...Allen Dunn Both Martin Heidegger and Theodor Adorno lament the disenchantment of the world that results from the secularization process, but both are loath to call for a return to mythic culture. They seek a postsecular source of value independent of both premodern myth and enlightened reason...

...Alexander Gelley Martin Heidegger's denunciation of Gerede (idle talk) in §35 of Sein und Zeit is scathing: “Idle talk is constituted in this gossiping and passing the word along, a process by which its initial lack of grounds to stand on increases to complete groundlessness.” But how might...

... critical understanding of imperial reason and his particular adaptation of Martin Heidegger’s destructive hermeneutics to the historical narrative informing humanism, the modern university, and the profession, are among his main contributions to contemporary criticism. Each of his interventions has been...

... on Rakim's writing and performance as an MC by referencing performance studies theoretical frameworks from Erving Goffman, Martin Heidegger, and African American cultural iconography. Morris emphasizes Austin's constructed dichotomy in the first half of How to Do Things and his more expansive framing later...

...; from Germany’s coming to terms with its Nazi past to contemporary memory studies; from world literature and globalization to the humanities education today; from his intellectual debt to Martin Heidegger and Michel Foucault to his first exposure to the work of Theodor Adorno, and his relationship...

...R. Radhakrishnan This essay is a genealogical appreciation of the theoretical legacy of the work of William Spanos as it has evolved from an early and ongoing commitment to the “de-structive hermeneutics” of Martin Heidegger toward Edward Said’s exilic politics of a contrapuntal secular humanism...

.... Spanos: his experiences as an American POW during the Dresden firebombing, his introduction of Martin Heidegger’s destructive/projective hermeneutics into the American academy in the 1970s, and his translation of these personal and scholarly commitments into pedagogical theory and practice. After...

... constitutes the discourses, ideologies, and institutions that produce and consolidate the metaphysics of imperialism. Drawing on Martin Heidegger and the poststructuralists, Spanos’s work demonstrates that metaphysics, far from being inconsequential, is the discursive and political reproduction of a certain...

... of poststructural ontology into a positive force for shaping ethical responsibility, with no positive term. Seeing Critchley’s problems sets off, by contrast, the importance of William V. Spanos’s work because he retained in his postmodernist thinking the importance of Martin Heidegger’s sense of event...

... In 1946, Martin Heidegger wrote his “Letter on Humanism” in reply to questions sent to him by his student Jean Beaufret, who wanted to know whether Heidegger endorsed Jean-­Paul Sartre’s assertion that Existential- ism is a Humanism. Heidegger emphatically did not. He dismissed Sartre’s inversion...

... and trafficking as an instrument of domination over beings. —Martin Heidegger, ‘‘Letter on Humanism Basic Writings We had to destroy Ben Tre in order to save it. —An American military officer as reported by Michael...

... was anticipating the Copernican revolu- tion Martin Heidegger inaugurated when he retrieved ‘‘the nothing’’ that the discourse of modernity ‘‘wishes to know nothing about 1 Taking my point of departure from this reconstellation of Melville’s novel out of the discur- sive domain in which it has hitherto been...

... by page number only. boundary 2 41:2 (2014) DOI 10.1215/01903659-2686142 © 2014 by Duke University Press 198 boundary 2 / Summer 2014 son,” Haugeland denied what had until then scarcely occurred to anyone to doubt, namely, that Martin Heidegger uses the word Dasein (which in ordinary German...

...), are “starting” to be reopened. That this makes for bad history may not matter very much. Of more concern should be its implication for the very ethics he claims to value. His redemptionist vision awaits—and here one notes Agamben’s debt to Martin Heidegger—the moment in which all will change...

...- rizable question of potentiality and actuality. Reflecting on this matter in Aristotle’s Metaphysics, Martin Heidegger has noted that ‘‘to ask about potentiality and actuality is essential philosophizing’’ [nach Möglichkeit und...

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..., there is also one grand and almost overwhelming presence. Celan and the philosopher Martin Heidegger belonged to a very serious and active mutual admira- tion society.7 Celan, in one text, speaks of his ‘‘reverence’’ [Verehrung]8 for Heidegger and addresses him as ‘‘Master-Thinker’’ [Herrn Martin Heideg...

... ostensibly posited and marked off in our terms: affect, memory, thinking, human being. It s not exactly news to say that reflection on language ends in para- dox and aporia. There is the well-known example of Martin Heidegger the postwar Heidegger, in particular who conceives of language...

... to time as the inner sense of the pre- constituted or merely assumed subject of the Transcendental Aesthetic, with its ready-made ‘‘faculties which appears now as its subjective side only) achieves an extended elaboration in Martin Heidegger’s famously ‘‘violent’’ reading of Kant in Kant...

...William V. Spanos Pierre’s Extraordinary Emergency: Melville and ‘‘the Voice of Silence Part 1 William V. Spanos Anxiety reveals the nothing. —Martin Heidegger, ‘‘What Is Metaphysics ‘‘Come, I hate a mystery; speak, my...