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The article explores the concept of ideology and its relationship to language, reality, and interpretation. The author argues that ideology structures our understanding of reality through flawed interpretations, perpetuating moral wrongs. The text emphasizes the importance of recognizing the role of language in ideology critique and understanding how dominant meanings shape our access to the world. It also discusses the incorporation of theories of direct reference and formal notions of the world in the development of a hermeneutics of ideology critique. The goal is to dismantle dominant world-disclosures and promote rational discourse among equals. [Extracted from the article]

The article is a book review of "Indian Philosophy and Yoga in Germany" by Owen Ware. The book explores the reception of Indian philosophy and yoga in Germany during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. It argues that German thinkers, such as Schlegel, Humboldt, Schelling, and Hegel, had a flawed understanding of Indian philosophy. The second half of the book focuses on Modern Indian Philosophy, particularly the work of Bengali philosophers Dasgupta, Radhakrishna, and Bhattacharya. The review highlights the book's analysis of how Indian philosophy influenced European thought and the importance of including Modern Indian Philosophy in academic discussions. [Extracted from the article]

The article focuses on Franz Brentano's project in descriptive psychology and phenomenology, highlighting its relevance to the questions of intentionality and consciousness. Topics include Brentano's theory of intentionality and its influence on Husserl and other continental philosophers, as well as discussions on the reducibility of the mental, the qualitative nature of intentionality, and the structure of intentionality.

The article focuses on Uriah Kriegel's book "Brentano's Philosophical System: Mind, Being, Value" and its exploration of Brentano's philosophy of mind as the foundation for his theories of truth, being, and value. Topics include the integration of practical and theoretical philosophy in Brentano's work and the distinction between emotions and acts of the will.

The early reception of German letters in London can be better understood through a close reading of the bookseller Constantin Geisweiler's short‐lived journal The German Museum (1800–1801). The 1790s have been described as an era of literary 'Germanomania', as numerous translations of German works appeared for the first time in English. By 1800, however, an increasingly pejorative assessment of the supposedly pro‐Jacobin and atheistic character of German culture had entrenched itself among British critics. Geisweiler and his co‐contributors responded to this through wide‐ranging analyses of German literature and philosophy. Although Geisweiler's enterprise was, commercially speaking, a failure, this article argues that The German Museum was nevertheless significant for breaking out of the rigid mould of 'Schauer‐, Ritter‐ and Räuberromane' that had superficially characterised earlier British interest in German culture. This article will argue that the period around 1800 was a particularly febrile one for processes of Anglo‐German cultural transfer due to the consolidation of transnational networks of booksellers, printers and publishers – networks whose activities would be severely compromised following Napoleon's Continental Blockade of 1806. In the final analysis, nascent British ideas of 'Germany' at the turn of the nineteenth century can be more robustly historicised through a scrutinous reading of Geisweiler's journal. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The word "worldview" comes from German philosophy and literally means an all‐inclusive "vision of the world." Nowadays, the word has a more generic cultural or geopolitical usage, often associated with an equivocal or indefinite meaning. This article looks at the history of the word and clarifies its meaning and implications. For such an analysis, two thinkers, Wilhelm Dilthey and Karl Jaspers, both of whom thematized the concept of Weltanschauung at the beginning of the twentieth century, will be taken into account. What follows is a brief depiction of some peculiar and constitutive traits of the concept: its composite nature; its connection to life; its value in general; and its value for each individual who holds a worldview. The article suggests that the potential conflictuality between contrary or competing worldviews is not accidental; rather, it is an inherent aspect of the concept, at whose core is a delicate balance between internal strength and external challenge, referred to here as "the vitality paradox" of a worldview. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

(c) Finally, Hannah Arendt and the New School are the most important chapter in Dick's philosophical career. This combination I of i generosity in the interpretation of meaning and of I strictness i in questions of truth characterizes the quality of Dick's philosophical work. It was nearly 50 years ago when Dick called me for the first time and invited me to come over to Haverford for a discussion. [Extracted from the article]

In "The Crisis in Education", Hannah Arendt asks, what might the new have to offer to society? For Arendt, thinking was a necessary activity apart from action.[3] Yet, equally important, Arendt always kept a close eye on the issues of the day, the realities of the world. Rachel Longa's opening essay is suggestive of how theorists' and educators' failure to think conceptually about taken-for-granted practices in education can narrow what students derive from those practices. [Extracted from the article]

