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Special Topics Issue Journal Phänomenologie, ed. by Sebastian Luft, Lukas Nehlsen, Martin W. Schnell
See the link here, articles are free for download: https://www.degruyter.com/journal/key/JTPH/2/1/html Special feature: Newly translated text from Cassirer's Nachlass! Articles by Massimo Ferrari, Rudolf A. Makkreel, Brigitte... more
See the link here, articles are free for download:
https://www.degruyter.com/journal/key/JTPH/2/1/html
Special feature:  Newly translated text from Cassirer's Nachlass!
Articles by Massimo Ferrari, Rudolf A. Makkreel, Brigitte Falkenburg, Thomas Mormann, David Stump, Saverio Ricci, Enno Rudolph and Steve Lofts, with a fragment from Cassirer, translated by DJ Hobbs.
Paperback edition of my 2011 book, $ 40 (a lot cheaper).  Cover art by Klaus Kappel, a distant relative.  40% discount if you enter this code:  COURSE.
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New edition, with an extensive editors' introduction, ed. by Jörn Bohr and myself, out now. Kritische und kommentierte Neuauflage (-ausgabe) eines der meistgelesenen und -verkauften Bücher der Neukantianischen Bewegung.... more
New edition, with an extensive editors' introduction, ed. by Jörn Bohr and myself, out now.

Kritische und kommentierte Neuauflage (-ausgabe) eines der meistgelesenen und -verkauften Bücher der Neukantianischen Bewegung.

https://meiner.de/praludien.html

Leseprobe:  https://meiner.de/reading/web/?isbn=9783787338788
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Special issue of Phänomenologische Forschungen, ed. by SL, Sonja Rinofner-Kreidl & Niels Weidtmann
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Se publicó en Agosto 2019: A collection of newer work (articles) in Spanish, for the most part unpublished. Subtitle: filosofía trascendental, cultura y teoría de la ciencia See link to Publisher's Page with Sneak Peak (you can also... more
Se publicó en Agosto 2019:  A collection of newer work (articles) in Spanish, for the most part unpublished.
Subtitle:  filosofía trascendental, cultura y teoría de la ciencia
See link to Publisher's Page with Sneak Peak (you can also order the book there/se puede comprar el libro allà también):
https://editorialhumanidades.com/producto/meditaciones-fenomenologicas-y-neokantianas/
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SNEAK PEAK:  Das Inhaltsverzeichnis!
Das Buch ist nunmehr erschienen. Hier der Link zur Startseite des Meiner-Verlags:

https://meiner.de/index.php
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NEW: (Cheaper) Paperback out now! Links here: https://www.springer.com/us/book/9789402415957 Still prohibitively expensive but cheaper than the hardback. https://www.springer.com/us/book/9789402415957... more
NEW:  (Cheaper) Paperback out now!  Links here:

https://www.springer.com/us/book/9789402415957

Still prohibitively expensive but cheaper than the hardback.


https://www.springer.com/us/book/9789402415957


https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007%2F978-94-024-1597-1

FREE link to the translator's (my) introduction:  https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/bfm%3A978-94-024-1597-1%2F1.pdf
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Based on the conference of the same title in the spring of 2016 in Paderborn, organized by my colleague Ruth Hagengruber there and myself (as DAAD visiting professor during that academic year). This is also the first volume of the new... more
Based on the conference of the same title in the spring of 2016 in Paderborn, organized by my colleague Ruth Hagengruber there and myself (as DAAD visiting professor during that academic year).  This is also the first volume of the new book series, edited by Ruth Hagengruber.

NEW:  Link to Springer:  https://www.springer.com/de/book/9783319978604#aboutBook
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Just published anthology, edited with Dr. Maren Wehrle (formerly Leuven, now Rotterdam). See here URL: http://www.springer.com/de/book/9783476026019. See here the review by Corinna Lagemann:... more
Just published anthology, edited with Dr. Maren Wehrle (formerly Leuven, now Rotterdam).
See here URL:  http://www.springer.com/de/book/9783476026019.

See here the review by Corinna Lagemann:

http://reviews.ophen.org/2018/04/16/sebastian-luft-maren-wehrle-hrsg-husserl-handbuch-leben-werk-wirkung/
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My third monograph; based on my earlier Habilitation thesis (2013).
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Studienbrief for the Fernuni Hagen
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A special journal issue in JOURNAL PHÄNOMENOLOGIE, ed. by Martin Schnell (Witten) and myself, with contributions by Christian Möckel, Guido Kreis, Christian Grüny, Matthias Kettner, and yours truly.
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The proceedings of the Cassirer Conference of June 2014 in Milwaukee, co-edited with J Tyler Friedman, vol. 2 of the series "NSHHP," edited by Gerald Hartung & SL.

