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Several of the most celebrated philosophers in the German tradition since Kant afford to poetry an all-but-unprecedented status in Western thought. Fichte, Hegel, Nietzsche, Heidegger, and Gadamer argue that the scope, limits, and possibilities of philosophy are intimately intertwined with those of poetry. For them, poetic thinking itself is understood as intrinsic to the kind of thinking that defines philosophical inquiry and the philosophical life, and they developed their views through extensive and sustained considerations of specific poets, as well as specific poetic figures and images. This book offers essays by leading scholars that address each of the major figures of this tradition and the respective poets they engage, including Schiller, Archilochus, Pindar, Hölderlin, Eliot, and Celan, while also discussing the poets' contemporary relevance to philosophy in the continental tradition.Above all, the book explores an approach to language that rethinks its role as a mere tool for communication or for the dissemination of knowledge. Here language will be understood as an essential event that opens up the world in a primordial sense whereby poetry comes to have a deeply ethical significance for human beings. In this way, the volume positions ethics at the center of continental discourse, even as it engages philosophy itself as a discourse about language attuned to the rigor of what poetry ultimately expresses.

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Philosophers --- Philosophers, Ancient --- Scholars

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Wij leven in een bezeten wereld. En wij weten het', schreef Johan Huizinga in 1935. Zo somber als de goedburgerlijke historicus waren niet al zijn vakgenoten. Aartsoptimist Pieter Geyl wenste niet in somberheid en tobberij te vervallen, maar wilde 'wekken en waarschuwen'. Maar ook hij kon zich niet onttrekken aan de 'eeuw van uitersten', zoals de twintigste eeuw wel is genoemd. Totalitaire stromingen als fascisme, nationaal-socialisme en communisme lieten historici geen rust en dwongen hen de verstilde archieven en rustige studeerkamers te verlaten. Of anders was er wel de historie van Nederla

Historians --- Historiographers --- Scholars

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In eighteen lively chapters, Andrew Pessin examines the most unusual ideas from the ancient Greeks and contemporary thinkers, how they have influenced the course of Western thought, and why, despite being so odd, they just might be correct.Time is an illusion.Your thoughts do not exist inside your head.There is no physical worldAnd more!

Philosophy --- Philosophers. --- Scholars --- History.

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Decolonization --- Scholars, Black