Product Description: English summary: In this book Gunter Figal presents an aesthetics that has been systematically developed. He discusses art as a whole and does not limit his study to the visual arts, literature and music, but also includes arts such as dance, ceramics, landscape design and architecture...read more

This first book-length work of the prominent German philosopher Gunter Figal to appear in English offers a radical defense of metaphysical philosophy in the era of postmodern thought. For Figal, metaphysics does not represent an anachronistic and pernicious mode of thought that ought to be overcome but rather is a type of thinking that proceeds from a recognition of the necessary coherence of everything with its opposite. It is this agonistic relationship of opposites that Figal, following Heraclitus, terms strife. Rather than regarding the conflict of opposites as necessarily resulting in the dissolution of meaning and sense, as many contemporary thinkers maintain, Figal contends that sense and meaning can only come into existence metaphysically, that is to say, as a consequence of strife. And, the context within which strife occurs is freedom. Using these concepts of strife and freedom, Figal proposes new and provocative readings of Plato, Hegel, Nietzsche, and Kierkegaard, as well as of some of the most controversial figures of twentieth-century philosophy. (view table of contents)

Product Description: English summary: In this book, Gunter Figal develops a foundation for hermeneutical philosophy. Interpretation and understanding are newly conceived. Interpretation shows itself to be the original reference to a subject matter; it is a reference to something which stands opposite and, as such, poses a challenge...read more

Product Description: English summary: This yearbook represents a broad basis of one of the main trends in present-day philosophy with its counterparts in other sectors of the humanities. Hermeneutics sees itself as a successor to German Idealism and to the philosophy which originated in Germany and Europe during the 19th and the 20th century...read more

Product Description: English summary: This yearbook represents a broad basis of one of the main trends in present-day philosophy with its counterparts in other sectors of the humanities. Hermeneutics sees itself as a successor to German Idealism and to the philosophy which originated in Germany and Europe during the 19th and the 20th century...read more

Product Description: English summary: This yearbook represents a broad basis of one of the main trends in present-day philosophy with its counterparts in other sectors of the humanities. Hermeneutics sees itself as a successor to German Idealism and to the philosophy which originated in Germany and Europe during the 19th and the 20th century...read more

Product Description: English summary: This yearbook represents a broad basis of one of the main trends in present-day philosophy with its counterparts in other sectors of the humanities. Hermeneutics sees itself as a successor to German Idealism and to the philosophy which originated in Germany and Europe during the 19th and the 20th century...read more

Product Description: The International Yearbook for Hermeneutics represents one of the prominent currents in contemporary philosophy as well as in bordering disciplines. It gathers studies on questions concerning understanding and interpretation in all relevant fields, including philosophy, theology, jurisprudence, theory of science as well as literary and cultural studies...read more

Product Description: English summary: This yearbook represents a broad basis of one of the main trends in present-day philosophy with its counterparts in other sectors of the humanities. Hermeneutics sees itself as a successor to German Idealism and to the philosophy which originated in Germany and Europe during the 19th and the 20th century...read more

