{"title":"After a Certain Posture: Dennis Schmidt and the “Ethical Struggle”","authors":"C. Baracchi","doi":"10.1163/15691640-12341526","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/15691640-12341526","url":null,"abstract":"Hermeneutics has been first and foremost a theory alert to the finitude of all understanding. Guided by such convictions, hermeneutic theory has paid special attention to the conflicts and complexities of the struggle, ultimately – and I believe that this is important in the final analysis – an ethical struggle, to put oneself in words. This struggle to find words goes beyond the strategic problem of merely communicating information. Rather, it is a struggle that finally concerns the relation of language and being, and so this struggle to find oneself in words is among the most profound struggles in which one can engage. In a very real sense, the question of language always inevitably becomes a question of who one is – and is not.1","PeriodicalId":44158,"journal":{"name":"RESEARCH IN PHENOMENOLOGY","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139364055","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Thinking the Event of Things","authors":"Andrew J. Mitchell","doi":"10.1163/15691640-12341528","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/15691640-12341528","url":null,"abstract":"François Raffoul’s Thinking the Event offers us a panoramic history of philosophy in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries as an ever increasingly thematized thinking of the event.1 It provides in-depth treatments of major figures in that history – Heidegger, Derrida, and Nancy, foremost among them, along with fresh interpretations of Leibniz, Kant, Nietzsche, Arendt, Levinas, Deleuze, and Marion – while also approaching the topic of the event thematically, each chapter addressing a different way of thinking the event or a different facet of the event – as beyond thought, as phenomenological excess, as things, as democracy, and/or as secret. The chapters thus build on each other and we think along as this history unfolds, our understanding of the event deepening all the while; the effect is magisterial and it is achieved by Raffoul’s command of a wide range of thinkers (his breadth), and his ability to incisively intervene in the discussion and find the through line (his depth). But this investigation of the event conducted by Raffoul also gives us Raffoul’s view, it is a view that he earns by close readings and textual engagements, culminating in what he will call “the ethics of the event.” Across the chapters, one learns a capsule history of the event in continental philosophy, and I can think of no better guide through this variegated, even treacherous, terrain. But one also learns something else, a way of thinking, if I may call it that, a way of repeatedly and thoughtfully responding to the need for an","PeriodicalId":44158,"journal":{"name":"RESEARCH IN PHENOMENOLOGY","volume":"53 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139364185","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Responding to One’s World: On the Language of Philosophy, the Idiom of the Artwork, and Conversation","authors":"Dennis J. Schmidt","doi":"10.1163/15691640-12341527","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/15691640-12341527","url":null,"abstract":"I need to thank my friends Claudia Baracchi and Jim Risser for their generous remarks that have somehow magically made my work sound more interesting than it is. The care with which they have treated my work and me reminds me why I have always thought that Aristotle was right when he said that we find the clearest mirror of the best of ourselves in the eyes of the friend. Our friendship and conversations have lasted for decades now, and they have both formed and shaped my understanding of what it is that we do. My debt to each of them extends far beyond the wonderful papers that they have written and to which I hope to do justice in my response. Their remarks take up a wide range of themes: conversation, writing, words, images, tragedy, the language of philosophy, the presumption of a bond between philosophy and ethical life, their remarks speak about art and the challenges that philosophy faces in this present historical moment. Given the sweep of their remarks I cannot respond as I ought, but I will try to address what I see as a common question that drives both of them. Doing this gives me the occasion to ask if there has been any real coherence in the work that has been at the centre of my life for so long. I have discovered that this is a difficult task and I am grateful to my friends for their help in this effort. In the end, it is this remarkable experience of thinking in language and with others, and of the ethical sense that such thinking and sharing cultivates that I would like to respond to today. It is this experience that Plato and Gadamer – two figures that both Baracchi and Risser enlist in their own reflections – find as at the heart of what constitutes the activity of philosophizing. It is precisely in conversations such as these that we help one another better understand our worlds – and ourselves.","PeriodicalId":44158,"journal":{"name":"RESEARCH IN PHENOMENOLOGY","volume":"3 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139364062","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"On Dennis Schmidt: The Sensibility of Understanding as Practical Philosophy","authors":"James Risser","doi":"10.1163/15691640-12341525","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/15691640-12341525","url":null,"abstract":"Dennis Schmidt has long been for me not just a friend in philosophy, but a true scholar of note. My own work has been informed by reading his work and hearing him speak on numerous occasions. I have indeed learned much from him, for which I am thankful. As to this friendship, it has been built up, in part, through sharing in common a philosophical sensibility originating in the work of Hans-Georg Gadamer. The work of this philosopher, oddly enough, one might say, is about the very idea of philosophical sensibility, where the word “sensibility” indicates, as we learn from its earliest use, a way of understanding things. It is clear to me that Schmidt has followed the impetus of his teacher’s work. He too is concerned with the way of understanding