The thought that I will explore in this paper is that the Sartre of B&N and the earlier writings is in certain fundamental respects a transcendental thinker, and that viewing him in this light makes a positive, favourable difference to how we understand and assess his ideas, arguments, and position as a whole. The use of such plastic and open-textured categories in the history of philosophy is,...

The article attempts to explore fundamental assumptions underlying Goffman’s theory of interaction. Goffman’s work has long been criticized for certain pervasive weaknesses such as the idea of a self as ‘inside’ and therefore inaccessible, an indifference to any distinction between appearance and reality, and a lack of concern for morality. It is argued that combating these and related problems...

A major challenge of literature is that it is stubbornly indeterminate. Both a vice and a virtue, the indeterminateness of literary language has acquired the status of an impasse, one which was perhaps most directly and resolutely faced by Jean-Paul Sartre and Stéphane Mallarmé. The question of whether the indeterminateness of literary language is a vice or a virtue, however, has rarely been tr...

Joseph Rouse Wesleyan University Heidegger’s reputation in the Anglophone philosophical world suggests that he was unsympathetic to the natural sciences, and generally unconcerned with the philosophy of science. Even among those who know his work, philosophy of science is not usually considered central to Heidegger, nor is he seen as a significant contributor to philosophy of science. This diss...

Começaremos com uma exposição (crítica) de um “suposto” processo marginalização intelectual que Vilém Flusser sofreu na história da filosofia brasileira. Mas esta será “pré-texto” para aproximarmo-nos daquilo chamaremos “fulcro todo o pensamento filosófico” flusseriano: a ideia transcensão. Trataremos primeiro demonstrar - numa conversa triangular entre Flusser, Benedito Nunes e Clarice Lispect...

Carnap’s famous demonstration of the “nonsensical” character of certain sentences from Heidegger’s Was ist Metaphysik? has generally not been read as a serious engagement with or criticism of Heidegger’s thought. I argue to the contrary. I show, first, that Heidegger and Carnap are both reacting against the same features of Husserl’s system, for the same reasons, and, second, that Carnap unders...

Sartre and Levinas both described the relation to other referring Descartes’ idea of infinite. Comparing these two phenomenologies sheds a light on great influence had Levinas’ ethics. While philosophers agree that is « hole in world » sense he negates my intentionality, they fundamentally differ ultimate meaning this negation. Following thread Cartesian infinite, article deciphers critique Sar...

Section 1 establishes some key similarities between Heidegger and Georg Simmel in order to motivate the hypothesis that Simmel’s account of how society is possible can be used to give an account of das Man which reconciles the transcendentally philosophical role emphasised by Dreyfus with the ethically negative features emphasised by Olafson. Section 2 elaborates the issue addressed in Ch. 4 of...

From 1959 until 1969, Heidegger lectured to psychiatrists and psychiatry students at the University of Zurich Psychiatric Clinic and in Zollikon. The transcriptions of these lectures were published as the Zollikon Seminars. In these seminars Heidegger is highly critical of psychoanalysis, because of its causal and objectifying approach to the human being. In general, Heidegger considers it an o...