Art and responsibility : a phenomenology of the diverging paths of Rosenzweig and Heidegger /: a phenomenology of the diverging paths of Rosenzweig and Heidegger. (©2011)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Jules Simon.
• Other Names: Simon, Jules
• Contents: Cover; CONTENTS; PREFACE; INTRODUCTION; A PHENOMENOLOGY OF DIVERGING PATHS; PHILOSOPHIES OF HISTORY; OUTLINE OF THIS TEXT; ROSENZWEIG'S "TURN" TO PHILOSOPHY, ART, AND THE ETHICAL; HEIDEGGER'S "TURN" FROM POLITICS ... ; ... TO ART AND LANGUAGE; MESSIANISM AND POLITICS; CHAPTER 1: THE MASK OF MEPHISTOPHELES; I.A MATHEMATIC-BASED SYMBOLIC LOGIC; II. THE GOD: METAPHYSICS AS NEGATION OF NEGATIVE THEOLOGY; a. The irrational, empirical starting point; b. Formulating metaphysics; c. Where are the mythical gods of Olympia?; III. THE WORLD: METALOGIC AS NEGATION OF NEGATIVE COSMOLOGY. A. Doubting Descartesb. Formulating the metalogic; c. The sleeping, plastic world; IV. THE HUMAN SELF: META- ETHICS AS THE MODERN METHOD; a. Kant's soul-less negative psychology; b. Formulating meta-ethics; c. Defiantly tragic heroes; V. ART AND THE NEW PHILOSOPHY; CHAPTER 2: RENEWING NARRATIONS OR CHAOS IN CREATION; I. ROSENZWEIG'S CREATION STORY AS: "CHAOS IN CREATION"; II. THEORY OF ART; III. CRITIQUE OF GENERATION IN IDEALIST AESTHETICS; IV. ASCENDING FROM UNDERGROUND TO THE GARDEN OF LIFE; V. TRUST, THE HOLISTIC AUTHOR, AND ART AS LANGUAGE; VI. GENIUS; VII. RENEWING THE STORY OF CREATION. Chapter 3: rosenzweig's midrash as philosophy of languagei. knowledge, interpretation, and ethics; ii. the analogy of love as ethical dialogue; iii. the grammar of particularity; iv. the purpose of art: the holistic human; v. accomplishing the aesthetics of ensouling; vi. applying the midrash: from art to the ethical; chapter 4: the messianic aesthetic; i. partners in immanence; ii. growing the world -- one dialogue at a time; iii. from redemptive art to a "messianic aesthetics" as performance art: the poetics of responsibility; iv. the word of god. V. configuring a messianic aesthetic in the socio-historical realmchapter 5: heidegger's hammer: from the workshop of being and time to the work of art; i. out of the "things themselves" -- sighting the historical horizons of da-sein; ii. the function of logos as relational speech and truth as aesthetics; iii. the hammer as tool and work as a function of totality; iv. constituting the transcendent world and deciding freely for oneself; v. deciding freely for oneself? an enduring problem; chapter 6: turning through phenomenology to art and ethos: an analysis of the origin of the work of art. I. ESTABLISHING THE CONNECTIONSII. THE THING AND THE WORK; a. The thing as the bearer of attributes; b. The thing as the unity of the manifold perceptions; c. The thing as form-stuff; III. STANDING ON THE GROUND OF DECISION; IV. THE WORK OF ART AS THE PLACE OF CONFLICT; V. TRUTH AND ART; VI. FOUNDING ART AS POETRY; CHAPTER 7: PHILOSOPHY, POETRY, AND THE ABSENT GOD: INTERLOCUTIONS ON HEIDEGGER, HÖLDERLIN, AND THE POLITICAL; I. INTERLOCUTIONS AND THE HEIDEGGER CONTROVERSY; II. JEAN-MARIE SCHAEFFER ON HEIDEGGER'S ROLE AS A TRADITIONALIST; III. JULIAN YOUNG: REHABILITATING THE FALLEN MASTER.
• Publisher Details: New York : Continuum
• Publication Date: 2011
• Copyright Date: 2011
• Extent: 1 online resource (xii, 290 pages)
• Subjects: 100; Philosophers, Modern; Philosophy, German; PHILOSOPHY -- Essays; PHILOSOPHY -- Reference; Philosophers, Modern; Philosophy, German; Electronic books; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781441131676; 1441131671
• Related ISBNs: 9781441109521; 1441109528
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-283) and index.; Note: Print version record.
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