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21Meaning, Interpretation and the Hermeneutic situationIn Dag Prawitz (ed.), Meaning and interpretation: conference held in Stockholm, September 24-26, 1998, Kungl. Vitterhets, Historie Och Antikvitets Akademien. pp. 253--267. 2002.
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3Bio-logies of BeingIn Ingo Farin & Jeff Malpas (eds.), Heidegger and the human, State University of New York Press. pp. 205-225. 2022.
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8Paul in the grip of the philosophers: the apostle and contemporary Continental philosophy (edited book)Fortress Press. 2013.One of the remarkable developments in the contemporary study of Paul is the dramatic interest in his thought amongst European philosophers. This collection of insights from leading scholars makes accessible a discussion often elusive to those not already conversant in the categories of European philosophy"--Publisher description.
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22Philosophische Hermeneutik (review)Review of Metaphysics 46 (3): 620-622. 1993.Handbuch Philosophie is a series edited by Elisabeth Ströker and Wolfgang Wieland, the purpose of which is to present various fields and themes in contemporary thought. The author of the present work, who teaches philosophy in Erlangen and Heidelberg, has previously published two books in the history and theory of interpretation. The study is divided into two parts: the first adopts a systematic approach to its theme; the second develops a historical perspective. Using the Gadamerian term "philo…Read more
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3MemoryIn Niall Keane & Chris Lawn (eds.), A Companion to Hermeneutics, Wiley. 2015.As a first step in a discussion of memory and philosophical hermeneutics, the chapter briefly surveys the ambiguity of the concept of memory itself. If hermeneutics has traditionally understood itself as primarily preoccupied with meaning, understanding, communication, and tradition, the phenomenon of memory in the more restricted Aristotelian, psychological sense could seem to be of lesser interest, as an auxiliary cognitive function. If we focus on its relation to subjectivity, time, and histo…Read more
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3Contributions to PhilosophyIn Hubert L. Dreyfus & Mark A. Wrathall (eds.), A Companion to Heidegger, Blackwell. 2005.
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25Enigmatic origins: tracing the theme of historicity through Heidegger's worksAlmqvist & Wiksell. 1994.The preoccupation with the "historicity" of thought and existence is central to thehermeneutic-phenomenological branch of modern philosophy. Its foremostrepresentative is Martin Heidegger, who in his main work Sein und Zeit (1927)developed a theory of historicity, according to which human beings not only exist inhistory, but are themselves historical. In subsequent writings Heidegger argued thatnot only man, but also truth and being, must be understood "historically" in aparticular sense. The me…Read more
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13Was heißt: sich in Nietzsche orientieren? A Review of a Selection of Recent LiteratureNietzsche Studien 47 (1): 410-421. 2018.This review essay brings together five books on various aspects of Nietzsche’s thinking and writing from the last four years, from different cultural and political contexts, but also spanning a wide methodological range. The general question of how to orient ourselves in Nietzsche-scholarship is inspired by the title of Werner Stegmaier’s book which invites the reader to compare Nietzsche and Niklas Luhmann. It also invites us to contemplate the more general question of how to bring Nietzsche’s …Read more
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36The Inversion of Mysticism : Gelassenheit and the Secret of the Open in HeideggerReligions 10 (1). 2018.: The article explores the topic of Gelassenheit in Heidegger, through the lense of the ambiguous role of Christian mysticism in general and Eckhart in particular in and for his thinking. In an analysis of how mysticism appears in his early lectures on religion, it explains why he is critical of this concept and of how it is commonly understood. It also gives reasons for why we too should be cautious in using it to describe his position in his later writings where he explicitly reconnects to the…Read more
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160The destiny of freedom: In HeideggerContinental Philosophy Review 41 (3): 277-299. 2008.The essay recapitulates the decisive steps in Heidegger’s development of the problem of human freedom. The interpretation is set in the context of a general matrix for how freedom is treated in the tradition, as both a theoretical ontological problem, and as practical appeal. According to some readers, Heidegger’s thinking is a philosophy of freedom throughout; according to others his “turning” implies abandoning the idea of human freedom as a metaphysical remnant. The essay seeks an intermediat…Read more
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93Seeing Meaning: Frege and Derrida on Ideality and the Limits of Husserlian IntuitionismHusserl Studies 27 (1): 63-81. 2011.The article seeks to challenge the standard accounts of how to view the difference between Husserl and Frege on the nature of ideal objects and meanings. It does so partly by using Derrida’s deconstructive reading of Husserl to open up a critical space where the two approaches can be confronted in a new way. Frege’s criticism of Husserl’s philosophy of mathematics (that it was essentially psychologistic) was partly overcome by the program of transcendental phenomenology. But the original challen…Read more
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81Origin in exile: Heidegger and Benjamin on language, truth, and translationResearch in Phenomenology 29 (1): 141-160. 1999.
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17New literature on thus spoke zarathustra / neuerscheinungen zu also sprach zarathustraNietzsche Studien 40 (1): 382-399. 2011.
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22Yorck von Wartenburg and the problem of historical existenceJournal of the British Society for Phenomenology 25 (2): 111-130. 1994.
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19Tove Jansson, Nietzsche and the poetics of overcomingSATS 19 (1): 69-87. 2018.This article explores the connections between Nietzsche’s Also Sprach Zarathustra and Tove Jansson and the world of the Moomins. It begins with a short summary of the impact of Nietzsche in the Nordic countries and of his most important book, focusing on passages that are of particular relevance for the analyses that follow. It then proceeds to explore its meaning and significance for Jansson in three sections. The first concerns Atos Wirtanen, the writer and politician with whom she lived for t…Read more
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28Death, Sacrifice, and the Problem of Tradition in the Confucian AnalectsComparative and Continental Philosophy 10 (2): 140-150. 2018.ABSTRACTTaking its point of departure in an enigmatic passage from the Analects, in which the interlocutor is likened by the master to a sacrificial vase, the essay explores how this teaching can be read as a indirect commentary on the proper way of inhabiting and communicating tradition. The relation to the ancestors and the proper way of handling the rites for the dead is shown to reveal a more basic hermeneutic argument in Confucian thinking, opening the text to its own future transformation.
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Ursprung im Exil. Heidegger und Benjamin über Sprache, Wahrheit und ÜbersetzungInternationales Jahrbuch für Hermeneutik. 2002.
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1The vampire, the undead and the anxieties of historical consciousnessIn Stefan Helgesson & Jayne Svenungsson (eds.), The Ethos of History: Time and Responsibility, Berghahn Books. 2018.
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Bio-logies of being : on human and animal life in Heidegger and beyondIn Ingo Farin & Jeff Malpas (eds.), Heidegger and the human, State University of New York Press. 2022.
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