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Emmanuel Levinas and Theodor Adorno are both post-Shoah philosophers who experienced refugeedom. In different contexts, both discuss the question of a linkage between language and soil, and ultimately show that the distinction between the native and the foreign is untenable. I suggest that Levinas's evocation of linguistic soil illustrates his understanding of Jewishness as defined by a ceding of ground, thus showing that Levinas's thought relies on a conception of ground in order to then reject it. Adorno, in evoking a "language without soil," argues for a conception of language that rejects organicism, seeing both loanwords and Jews as examples of difference without foreignness. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In one of his last interviews before his passing, Jean-Luc Nancy talks about his own engagement with and eventual departure from Heidegger's work. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Pedro Erber discusses with Naoki Sakai the history of Heidegger's influence on philosophy in Japan. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Pedro Erber and Facundo Vega speak with Marcia Sá Cavalcante Schuback about Heidegger's influence on philosophy in Brazil and beyond. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Ian Moore speaks with Peg Birmingham about the intellectual and personal relationship between Martin Heidegger and Hannah Arendt, and more. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

For this special issue, consisting entirely of interviews and conversations, we invited scholars whose paths have crossed Heidegger's legacies in various ways to reflect on the endurance and resonances, on the contemporaneity and possible futures of Heidegger's project in today's philosophical and political panorama. As editors, we conducted some of the interviews, individually or together. Other pieces were commissioned, some of them constituting the outcome of conversations between thinkers deeply familiar with each other's work, as student and mentor or as partners in longstanding dialogue. Some of the authors included in this issue nurture a strong sense of indebtedness to Heidegger's work, some take significant distance from his legacy, while others stand in explicit opposition to the Heideggerian project and its afterlives. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Bruno Bosteels speaks about the influence of Heidegger's thought on his monograph Philosophies of Defeat: The Jargon of Finitude and his work overall. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Francesco Vitale discusses with Rodolphe Gasché the history of Heidegger reception in France and Germany, and more. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Tatjana Noemi Tömmel and Florian Grosser speak with Peter Trawny, the philosopher whose editions and interpretations of Martin Heidegger's work have strongly and lastingly shaped the view of Heidegger's thought. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Nicolette Bragg asks Grant Farred about the legacy of his text Martin Heidegger Saved My Life and what it means to think. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Cristina Crichton speaks with Ramón Rodríguez about ethics in Heidegger (Studies) and Heidegger's influence on his own work. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Niki Young speaks with Graham Harman about his Object-Oriented Philosophy in relation to his understanding of Heidegger's tool-analysis, and more. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Calvin Warren talks about Heidegger's influence on Afropessimism, and about the philosophical significance of the Harlem Renaissance. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Michael Marder and Giovanbattista Tusa discuss the "today" and "tonight" in Heidegger's thinking and beyond. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article presents authors view on the views of French philosopher Jean-Luc Nancy and Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben on their notion of world and theology in Christianity and God the creator and the created world. The views of German philosopher Martin Heidegger on Continental tradition and philosophical hermeneutics is also discussed.

The article reports on the authors views of the meanings and metaphorical effect of word co-appearing and comparution and that they give rise to sensibility and views of French philosopher Jean-Luc Nancy and Aristotle on plurality of units and discusses the logic of co-appearing and that language is principle or the creation and co-appearing is the poetry of the world.

The article discusses Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben's concept of Italian categories and the impossibility of experience. Topics covered include erudition at the very center of philosophical discourse, the ontology of potentiality, and "Language and Death" as Agamben's first completely metaphysical and substantially philosophical work.

An essay is presented regarding French philosopher Pierre Ducassé and his application technics in philosophy. Topics discussed include his role for academic institutions in France, his book "Les techniques et le philosophe," concerning contemporary acuity and sensitivity, and the insupportable alterity between philosophy and techniques.

The article focuses on the connection between philosophy and artistic and technical behaviors. Topics discussed include the need for philosophers to learn how to lift their research models into artistic styles, the application of techniques and philosophy in he study of child development and animal behavior, and the reliance of technical information in retrospectivity.

