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951From the Ultimate God to the Virtual God: Post-Ontotheological Perspectives on the Divine in Heidegger, Badiou, and MeillassouxMeta: Research in Hermeneutics, Phenomenology, and Practical Philosophy 6 (Special): 113-142. 2014.The Heideggerian account of the ontotheological constitution of Western metaphysics has been extremely influential for contemporary philosophy of religion and for philosophical perspectives on theology and the divine. This paper introduces and contrasts two central strategies for approaching the question of the divine in a non- or post-ontotheological manner. The first and more established approach is that of post-Heideggerian hermeneutics and deconstruction, inspired by Heidegger’s suggestion o…Read more
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2634Unity in Crisis: Protometaphysical and Postmetaphysical DecisionsIn Artemy Magun (ed.), Politics of the One: Concepts of the One and Many in Contemporary Thought, Bloomsbury Academic. pp. 87-112. 2012.The paper studies, within the framework of Martin Heidegger's narrative of the history of metaphysics, two perspectives on the unity of being: the "protometaphysical" perspective of Parmenides, the thinker of the "first beginning" of Western philosophy, and the postmetaphysical perspective of Heidegger, situated in the ongoing transition from the Hegelian and Nietzschean end of metaphysics to a forthcoming "other beginning" of Western thought. Both perspectives involve a certain "crisis", in the…Read more
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1547Omaisuus ja elämä: Heidegger ja Aristoteles kreikkalaisen ontologian rajallaEurooppalaisen filosofian seura. 2005.Mitä oleva on? Omaisuus ja elämä pureutuu tähän filosofian peruskysymykseen seuraten kahta länsimaisen filosofian jättiläistä, Aristotelestä ja Heideggeria. Siinä missä Aristoteles kysyy olevaa substantiivina ja tilana, etsii Heidegger olemisen mieltä verbinä ja tapahtumana. Nämä kaksi merkitystä löytyvät myös suomen olla-verbistä: "omistaa jotakin" ja "olla olemassa, elossa". Omaisuus ja elämä antavat peruslähtökohdat olevan tulkitsemiselle. Kirja vie lukijansa filosofian kreikkalaisille juuril…Read more
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1057Bir, bir şey değildir: post-metafizik düşüncede birlik ve çokluğun akıbetiSabah Ülkesi: Üç Aylık Kültürsanat Ve Felsefe Dergisi 51 16-19. 2017.Translated into Turkish by Mustafa Yalçınkaya.
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4142The 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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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