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... writings targeted the limited scope of sensory knowledge employed in modern empirical scientific practice. Friedländer's engagements with art, science, and philosophy were inspired in no small part by a philosophical challenge to modern empirical sense physiology made possible by a unique reading...

... Intentions: The Origins of Cultural Cognition .” Behavioral and Brain Sciences 28 , no. 5 ( 2005 ): 675 – 91 . Vetlesen Arne Johan . The Denial of Nature: Environmental Philosophy in the Age of Globalization . New York : Routledge , 2015 . Wallace-Wells David...

... of individual consciousness with science (Descombes) offers an explanation of the distinctive advantage offered by Husserl’s thought to Marxists and academic philosophers of science and logic. That is, for any philosophy that did not dismiss the individuality of consciousness, Husserl’s thought at once...

... to dedicate his life to Zionism and the study of forgotten Jewish texts. As Engel argues here, however, these two stories complement each other. Both Scholem and Maimon tried to define a Jewish way of life while living in a world disenchanted by modern philosophy and science. The comparison reveals Scholem...

..., 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...

..., according to Lukács, but solely in the theory of art (or, as we will see, in other specific areas such as the sciences). This is the principle guiding his critique of rationalistic philosophy, traditional metaphysics, as well as modern philosophical systems, and it is what motivates his own philosophy...

... Social Philosophy,” 31, 31–32 . 5. Preceding quotations: Horkheimer, “Materialism and Metaphysics,” 34, 35 . 6. Jay, Dialectical Imagination , 267 . 7. On this milieu and its destruction under Stalinism, see Sheehan, Marxism and the Philosophy of Science , chap. 4. 8...

.... But is the Philosophy of Symbolic Forms ultimately not just a history of science, albeit expanded in both space and time? Which is to say: does it not see in the purpose of knowledge the suspension of all other purposes of world-understanding as mere preliminaries? That we should be able to notice this focus...

... of the linguistically transmitted production of knowledge, truth, and cognition. Here is a quotation from Negative Dialectics: “Philosophy is neither a science nor . . . a poetry of thought, but a form that is as mediated as it is distinct from what is different from it. Its suspended state is nothing...

..., the Kunstwollen of an epoch is linked to a broader Wollen , structuring not only art but also “religion, philosophy, science . . . government and law.” The same principle is manifest in each part—art, religion, law—and this homology unifies society. It is precisely this that Lukács echoes. At the opening...

... cation of philosophy and science,” several scholars employ the term interdisciplinary materialism to describe Horkheimer’s program for the Institut and the ZfS in the 1930s.12 The choice of this term to 10. Quoted in Herbert Schnädelbach, Philosophy in Germany, 1831–1933, trans. Eric Matthews...

... University Press, 2012), 118–21. 20. See this essay’s epigraph from Heidegger, Basic Questions of Philosophy, 35. Translation amended. Jeff Love and Michael Meng  53 university. Heidegger indicates that this new science will merge theory and practice...

... of science of Thomas S. Kuhn, and the postmodern agonis- tics of Jean-François Lyotard. 18. Cf. Theodor W. Adorno, “Vorrede,” in Negative Dialektik, vol. 6 of Gesammelte Schriften, ed. Rolf Tiedemann (Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp, 1970), 10. 142 Adorno’s Philosophy of Language 1932. According...

.... It is a resolute attempt at a transformation of philosophy into science but not simply in order to have the specialized disciplines step into the place of philosophy. Methodological materialism takes the primacy of experience as its point of departure. 7 22. Abromeit, Max Horkheimer , 329 . 23...

... in the service of modern politics. Cassirer's concept of myth was inspired by the German theologian Rudolf Otto and his use of phenomenological description of the transcendent experience of the holy. The Holy as an Epistemic Category and a Political Tool: Ernst Cassirer’s and Rudolf Otto’s Philosophies...

..., Birming- ham City University . david kaufmann teaches literature in the English Department at George Mason University . artemy magun teaches philosophy and political science at the European University in Saint Petersburg and in the Department of Liberal Arts and Sciences at Saint...

... and the social sciences, and on the related issue of historicism, can be clearly seen in Adorno’s 1931 inaugural address to the Frankfurt philosophy department. 12 Adorno’s position was starkly opposed to what Horkheimer outlined in his inaugural Institute address some months prior. Whereas Horkheimer...

... of system among philosophers as a result of develop- ments in the empirical sciences, see the chapter “Science” in Herbert Schnaedelbach, Philosophy in Germany, 1831–1933, trans. Eric Mathews (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1984), 66–108. 18. On the turn-of-the-century “identity-crisis...

... of Experience.” In New Materialisms: Ontology, Agency, and Politics , edited by Coole Diana Frost Samantha , 178 – 200 . Durham, NC : Duke University Press . DeLanda Manuel . 2002 . Intensive Science and Virtual Philosophy . New York : Continuum . Fox Warwick . 1984...

... philosophical concepts and metaphors must be separated from their history. For him, who here followed in the footsteps of Ernst Cassirer, 13 this includes the step from substance thinking to function thinking in the history of philosophy, the history of ideas, and the history of science. History, says...