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    This introduction diagnoses two tendencies among Foucaultian scholars with regard to Michel Foucault’s Discipline and Punish: While the book was initially enthusiastically embraced and its central concepts – above all “discipline” and “panopticism” – were used almost too frequently, these very concepts were often thought to be superseded by Foucault’s own development in the governmentality lectures and beyond. The articles in the special issue, however, demonstrate that Discipline and Punish, re…Read more
  • Dieser Essay beschreibt die Geburt der faktischen Vernunft und erzahlt vom Ursprung des faktischen Zeitalters bei Parmenides und Wittgenstein bis in unsere Gegenwart hinein. Parmenides und Wittgenstein trennen ganze 2500 Jahre und doch stehen beide fur einen radikalen Realismus und eine zeitlose Ontologie in der Geschichte des Denkens: gemeinsam ist ihnen ein neutraler Blick von oben. Jeder neutrale Realismus ist ein Versuch, gegen die Sinnlosigkeit des Lebens anzugehen. Ob unerschutterliche Sei…Read more
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    Aktuelle Ansätxe und Themen der Schopenhauer-Forschung
    with Daniel Schubbe
    Allgemeine Zeitschrift für Philosophie 36 (2): 238-256. 2011.
    This report provides a systematic overview on the key topics of scholarly research on Arthur Schopenhauer within the last ten years. It is mainly concerned with the neurosciences, psychoanalysis, with the arts of the 19th and 20th centurie as well as with hermeneutics, and the philosophy of existence.
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    Attention as bounded resource and medium in cultural memory: A phenomenological or economic approach?
    Empedocles: European Journal for the Philosophy of Communication 2 (2): 241-254. 2011.
    What is the role of attention in the dialectics of memory and communication? How far is attention functioning as a medium? Which role does attention play in the information management practices? Attention is not only fundamental to human existence but also to the process of understanding. If understanding is mediated by memory and communication then attention can be identified with the medium. So whenever you search to explain the role and mechanisms of memory in the information society, the que…Read more