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2021 ◽  
pp. 20-35
Author(s):  
Tomasz Detlaf

The article aims to defend Karl Löwith’s secularization thesis from the criticism made by Hans Blumenberg. Löwith’s thesis claims that modern philosophy of history is a secularized Christian eschatology. Blumenberg accuses Löwith’s thesis of substantialism. Following Sjoerd Griffioen, the article shows that this criticism fails. The article presents Blumenberg’s arguments that the idea of progress cannot be derived from eschatology. These arguments are refuted by the analysis of the work of Joachim of Fiore and providing a distinction between two kinds of progress. The article is written from the perspective of intellectual history, detaching from the dispute over the judgement of modernity.


Thesis Eleven ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 072551362110328
Author(s):  
James Kent

In this paper I discuss Hans Blumenberg’s The Rigorism of Truth, a short polemic that criticizes Freud and Hannah Arendt for placing (what he considers) a misplaced faith in the liberatory potential of rational truth in moments of historical disaster. The secondary literature suggests that this piece exhibits either all the signs of a late, Romantic capitulation to the ‘need’ for myth, or Blumenberg’s failure to recognize his own faith and debts to the ‘mythology’ of reason’s emancipatory hopes. My argument hinges on the claim that these readings put undue emphasis on the philosophical anthropology component of Blumenberg’s work. Instead, I offer a new reading of the essay, in keeping with an alternative reading of his theory of myth. The essay transforms, then, from a polemic regarding the need for myth, into a nuanced description of the ways in which we can overestimate our capacity to overcome it.


Author(s):  
Rüdiger Zill

Rüdiger Zill untersucht die Entstehung und Entwicklung von Heinz Dieter Kittsteiners Konzeption einer »Begriffsgeschichte als Kulturgeschichte« vor allem anhand von dessen Dissertation »Naturabsicht und Unsichtbare Hand« (1980) und der Habilitation »Die Entstehung des modernen Gewissens« (1991). Diese Konzeption, die in Auseinandersetzung u.a. mit Hans Blumenberg, Michel Foucault und Odo Marquard entstanden ist, beschränkt sich nicht nur auf die Nachzeichnung geistesgeschichtlicher Entwicklungslinien, sondern will die Erfahrungen, die hinter den Begriffen stehen, sichtbar machen. Als solche hat sie ein großes, bisher kaum entdecktes Potential für die gegenwärtige Begriffsgeschichte.


Paragrana ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 103-118
Author(s):  
Michael Moxter

Abstract Der folgende Beitrag diskutiert die Frage, ob und in welchem Sinne von Vollendung des Menschen heute noch die Rede sein könne. Gründe für eine skeptische Zurückhaltung erklären sich aus einem Bild der Moderne, nach dem diese im Abbau antiker Vorstellungen ein nach-metaphysisches Denken auf den Weg bringt. Doch ist die Lage nicht so eindeutig wie in solchen Überzeugungen suggeriert wird. Das zeigt sich vor dem Hintergrund einiger begrifflichen Klärungen (I.) an einschlägigen Motiven der Selbstbeschreibung der Moderne (II.) sowie an der Bedeutung, die das Fragmentarische in ihr hat (III.). An Kants Früh- und Spätwerk zeigt sich, wie präsent Erfüllungsfiguren auch diesseits der kritischen Philosophie bleiben (IV.). Bei Hans Blumenberg findet sich eine phänomenologische und näherhin anthropologische Begründung für deren Beharrungskraft (V.). Die interne Korrelation zwischen Fragmentarität und Vollendung kann theologisch als Resultat eines reflektierten Umgangs mit Enttäuschungen gedeutet werden, die dennoch das Phänomen der Erwartung nicht aus der Welt schaffen. Und das ist auch gut so. Denn die Resistenz des Vollendungsgedankens wirft Licht auf die conditio humana, die sich in Kritik und Endlichkeitsbewusstsein nicht erschöpft, sondern im Verhältnis zum Unbedingten steht (VI.).


2021 ◽  
Vol 8 ◽  
pp. 165-178
Author(s):  
Oleksandr Siedin

The article is focused on the intellectual significance of the theory of myth developed by prominent Polish anthropologist Bronislaw Malinowski within his anthropological approach known as functionalism. The author argues that Malinowski already in the first half of the 20th century anticipated the main trend within the later studies on myth. Like many influential myth-theorists of the next generations, Malinowski recognized the elements of rationality within mythical thinking. Both his emphasis on the integrity of culture as well as his opposition to diffusionism and evolutionism resonate with the perspective of structuralists in the second half of the 20th century. According to Malinowski, myth and science as the parts of culture serve mainly for the basic biological needs of the human body. The more elaborated vision of the functionality of myth has been proposed later in the philosophy of mythology of German poststructuralist Hans Blumenberg. Despite that, Malinowski’s attention to the function of myth reflected and formed the general tendency of contemporary science of myth. This tendency presupposes the “de-archaization” of myth in contrast to the progressivist vision of myth as entirely “irrational” or “paralogical” thinking. The author also analyses how the intellectual heritage of Malinowski is used in the recent studies made by contemporary Polish and Ukrainian scholars.


2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (April 2021) ◽  
pp. 93-104
Author(s):  
Bengül GÜNGÖRMEZ AKOSMAN

In this study, some theses about modernity, which is the main research object of sociology, will be discussed. Not all theses on modernity will be discussed. Because within the bounds of such an article, it is not possible to express all the discussions about modernity in the literature. In this paper we will try to sum up two theses on modernity in sociological context. After evaluating the historical and etymologic origin of the concept of modernity, the first of the discussions we will approach is about the fact that modernity symbolizes a break from the past and that it is unique. For the first discussion in this study, the views of two thinkers, Jürgen Habermas and Hans Blumenberg, will be expressed. The second thesis on modernity argues modernity’s continuity with the past and its historicity. The views of some of the thinkers who defended the latter will also be discussed. These thinkers are Karl Löwith, Jacob Taubes, Carl Schmitt, Eric Voegelin and Michael Gillespie, respectively. As sociologist Giddens has said, “sociology is the science of modernity”. In this context, theses on modernity, and essence of modernity set a theoretical and intellectual framework for today's sociologist's research on society. Therefore, at the end of the study, the contribution of philosophical debates on modernity to sociology will be evaluated additionally.


Andamios ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (45) ◽  
Author(s):  
Juan Cristóbal Cruz Revueltas

A pesar de constituir una de las cimas de la filosofía de la segunda parte del siglo XX, la obra de Hans Blumenberg sigue siendo poco conocida en México y en América latina. En el presente trabajo buscaremos demostrar que, si bien Blumenberg no es un filósofo político en sentido estricto, ello no impide identificar –a partir de nociones clave como distanciación, mito, politeísmo y retórica– un pensamiento político sólido y coherente con el conjunto de su obra. Por lo demás, la obra de Blumenberg constituye una clave y una vía de acceso para la comprensión de las tensiones intelectuales que vivió la cultura de la República Federal Alemana durante la segunda parte del siglo XX. 


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