An essay is presented on the different models of teaching which include the approach that views language as a tool of representation and the perspective of seeing language as a medium of action and finds its paradigm in the open-ended question. It offers the realization regarding the power of language both to represent and to interrogate reality. The author discusses Augustine's concept of illumination and philosopher Søren Kierkegaard's perspective of indirect communication.

The article offers information on the interpretation to novelist Samuel Beckett's argument on the limits of language used by writers. According to Professor Karmen MacKendrick, grammar seduces writers into a belief in metaphysics. French philosopher Emmanuel Levinas adds that skepticism restricts comprehension because the equivocation it names necessarily puts all deductive reasoning into question.

The article presents the author's views on the works of Greek philosopher Aristotle that are based on analogy. Aristotle had used metaphor in various of it works which is considered as analogy or white mythology by other scholars. Author further explores various meanings of word sunshine used in different works including cultural memory, truth and immanence of an experience.

The article presents the author's views on holism and historicity, highlighting philosopher Gilles Deleuze's ideas on the subjects. He examines historicity based on the shaping of time in numerous, differentiated, and discrete aspects of becoming and holism with regards to its issues with semanticism. He discusses several of Deleuze's works and his depiction of holism and historicity which include "The Logic of Sense" and "Difference and Repetition."

The article discusses aspects of philosopher Immanuel Kant's sensus communis, common sense. The author talks about the Kant's writings, which show engagement with the tradition of aesthetics. He also tackles Kant's most significant revision to British notions of commons sense, where Hume and other had meant common sense to a kind of good taste shared by actual individuals.

The article examines the sketch "Theory of Art Critique," by Walter Benjamin. In this sketch, the German-Jewish philosopher continues the dispute about Kant that he inaugurated by letter with Gershom Scholem in the winter of 1917. Benjamin begins from the position of the Stranger and Theaetetus at the end of the Sophist facing the obstacles to constructing a theory of critique. He also turns to a comment in the Symposium to cast light on critiques unjustifiable self-justification.

The article discusses the features of Jacques Derrida's thinking of democracy. It focuses on the coordination of Derrida's perception on democracy and its relevance to crucial concepts. It also explores the distinction of Derrida's thinking from Kantian Idea and presents its casual relatedness to Aristotle's idea of deviance and perversion, a logical thinking on democracy.

Presents an interview with Italian philosopher Roberto Esposito. Esposito talks about the distinction between his reflections on biopolitics and those of Giorgio Agamben and Toni Negri. He describes in detail the features of the concept "communitas" as discussed in the book "Communitas: Origine e destino della comunit&agrve;/Communitas: The Origin and Destiny of the Community." He has revised the theoretical framework within which immunization is inscribed. This interview was translated by Anna Paparcone.

An introduction is presented to the articles about Italian philosopher Roberto Esposito published in the June 2006 issue of the "Diacritics" periodical.

This article introduces the phrase arbitrary cause as a precise description of the contingent structural relationship of figurative language to the social sphere of linguistic agency and lexical choice. The purpose is to demonstrate the impact of causality on the process of figurative representation and to describe the overmotivated function of signification found in figurative representation. It states that the term causality as used in the term arbitrary cause is similar to what philosophers refer as regularity. It likewise states that the phrase arbitrary cause is concerned not with objects, but with the arbitrary nature of the syntagmatic intervention of a third term into dichotomy.

This article discusses the contribution of French philosopher Pierre Klossowski in analyzing philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche's exposition of sensory experience. Klossowski defined how Nietzsche perceived conception of sensibility as the multiple impulses which confront the forces of the environment. It discussed how these impulses exalt and consecrate events of the world. It also reports on Klossowski's examination of some unpublished manuscripts of philosophy to find the intrinsic relationship between the body and a multitude of forces, which are composed into the organs of an organism.

