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12Jeffrey Church, Nietzsche’s Unfashionable Observations: A Critical Introduction and GuideNew Nietzsche Studies 11 (3): 172-176. 2021.
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1Lebensphilosophie and the Task of Interpreting Philosophy HistoricallyXxviii Congreso de la Sociedad Castellano-Leonesa de Filosofía (Universidad de Salamanca) 28. 2021.The aim of this paper is to examine Nietzsche and Dilthey’s descriptions of the crisis of historical consciousness and visions for the possibility of a living interpretation of the past. While traditional historians interpret the past as something completed and dead—thereby making historical knowledge into a dead knowledge—Nietzsche and Dilthey argue that the past exists only in and through the present, and therefore that the past can be interpreted as something living and open in its meaning. A…Read more
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14Rereading Nietzsche with Philosophical HermeneuticsEpoché: A Journal for the History of Philosophy 28 (2): 315-336. 2024.In this article I examine Nietzsche’s commentaries on the discipline of classical philology in relation to twentieth century philosophical hermeneutics. I argue that Nietzsche frequently made use of the concept of “life” to reflect ‘meta-critically’ on philology and nineteenth century hermeneutics, and that this use is much better represented by Heidegger and Gadamer than representatives of the standard Lebensphilosophie reading. Whereas the standard life-philosophical reading suggests that Niet…Read more
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In this article I provide a reading of the 18th century German discourse of life philosophy (Lebensphilosophie, Philosophie des Lebens) and its importance for classical German philosophy. I draw a line of influence between (A) Lessing, Mendelssohn, Feder, and Moritz’s uses of the concept of “life” (Leben) and criticisms of the “distanced from life” (lebensfern) character of school philosophy (Schulphilosophie), and (B) Fichte, Schelling, Hegel’s uses of the concept of “life” and efforts to reenv…Read more
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35Prolegomena to Any Future Historicizing: The Dilthey-Husserl Debate and Why It Matters for Critical PhenomenologyPuncta 4 (2): 107-126. 2021.For more than a century, phenomenology’s relation to history has remained a problem for phenomenological analysis. This can in part be attributed to the circumstances surrounding the beginnings of phenomenology. As Europe moved increasingly toward world war at the turn of the 20th century, a growing consciousness of the historical relativity of all values and knowledge spread throughout the continent, leading Ernst Troeltsch to speak of the “crisis of historicism” (Rand 1964, 504-5). In this sam…Read more
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