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Anthony J. Steinbock - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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SPEP Co-director's Address: SPEP and the Continental Divide
The Journal of Speculative Philosophy, 2014Co-Authors: Anthony J. SteinbockAbstract:This address discusses both the organization of SPEP (the Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy) and SPEP as an organization. I take up these issues by describing the foundation of SPEP in terms of a positive insight into a distinctive style of doing Philosophy and a subsequent experience of being other. I then suggest that there is an initial and fundamental phase of openness characteristic of SPEP as “eyes wide open” and another narrowing moment of SPEP that runs counter to this as “eyes wide shut.” In a fourth section, I depict a difficulty in which SPEP finds itself today: a “Continental drift,” when SPEP becomes identified with Continental Philosophy. Whereas Continental Philosophy might find itself in antagonist relations to, for example, “analytic Philosophy,” SPEP does not necessarily find itself in this way. It is therefore necessary to understand Continental Philosophy as a participant in and from SPEP, not SPEP as an allegiance to a discipline or as an organ of Continental Philosophy. SPEP is an organization that edges beyond itself and, according to its distinctive style, is characterized by openness to the things themselves and their structures in terms of an orientation to problems, experience, context, and critique.
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Temporality and the Point: The Origins and Crisis of Continental Philosophy
Contributions to Phenomenology, 1998Co-Authors: Anthony J. SteinbockAbstract:Persuaded by the perspicacious critiques carried out by such figures as Jacques Derrida, Michel Foucault, Francois Lyotard, and a host of others, many theorists belonging to that catch-all field known as “contemporary Continental Philosophy, ” have forcefully challenged the traditional notions of origin, foundation, the absolute, teleology, essence, etc. This tendency is felt most poignantly today in the discourse of “post-modernism.”
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The origins and crisis of Continental Philosophy
Man and World, 1997Co-Authors: Anthony J. SteinbockAbstract:When contemporary Continental Philosophy dismisses, with the discourse of post-modernism, the role of origin, teleology, foundation, etc., it is forsaking its own style of thinking and as a consequence is no longer able to discern crises of lived-meaning or to engage in the transformation of historical life. I address this crisis by characterizing Continental Philosophy as a particular style of thinking, generative thinking. I then examine the meaning and origins of philosophical thinking by drawing, for strategic reasons, on Jacques Derrida's essay “Cogito et histoire de la folie.” For not only has the very question of “origins” come under fire through various post-modern readings of Derrida, but Derrida's own point of critique concerning Western Metaphysics depends upon a specific understanding of origin that I call origin-originating. In the final section of this paper. I interpret the crisis within Continental Philosophy as a forgetting the “point” of origin-originating within the generative structure of experience.
Duane Williams - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Mystical Theology and Continental Philosophy: Interchange in the Wake of God
2017Co-Authors: David Lewin, Simon D. Podmore, Duane WilliamsAbstract:Exploration of the interface between mystical theology and Continental Philosophy is a defining feature of the current intellectual and even devotional climate. But to what extent and in what depth are these disciplines actually speaking to one another; or even speaking about the same phenomena? This book draws together original contributions by leading and emerging international scholars, delineating emerging debates in this growing and dynamic field of research, and spanning mystical and philosophical traditions from the ancient, to the medieval, modern, and contemporary. At the heart of which lies Meister Eckhart, perhaps the single most influential Christian mystic for modern times. The book is organised around significant historical and contemporary figures who speak across the intersections of Philosophy and theology, offering new insights into key interlocutors such as Pseudo-Dionysius, Augustine, Isaac Luria, Eckhart, Hegel, Heidegger, Marion, Kierkegaard, Deleuze, Laruelle, and Žižek. Designed both to contribute to current trends in mystical theology and Philosophy, and elicit dialogue and debate from further afield, this book speaks within an emerging space exploring the retrieval of the mystical within a post-secular context.
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Eckhart’s Why and Heidegger’s What: Mystical Theology and Continental Philosophy Beyond Subjectivistic Thought
2017Co-Authors: Duane WilliamsAbstract:This paper explores similarities between the mystical theology of Meister Eckhart and the Continental Philosophy of Martin Heidegger. It begins by looking at passages from some of Eckhart’s German sermons, in order to explore the significance of his notion of being ‘without a why.’ The second part of this paper draws on John D. Caputo’s study of how Heidegger too adopts and understands the notion of being ‘without a why’, through his reinterpretation of Leibniz’s Principle of Sufficient Reason, and his defence of Johannes Scheffler’s mystical poetry. The final section explores Heidegger’s understanding of the word ‘what’ by drawing on his work, ‘What is Philosophy’, which I will argue is as significant to his mystical thinking as the word ‘why’ is in his study of Leibniz and Scheffler. My overall aim is to show how the words ‘why’ and ‘what’ can lead to a delimitation or circumscription of our thinking, which compromises or obstructs our relation to the abyss of Godhead or of Being. I will close by highlighting the importance of releasement or letting-be (Gelassenheit) in both Eckhart’s and Heidegger’s approach.
