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Dis-orientations

Philosophy, Literature and the Lost Grounds of Modernity
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This highly original collection of essays contributes to a critique of the common understanding of modernity as an enlightened project that provides rational grounds for orientation in all aspects and dimensions of the world. An international team of contributors contend that the modern principles of foundation show in themselves rather how modernity is disorienting itself. The book brings together discussions on the writings of philosophers who treat more systematically the questions of foundation and orientation, such as Kant, Nietzsche, Husserl, Heidegger, Pascal, and Patocka, and studies of literary works that explicitly thematize this question, such as Novalis, Hoelderlin, Beckett, Platonov, and Benjamin. This multi-disciplinary approach brings to the fore the paradox that modern figures of grounding and orientation unground and disorient and demonstrates a critical path to review current understandings of modernity and post-modernity.
Introduction Marcia Sa Cavalcante Schuback and Tora Lane / Part I: Disorientation in Thought / 1. Husserl and the Earth Sven-Olov Wallenstein / 2. Sublime Disorientation: An Interpretation of Kant's 'What Does it Mean to Orient Oneself in Thinking?' Krystof Kasprzak / 3. On Being Lost at Home: Disorientation between Economy and Ecology Michael Marder / 4. Lightness of Being, Gravity of Thought: (Dis-)Orientations in Nietzsche and Kundera Ludger Hagedorn / Part II: Disorientation in Existence / 5. On the Prehistory of the Science of Movement: Word, Earth, Heaven and the Movement of Human Life Jan Patocka / 6. A Place in Movement: Jan Patocka and the Disorientation of Human Existence Gustav Strandberg / 7. Exile and Existential Disorientation Marcia Sa Cavalcante Schuback / Part III: Disorientation in Being / 8. 'Intimacy' and 'Abyss' in Hoelderlin's 'Death of Empedocles' Peter Trawny / 9. Hovering in the Between: Novalis and the Experience of Limit Peter Hanly / 10. Vertigo of Being Johan Redin / Part IV: Disorientation in Language / 11. Words (Mis)trusted Helena Martins / 12. Platonov's Chevengur: Disorientation and the Quest for a Transcendental Home in the World Tora Lane / 13. Disoriented Names: Benjamin and Kierkegaard on Politics and History in Language Irina Sandormirskaja / Epigraph / About the Authors / Index
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