NEWS!  NOW:  Available as paperback!  As of June 2017 for 20 Euros.
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Proceedings of the Husserl Circle Conference in Milwaukee, 2008, edited together with Pol Vandevelde.
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A new edition of Natorp's book of 1912, which has been out of print a long time (with the editor's foreword and annotations).
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My edition of Husserliana vol. XXXIV, containing Nachlass texts centering on the topic of the phenomenological reduction between 1926-35.
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Co-edited with Søren Overgaard (Copenhagen) in 2011; 2nd ed. (and paperback) in 2013.
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The proceedings of the conference of the same title of 2012, edited together with Faustino Fabbianelli.
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A collection of essays, edited by Rudolf A. Makkreel & SL.

Now with a new book review by Gustavo Adolfo Esparza Urzúa.
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My edition of English translation texts from classical Neo-Kantianism
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My second monograph; based on a collection of (heavily reworked) earlier articles and unpublished texts.
2nd edition (in paperback) with a new preface by the author to come out in 2019!
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My first monograph; a shortened and heavily revised version of my dissertation (of 1998).
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Original version of a little addendum to Richard Rojcewicz' English translation of my edition of Husserliana XXXIV, forthcoming.
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Enhanced English version of the original German text.
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Recently published in Phänomenologische Forschungen, special topics issue on phenomenology and pragmatism, edited by myself, Sonja Rinofner-Kreidl and Jens Weidtmann, on the basis of our conference in Tübingen in 2017.
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Spanish translation of my erstwhile German article.
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The first paragraph is missing, unfortunately, in the printed version. It has been added, however, to the online version. Here it is: What does it mean to be a community and to be in a community? Can this social phenomenon be... more
The first paragraph is missing, unfortunately, in the printed version.  It has been added, however, to the online version.

Here it is:

What does it mean to be a community and to be in a community?  Can this social phenomenon be analogized to an individual person with her interwoven opinions, wants, and desires?  Or is a community a phenomenon sui generis that requires its own methods and tools for research?  Concretely:  What does it mean that a community may achieve certain acts?  And what about the intentional object of such an act, which (following the Husserlian school) has also been referred to as “social act”?  These questions raise the methodological ones:  how is it even possible to characterize a community, such that it can be said to issue social acts?  And how can such an inquiry be carried out, does it require an outside perspective or one from within a community, or can it be done by both?
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A text in a volume edited by Andrea Staiti on Ideas I (Husserl)
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My entry in the Husserl Dictionary, i.e., Husserl's influence on hermeneutics.
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A little intro to my translation of this text of Husserl's
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Resumen En el presente artículo, se ofrecen algunas claves de interpretación de la fenomenología husserliana como heredera de un modo de pensamiento al que se ha denominado, tras Kant, «filosofía trascendental». Para ello, en primer... more
Resumen En el presente artículo, se ofrecen algunas claves de interpretación de la fenomenología husserliana como heredera de un modo de pensamiento al que se ha denominado, tras Kant, «filosofía trascendental». Para ello, en primer lugar, se ofrece una breve definición de lo que es la filosofía trascendental, sus objetivos, problemas y características, a fin de situar la obra de Husserl en este contexto. A continuación, se analizará la herencia kantiana y cartesiana de la fenomenología, a fin de deslindar las semejanzas y diferencias entre sus pro-puestas filosóficas respectivas. En una tercera sección, se analizará el rol central que cumple la «reducción» en la filosofía de Husserl con respecto a la intencionalidad y la correlación entre mundo y conciencia. Finalmente, se preguntará por el lugar y la importancia que la fenomenología trascendental tiene en el pensamiento contemporáneo, así como también por los límites y las posibilidades que una filosofía trascendental como la fenomenología husserliana ofrece en la actualidad. Abstract. Husserl and Transcendental Philosophy In the present article, I offer some key interpretations of Husserl's phenomenology as heir to a way of thinking that has been named " transcendental philosophy " after Kant. Firstly, a short definition is given of what transcendental philosophy is, its objectives, problems and characteristics in order to place Husserl's work within this context. Secondly, the Kantian and Cartesian legacy of phenomenology are analyzed with the objective of delineating the similarities and differences between their respective philosophical proposals. In a third section, the central role of the " phenomenological reduction " is put under review in order to stress its function in Husserl's philosophy regarding intentionality and the correlation between world and consciousness. Finally, the place and the importance of transcenden-tal phenomenology for contemporary thought will be analyzed, as well as the limits and possibilities that a transcendental philosophy as the Husserlian phenomenology can offer nowadays.
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Resumen En el presente artículo daré una revisión sistemática de la noción de actitud natural en Husserl, desde el desarrollo de su primera presentación en Ideas I (1913) hasta los últimos años de Husserl. El problema de la actitud... more
Resumen En el presente artículo daré una revisión sistemática de la noción de actitud natural en Husserl, desde el desarrollo de su primera presentación en Ideas I (1913) hasta los últimos años de Husserl. El problema de la actitud natural tiene que lidiar en relación a dos niveles. Por una parte, con el nivel temático que está constituido por la correlación de la actitud y del horizonte, ambos derivados de la teoría de Husserl sobre la intencionalidad. Por otra parte, en el nivel metodológico, la actitud natural es constituida por tres factores: naturalidad, ingenuidad y normalidad. Se concluirá delineando una posible motivación para dejar a la actitud natural y, por lo tanto, el ingreso a la esfera de la fenomenología. Palabras clave: actitud natural, intencionalidad, fenomenología, Husserl. Abstract In this paper I will give a systematic account of Husserl's notion of the natural attitude in the development from its first presentation in Ideas I (1913) until Husserl's last years. The problem of the natural attitude has to be dealt with on two levels. On the thematic level, it is constituted by the correlation of attitude and horizon, both stemming from Husserl's theory of intentionality. On the methodic level, the natural attitude is constituted by three factors: naturalness, naivity and normality. I shall conclude by sketching out a possible motivation for leaving the natural attitude and thus for entering the sphere of phenomenology.
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This paper takes a renewed look at Husserl's method of the phenomenological reduction. It interprets "the reduction" as shorthand for the meaning of Husserl's entire phenomenology in its mature stage. In the same way, the method of... more
This paper takes a renewed look at Husserl's method of the phenomenological reduction. It interprets "the reduction" as shorthand for the meaning of Husserl's entire phenomenology in its mature stage. In the same way, the method of reduction might have different manners of execution but they are nevertheless guided by a common intent. The text takes its starting point by considering the different metaphors Husser! uses-the "flatland creatures" and the reduction as akin to a religious conversion-and spells out their implications, which lead me to consider their metaphilosophical significance. In this way, this article attempts a metaphiloso-phical reading of the meaning of the reduction in Husser!, which is equal to considering the meaning philosophy has for Husser! in the most general terms. In this way, some unorthodox reflections are carried out that shed new light on central phenomenological concepts, such as evidence and eidetic variation, phenomenology as a form of transcendental idealism, and the notorious problem of the lifeworld. In this way, Husserl's phenomenology is interpreted as a peculiar representative of Enlightenment philosophy that restitutes a special notion of responsibility. Will man die Reduktion bei Husserl in einem einfachen Satz definieren, so miiss-te man sagen: "Die Reduktion" ist der Titel fur die Zugangsweise zur Phanomenologie als eidetischer Wissenschaft von der transzendentalen Subj ektivitat. So weit so gut, aber auch ebenso unverstandlich. Auf der Hand liegende Fra-gen sind u. a. die folgenden: Warum sollte der Zugang zu einer solchen Wissen-schaft ein eigenes Problem darstellen oder eine eigene Methode erfordern? Und urn was fur eine Wissenschaft handelt es sich hier, so class die Frage ihres Zu-gangs iiberhaupt ein eigenes Thema darstellt? Die Probleme fangen hier bereits an, auch - leider - fur Husserl. Allein schon die au:Berliche Tatsache, class das Thema "Reduktion" einen Gro:Bteil der Husserl'schen Forschungsmanuskripte ausmacht, sollte hellhorig werden lassen. Es kommt nochmals erschwerend hin-zu, class "die Reduktion" ein Titel ist, beziiglich dessen Husserl (in vielen Erie-fen und anderen Mitteilungen) insistiert, class er als pars pro toto fur seine reife Philosophie im Ganzen steht, also fur die transzendental-eidetische Phanomenologie. Was meint die Reduktion als Zugang zur Phanomenologie? Wie und wo