English summary: What is the concept and the essence of art? Gunter Figal looks at this question from perspectives which complement each other so that an answer emerges from the cohesion of these perspectives. He explores the modernity of art and also includes the discussion of readings, of the histories of reception, in which the modern understanding of art is prepared or articulated. In conclusion, the author deals with the epistemological character of art in its conflict between logos and mythos as well as the link between perceptibility and comprehensibility, a link which is essential for art. The author explores art from antiquity to the modern age: music, literature and the visual arts including the designing of articles of daily use are all dealt with in this work. German description: Was sind Begriff und Wesen der Kunst? Die Frage wird in Gunter Figals neuem Buch in einander erganzenden Perspektiven aufgenommen, so dass sich eine - naturgemass komplexe - Antwort aus der Zusammengehorigkeit dieser Perspektiven ergibt. Ins Spektrum des Buches gehort zunachst die Auseinandersetzung mit der Modernitat der Kunst; Kunst, so erweist sich, ist nicht in avantgardistischer Weise modern, sondern vor allem darin, dass sie, ihre eigenen Moglichkeiten der Schonheit findend, sich frei zu den grossen Werken der Tradition verhalten kann. Figal erkundet ausserdem Lesarten, also Wirkungsgeschichten, in denen sich Begriffe der Kunst reflektiert ausbilden - in Mehrfachbelichtungen gleichsam, die ein hermeneutisch fundiertes sachliches Verstandnis von Kunst und Kunstformen erlauben. Behandelt werden ebenso der Erkenntnischarakter der Kunst in seiner Spannung zwischen Logos und Mythos und damit die Frage, wie die Philosophie seit ihren Anfangen sich zur Kunst als Herausforderung und moglicher Erganzung verhalt. Schliesslich geht es um die fur die Kunst wesentliche Verschrankung von Wahrnehmbarkeit und Verstandlichkeit, also um ihren asthetischen Charakter. Zu den Autoren, mit denen Figal sich auseinandersetzt, gehoren Platon und Aristoteles, Kant und Nietzsche, Heidegger, Benjamin, Adorno, ebenso Goethe, Holderlin, Kleist, Baudelaire, Ernst Junger, Paul Klee und Beckett. Die erorterten Kunstwerke reprasentieren die Kunst in ihrem ganzen Reichtum: von der Antike bis zur Moderne, in Musik, Literatur und bildender Kunst, einschliesslich der Gestaltung von Gebrauchsdingen. Die Frage nach der Kunst, so zeigt Figals Buch, gehort ins Zentrum der Philosophie; mit ihr werden philosophische Fragen im Allgemeinen anschaulicher und klarer.

Product Description: English summary: This yearbook represents a broad basis of one of the main trends in present-day philosophy with its counterparts in other sectors of the humanities. Hermeneutics sees itself as a successor to German Idealism and to the philosophy which originated in Germany and Europe during the 19th and the 20th century...read more

Product Description: English summary: This yearbook represents a broad basis of one of the main trends in present-day philosophy with its counterparts in other sectors of the humanities. Hermeneutics sees itself as a successor to German Idealism and to the philosophy which originated in Germany and Europe during the 19th and the 20th century...read more

English summary: Gunter Figal's Unscheinbarkeit has, following on from his phenomenological hermeneutics (Gegenstandlichkeit, 2006) and his phenomenological aesthetics ( Erscheinungsdinge, 2010) phenomenology and its phenomena as its main topic. According to the central and innovative thesis of the book, phenomena are in and of themselves spatial and as such can only be understood in reference to space. As a consequence, phenomenology has to reflect and describe space. Space is the inconspicuous in which something can appear and thus be able to be a phenomenon. If that is the case, then phenomenology not only describes space, but is as such spatial. The determinations of space and spatiality developed in the book emerge from attentive perception and conscious experience. And it is therefore in debt to Husserl's thinking that perceptive contemplation is the only correct source of cognition. German description: Nach der phanomenologischen Hermeneutik von Gegenstandlichkeit (2006) und der phanomenologischen Asthetik von Erscheinungsdinge (2010) legt Gunter Figal mit Unscheinbarkeit ein Buch vor, in dem die Phanomenologie zusammen mit ihrer Sache, den Phanomenen, das Hauptthema ist. Die Bestimmungen des Raumes und der Raumlichkeit, die das Buch entwickelt, ergeben sich aus dem genauen Hinsehen, dem bewussten Erleben. So ist das Buch dem Gedanken Husserls verpflichtet, dass die Anschauung "die einzige Rechtsquelle der Erkenntnis" ist. "Ein bemerkenswertes Buch. Figals flexibler Umgang mit phanomenologischer Beschreibung und seine wache Aufmerksamkeit fur den Horizont klassisch phanomenologischer Behandlung von Raum und Ort ergeben zusammen eine echte Meditation uber die unscheinbaren Bedingungen des Hingehorens irgendwohin und auf diese Weise des Seins." Steven Crowell, Rice University, Houston, TX

Product Description: English summary: This yearbook represents a broad basis of one of the main trends in present-day philosophy with its counterparts in other sectors of the humanities. Hermeneutics sees itself as a successor to German Idealism and to the philosophy which originated in Germany and Europe during the 19th and the 20th century...read more

Product Description: Die uberragende philosophische Bedeutung Martin Heideggers steht ausser Zweifel. Sein Denken hat die Philosophie des zwanzigsten Jahrhunderts massgeblich gepragt. Mit dem Erscheinen seiner Gesamtausgabe nimmt die Wirkung Heideggers immer noch zu...read more