... disruptions to systems that support life on this planet. This article develops an interpretive framework drawn from Hans Blumenberg’s theories of myth and metaphor, philosophical anthropology, and philosophy of history to address how Immanuel Kant’s fourth question, “What is the human being?,” has reemerged...

... 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...

... on landscape, alienation, and song. Throughout the recurrences of the trope of landscape in Adorno’s writings before Aesthetic Theory , the philosophy of nature and history and experiences of tourism and exile constellate into an aesthetic that contemplates sublimity and kitsch side by side: modernist...

... observational to a theoretical stance: according to Arendt, we can understand the historical implications of the Nazi genocide only if we engage in the crisscrossing of history and thought. New German Critique, Inc. 2009 The Holocaust and Hannah Arendt’s Philosophical Critique of Philosophy: Eichmann...

... are primarily motivated by his philosophy of history. Hegel accurately sensed the loss of faith in historical progress that Schiller experienced in the wake of the French Revolution; in essays written shortly before Wallenstein appeared, Schiller associates the tragic sublime with humans' ability to act...

... aesthetics. Adorno wants to regard Hamlet as a threshold and often refers in passing to Hamlet as the “first” or “original” individual, but such a treatment reintroduces a literary history into an aesthetic incapable of reconciling such a history to its own denunciation of all philosophies of history...

... in the history of ideas before discussing how his celebrated Philosophy of Symbolic Forms led Cassirer to reappraise the problem of history more generally. Blumenberg reads Cassirer as having tried to establish the independence of history with regard to the imperatives of the present and from this derives...

...Rüdiger Campe Georg Lukács’s argument of form and formation is traced from The Theory of the Novel to History and Class Consciousness , especially “Reification and the Consciousness of the Proletariat.” The concept of form in The Theory of the Novel is compared to the contemporary philosophy...

...Astrid Deuber-Mankowsky In his book The Time That Remains: A Commentary on the Letter to the Romans , Giorgio Agamben states that the famous hunchbacked dwarf from Walter Benjamin's first thesis on the philosophy of history was none other than Paul. Unlike Agamben, Benjamin was a reader...

..., undermining the then-dominant neo-Kantian idealism and its understanding of the place and role of science in philosophy and modernity. © 2011 by New German Critique, Inc. 2011 Russian Exiles, New Scientific Movements, and Phenomenology: A History of Philosophical Immigrations in 1930s France...

... theology as it plays out in his philosophy of history as well as his historical anthropology and lays a particular emphasis on the peculiar role that the figure of Judaism plays in them. © 2013 by New German Critique, Inc. 2013 Beyond Gnosticism and Magic...

... of world interpretation as a precondition to action (i.e., action conforms to an immutable philosophy of history). The upshot is that Heidegger’s more radical (non-Christian, nonpalliative) world interpretation offers the proper mate- rial for a genuine revolution, once its time comes. See...

... politics under Nazi rule, Arendt’s political thought develops as a systematic critique and response to the histories of antisemitism, imperialism, and totalitarianism. After joining the Nazi Party in 1933, Schmitt endorsed the expulsion of Jewish intellectuals from Germany, celebrated the burning...

... existing research areas. Envi- ronmental philosophy developed as a subfield of philosophy in the 1970s, fol- lowed by environmental history in the 1980s and ecocriticism in the early 1990s, and these subfields struggled during their first few decades to acquire legitimacy in the disciplines from...

..., given that it shares common topoi with the other main texts contemporary with it, namely, “The Actuality of Philosophy” (1931) and “The Idea of Natural-History” (1932). At the same time, problems that continue to occupy Adorno throughout his career can be discerned in this short text...

... of a subject who can reflect on this content as its object. 70 As Adorno proposes when discussing Benjamin’s theory in “The Actuality of Philosophy,” constellations “do not lie organically ready in history” but “must be produced by human beings and are legitimated in the last analysis alone by the fact...

... or three years “the work which up to now has been considered . . . the first systematic attempt of the idealist movement, and in a certain sense the first attempt in the whole history of philosophy, to bound the whole philosophical world between the covers of a book, Schelling’s Transcendental...

... of the call represent the zenith of modern philosophy. This assessment is both striking and revealing, as it helps us appreciate the motivation and strategy of Strauss’s own philosophical project: insofar as Heidegger occupies this momentous status in the history of philosophy, overcoming his thought would...

...—for example, Regin Prenter’s essay “Martin Heideggers Filosofi og Teologien” (“Martin Heidegger’s Philosophy and Theology”) in the Danish Teologisk Tidskrift and Henri Corbin’s essay “La théologie dialectique et l’histoire” (“Dialectical Theology and History”) in Recherches philosophiques—its...

... if an incisive critique of the entire thing were to be carried out starting with the language. For example the derivative rhetoric and use of metaphor—does this not bear witness against him, from the perspective of the philosophy of history?”3 Yet Adorno did not develop a theory of language. 1...