Lyrical and Ethical Subjects by Dennis J Schmidt
Taking seriously Kant's claim in the Third Critique that aesthetic experience opens up a basis for judging that is other than that found in the language of the concept, Schmidt pursues this claim by addressing the relation of language to poetry, to music, to silence, to script, to sign language, and to painting-those experiences of language which set themselves apart from the concept. Out of the treatment of these experiences of language at its limits, the author argues that we find an opening upon the realm of ethical life that is truly beyond the calculus of good and evil. What results is an experience of radical freedom, an experience that precedes anything like a notion of freedom finding its explanation in the agency of a subject. It is here that we find the contours of what Heidegger once described as "original ethics," and experience something of the sources of ethical life.-
Being and Time
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Gadamer on Celan
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Heidegger's Ways
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A Guide to Heidegger's Being and Time
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Dialogue and Deconstruction
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The Modern Subject
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Deconstructive Subjectivities
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Nietzsche's Aesthetic Turn
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Schelling's Practice of the Wild
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The Title of the Letter
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Supplements
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Objectivity
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The 1812 Doctrine of Right and Other Late Political Writings of J. G. Fichte
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Maurice Blanchot
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A Life of Solid Principles
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Feminist Heidegger
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This Dagger, My Heart
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Messengers of Infinity
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The Great Detour
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Gilles Deleuze and the Philosophy of Sense
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Hunting for Justice
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A Death of the World
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Gadamer on Art and Aesthetic Experience
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The Promise of Friendship
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Of an Alien Homecoming
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In the Brightness of Place
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Freedom and Ground
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Rethinking Interiority
"In Lyrical and Ethical Subjects Dennis Schmidt is at his bestHis sensitivity to language, his intimate knowledge of German philosophy, and his deep concern for ethical and political issues are united to give the reader an enriching and exhilarating experience." — Robert Bernasconi, The University of Memphis
"Here is a book that anyone concerned with issues in hermeneutics must read. It provides real insight and stretches our previous ways of approaching issues in language in relation to history and art. Through Schmidt's probing interrogative style, the reader encounters great ideas from great philosophers in a compellingly interesting way." — James Risser, author of Hermeneutics and the Voice of the Other: Re-reading Gadamer's Philosophical Hermeneutics
Dennis J. Schmidt is Professor of Philosophy, Comparative Literature, and German at The Pennsylvania State University at University Park. He is the author of On Germans and Other Greeks: Tragedy and Ethical Life and The Ubiquity of the Finite: Hegel, Heidegger, and the Entitlements of Philosophy.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780791465134 |
| ISBN 10 | 0791465136 |
| Title | Lyrical and Ethical Subjects |
| Author | Dennis J Schmidt |
| Series | Suny Series In Contemporary Continental Philosophy |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | State University of New York Press |
| Year published | 2005-08-25 |
| Number of pages | 239 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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