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Appeared in 2001 in an anthology on Husserl, eds. C. Lotz & D. Carr.
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Es ist bekannt, daß Husserl seine nahezu täglichen philosophischen Meditationen zumeist ohne Vorlage, gewissermaßen aus sich selbst heraus produzierte; daß hierfür die, wenn nicht einzigen, so doch zumindest sehr wirksamen “Hilfsmittel”... more
Es ist bekannt, daß Husserl seine nahezu täglichen philosophischen Meditationen zumeist ohne Vorlage, gewissermaßen aus sich selbst heraus produzierte; daß hierfür die, wenn nicht einzigen, so doch zumindest sehr wirksamen “Hilfsmittel” bei seinem schreibend ...
An edition of a manuscript from Husserl's Nachlass (with editorial report).
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Article in the Routledge Companion to Phenomenology (eds. S. Overgaard & SL).
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See here my response to De Warren's critical review article on my Subjectivity and Lifeworld in Transcendental Phenomenology (Northwestern University Press, 2011).
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Natorp, Husserl, and the Problem of the Continuity of Life, Science, and Philosophy
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Review Essay of Steven Crowell's "Husserl, Heidegger, and the Space of Meaning"
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A historical-biographical piece on Husserl's ordering of his literary estate.
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Published in the volume, ed. by G. Morrone & R. Redaelli, Neo-Kantianism and  Cultural Sciences, Federico II University Press, 2022, pp. 91-104.
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Part of the vol. "Interpreting Cassirer," ed. S. Truwant, CUP 2021
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Portuguese translation (by Lucas A.D. Amaral)
From Bohr/Hartung/Koenig/Steinbach, eds., Simmel-Handbuch, Metzler 2021.
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In diesem Beitrag 1 wird Cassirers Kulturphilosophie als eine besondere Applika-tion der Kantischen Transzendentalphilosophie dargestellt, sodann in Vergleich gesetzt zu einer anderen Tradition, der Pittsburgh School, hier v.a. McDowell.... more
In diesem Beitrag 1 wird Cassirers Kulturphilosophie als eine besondere Applika-tion der Kantischen Transzendentalphilosophie dargestellt, sodann in Vergleich gesetzt zu einer anderen Tradition, der Pittsburgh School, hier v.a. McDowell. Der Ausgang ist der Sellars'sche Begriff des " space of reasons " , der sodann von McDo-well erweitert wird durch seinen (Aristotelisch inspirierten) Begriff der " zweiten Natur ". Durch eine interessante Auslegung eines frühen Interpreten Cassirers – Howe – wird es möglich, " Marburg " und " Pittsburgh " miteinander in Gespräch zu bringen. Das Resultat dieses Vergleichs wird eine Position sein, die beide Traditio-nen vermittelt und die man mit Howe als " naturalistischen Idealismus " bezeichnen könnte. Am Schluss wird der Versuch unternommen, die Überlegenheit von Cas-sirers Position zu demonstrieren, die allerdings keine Widerlegung derjenigen von McDowell bedeutet, sondern seine Position in Cassirers einbettet.
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SUMMARY: This paper presents a comparison between the conception of culture in Windelband and among the Marburg Neo-Kantians. While the latters' concept of culture cannot be understood without assuming a teleology (»infinite task«),... more
SUMMARY: This paper presents a comparison between the conception of culture in Windelband and among the Marburg Neo-Kantians. While the latters' concept of culture cannot be understood without assuming a teleology (»infinite task«), Windelband does without such an assumption. His conception of culture is static because, from his point of view, the establishment of norms is possible at any time and in any situation, and therefore it can always lead to a »reasonable regressus to the unreasonable,« i. e., to the establishment of a comprehensive worldview. Philosophy has the task of providing an orientation in crises that arise when a worldview is missing or decaying.
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My editor's introduction to my edition (2013) of Natorp's Allgemeine Psychologie (new edition with commentary).
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In published version in the "Journal Phänomenologie."
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Workshop zur Hochschullehre am 24.5. in Paderborn!
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Paper delivered at the University of Heidelberg (Conference of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für phänomenologische Forschung), September 2023
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Antrittsvorlesung Universität Paderborn, 27.10.23, sans Danksagungen.
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Workshop at the University of Évora, Portugal, together with Ricardo Mendoza Canales and Olivier Feron, Friday, May 12, 2023.
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Organized by Luigi Filieri & Konstantin Pollok!
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Please email me if you would like access for streaming and other info.
CfP for early career scholars for the Summer School at the University of Cologne June 20-24, organized by Prof. Thiemo Breyer (Cologne) and yours truly.
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Comments delivered at APA Central (Chicago) February 2022.
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Talks for the general public interested in work in the humanities.  Talks from representatives from Philosophy, Theology, and Literature Studies.
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Interdisciplinary Workshop at Marquette on 02/22/22.
Speakers:  Michael Olson, Scott Edgar, Tobias Endres, Simon Truwant, Katherina Kinzel.
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Join us for this 1-day conference on May 28!  For Zoom info, please email Anne Korfmacher (a.korfmacher@uni-koeln.de)
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My talk on June 21, 2021, via Zoom.
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Conference in Erlangen, taking place virtually.  See on the flyer the means to join via Zoom.
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Conference, co-organized with Thiemo Breyer (Cologne), to be held virtually (Zoom) on May 28, all scholars welcome to send in abstracts!
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See ONCE MORE UPDATED program attached.  Contact Andrew Krema (rkrema@luc.edu) for a Zoom invitation.  Note the time zone (Central US).
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A short paper on the occasion of Ullrich Melle's retirement, 2017.
Antrittsvorlesung zum Abschluss des Habilitationsverfahrens, Universität Würzburg, 2013.
Spring Workshop, with talks by, among others, Andrea Staiti, Dieter Lohmar, and yours truly.
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Humboldt-Kolleg at the University of Torino (Italy), February 8-9, 2018, organized by Massimo Ferrari (Torino) and SL.  More infos forthcoming soon!
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See the announcement of the conference I am co-organizing with Sonja Rinofner-Kreidl and Niels Weidtmann at the University of Tübingen in May 2017!

