Dis-orientations: Philosophy, Literature and the Lost Grounds of Modernity

262 Pages·2014·1.488 MB·English

by  Marcia Sa Cavalcante Schuback, Tora Lane (eds.)

Dis-orientations

Dis-orientations
Philosophy, Literature and the
Lost Grounds of Modernity
Edited by Marcia Sá Cavalcante Schuback
and Tora Lane
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Contents
Introduction ix
I:DisorientationinThought
1 HusserlandtheEarth 3
Sven-OlovWallenstein
2 SublimeDisorientation:AnInterpretationofKant’s“WhatDoes
ItMeantoOrientOneselfinThinking?” 21
KrystofKasprzak
3 OnBeingLostatHome:BetweenEconomyandEcology 33
MichaelMarder
4 LightnessofBeing,GravityofThought:(Dis-)Orientationsin
NietzscheandKundera 49
LudgerHagedorn
II:DisorientationinExistence
5 OnthePrehistoryoftheScienceofMovement:World,Earth,
HeavenandtheMovementofHumanLife 69
JanPatočka
6 APlaceinMovement:JanPatočkaandtheDisorientationof
HumanExistence 79
GustavStrandberg
7 ExileandExistentialDisorientation 95
MarciaSáCavalcanteSchuback
vii
viii Contents
III:DisorientationinBeing
8 IntimacyandAbyssinHölderlin’sTheDeathofEmpedocles 115
PeterTrawny
9 HoveringintheBetween:NovalisandtheExperienceofLimit 133
PeterHanly
10 VertigoofBeing 149
JohanRedin
IV:DisorientationinLanguage
11 Words(mis)trusted 163
HelenaMartins
12 Platonov’sChevengur:DisorientationandtheQuestfora
TranscendentalHomeintheWorld 179
ToraLane
13 DisorientedNames:BenjaminandKierkegaardonPoliticsand
HistoryinLanguage 193
IrinaSandomirskaia
Index 227
AbouttheEditorsandContributors 237