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4141The End of Action: An Arendtian Critique of Aristotle’s Concept of praxisHannah Arendt: Practice, Thought and Judgement. 2010.The article re-examines the Aristotelian backdrop of Arendt’s notion of action. On the one hand, Backman takes up Arendt’s critique of the hierarchy of human activities in Aristotle, according to which Aristotle subordinates action (praxis) to production (poiesis) and contemplation (theoria). Backman argues that this is not the case since Aristotle conceives theoria as the most perfect form of praxis. On the other hand, Backman stresses that Arendt’s notion of action is in fact very different fr…Read more
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48Für das Wohnen denken: Heidegger, Arendt und die praktische BesinnungHeidegger-Jahrbuch 3 199-220. 2007.Dieser Aufsatz, der sich den Interpretationen u. a. von Robert Bernasconi, Jacques Taminiaux und Franco Volpi anschließt, betrachtet Heideggers „Wiederholung“ der praktischen Philosophie des Aristoteles als eine Radikalisierung des aristotelischen Begriffs des Handelns (praxis). Die moderne „Not des Wohnens“ erweist sich als ein Ergebnis der Unterordnung der Endlichkeit und Zeitlichkeit des menschlichen Handelns in der abendländischen philosophischen Tradition unter die metaphysischen und theolo…Read more
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524Language after Heidegger by Krzysztof Ziarek (review)Review of Metaphysics 68 (3): 684-686. 2015.nonPeerReviewed.
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3026All of a SuddenEpoché: A Journal for the History of Philosophy 11 (2): 393-408. 2007.The paper will study an unpublished 1930–31 seminar where Heidegger reads Plato’s Parmenides, showing that in spite of his much-criticized habit of dismissing Plato as the progenitor of “idealist” metaphysics, Heidegger was quite aware of the radical potential of his later dialogues. Through a temporal account of the notion of oneness (to hen), the Parmenides attempts to reconcile the plurality of beings with the unity of Being. In Heidegger’s reading, the dialogue culminates in the notion of th…Read more
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159Complicated Presence: Heidegger and the Postmetaphysical Unity of BeingState University of New York Press. 2015.From its Presocratic beginnings, Western philosophy concerned itself with a quest for unity both in terms of the systematization of knowledge and as a metaphysical search for a unity of being—two trends that can be regarded as converging and culminating in Hegel’s system of absolute idealism. Since Hegel, however, the philosophical quest for unity has become increasingly problematic. Jussi Backman returns to that question in this book, examining the place of the unity of being in the work of Hei…Read more
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Tampere UniversityTampere Institute for Advanced Study / Faculty of Social SciencesSenior Research Fellow
University of Helsinki
Department of Philosophy (Theoretical Philosophy, Practical Philosophy, Philosophy in Swedish)
PhD, 2010
Tampere, Finland