Program forthcoming, poster too!
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Call for Papers!
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Ernst Cassirer's philosophy of culture is no arid academic exercise. To the contrary , in his own work Cassirer has demonstrated how his philosophical approach could be fruitful for other disciplines that investigate special areas of... more
Ernst Cassirer's philosophy of culture is no arid academic exercise. To the contrary , in his own work Cassirer has demonstrated how his philosophical approach could be fruitful for other disciplines that investigate special areas of culture. He also took into consideration intercultural aspects, as in investigating to what extent different cultures develop similar symbolic forms, or to what extent certain cultural forms are unique. This session will investigate the special challenges both interdisciplinarity and interculturality can pose for an open philosophy of culture as conceived by Cassirer. We have organized two panels, one with invited speakers, the second open for those wishing to participate. Speakers responding to the Call for Papers (below) need not be Cassirer experts, but should address the challenges to a philosophy of culture by interculturality and interdisci-plinarity. Submissions are welcome especially from areas outside of " core " philosophical disciplines.
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Class I will be team-teaching in June 2020 at the University of Cologne with Marquette and Cologne students.

See here the link for more info:
https://studyabroad.marquette.edu/index.cfm?FuseAction=Programs.ViewProgramAngular&id=11355
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See info on the summer course for Marquette students at the Universität zu Köln (and for Köln students too!).
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Please see the announcement for the Summer School at the end of June held at University of Cologne with a star-studded lineup of speakers. We will have afternoon sessions with presentations by early-career scholars (pre- and post-doc),... more
Please see the announcement for the Summer School at the end of June held at University of Cologne with a star-studded lineup of speakers.  We will have afternoon sessions with presentations by early-career scholars (pre- and post-doc), so if you're interested, please respond to the call by May 1.
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Talk & Workshop at the University of Göttingen in January 2020.
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Conferencia en Puebla, Oct. 1-3, 2019
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Workshop on the Occasion of the Publication of Rickert's Collected Works
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Flyer for the Summer School in Hong Kong in June.
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Talk on May 23 in Helsinki
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Conference in Berlin, May 2019
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See here a website for practical information:

http://academic.mu.edu/phil/lufts/BrandomConference.htm

NEW:  PROGRAM AVAILABLE (both link provided here as well as on Conference Site)!
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Program of conference in Parma, May 2018
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Talk at the TU Berlin.
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A little review of Kehlmann's book for a local German heritage newspaper.
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Review of 2 newer volumes in the edition of Cassirer's estate, lectures (in English) on Kant and Hegel.
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Review of the book by Volker Steenblock, Kulturphilosophie
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Review in Information Philosophie 1/2019
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Arno Schubbach hat eine materialreiche und ausgezeichnet recherchierte Studie zur Genese des Symbolischen in der Philosophie Ernst Cassirers vorgelegt. Die Studie fügt dem neu entfachten Interesse an der Philosophie Cassirers neue Impulse... more
Arno Schubbach hat eine materialreiche und ausgezeichnet recherchierte Studie zur Genese des Symbolischen in der Philosophie Ernst Cassirers vorgelegt. Die Studie fügt dem neu entfachten Interesse an der Philosophie Cassirers neue Impulse und interessante Details hinzu, die v. a. dem besseren Verständnis des Entwicklungsgangs der Cassirer'schen Philosophie zu Gute kommen. Das Ergeb-nis ist eine überzeugend argumentierende, originelle und eigenständige Studie, die vieles dazu beiträgt, die Philosophie Cassirers besser historisch wie systema-tisch einzuordnen und aus ihren Ursprüngen zu verstehen. Im Zuge dieser Rekonstruktion " aus den Ursprüngen " ist sogleich ein edito-rischer ‚Coup' hervorzuheben, nämlich die Entdeckung einer handschriftlichen Disposition von 1917 dessen, was ab 1923 in drei Bänden als Philosophie der sym-bolischen Formen erscheinen sollte. Diese Disposition hat Schubbach im Nachlass Cassirers gefunden, der sich in der Beinecke Library der Yale University befindet. Diese Disposition und die Materialien und Vorarbeiten sind im Anhang abge-druckt (in Kopien des Originals) und in Transkription als diplomatischer Nach-druck ediert (vgl. 367–443). Dass diese Disposition und die damit zusammenhän-genden Texte aus diesem Konvolut (noch?) nicht in der Ausgabe des Nachlasses (ECN im Meiner-Verlag) aufgenommen wurden, ist bedauernswert und eigentlich unverständlich, sind die Texte doch schon seit 2000 zumindest archiviert, und zwar durch die Archivarbeit des Autors selbst in den Jahren 1999/2000. Es steht zu hoffen, dass dieses editorische Versäumnis in künftigen Bänden der ECN nachgeholt wird; vorläufig stehen die Texte jedoch in Klein-Edition und zusätzli-cher ausführlicher Kommentierung durch Schubbach in vorliegendem Buch zur Verfügung.
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Book Review in "Review of Metaphysics."
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Consider applying, wherever you come from!
Applicants must be in the pre-doc phase (no PhD yet).
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Conference at the University of Paderborn, organized by Michele Vagnetti & Nikolay Milkov
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A few comments on critics on my interpretation of Cassirer.  In part III, I venture some general ideas about where I currently stand philosophically.
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I'm hiring a Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter starting October 1 at the University of Paderborn.  Consider applying!
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The Shorter End of the Sonnenallee, by Thomas Brussig, translated into English by Jonathan Franzen and Jenny Watson, with the author and translators in town!  Get your book and get it signed by them!
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Jointly organized conference between Loyola Chicago & Marquette.
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Podcast with Alexander Wendt and Hannes Wendler:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MlnAuKHPR6o
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Editorial of the Special Topics Issue of JTPh on the Philosophy of Robert Brandom.
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Ein kurzer Artikel, der ein paar Gedanken hierzu anstellt.
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A translation of a little piece by Max Frisch.
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A Spanish version of this paper has been published in my 2019 book, in case you would like to reference it.
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Talk I gave in São Paolo (November 2017) and Bonn (December 2017).  Not intended for publication, but I feel like sharing it here nonetheless.
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Not entirely new, but still young and hoping for manuscript proposals!

