be distant...
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From:Existential Analysis (Vol. 31, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedEditor's Note This paper is a continuation and completion of the International Bibliography of the Writing of Medard Boss which was published in the July 2019 edition of Existential Analysis. Readers will find a...
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From:Philosophy East and West (Vol. 57, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedTime is flying. The passage of time is usually viewed as a negative thing that brings us closer to death. To the conventional mind, it seems that we are moving ever forward, from a definite past into an uncertain...
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From:Existential Analysis (Vol. 33, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedThis open letter proposes, unsuccessfully, that Professor Friedrich-Wilhelm von Herrmann rather than Professor Peter Trawny should edit the Gesamtausgabe edition of Heidegger's Zollikoner Seminare. Key Words...
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From:Philosophy East and West (Vol. 49, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedInterpretations of divinity in both Eastern and Western philosophy include aspects of the ordinary or everyday. Some, such as the Japanese concept of kami, center on the similarities of gods to human beings, with social...