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VOLUME 18
September,
2011
Weltbilder and Philosophy
EDITED BY
Renata Badii, Enrica Fabbri |
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On approaching this issue of Humana.Mente, readers could maybe wonder why a theme such as that of Weltbild could be considered relevant for philosophy today. Of course, the debate on Weltbild, a term that can be translated in English as “world image” or “world picture”, represented an important moment of the late-modern German-speaking philosophical debate, at least from the second half of the nineteenth century until the 1930s, before slowly fading out in the 1970s. From Wilhelm Dilthey to Edmund Husserl, from Max Weber to Martin Heidegger, passing through thinkers such as Franz Borkenau, Karl Jaspers, Ernst Cassirer and Ludwig Wittgenstein, until the works of Günther Anders and Hans Blumenberg, the idea of Weltbild and of what we can call the “family of concepts” related to it (such as Weltanschauung, Weltauffassung, Weltansicht, Lebensanschauung, etc.) seems to represent a characteristic element of the particular “philosophical Stimmung” of that specific epoch. [read more] |
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Papers
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| Hjördis Becker |
From Weltanschauung to Livs-Anskuelse: Kierkegaard’s Existential Philosophy |
[PDF - 174kb] |
| Eric S. Nelson |
The World Picture and its Conflict in Dilthey and Heidegger |
[PDF - 196kb] |
Kenneth Knies |
Three Views of the One True World and What They Make of Mere Worldviews: A Husserlian Approach to Weltanschauung |
[PDF - 171kb] |
| Michael Inwood |
Heidegger and the Weltbild |
[PDF - 167kb] |
| Elena Alessiato |
Human Being, World, and Philosophy in Karl Jaspers |
[PDF - 167kb] |
| Dimitri D’Andrea |
The World in Images. Subjectivity and Politics in Max Weber |
[PDF - 213kb] |
| Arpad Szakolczai |
Franz Borkenau on the Mechanical Weltbild |
[PDF - 187kb] |
| Barbara Henry |
The Weltbild Concept According to Ernst Cassirer |
[PDF - 219kb] |
| A-M. Søndergaard Christensen |
“What Matters to Us?” Wittgenstein’s Weltbild, Rock and Sand, Men and Women |
[PDF - 235kb] |
| Stefano Velotti |
Günther Anders: Weltbilder, “Models of Enticement”, and the Question of Praxis |
[PDF - 234kb] |
| Martino Doni |
Hans Blumenberg in the Cave. Towards a “Sociological” Solution of an Absolute Metaphor |
[PDF - 243kb] |
| Marc Jongen |
On Anthropospheres and Aphrogrammes.
Peter Sloterdijk’s Thought Images of the Monstrous |
[PDF - 198kb] |
| BOOK REVIEWS |
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| Anna Boncompagni |
Luciano Bazzocchi
L'albero del Tractatus
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[PDF - 103kb] |
| Andrea Erizi |
Raymond Guess
Politics and Imagination
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[PDF - 102kb] |
| COMMENTARIES |
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| Ulrich Beuttler |
Weltbilder and Theology
on Das Weltbild der Zukunft by K. Heim |
[PDF - 139kb] |
| Mirko Alagna |
The Matryoshka-Concept
on the Interpretation of “Weltanschauung” by K. Mannheim
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[PDF - 129kb] |
| Domenico Spinosa |
The Image-World
on The Image-World by Susan Sontag |
[PDF - 118kb] |
| INTERVIEWS |
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| Enrica Fabbri |
Alain de Benoist |
[PDF - 138kb] |
| REPORTS |
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| Jacob Taubes |
The World as Fiction and Representation
translated by Renata Badii |
[PDF - 130kb] |
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