The recent translation of the philosophical work of Ferdinand Ulrich has the potential to make a significant contribution to the ongoing debates about the role of metaphysics in theology. Together with D. C. Schindler's Companion, this difficult book is made more accessible. While Ulrich's Homo Abyssus generates sophisticated and nuanced responses to various forms of post‐ or anti‐metaphysical theology (especially those in the wake of Heidegger), perhaps its greatest contribution is an altogether more humane way of pursuing metaphysics. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article argues that modern European philosophy was significantly shaped by the transposition of eschatology from a theological into a philosophical register. By 'eschatology', I here mean thought about the 'last things' as they relate to present systems of life and action; and about those systems as determined, at least in part, by their end. I take as my starting point the claim that the scepticism regarding revelation that was such a central characteristic of the Enlightenment did not eradicate the importance of eschatology as a structuring frame of historical and moral thought, but merely changed it. Modern theologians and philosophers tended to shift the ground of eschatology from revelation to the inner logic of a system; eschatology was seen as legitimated by, and in turn legitimating, the shape of a given philosophical account of history. The questions and challenges arising from this shift were important drivers of early twentieth‐century European philosophy. This article works out this claim through indicative accounts of several large debates of early twentieth‐century philosophies of history and of politics as contestations about the meaning of eschatology: the crisis of historicism, the rise of existentialism, and the surge of political religions. It concludes with a discussion of Martin Heidegger's eschatological thought of the 1930s, illuminated by the recent publication of his Black Notebooks. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This essay examines the early thought of Romano Guardini (1886‐1968). It focuses on his magisterial book The Spirit of the Liturgy and discusses its genesis, its historical, biographical, and intellectual context, and its theological and philosophical significance. In so doing, it shows how Guardini reacted to World War I and the cataclysm of his time in turning to the church and its liturgical life in order to provide a source of meaning to a disoriented generation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article discusses the reformulation of German philosopher Gottlob Frege's theory of thoughts. Topics mentioned include the shareability and communicability of thoughts as deemed by Frege, argumentations on Frege's claim that thoughts are not the products of thinking, but only grasped by thinking, and interpretation of his theory of thoughts as a Platonist doctrine or realism.

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The article focuses on the development of German philosophy between the world wars. It states differences in writing and frameworks but still there was a common opposition to the neo-Kantian Schulphilosophie that dominated the German philosophy. It discusses the problem in seperating the critics from the disciples in Germany as the legacy of Kant was deeply rooted in the country.

The article offers information on the theory of Anti-Neo-Kantianism by Martin Heidegger. It states the thesis of Heidegger that conducted a wide range debate with the representative of neo-Kantianism, Ernst Cassirer. It reports the relation between Heidegger and Cassirer that makes an important episode in the modern German Philosophy.

The article discusses the interpretation of the later philosophy of Martin Heidegger. It states that the interpretation aims to explain the guiding question and meaning of several Heidegger's phrases and to resolve various mysteries behind other interpretations to explain the true claims that are left without any explanation. It discusses the three ideas of Heidegger's later philosophy including the historicity of words, basic words and words that attempt to express an experience.

The article focuses on the paradox presented by philosopher Immanuel Kant's transcendental idealism which denied the knowledge of things. The article discusses Kant's historical period and the preeminent ideologies of the time. The author also explores the beliefs of philosopher Gottfried Leibniz, a priori knowledge, determinism and free will, and libertarianism.

Present the author's views on the mythical figures of Cephalus and Odysseus in the book "Republic," by philosopher Plato which symbolize the importance of experience for true virtue. Discussion on the misinterpretation of the relation between Cephalus and Odysseus as they are not distinguished on the basis of moral experience; Information on a common distinction in German philosophy dividing moral experience into Erlebnis and Erfahrung; Suggestions on the terms which signify the train of lived subjectivity, which need not be structured by any organizing principle and the coherent connection of events or actions in accordance with a principle respectively.

The article discusses German philosophy and theology during the Weimar Republic from 1918 to 1933. Topics include the impact of World War One on Germany's society and intellectual capital, the self-examination and self-understanding of philosophical and theological thoughts, and the need for inter-disciplinary collaboration between philosophy and theology.

The article offers the author's insights regarding Johann Gottlieb Fichte, a self-proclaimed champion of the Critical Philosophy. The author notes that the central philosophical conviction of Fichte was that it was the duty of all philosophers to be teachers and exemplars of liberty. The author mentions that scholars appreciate Fichte's philosophical ideas and significance in the development of classical German philosophy.

Announces the publication of the third volume in 2005 of the "Internationales Jahrbuch des Deutschen Idealismus/International Yearbook of German Idealism," edited by Karl Ameriks and Jurgen Stolzenberg. Focus on German idealism and contemporary analytic philosophy; Publication of papers from a conference at Notre Dame organized by Paul Franks; Contributors for the issue.