https://www.degruyter.com/view/serial/209664
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Announcing a new editorial team, now also accepting manuscripts in English.
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Conference Flyer and Program of the conference in Torino, February 2018.
Review of my book by Massimo Ferrari
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A little musing on a portrait from the Rembrandt School at the Haggerty Museum of Art at Marquette.
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A little piece that I've been developing over the years as a guide for graduate students thinking about their dissertation.  I would welcome feedback!
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This is an interview the press did with me upon publication of this textbook in 2015.  It is no longer online.
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A draft translation of an article by the Dutch Philosopher Pos on Husserl and Natorp
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The received view of Martin Heidegger’s work is that he leaves little room for reason in the practice of philosophy or the conduct of life. Citing his much-scorned remark that reason is the “stiff-necked adversary of thought”, critics... more
The received view of Martin Heidegger’s work is that he leaves little room for reason in the practice of philosophy or the conduct of life. Citing his much-scorned remark that reason is the “stiff-necked adversary of thought”, critics argue that Heidegger’s philosophy effectively severs the tie between reason and normativity, leaving anyone who adheres to his position without recourse to justifying reasons for their beliefs and actions. Transcending Reason is a collection of essays by leading Heidegger scholars that challenges this view by exploring new ways to understand Heidegger’s approach to the relationship between reason, normativity, and the philosophical methodology that gives us access to these issues. The volume points to Heidegger’s novel approach to reason understood in terms of what he calls Dasein’s ‘transcendence’—the ability to occupy the world as a space of normatively structured meanings in which we navigate our striving to be. By examining the strengths and weaknesses of this new and innovative take on Heidegger’s philosophy, this collection considers the possibility that he does not sever but rather reconceives the relation between reason and normativity.
The received view of Martin Heidegger’s work is that he leaves little room for reason in the practice of philosophy or the conduct of life. Citing his much-scorned remark that reason is the “stiff-necked adversary of thought”, critics... more
The received view of Martin Heidegger’s work is that he leaves little room for reason in the practice of philosophy or the conduct of life. Citing his much-scorned remark that reason is the “stiff-necked adversary of thought”, critics argue that Heidegger’s philosophy effectively severs the tie between reason and normativity, leaving anyone who adheres to his position without recourse to justifying reasons for their beliefs and actions. Transcending Reason is a collection of essays by leading Heidegger scholars that challenges this view by exploring new ways to understand Heidegger’s approach to the relationship between reason, normativity, and the philosophical methodology that gives us access to these issues. The volume points to Heidegger’s novel approach to reason understood in terms of what he calls Dasein’s ‘transcendence’—the ability to occupy the world as a space of normatively structured meanings in which we navigate our striving to be. By examining the strengths and weaknesses of this new and innovative take on Heidegger’s philosophy, this collection considers the possibility that he does not sever but rather reconceives the relation between reason and normativity.
CfP for a conference featuring Michela Summa and Clinton Tolley as Keynotes!
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Call for Papers International Conference, University of Paderborn, March 15-16, 2024 RORTY AND THE GERMAN TRADITION/RORTY UND DIE DEUTSCHE TRADITION Organized by Sebastian Luft (Paderborn), Lukas Nehlsen, Martin Schnell (Witten).
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Wisconsin Philosophical Association CfP 2023
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Loyola Chicago - Marquette Conference in November 2022!
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The symposium is based on an Author Meets Critics held at the Central Division Meeting of the American Philosophical Association in Chicago on February 24, 2022.
... of Subjective and Objective Spirit: Husserl, Natorp, and Cassirer ... This is not merely a histor-ical remark about Heidegger; he merely, and rightfully, points to a common problem in Hegel, Husserl, and the neo-Kantians.... more
... of Subjective and Objective Spirit: Husserl, Natorp, and Cassirer ... This is not merely a histor-ical remark about Heidegger; he merely, and rightfully, points to a common problem in Hegel, Husserl, and the neo-Kantians. Luft-Neokantian 2/17/05 3:41 PM Page 209 Page 2. ...
