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299Tasks of Philosophy in the Present Age RIAS-Lecture, June 9, 1952Philosophy Today 64 (2): 1-8. 2020.Translators’ Abstract: This is a translation of Hans-Georg Gadamer’s recently discovered 1952 Berlin speech. The speech includes several themes that reappear in Truth and Method, as well as in Gadamer’s later writings such as Reason in the Age of Science. For example, Gadamer criticizes positivism, modern philosophy’s orientation toward positivism, and Enlightenment narratives of progress, while presenting his view of philosophy’s tasks in an age of crisis. In addition, he discusses structural p…Read more
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80On Machiavelli, as an Author, and Passages from His WritingsPhilosophy Today 60 (3): 761-788. 2016.This is the first English translation of the majority of Fichte’s 1807 essay on Machiavelli, which has been hailed as a masterpiece and was important for the development of German idealist political thought, as well as for its reception by figures such as Carl von Clausewitz, Max Weber, Leo Strauss, and Carl Schmitt. Fichte’s essay attempts to resuscitate Machiavelli as a legitimate political thinker and an “honest, reasonable, and meritorious man.” It tacitly critiques Napoleon, who was occupyi…Read more
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68The Relationship between Hermeneutics and Ontology in the Case of Aristotle’s ΠΕΡΙ ΕΡΜΗΝΕΙΑΣGraduate Faculty Philosophy Journal 34 (1): 3-20. 2013.
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49Heidegger's Notes on Klee in the NachlassPhilosophy Today 1 (61): 19-21. 2017.This article gives an account of the material on the art of Paul Klee found in the Nachlass of Martin Heidegger and indicates ideas central to Heidegger’s encounter with Klee.
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46Notizen zu Klee / Notes on KleePhilosophy Today 1 (61): 7-17. 2017.This document gathers together and translates Heidegger’s notes on Paul Klee that have been published up to now.
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46What Is Metaphysics? Original Version / Was ist Metaphysik? UrfassungPhilosophy Today 62 (3): 733-751. 2018.
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42On Machiavelli, as an Author, and Passages from His WritingsPhilosophy Today 60 (3): 761-788. 2016.This is the first English translation of the majority of Fichte’s 1807 essay on Machiavelli, which has been hailed as a masterpiece and was important for the development of German idealist political thought, as well as for its reception by figures such as Carl von Clausewitz, Max Weber, Leo Strauss, and Carl Schmitt. Fichte’s essay attempts to resuscitate Machiavelli as a legitimate political thinker and an “honest, reasonable, and meritorious man.” It tacitly critiques Napoleon, who was occupyi…Read more
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39What Is Metaphysics? Original Version / Was ist Metaphysik? UrfassungPhilosophy Today 62 (3): 733-751. 2018.
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38Fragments on the Philosophy of HistoryPhilosophy Today 60 (4): 859-868. 2016.Philosophy of History is in crisis. This crisis has a structural origin in separating a finitude of the one (fate, destiny, nation, people, identity) from an infinitude of the many (individuals, biographies, contingencies, banalities). This difference seems to produce an aporia. Where could history be that would talk of both?
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33Play as Symbol of the World: And Other Writings (edited book)Indiana University Press. 2016.Eugen Fink is considered one of the clearest interpreters of phenomenology and was the preferred conversational partner of Edmund Husserl and Martin Heidegger. In Play as Symbol of the World, Fink offers an original phenomenology of play as he attempts to understand the world through the experience of play. He affirms the philosophical significance of play, why it is more than idle amusement, and reflects on the movement from "child's play" to "cosmic play." Well-known for its non-technical, lit…Read more
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30The "Protofigural" and the "Event"Philosophy Today 1 (61): 29-45. 2017.This article is a translation of the third chapter of Part Four of Günter Seubold’s Kunst als Enteignis, 2nd ed.. It discusses Martin Heidegger’s notes on Paul Klee.
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27Fragments on the Philosophy of HistoryPhilosophy Today 60 (4): 859-868. 2016.Philosophy of History is in crisis. This crisis has a structural origin in separating a finitude of the one from an infinitude of the many. This difference seems to produce an aporia. Where could history be that would talk of both?
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25Martin Heidegger, “The argument against need (for the being-in-Itself of entities)”British Journal for the History of Philosophy 30 (3): 519-534. 2022.The argument against need[Need: the belonging of the essence of mortals to, a belonging which is appropriated in the event.]Metaphysically, and t...
