Philosophy, Ethics, and Existentialism

Phenomenology of practice is formative of sensitive practice, issuing from the pathic power of phenomenological reflections. Pathic knowing inheres in the sense and sensuality of our practical actions, in encounters with others and in the ways that our bodies are responsive to the things of our world and to the situat…

• ÜMMÜ ÖZLEM ÇERÇİ

Jacques Derrida is one of the most influential and controversial philosophers of the last fifty years. Derrida on Deconstruction introduces and assesses: Derrida's life and the background to his philosophy the key themes of the critique of metaphysics, language and ethics that characterize his most widely read works t…

Introduction Part 1: Metaphysics 1. Of Grammatology: Exergue The End of the Book and the Beginning of Writing 2. Dissemination: The Pharmakon Part 2: Language and Meaning 3. Speech and Phenomena 3: Meaning as Soliloquy 4. Margins of Philosophy: Signature Event Context Part 3: Consciousness 5. Speech and Phenomena 7. T…

This article explores Nietzsche’s approach to the fundamental question of “how to live one’s life”, and more specifically his view of the role of the past in seeking an answer to this question. By discussing Nietzsche’s views of how different nations and cultures relate to their history, I suggest some comparisons wit…

• ZEYNEP TALAY TURNER

To compare Merleau-Ponty's and Deleuze's phenomenal bodies, I first examine how for Merleau-Ponty phenomena appear on the basis of three levels of integration: 1) between the parts of the world, 2) between the parts of the body, and 3) between the body and its world. I contest that Deleuze's attacks on phenomenology c…

• CORRY MICHAEL SHORES

From Guilt to Shame:Albert Camus and Literature's Ethical Response to Politics Daniel Just (bio) The concept of shame in Western discourse has often carried a lesser moral significance than guilt. Unlike guilt that pertains to one's actions and intentions, shame relates to one's affects and emotions. While guilt is of…

• DANIEL JUST

Derrida’s deconstruction aims not only to understand language, text or meaning but also the postmodern universe which replaces the modern one and in which we live. Derrida thinks that the meaning can be attributed to other meanings or significance than the Western metaphysics deem by means of deconstruction. Therefore…

Volume I: Interpretations of Derrida by his Contemporaries 1. Emmanuel Levinas Wholly Otherwise Re-Reading Levinas pp. 3-10 [Indiana University Press, 1991] 2. Jean-Luc Nancy Elliptical Sense Derrida: A Critical Reader pp. 36-51 [Blackwell, 1992] 3. Edmond Jabes Lettre a Jacques Derrida sur question du livre Ca suit s…

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The article discusses the continuing relevance of Huxley's dystopic novel in a contemporary, post‐political context in which a passive nihilist version of “happiness” is elevated to the level of a political and ethical ideal and “freedom” is taken for granted. Significantly, although Huxley's target was Stalinism when…

In the primordial scene, which Girard has described, society is constituted on the basis of the lynching mob, whose mimetic desire, envy and egotism culminate in sacrificing the scapegoat. With spite, though, we confront the opposite situation, in which the mimetic desire does not establish but rather destroys `societ…

Abstract Two discrepancies haunt the philosophy of Wittgenstein. One is that between the last few pages of the Tractatus and all that has gone before. The other is the rather strange stylistic diversity between the Tractatus and the Philosophical Investigations. I shall try in this paper to put forward hypotheses or s…