Page 1. HUSSERLIANA EDMUND HUSSERL EDMUND HUSSERL GESAMMELTE WERKE ZUR PHÄNOMENOLOGISCHEN REDUKTION TEXTE AUS DEMNACHLASS (1926-1935) HERAUSGEGEBEN VON SEBASTIAN LUFT Der vorliegende Band bietet eine repräsentative ...
Die VI. Cartesianische Meditation ist bekanntlich keine Schrift Husserls, sondern wurde — trotz anfangs andersmeinender Stimmen1 — von Fink angefertigt. Spätestens an dieser Stelle der vorliegenden Untersuchung muss nach der Art der... more
Die VI. Cartesianische Meditation ist bekanntlich keine Schrift Husserls, sondern wurde — trotz anfangs andersmeinender Stimmen1 — von Fink angefertigt. Spätestens an dieser Stelle der vorliegenden Untersuchung muss nach der Art der Zusammenarbeit beider gefragt und dieser letzten Cartesianischen Meditation2 ein Status im Rahmen der husserlschen Systematik — oder evtl. über dieselbe hinausgehend — zugewiesen werden. Den genauen Stellenwert kann erst die Detailanalyse ermitteln; zunächst geht es darum, die Art dieser philosophischen Zusammenarbeit zu charakterisieren und daraus eine Interpretationsmaxime zu formulieren.
Die Phänomenologie wurde bisher grundsätzlich hinsichtlich ihres Vollzuges, des „Phänomenologisierens“, thematisiert; als solches ist sie vom Lebensvollzug der natürlichen Einstellung „radikal“ verschieden. Die prinzipielle Problematik... more
Die Phänomenologie wurde bisher grundsätzlich hinsichtlich ihres Vollzuges, des „Phänomenologisierens“, thematisiert; als solches ist sie vom Lebensvollzug der natürlichen Einstellung „radikal“ verschieden. Die prinzipielle Problematik des Phänomenologisierens aber hat sich schon zum Ende des letzten Kapitels angedeutet; denn so radikal verschieden es auch von der natürlichen Einstellung hinsichtlich seines Erkenntnisstils und seiner „Seins “-Weise sein soil, ist es ihr doch in einem entscheidenden Punkt notwendig gleich: Ist das Erfahren und Theoretisieren des unbeteiligten Zuschauers ein wesenhaft unangemessenes, aber notwendiges Ontifizieren, so heißt das, dass er dadurch, dass er noch in mundanen „Netzen verstrickt“ ist, in seiner Erfahrung immer ontifiziert und damit den Absprung aus der natürlichen Einstellung nicht recht schaffen kann: Er wäre dann kein Mensch mehr. Vielmehr „holt“ er seine Erfahrungen und die darin gewonnenen Einsichten „zurück“ in die Welt durch sein Ontifizieren der wesenhaft nicht-seienden Erfahrungsinhalte. Der Zuschauer muss seine Einsichten wieder „verweltlichen“.1 Das Verweltlichen ist ebenso ein notwendiger Bestandteil seiner — notwendig ontifizierenden — Tätigkeit. Das ist der Fokus der „eigentlichen“ Methodenlehre in den letzten drei Paragraphen der VI. Meditation. Hier stellen sich der Motivation für die Reduktion als „Ent-Weltlichung“ analoge Fragen der Ver-Weltlichung. Dies wird durch Finks Rede vom „dialektischen“ Verhältnis von natürlicher und phänomenologischer Einstellung nahe gelegt.
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ABSTRACT This anthology, the first of its kind in English, is devoted to a much-needed reassessment of Hermann Cohen's philosophy. Cohen (1842–1918) was one of the founders of the so-called Marburg School of Neo-Kantianism... more
ABSTRACT This anthology, the first of its kind in English, is devoted to a much-needed reassessment of Hermann Cohen's philosophy. Cohen (1842–1918) was one of the founders of the so-called Marburg School of Neo-Kantianism (comprised, besides him, essentially of Paul Natorp and Ernst Cassirer) and came to be, with the development of his own philosophical system following his Kant interpretation, one of the most original thinkers in Germany during his lifetime. Moreover, his charismatic personality inspired other philosophers, such as Natorp and Cassirer in Marburg as well as the members of the Southwest School, e.g., Heinrich Rickert, Wilhelm Windelband, and Emil Lask. He became very influential in Berlin after his retirement in 1912, where he lectured at the Rabbinic Seminary (Lehranstalt für die Wissenschaft des Judentums) to a new generation of Jewish thinkers, particularly Franz Rosenzweig and Martin Buber. His most important contribution to philosophy, however, is his critical idealism. Cohen's "System of Philosophy" is laid down in three subsequent works, Logik der reinen Erkenntnis (Logic of Pure Cognition, 1902), Ethik des reinen Willens (Ethics of Pure Willing, 1904), and Ästhetik des reinen Gefühls (Aesthetics of Pure Feeling, 1912). These works were written in obvious analogy to Kant's system, after he published commentaries on the three Critiques—his interpretative commentary on the First Critique is still consulted to this day. Though not part of his critical system, his works on religion occupied him in his later years, culminating in the posthumous Religion der Vernunft aus den Quellen des Judentums (Religion of Reason out of the Sources of Judaism, 1919). Cohen intended to complete his system with a fourth volume, a psychology of what he called the "unity of cultural consciousness." This volume was never finished, however, as he died while correcting the proofs of Religion of Reason. The essays in this volume, which gathers