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DIALEKTIKZeitschrift für Kulturphilosophie Herausgegeben von Christoph Hubig, Ulrich Johannes Schneider und Pirmin
Stekeler-Weithofer Abstracts 2006 / 2Christian Strub/Jan Verwoert, Postmodern Presumptions. Changes in the Concept of AuthenticityThe essay proposes arguments against biased accounts of postmodernism which characterise this cultural discourse only in terms of the dismantling of the values and ideas of modernism. By looking at the notion of authenticity, the essay seeks instead to show that the postmodern critique of modernist paradigms of the authentic in fact also implies their constructive re-negotiation. In the light of recent shifts in the understanding of ethics, culture, art and textual interpretation, the essay elucidates how the modernist concept of archaeological authenticity (presumed to reside in the primary super-structures of power, desire and material production that underline our societies) has been dis- and replaced by a genuine postmodern notion of relative or relational authenticity to be found in a significant individual and communal relationship to (i. e. a pro-active appropriation of) the signs and artefacts of common culture. Neue Gewißheiten der Postmoderne. Verschiebungen
des Authentizitätskonzepts Edward Skidelsky, Philosophy and Nationalism. Thoughts on the Demise of British IdealismBritish books on the history of philosophy, written after 1945, explain the demise of British Idealism by a return from allegedly imported German thoughts to genuine Anglo-Saxon 'Common Sense‘ (Moore) and Empiricism (Russell). But the real cause for the change of the intellectual main stream after 1918 was a reaction to the ubiquitous, and unhappy, contamination of Idealism with Chauvinism at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries. Ironically, the anachronistic stories told after the Second World War introduce into a previously trans-national philosophy the national myth of a peculiar affinity to "analytical" and "empirical" thinking in English speaking philosophy and to "idealist speculation" of the European Continent. Philosophie und Nationalismus. Zum Niedergang des Britischen
Idealismus Knut Ebeling, Kojève’s Kamikaze. A Snobism sans réserveThe seminars on Hegel given by Alexandre Kojève at the École pratique des Hautes Etudes in Paris, from 1933 to 1945, are legendary. They were the climax of French Hegelian Marxism and are widely considered to have provoked the birth of contemporary French Philosophy. This text looks behind the legend and reconstructs some of the philosophical experiments that derived from this seminar. In conclusion, it asks how Kojève’s reading of Hegel can be situated between 1968 and 2006. Kojèves Kamikaze. Ein Snobismus sans réserve Brigitte Rauschenbach, Hegel and French FeminismThis essay explores the impact of Hegel on feminism in France. It shows how the discussion notably on the Phenomenology of Spirit has shaped the feminist theory of Simone de Beauvoir, Luce Irigaray and Judith Butler. In this context Hegel becomes a point for reference of the antagonistic concepts of equality and difference, and eventually for the deconstruction of sexual identity. Hegel und der französische Feminismus Christoph Hubig/Andreas Luckner, Between Naturalism and Technomorphism. Possibilities and the (pragmatic) Limits of ReflectionAgainst the "hard" naturalism of neurosciences Habermas tried to outline a "soft" naturalism, founding, in a non-scientistic way, the social and mental constitution of humans in an evolutionary process. As the analysis of his position can show, he thereby does not reflect on the technomorphism in his concept of evolution. The methodical culturalism of Janich, which does reflect on this fundamental technomorphism, has its own deficiencies; it turns out to be a naturalism of culture. We propose, instead, that "culture", "nature" and "technique" are concepts reflecting the conditions of our faculties to act. Zwischen Naturalismus und Technomorphismus. Möglichkeiten
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