To Understand What Is Happening. Essays on Historicity

Buch | Hardcover

168 Seiten

2021 | xii, 156pp
Brill (Verlag)
978-90-04-46261-8 (ISBN)

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The volume deals with historical ontology from several angles: the historicity of understanding (Françoise Dastur, Arbogast Schmitt, Samuel Weber), the limits of making (Emil Angehrn, Nicholas Davey, Jan-Ivar Lindén) and the future of memory (Jayne Svenungsson, Christoph Türcke, Bernhard Waldenfels).

History stands not only for a narrative or descriptive relation to the past, but also for an ongoing process in which we are involved on several levels: in ordinary life as well as in our epistemic endeavours, natural science and technology included. Historicity is thus not only an important question for historians, but for everyone interested in understanding what all our civilisation is about. The present volume sheds some light on different aspects of this ontological dependence. The first part deals with the historicity of understanding (Françoise Dastur, Arbogast Schmitt, Samuel Weber), the second with the limits of making (Emil Angehrn, Nicholas Davey, Jan-Ivar Lindén) and the third with the future of memory (Jayne Svenungsson, Christoph Türcke, Bernhard Waldenfels).

Jan-Ivar Lindén teaches philosophy at the universities of Heidelberg and Helsinki. His recent publications include Prolegomena zur historischen Ontologie (Winter) and Aristotle on Logic and Nature (Peeters), as well as a work in Swedish on paradise and modernity (Paradis och modernitet). Currently, he is working on the Swedish edition of Aristotle's Metaphysics.

Preface

Notes on Contributors

Introduction

Jan-Ivar Lindén

PART 1

The Historicity of Understanding

1 What is Understanding?

Françoise Dastur

2 Autonomy within Dependence: On the Self-understanding of Man in Classical Greek Literature and Philosophy (Homer, Tragedy, Aristotle)

Arbogast Schmitt

3 The Singular Historicity of Literary Understanding “Still Ending …”

Samuel Weber

PART 2

The Limits of Making

4 Sense and History: At the Limits of Making

Emil Angehrn

5 Can Art Make Anything at All?

Nicholas Davey

6 Enabling Limitations

Jan-Ivar Lindén

PART 3

The Future of Memory

7 Whose Memory? Which Future?

Jayne Svenungsson

8 When Memory Becomes a Prosthesis

Christoph Türcke

9 Memory and Temporal Displacement

Bernhard Waldenfels

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	18.06.2021
Reihe/Serie	Social and Critical Theory ; 27
Verlagsort	Leiden
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Gewicht	409 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Metaphysik / Ontologie
ISBN-10	90-04-46261-9 / 9004462619
ISBN-13	978-90-04-46261-8 / 9789004462618
Zustand	Neuware