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25The Problem of Ontotheology in Eckhart’s Latin WritingsEpoché: A Journal for the History of Philosophy 22 (2): 315-342. 2018.This article examines the extent to which two of Meister Eckhart’s Latin writings fall prey to Heidegger’s charge of ontotheology. It argues that the intellectualist, ‘meontological’ approach to God in Eckhart’s First Parisian Question and the analogical, ontological approach in his Opus tripartitum are not as different as may initially appear. Not only do both rest on Eckhart’s peculiar doctrine of analogy; both serve to dismantle the ontotheological architecture. Indeed, rather than an intelle…Read more
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24Other PainsPhilosophy Today 61 (4): 963-989. 2017.A translation of Werner Hamacher’s essay “Andere Schmerzen,” which he was unable to complete before his death on July 7, 2017. The essay analyzes the connection between pain and language in the work of Pindar, Sophocles, Cicero, Seneca, Kant, Hegel, and Valéry.
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23Worlds, WorldingEpoché: A Journal for the History of Philosophy 27 (2): 273-295. 2023.Heidegger’s discussion of the concept and the phenomenology of ‘world’ is defined by its dual meaning, referring to both the unity of a single, encompassing whole and a number of different meaning contexts, i.e., ‘worlds’ in the plural. Heidegger’s emphasis on the verbal meaning of world (‘worlding’) and the discussion of problems such as the ‘world entry’ of an entity articulate the tension and dynamic between these two meanings. This contribution develops Heidegger’s account by (i) elucidating…Read more
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20Heidegger on deep time and being-in-itself: introductory thoughts on “The Argument against Need”British Journal for the History of Philosophy 30 (3): 508-518. 2022.The article provides an introduction to Heidegger's manuscript “The Argument against Need”. It comments on the nature of the manuscript, the circumstances of its composition, and its major philosop...
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19From the Archives: William Richardson’s Questions for Martin Heidegger’s “Preface”Gatherings: The Heidegger Circle Annual 9 1-27. 2019.Martin Heidegger wrote one and only one preface for a scholarly work on his thinking, and it was for William J. Richardson’s study Heidegger: Through Phenomenology to Thought, first published in 1963. Ever since, both Heidegger’s Preface and Richardson’s groundbreaking book have played an important role in Heidegger scholarship. Much has been discussed about these texts over the decades, but what has not been available to students and scholars up to this point is Richardson’s original comments a…Read more
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19Heidegger's Notes on Klee in the NachlassPhilosophy Today 61 (1): 19-28. 2017.This article gives an account of the material on the art of Paul Klee found in the Nachlass of Martin Heidegger and indicates ideas central to Heidegger’s encounter with Klee.
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17Science, Thinking, and the Nothing as Such: On The Newly Discovered Original Version of Heidegger’s “What is Metaphysics?”Review of Metaphysics 72 (3): 529-562. 2019.The author contends that the differences between the original and published versions of Heidegger's "What Is Metaphysics?" lie in how they understand the Nothing. Whereas the published version conflates the Nothing with Being as no thing, or simply sees the Nothing as a characteristic of Being’s finitude, the original version examines the Nothing on its own terms. Being, even if finite, still maintains continuity with beings as the Being of those beings. The Nothing itself, in contrast, marks a …Read more
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15Notizen zu Klee / Notes on KleePhilosophy Today 61 (1): 7-17. 2017.This document gathers together and translates Heidegger’s notes on Paul Klee that have been published up to now.
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14Other PainsPhilosophy Today 61 (4): 963-989. 2017.A translation of Werner Hamacher’s essay “Andere Schmerzen,” which he was unable to complete before his death on July 7, 2017. The essay analyzes the connection between pain and language in the work of Pindar, Sophocles, Cicero, Seneca, Kant, Hegel, and Valéry.
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14Heidegger’s Trakl-MarginaliaResearch in Phenomenology 51 (1): 99-122. 2021.In this article, I analyze Heidegger’s marginalia in his personal copy of the 1946 Zurich edition of poems by Georg Trakl, which I discovered several years ago while conducting research in the castle of Heidegger’s hometown of Meßkirch. Although Heidegger’s marginalia in this volume are not extensive, they are significant for three reasons: they provide valuable insight into his reading of the spirit of Trakl’s poetic work and into the place in which Heidegger situates it; they frequently shed l…Read more
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14Introduction to the Exchange between Rudolf Bultmann and Hans Jonas on Hans Jonas’ “Essay on Immortality”Graduate Faculty Philosophy Journal 40 (2): 491-493. 2019.