understanding, with the sensibility of understanding, and has done so in a singular way. He is indeed a scholar and thinker in his own right. To speak then of his work as a scholar and thinker, I want to begin by indicating the way in which I think Dennis Schmidt marks out the sensibility of understanding in his work. He does so not by relegating the way of understanding things to experiences of meaning, as one might find in traditional hermeneutic theory concerned with the reading of history and texts in general; rather, he does so by linking it to the very way-making of life. In a more precise sense, I would say that his philosophical concern is with our concernful being","PeriodicalId":44158,"journal":{"name":"RESEARCH IN PHENOMENOLOGY","volume":"41 3 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139363775","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Gadamer’s Hermeneutics: Between Phenomenology and Dialectic, written by Robert J. Dostal","authors":"D. Vessey","doi":"10.1163/15691640-12341520","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/15691640-12341520","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44158,"journal":{"name":"RESEARCH IN PHENOMENOLOGY","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-02-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41338195","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Compearance","authors":"Daniela Calabrò","doi":"10.1163/15691640-12341516","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/15691640-12341516","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000The analyses at the core of this essay focus attention on the concepts of “Compearance” and “Exposition” in Jean-Luc Nancy’s philosophical reflection. Starting from the analyses carried out by Sartre, Lévinas and Derrida, this paper aims to define and highlight one of the fundamental concepts in Nancy’s philosophical work, which is touching. A “corpus of touch” that is a syncopated corpus, interrupted and mixed with other bodies; here the whole sense of compearance and exposition is at stake.","PeriodicalId":44158,"journal":{"name":"RESEARCH IN PHENOMENOLOGY","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-02-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49006246","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Post-deconstructive Concept of Evidence","authors":"Juan Manuel Garrido Wainer","doi":"10.1163/15691640-12341514","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/15691640-12341514","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000The general objective of this essay is to systematize Jean-Luc Nancy’s post- deconstructive reflections on the concept of evidence. A general claim of this paper is that the post-deconstructive concept of evidence is genuinely an epistemic concept of evidence insofar as it refers to structures involved in verification processes. Evidence is the presentation of a state of affairs that relates the presentation not only to what we claim about this state of affairs but also to the singular circumstances of its production. Verification (the production of a claim’s truth) results directly from the singularities involved in the production or presentation of evidence. This means that evidence is never exhausted in the truth it produces or the knowledge it validates but remains a priori exposed or available to produce and validate unknown knowledge about unknown states of affairs.","PeriodicalId":44158,"journal":{"name":"RESEARCH IN PHENOMENOLOGY","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-02-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42084838","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Questioning the “We” in Times of Global Threats with Butler and Levinas","authors":"Luciano Angelino","doi":"10.1163/15691640-12341517","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/15691640-12341517","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000Today, the “we” has not lost its place in contemporary debates. On the contrary, it has become a crucial question in the political and philosophical debates relating to global-scale disasters and traumatic events, which expose all of humanity to the same risks and same threats. In a dramatic and paradigmatic way, these events invite us to “mourn” the fantasy of self-sufficiency of the I and remind us to which extent our lives are immediately linked to those of others. At the same time, however, these events, which yields the potential to reveal a relationality constitutive of “who we are,” also suggest the need to reframe our understanding of the “we,” and to overcome the us/them divide upon which it has been construed until now. In this essay, I take up this challenge by first engaging in a critical discussion of Judith Butler’s ethics of vulnerability, and then turning to the ethical philosophy of Emmanuel Levinas.","PeriodicalId":44158,"journal":{"name":"RESEARCH IN PHENOMENOLOGY","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-02-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41641839","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Impossible Possibility of Community","authors":"J. Rogozinski","doi":"10.1163/15691640-12341515","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/15691640-12341515","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000The author analyzes the deconstruction of the community carried out by Jean-Luc Nancy. For Nancy, the aim of the community has been historically accomplished by its self-destruction in the “work of death” of totalitarianism. This does not lead him to renounce the notion of community, like Derrida, but to highlight its paradoxical (im-)possibility. This is why Nancy proposes the concept of a “community without community” which would retain only the cum of the communitas, the with of being-with or being in-common. The author shows that this approach is subject to aporias. Indeed, Nancy wants to base being-with on an ontology of bodily touch. As he considers touching as distancing, displacement, he fails to understand the cum, that is to say the possibility of constituting a community.","PeriodicalId":44158,"journal":{"name":"RESEARCH IN PHENOMENOLOGY","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-02-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46673221","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}