... on the theme of “unburdening from the absolute”—the task of human beings to keep an overwhelming reality at bay. Marquard thus interprets him mainly as a proponent of the German current of “philosophical anthropology.” The text also sheds light on Blumenberg’s relationship to finitude, his life...

... autonomous listening (always already institutionalized in terms of habitus) to automatic listening (absolutizing habitus through executable algorithms), the article detects a link to technological misrecognition, whereby the sensuous/immediate and humanizing must—as a condition of its possibility—also...

... his mind, however, Strauss, a refugee in England and then in America, began to retreat from the ideas that had influenced him during the 1920s and from his own previous attitude toward certain elements of modern civilization. This retreat was not clear, absolute, or complete but complicated, vague...

... for philosophy, however, with a shift from analysis to pragmatism: while metaphorology demanded, retroactively, that absolute metaphors be revisited throughout the history of philosophy to gauge the plasticity lost by philosophical language, Blumenberg’s fabulology proposes, proactively, to change philosophical...

...Kohei Saito The Anthropocene is characterized by the definitive failure of the Promethean dream of capitalism about the absolute domination over nature. As a response to the deepening of global ecological crisis, new philosophical discussions have emerged that pivot around the ontological...

... the “turn to religion” in recent and contem- porary Continental philosophy, Jürgen Habermas, “Religion in the Public Sphere,” European Jour- nal of Philosophy 14 (2006): 1–25. 74 Hannah Arendt on the Secular The Problem of an Absolute The baseline for appreciating the challenge of fi nding...

... had the absolute subject-object totality of Hegel’s system broken apart by the beginning of the twentieth century, but subject and object themselves had broken up into numerous mutually opposed subjects and objects, each declaring the subject matter and the practice of philosophy to be something...

.... According to Horkheimer, metaphysics, as classically conceived, is concerned with securing an absolutely perfect understanding of ultimate reality. Traditionally, this is understood in terms of the inquiring subject trying to discern with perfect clarity the fundamentally unified and universal structure...

... supports “resilience” 13 in the face of the “absolutism of reality” ( WM , 3–4)—a boundary concept representing the loss or threatened loss of control over the conditions of existence. These skills involve distancing ourselves from our impulses through narrativizing, becoming reflexive, empathetic, 14...

... with violence and the role of literature as enabler of atrocity and mediator in healing. On an anthropological scale the situated fragility of the human body clashes with the claims of ideology put across in language. Here literature works to expose the fragility of absolute master narratives...

... of a uni- versalist internationalism; and its preference for charging Eichmann with a “crime against humanity” rather than a specific one against the Jewish people. But the most fundamental of Blumenberg’s charges was against Arendt’s alleged truth-telling absolutism, which was symptomatic...

... Richard Rorty, citing Shakespeare’s Measure for Measure , in Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature ), 14 but an infinitely wider dimension and greater depth of and in the soul, “the spiritual” finds the objectivity, universality, absoluteness, and true concreteness (as Kojève will say in his commentary...

... concern was the “unburdening from the absolute.” Humans, as misfits of evolution but also as cosmological outcasts, need to conceive of devices to keep the “absolutism of reality” at bay, as Blumenberg put it in Work on Myth . Marquard, taking this idea as a shorthand for the theoretical stakes...

...- fashioned about it (“Die Zeit,” 22). But Adorno was a thinker who always knew that for humans there could be no absolute beginning. His entire intellectual profi le—especially when it comes to formulating problems of the conception and critique of language—represents a reworking of impulses, intuitions...

... from itself and from the captured and reduced object concealed behind every unful- filled need ND( , 92). Taken to the extreme, expressive absolution inaugurates one’s ecstatic existence outside oneself, the existence no longer encumbered by suffering under the objective weight of the world...

...- criminate denial of anything positive, the stereotyped formula of nothing- ness as used by Buddhism, ignores the ban on calling the absolute by its name. (DE, 17) Instead of magic—the divinization of the immediate—Judaism insists on strict categorical distinctions, on making sure...

... . 1999 . “The Russian Avant-Garde, London.” Burlington Magazine 141 , no. 1 : 428 . Margolin Victor . 1997 . The Struggle for Utopia: Rodchenko, Lissitzky, Moholy-Nagy, 1917–1946 . Chicago : University of Chicago Press . Martin Stuart . 2007 . “The Absolute Artwork Meets...

.... Even where film dissolves and modifies its objects as much as it can, the disintegration is never complete. Consequently, it does not permit absolute construction . (TF, 202; my emphasis) Here Adorno not only claims that film’s representational basis is its primary limitation; he also provides...

... divine and absolute authority and of its public political function. What remains in the post-Spinoza age is a notion of revelation as a personal experience of a call that gives itself to Heidegger’s secularized, interior, subject-centered, and atheistic call from Dasein to itself. Following his study...

....   Blumenberg, “The Concept of Reality and the Theory of the State,” 106 . 129.   Shklar, Legalism , 88–110 . 130.   Zill, Der absolute Leser , 302–3 . 131.   Marquard, Schwierigkeiten . 132.  For a detailed analysis of this shift, see Bajohr, “Shifting Grounds” ; and Bajohr...