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Groundwork of Phenomenological Marxism: Crisis, Body, World (Continental Philosophy and the History of Thought)
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“The greatness of true art,” he declares, “lies in rediscovering, grasping hold of, and making us recognize…this reality which we run a real risk of dying without having known, and which is quite simply our life.”61
Martin Hägglund • This Life: Secular Faith and Spiritual Freedom
Brandom’s complex alternative is that our descriptions constitute a system of socially constituted rational commitments, and that only linguistic rules, socially articulated and enforced, are capable of giving our words any meaning at all. Saying something meaningful requires making explicit what is already implicit in our use of concepts, rather t
... See morelareviewofbooks.org • Systems of Philosophy: On Robert Brandom’s “A Spirit of Trust” - Los Angeles Review of Books
Things Seen and Unseen: The Logic of Incarnation in Merleau-Ponty’s Metaphysics of Flesh
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objective universal concepts of justice and goodness seemed imperative for a genuine ethics.
Richard Tarnas • Passion of the Western Mind
paradoxical
Marcus Weeks • The Philosophy Book
a long response to Reiner Schürmann’s question “What is to be done at the end of metaphysics?”
Joeri Schrijvers • Between Faith and Belief: Toward a Contemporary Phenomenology of Religious Life (SUNY series in Theology and Continental Thought)
When modernity wants this good of accelerated motion, it will take it at the cost of personhood (producing alienation). When personhood is consumed by acceleration, the motion of the world becomes something distinctly other than love. Love is dependent on persons (this is why “Person” comes before “Eros” in Yannaras’s title).