Tag: Heidegger

May 9, 2014
May 9, 2014

De L’Infini : A Foreigner’s Metaphysics

Book II — Foreigner, Here : Existentialist Foreignness
— Introduction

Back to the foreigner proper. What has the first-person voice of a foreigner to do in a philosophical exploration of foreignness ? …

May 9, 2014

De L’Infini : A Foreigner’s Metaphysics

Book II — Foreigner, Here : Existentialist Foreignness
— Part 1

Why is one departing ? Can one depart ? But depart from where ? …

May 9, 2014

De L’Infini : A Foreigner’s Metaphysics

Book II — Foreigner, Here : Existentialist Foreignness
— Part 2

Dasein : “being-there.” Heidegger knew the connotation…

May 9, 2014
May 9, 2014

De L’Infini : A Foreigner’s Metaphysics

Book IV — Beyond the I’s : A Foreigner’s Metaphysics
— Part 2

We have already touched upon the avenir as a radical modification of Heidegger’s temporal project…

May 9, 2014
December 6, 2013

Phenomenologies of Time – Introduction
Can science study time? Is time an object of scientific inquiry? Can scientific methods and experiments scrutinise time in a way similar to the study of an instance of matter, a movement or an organism? Defining time has been an intellectual mystery in all societies, and one may arguably concede that in the western tradition of scientific thought, the understanding of time has been set more through postulates and metaphysical assumptions than via a procedure of experimental inspection…

December 6, 2013

Phenomenologies of Time – Part 2
The tradition of phenomenology, which may even appear in some textbooks as a coherent ‘pheomenological family’ with each member neatly listed after the other, is particularly fascinating for the simultaneous depth of their common agreements, and the wide extent of their differences…

September 16, 2013

The possible meeting points between science and the thought of German phenomenologist Martin Heidegger (1889-1976) have often been tackled through the thinker’s later works on technology. While Heidegger truly brought crucial insights on the question of the 20th century human and her use of technology, reducing to this sole question the possible intersections between science and Heidegger would be forgetting that the very foundation of Heidegger phenomenological approach to ontology is in itself a response to science