an impressive group of scholars from around the world, are organized along these focal points of Cohen's system: logic, ethics, aesthetics, and religion. While Cohen's philosophy, as well as that of Neo-Kantianism in general, has been receiving attention in continental Europe, scholarship in the English-speaking world has been rather scarce. This volume, as the editor emphasizes, is intended to fill this gap. It is a welcome addition to existing scholarship and will be received with interest by philosophers interested in Kant research and the fate of idealism in nineteenth- and twentieth-century philosophy. While the development of post-Kantian philosophy up to Hegel's death has been treated by English-language scholars (e.g., Frederick Beiser and Terry Pinkard), the second half of the nineteenth century, dominated by neo-Kantians and their "imperial stance" (Habermas), is only beginning to be rediscovered. It has become clear, for example, that the "parting of the ways" between Analytic and Continental philosophy cannot be understood without assessing the philosophical landscape around 1900, when Hermann Cohen was one of the most admired philosophers in Europe. The essays in this volume make a compelling case for returning to Cohen, now some one hundred years after the publication of his System. The volume opens with an essay by Helmut Holzhey, director of the Cohen Archives in Zurich and the editor of the Collected Works. Holzhey shows how Cohen's critical philosophy, which culminated in his humanistic philosophy of culture in what could be called a philosophically-informed messianism, would have been impossible without Cohen's experiences as a Jew in Germany. Because of the Treitschke affair, Cohen was forced to take a stand on the role of Jews in Germany via his pamphlet, Bekenntnis zur Judenfrage (Confession Concerning the Jewish Question, 1880). Treitschke had denied Jews access to German culture, leading Cohen to assert Jewish identity as an ineradicable part of German society and culture. In this way, the hitherto rather agnostic Cohen rediscovered his Jewish roots and became an avid fighter against Anti-Semitism in Europe. The essays in this volume give an excellent overview of Cohen's thought, presenting his idealism as both an ingenious reinterpretation of Kant's transcendental idealism in the light of modern science, and as a significant advance in the direction of a heightened...
Page 1. Neo-KaNtiaNism in Contemporary Philosophy edited by Rudolf A. MAkkReel and SebAStiAn luft Page 2. EO-KANTIAN ISM IN CONTEMPORARY PHILOSOPHY Page 3. StudieS in Continental thought John Sallis, editor ...
Siegfried Rombach:Gegenstandskonstitution und Seinsentworf als Verzeitigung. ¨Uber die zeitliche Konstitution der Gegenstandstypen bei Husserl und den zeitlichen Entwürf der Seinsarten bei Heidegger ... Phenomenology and Cognitive... more
Siegfried Rombach:Gegenstandskonstitution und Seinsentworf als Verzeitigung. ¨Uber die zeitliche Konstitution der Gegenstandstypen bei Husserl und den zeitlichen Entwürf der Seinsarten bei Heidegger ... Phenomenology and Cognitive Science–Moving Beyond the Paradigms Jean Petitot, Francisco J. Varela, Bernard Pachoud, Jean-Michel Roy: Naturalizing Phenomenology, Issues in Contemporary Phenomenology and Cognitive Science (Ronald Bruzina) ... Maxine Sheets-Johnstone:The Primacy of Movement (Dan Zahavi)
In this paper I shall present two elements of Husserl's theory of the life-world, facticity and historicity, which are of exemplary importance for his late phenomenology as a whole. I compare these two notions to two axes upon which... more
In this paper I shall present two elements of Husserl's theory of the life-world, facticity and historicity, which are of exemplary importance for his late phenomenology as a whole. I compare these two notions to two axes upon which Husserl's phenomenology of the life-world becomes inscribed. Reconsidering and reconstructing Husserl's late thought under this viewpoint sheds new light on a notoriously enigmatic problem, i.e., the concept of the transcendental and its relation to the mundane" - to the world as constituted by transcendental consciousness. Drawing on unpublished manuscript material I claim, specifically, that the transcendental subject, in its self-enworlding" activity, as it were, covers its tracks" so as to obscure the transcendental origin of the worldly ego. This self-obscuring is itself an eidetic law of transcendental consciousness. The ambiguity in the transcendental/mundane ego is thrown into relief through Husserl's analyses conce...
... EDITORIAL TEAM. General Editors. Burt Hopkins, Seattle University John J. Drummond, Fordham University ... Francis Xavier University, Canada; Dermot Moran, University College, Dublin, Ireland James Risser, Seattle University; Hans... more
... EDITORIAL TEAM. General Editors. Burt Hopkins, Seattle University John J. Drummond, Fordham University ... Francis Xavier University, Canada; Dermot Moran, University College, Dublin, Ireland James Risser, Seattle University; Hans Ruin, Södertörn University College, Sweden ...

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