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To Understand What Is Happening. Essays on Historicity.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lindén, Jan-Ivar.
- Series:
- Social and Critical Theory
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- History--Philosophy.
- History.
- Hermeneutics.
- Ontology.
- Memory.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (168 pages)
- Other Title:
- To Understand What Is Happening
- Place of Publication:
- Boston : BRILL, 2021.
- Summary:
- "This volume sheds some light on different aspects of this ontological dependence. The first part deals with the historicity of understanding, the second with the limits of making and the third with the future of memory"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- What is understanding? / Françoise Dastur
- Autonomy within dependence on the self-understanding of man in classical Greek literature and philosophy (Homer, tragedy, Aristotle) / Arbogast Schmitt
- The singular historicity of literary understanding "still ending ..." / Samuel Weber
- Sense and history at the limits of making / Emil Angehrn
- Can art make anything at all? / Nicholas Davey
- Enabling limitations / Jan-Ivar Lindén
- Whose memory? Which future? / Jayne Svenungsson
- When memory becomes a prosthesis / Christoph Türcke
- Memory and temporal displacement / Bernhard Waldenfels.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 90-04-46262-7
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