This article discusses issues concerning the problems associated with the communicability of thinking with reference to the works of philosophers Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel and Pierre Klossowski. It includes information on philosopher Immanuel Kant's philosophical exposition which sets the limits of philosophical thinking. It is believed that Nietzsche's philosophical work got significant recognition as it tried to define the relevance of thinking in relation to the dramatization of historical life.

This article presents the author's comment on novelist and essayist Pierre Klossowski's works in philosophy. According to the author, Klossowski's works define philosophy as the creation or invention of objects. The article also discusses how Klossowski interpreted German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche's thought in his book "Nietzsche and the Vicious Circle."

The article discusses the relationship between animals and men as portrayed in the book "The Open," by Giorgio Agamben. Traditionally, philosophers have been eager to put distance between themselves and the animals, and therefore are interested in studying what separates man from animal. According to philosopher Martin Heidegger, animals live in an environment in which they are receptive to various stimuli, but where they have nothing approximating what we call a "world"--animals are, as he claims, "poor in world" (weltarm) -or even "without world (weltlas). In the book "open" is the space revealed in the moment when the world opens out onto something larger. Heidegger has described "the open," as what people find themselves in when the bustle and haste of the environment recedes and one sees that environment in all its strangeness and immensity-as a "world," greater and less graspable than the restricted and finite representations. According to Agamben, to render inoperative the machine that governs the conception of man, it is imperative to display the central void, the hiatus which, within the human, separates the human from the animal.

The article focuses on Luce Irigaray's book "Marine Lover of Friedrich Nietzsche." The book written for, about, and with philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, can be read precisely as a revitalization of writing. In her interpretation of his work, Irigaray poses to Nietzsche the possibility that his philosopher of the future might be a woman, even though his various stylizations of woman seem to preclude actual women as readers of Nietzsche's work. Although he writes woman's name continually over his texts, women are not the ones to whom Nietzsche dedicates his work, the philosopher of the future to whom he beckons is presumed by him to share certain prejudices about women. A number of excellent accounts of "Marine Lover" have already been published that enumerate Irigaray's criticisms of Nietzsche, reading her elemental address to him in terms of his forgotten relation to certain women. Philosophy generally exhibits a curious body language to its reader. Arguments are constructed in order to demonstrate one way of thinking that excludes rival paths of thought.

The article focuses on ethics and interdisciplinarity in philosophy and literary theory. Although thinkers have continued to enter into basic questions in ethics, the writings of Charles Taylor, Will Kymlicka, Iris Young, Seyla Benhabib, and others attest to a shift from ethics to politics powerfully influenced by John Rawls. These changes in emphasis are a clear sign of how the effects of globalization have begun to draw a response from political theorists. Links between ethics and political theory have not always been self-evident. By entering into questions of political philosophy, ethics becomes "applied ethics." Political philosophers have, in different ways, endeavored to take stock of the interconnectedness of the world and its implications for ethics and politics. Interdisciplinarity in ethical and political philosophy has thus meant an attention to global problems as they have emerged in law, economics, and ecology. This traffic between disciplines amounts to a testing of philosophers' ability to formulate ethical protocols equipped to keep pace with an exacerbated movement of people, goods, information, and capital across borders, and the political, legal, and economic practices associated with it.

This article focuses on writer Ronald Barthes and his works. In his late dialogue Parmenides, Plato seems to be on the point of overturning the main achievement of his philosophy, the doctrine of ideas. The aged Parmenides disquiets the young Socrates by asking if ideas apply not only to abstractions such as the just, the beautiful, and the good, but also to hair, mud, dirt, or anything else particularly vile and worthless. Socrates thinks not, but admits being troubled by a doubt that forces him to retreat for fear of falling into some abyss of nonsense and perishing. This hint of an obverse Platonism that haunts the doctrine of ideas shares much with the later work of Barthes, which, qualifying a life's work in semiotics, seems to turn away from signs and the inquiry into their conditions of meaning to seek meaning in the smudge and the blemish.