Cadenzas : philosophical notes for postmodernism / Andrea Poma.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Poma, Andrea, author.

Series:

Studies in German idealism ; 1571-4764 volume 18.

Studies in German Idealism, 1571-4764 ; volume 18

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Postmodernism.

Physical Description:

xvii, 244 pages ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Cham : Springer, [2017]

Summary:

This book examines the concepts behind a philosophical project on postmodernism: the social and cultural condition of our time, the age of the achieved capitalism. It proposes an original theory of postmodern humanism based on the absence of form and describes the development of philosophical thought as a musical "cadenza" that produces meaning in the empty space between the past of the modern and the future of the postmodern. The book focuses on three main postmodernist themes: the denial of identity and the assertion of the differences, the shattered subject, and the absence of teleology in history and politics.

Contents:

Theme I

Yearning for form: Hermann Cohen in postmodernism

Passions in postmodernism

Critical idealism at the time of difference

The nature of non-representational thought

Theme II

Unity of the heart and the scattered self: a postmodern reading of Buber's doctrine of evil

Guilt feelings, guilt and sin: contemporary man and Buber's thought

"Magic mirror on the wall": the lie of the bourgeois subject and the wandering of the broken subject

Theme III

The ethical difference: wisdom under the sun and wisdom of the heart

Humour as a sign of history

The end of the sacrificial foundation: Michel Serres' dream

Sacred vs. holy: some food for thought

The sacrality of the second nature: or triumphan capitalism

A cadenza instead of a conclusion: let us make man.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9783319528113

3319528114

OCLC:

987776055

Publisher Number:

9783319528113