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21. Philosophy Today: Volume > 61 > Issue: 4
Simon Morgan Wortham Antinomies of the Super-Ego: Étienne Balibar and the Question of the Psycho-Political
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This essay explores Étienne Balibar’s treatment of the conceptual development of a notion of the super-ego in Freud as crucial to Balibar’s own thinking of the connection between politics and psychoanalysis. Via Balibar’s writing, however, it traces the antinomic forces at work in the question of a psychoanalytic supplement of politics, in the process examining not only the psychic conditions of the "political" but also the "politics" of different forms of psychological discourse and debate.
22. Philosophy Today: Volume > 61 > Issue: 4
Caroline Sauter (Under-)Standing For Oneself
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This tribute to Werner Hamacher highlights his ideas of understanding and philology, foregrounding his passion for words, his intimate close readings that reveal the hidden gems of a far-distant understanding, his radical version of philology as the love of language in its most literal sense, and his unconditional and incorruptible insistence on Eigenständigkeit: standing and understanding for oneself.
23. Philosophy Today: Volume > 61 > Issue: 4
Julia Ng Now, Hamacher
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Death is ironic; as the archi-semiotician and first historian, death fixes object and meaning in a semiotic complex, separates non-sensuous meaning from bare physical existence, but thereby exposes meaning to the capriciousness of interpretation and tradition. The pause, however, conserves that which does not happen in repose, yet does not interrupt history, and lets history emerge in a movement in which all determination of meaning is suspended. This essay is written in memory of Werner Hamacher, whose life in writing shaped language around its distance and delay from the fixity of sound and sense, which, as he argued, are the subliminal conditions to every communication, presentation, and form in general: formative limits that separate and conjoin that which is and the surplus of un-actuality and incompletion that accompanies each instant of our intentional lives.
24. Philosophy Today: Volume > 61 > Issue: 4
Ilit Ferber Werner Hamacher: Wandering About Language
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This text pays tribute to Werner Hamacher’s work. It contemplates Hamacher’s thought about language, especially his criticism of views that measure language according to its propositional and referential functions. Instead, Hamacher foregrounds the importance of language’s interruptions, strikes and disorders, in which language operates independently of anything but itself, thus revealing its innermost core. The text examines Hamacher’s “The Second Inversion,” “Afformative, Strike,” and “Other Pains.”
25. Philosophy Today: Volume > 61 > Issue: 4
Juliane Prade-Weiss Reading Violence, Lamenting Language: On Benjamin and Hamacher
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This article examines the violence inherent to fundamental operations of critical and theoretical thought: to read in order to gain insight into something, and to draw distinctions in spite of experiences contradicting clear dividing lines, notably between what is human and the rest of all beings as “nature,” and between terminological language and other forms of speech, such as lamenting and complaining. Walter Benjamin’s texts both present and reenact this violence. Reading Benjamin, Werner Hamacher expounds these moments of violence as structural necessities. The article focuses on the question of distance as the objective of reading, and of drawing terminological distinctions—an objective, it is argued, that is driven by counteracting dynamics in reading, which follows the dictate of a text, and in excessive modes of speech such as plaintive language, which keeps claiming attention while refusing symbolic substitution in order to insist that it cannot be answered, satisfied, or appeased.
26. Philosophy Today: Volume > 61 > Issue: 4
Étienne Balibar A New Querelle of Universals
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We are witnessing and participating in a new “Querelle of Universals” which has indissoluble political and philosophical characters. It ranges from the incorporation of anthropological differences (of gender-sex, race-culture, normality and abnormality, etc.) into the very definition of the “human” to the contemporary attempts at rethinking the diversity of histories within mankind as a multiverse of translations rather than a failed unity. The essay discusses a series of typical aporias that are relevant to this querelle and proposes a concept of subjectivity which elaborates their productivity.
27. Philosophy Today: Volume > 61 > Issue: 4
Andrew Benjamin Inexhaustibility at the Outset: Notes on Hamacher and Philology
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This paper pursues the way the terms exhaustion and inexhaustibility play a central role in Werner Hamacher’s critical encounter with philosophy. The argument is developed via an engagement with aspects of Hamacher’s interpretation of Friedrich Schlegel’s Fragments. The limitations of Hamacher’s own position become an opening. What is opened up is the possibility of philosophy having become exhausted as a result of its identification with calculation and instrumentality.
28. Philosophy Today: Volume > 61 > Issue: 4
Jean-Luc Nancy, Ian Alexander Moore Orcid-ID Eulogy for Werner Hamacher
29. Philosophy Today: Volume > 61 > Issue: 4
Werner Hamacher, Ian Alexander Moore Orcid-ID Other Pains
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A translation of Werner Hamacher’s essay “Andere Schmerzen,” which he was unable to complete before his death on July 7, 2017. The essay analyzes the connection between pain and language in the work of Pindar, Sophocles, Cicero, Seneca, Kant, Hegel, and Valéry.
30. Philosophy Today: Volume > 61 > Issue: 4
Falguni Sheth The Discourse of Progress
31. Philosophy Today: Volume > 61 > Issue: 4
Rocío Zambrana Dialectics of Progress
32. Philosophy Today: Volume > 52 > Issue: 2
Yu Zhenhua Embodiment in Polanyi’s Theory of Tacit Knowing
33. Philosophy Today: Volume > 52 > Issue: 2
Bonnie Mann Beauvoir and the Question of a Woman’s Point of View
34. Philosophy Today: Volume > 52 > Issue: 2
Deborah Cook Adorno’s Endgame
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Claude Piché Fichte and the Universality of the Moral Law
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Tom Rockmore Introduction
37. Philosophy Today: Volume > 52 > Issue: 3/4
Jane Dryden The Empirical I in the System of Ethics
38. Philosophy Today: Volume > 52 > Issue: 3/4
Isabelle Thomas-Fogiel Fichte against Kant in the System of Ethics
39. Philosophy Today: Volume > 52 > Issue: 3/4
Violetta L. Waibel One Drive and Two Modes of Acting: Cognition and Volition
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Howard Pollack-Milgate Fichte and Novalis on the Relationship between Ethics and Aesthetics