Michael J. Monahan - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Race, Colorblindness, and Continental Philosophy
Philosophy Compass, 2006Co-Authors: Michael J. MonahanAbstract:The “colorblind” society is often offered as a worthy ideal for individual interaction as well as public policy. The ethos of liberal democracy would seem indeed to demand that we comport ourselves in a manner completely indifferent to race (and class, and gender, and so on). But is this ideal of colorblindness capable of fulfillment? And whether it is or not, is it truly a worthy political goal? In order to address these questions, one must first explore the nature of “race” itself. Is it ultimately real, or merely an illusion? What kind of reality, if any, does it have, and what are the practical (moral and political) consequences of its ontological status? This paper will explore the issue of colorblindness, focusing particularly on recent developments dealing with this topic in Continental Philosophy. Beginning with the question of racial ontology, I will argue that race has a social reality that makes the practice of colorblindness, at least for the time being, politically untenable, and it may remain suspect even as a long-term goal.
Alison Stone - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Nature, Continental Philosophy, and environmental ethics.
2005Co-Authors: Alison StoneAbstract:Until recently, there has been relatively little self-conscious reflection - from either environmental or Continental philosophers - on the specific contributions which Continental Philosophy, insofar as it is a distinctive tradition, might make to environmental thought. This situation has begun to change with several recent publications, such as Charles S. Brown and Ted Toadvine's (2003) edited collection Ecophenomenology: Back to the Earth Itself, and Bruce V. Foltz and Robert Frodeman's (2004) collection Rethinking Nature: Essays in Environmental Philosophy. This special issue aims to continue the discussion of how the Continental tradition might advance or transform environmental thinking, both by reconsidering authors such as Kant, Schelling, Nietzsche and Heidegger, and by considering how themes and concepts from Continental Philosophy and social theory - including Merleau-Ponty's concept of flesh, Foucault's notion of discipline, and Bourdieu's social critique of taste - bear on environmental practice and theory.
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Introduction: Nature, Environmental Ethics, and Continental Philosophy.
Environmental Values, 2005Co-Authors: Alison StoneAbstract:Until recently, there has been relatively little self-conscious reflection - from either environmental or Continental philosophers - on the specific contributions which Continental Philosophy, insofar as it is a distinctive tradition, might make to environmental thought. This situation has begun to change with several recent publications, such as Charles S. Brown and Ted Toadvine's (2003) edited collection Ecophenomenology: Back to the Earth Itself, and Bruce V. Foltz and Robert Frodeman's (2004) collection Rethinking Nature: Essays in Environmental Philosophy. This special issue aims to continue the discussion of how the Continental tradition might advance or transform environmental thinking, both by reconsidering authors such as Kant, Schelling, Nietzsche and Heidegger, and by considering how themes and concepts from Continental Philosophy and social theory - including Merleau-Ponty's concept of flesh, Foucault's notion of discipline, and Bourdieu's social critique of taste - bear on environmental practice and theory.
Shannon Winnubst - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Temporality in Queer Theory and Continental Philosophy
Philosophy Compass, 2010Co-Authors: Shannon WinnubstAbstract:The connections between the fields of queer theory and Continental Philosophy are strange and strained: simultaneously difficult and all too easy to ferret out, there is no easy narrative for how the two fields interconnect. Both sides of the relation seem either to disavow or simply repress any relation to the other. For example, despite the impact of Foucault’s History of Sexuality, Volume One on early queer theory, current work in queer of color critique challenges the politics and epistemology of placing this text in such a canonical position, particularly for the adamantly anti-foundational field of queer theory.1 On the other hand, Continental Philosophy, perhaps in its ongoing beleaguered attempt to form an identity within the analytically dominated discipline of Philosophy in the United States,2 seems largely to ignore the growth of queer theory, despite the provocative and invigorating work on some of Continental Philosophy’s most beloved topics, such as temporality, embodiment, desire, the negative, and radically anti-foundational subjectivity, epistemology, and politics. Setting aside the thorny project of their genealogical connections and disconnections, this essay turns to current trajectories in the field of queer theory, particularly the heated debates about temporality and the future, to indicate how this contemporary scholarship both draws on and exceeds a grounding in Continental Philosophy.