... end of one career (a retiring professor) and the beginning of
another (the person being interviewed for his position); and the end of
teaching for the professor and the beginning of his new life ... account of the influ-
ence of chaos theory on his writing. A key figure in contemporary fiction
and theory, Barth makes no secret of the impact of the new scie...
... radical
distinction between body and organism. In the ecstasies of the mystics,
which transport and maintain them in a second state for days, in the ex-
ploits of contortionists and, of course, in the ... Reading Seminars I and II: Lacan’s Return to Freud.
Edited by Richard Feldstein, Bruce Fink, and Maire Jaanus, 306–322.
Albany, NY: State University of New...
... “Callicott on Intrinsic Value and Moral Standing
in Environmental Ethics” is one section of her earlier essay, “Inherent Value
and Moral Standing in Environmental Change,” which appeared in Earthly
Goods: ... Callicott, “Intrinsic Value, Quantum Theory, and Environmental
Ethics,” in In Defense of the Land Ethic, 162–163.
11. Here I adopt and apply (as I have before) Joel...
... University of New York Press, 1988), 39–
40, 122–23; and Ernest Rubinstein, An Episode of Jewish Romanticism: Franz
Rosenzweig’s The Star of Redemption (Albany: State University of New York Press,
1999), ... indetermination of any fixed principle, including that prin-
ciple it itself formulates, even the principle of the nonprinciple. Rather than
being caught in...
... clearing of meaning on the basis of which things
emerge-into-presence as the kinds of things they are. Conceiving of
humans in terms of a space of intelligibility is crucial to understand-
ing ... understanding of being, and in terms of temporality as
the being of Dasein, which understands being” (BT, 39). For Heidegger,
beings are disclosed only in relation to t...
... regards intuition” (A664/B692). The principles of the
analogies and the postulates (and all principles of understanding for that matter) are in Kant’s
standard sense constitutive principles in that ... moment, and existent the next, without conjoin-
ing to it the distinct idea of a cause or productive principle.”
48
Since a cause
and a beginning of existence are distinct id...
... works:
Religion and Nothingness. Berkeley and Los Angeles: Univer-
sity of California Press, 1982. (Originally published in 1961.)
The Self-overcoming of Nihilism. Albany: State University of New
York Press, ... life in philosophy—which, broadly
speaking, means specializing in thinking. The contents of my thinking
today are the outcome of the meeting of these t...
... concept of gathering—gathering of frag-
mentary beginnings into unity akin to that of divine knowing, gathering
of object (and ultimately of self) into presence. Yet this gathering, in its
highest ... intuition and as intuitive understanding—a fourfold unity:
unity of subject and object, of intuition, of thought, and of intuition and
thought. These four forms of...
... “gymnasium”; it was the intellectual Mecca for the
scientists and philosophers of the time, an international meeting point and a
model of the unity of teaching and research, in a way in which it has ... beginning of
the Physics (I 1)—referring to Plato—he distinguishes between the “inductive”
way, going toward the principles (epi tas archas), and the “deductive” way, leadi...