Labyrinth: An International Journal for Philosophy, Value Theory and Sociocultural Hermeneutics
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Translating Feminist Philosophy: A case-study with Simone de Beauvoir\u27s \u27Le Deuxième Sexe\u27
No full textThe relationship between languages and philosophy is so strong that French philosopher Barbara Cassin speaks of \u27philosophising in languages\u27 (Cassin 2010). This paper aims to show how translation can be a means to help disseminate philosophical ideas. It might even be called a political tool, when circulating feminist philosophical thoughts is concerned. The article uses the latest English translation of Simone de Beauvoir\u27s Le deuxième sexe to address the pitfalls philosophy presents translators with. It also aims to defend the Interpretive Theory of Translation as a translation strategy particularly relevant to philosophy. The novelty of the paper lies in the fact that the translation of feminist philosophy is largely underanalysed in the field of Translation Studies. Therefore, the article intend to bridge the gap between those disciplines, in order to enhance the reception of feminist philosophy.
Non-Standard Stainless: Laruelle, Inconsistency and Sense-impressions
Get PDF"Stains" can serve as a metaphor for the role allotted to meaninglessness not only by partisans of the deterritorializing force of "brute matter", but also by diagnosers of symbolic incompleteness. For both, the blindspot that will lead to the disturbance of a given regime of meaning must be determined through a smear or glitch which that regime cannot sublate: the mark of a Real stripped of systematising mediation. However, we argue that it is all too easy to allow the stringency of this Real to be undermined by the inflation in its name of merely contingent empirical instances. Such blockages to theoretical and artistic practice can be removed with the aid of the articulation of incompleteness and inconsistency implied by François Laruelle\u27s conception of the Real as non-consistent but hypercomplete "radical immanence". À rebours of Laruelle himself, different types of meaninglessness can then be distinguished, de-metaphorized, and conceptualized as "noise".
Über die Verwirrungen hinsichtlich der Genderfrage oder braucht die römisch-katholische Kirche eine Reformation?
Get PDFOn the Confusuions about the Gender Questionor does the Roman Catholic Church need a Reformation? The main purpose of this article is to show that fivehundred years after Luther, the concept of gender bears the same power for reformation as Luther\u27s theses did bevor. Through a discussion of the connection between the horrific cases of abuse in the catholic church and its anti-genderism it is pointed out, that, instead of using gender as a tool for preventing sexualized violence, catholic church attacks gender-studies as gender-ideology. In explaining the concept of gender in detail and by showing how power and sexuality is interwoven and hidden behind a veil of love mystic, it is made clear how the confrontation with gender would bring the necessary reform into the structures of the catholic church.
"L\u27âge de la non-philosophie": Martin Heidegger et François Laruelle
No full text"The Age of Non-Philosophy": Martin Heidegger and François Laruelle In his lessons at the College of France, Merleau-Ponty noticed that something ended with Hegel and that we perhaps entered in an age of non-philosophy. This poses the question if philosophy is coming to an end or if it can be rebuild from within by retaining its essence. While Merleau-Ponty is trying to restore philosophy from the inside, Heidegger and Laruelle open two different paths of a non-philosophical thinking from the outside. The purpose of the article is to compare these two paths more in detail in order to articulate their differences as to the problems of identity, of the "thing of thought" (Sache des Denkens), of the role of science etc., and to show the radicality of Laruelle\u27s undertaking, which aims not a Verwindung (recollection), nor an Überwindung (overcoming) of philosophy but its appropriation in a new unified theory of thought. One of the main thesis of the author is that Heidegger should not be considered only as a "philosopher of difference" (Laruelle) but also as a thinker of identity as he has expounded four different identity concepts. Hence, it is argued that if Laruelle\u27s critique of the convertibility of Erignis\u27 identity is legitimate, his critique of Heidegger\u27s amphibology of the One is questionable.
Non-Philosophy and the uninterpretable axiom
Get PDFThis article connects François Laruelle\u27s non-philosophical experiments with the axiomatic method to non-philosophy\u27s anti-hermeneutic stance. Focusing on two texts from 1987 composed using the axiomatic method, "The Truth According to Hermes" and "Theorems on the Good News," I demonstrate how non-philosophy utilizes structural mechanisms to both expand and contract the field of potential models allowed by non-philosophy. This demonstration involves developing a notion of interpretation, which synthesizes Rocco Gangle\u27s work on model theory with respect to non-philosophy with Laruelle\u27s critique of hermeneutics. I use Alexander Galloway\u27s interpretation of "The Truth According to Hermes" as a case study of the limits non-philosophy sets upon its use as a basis for philosophical models, in contrast to arguments by Gangle regarding non-philosophy\u27s greater genericity in comparison to philosophy.
A personalist versus a rationalist theory of virtues
Get PDFThe purpose of this article is to make visible Max Scheler\u27s great contribution to philosophical research on virtues and values, and to re-integrate it into the current discourse. Christoph Halbig\u27s marginal reference to Scheler provides a good opportunity for this. Since both authors pursue completely different objectives, the question arises as to how much of Halbig\u27s approach to a theory of action can be reconciled with Scheler\u27s personalist understanding of virtue. While Halbig seeks criteria for assessing the actions of others, Scheler points to the empowerment supplied by virtue itself. The author argues that Scheler already anticipated some ideas, which has led to a new awareness of virtues in contemporary psychology
"Die Sprache ist eine große und göttliche Gabe" (Martin Luther) Reformation und Sprachkultur
Get PDF"Language is a great and divine gift" (Martin Luther)Reformation and Language Culture In this paper Luther\u27s anthropology is shown as being based on the human capability of speaking. As a speaking person, the human being is not outside the world but involved in the world by communication. For Luther being human means – thanks to the capability of speaking – being in a personal relationship. The author argues that this relationship to others is based in the relationship to God. Although speaking is a gift of God, it can be abused whenever someone stirs up people to degrade others, as populists do. Luther had been reproached to be a populist in his closeness to simple people, but this was only due to his intention, that everyone should understand his translation of the bible. Instead of stoking fears, as populists do, Luther helped people to overcome their fears, by telling them in their own language – due to his German translation – that God loves them.
Religious Pluralism within the Limits of Thought
Get PDFThere is an aporia to finitude: if I am limited as a finite being, I cannot know what the limits of my finitude are, because if I knew what those limits are, then I would have transcended them. I refer to this aporia as the "hard problem of finitude," interpreted through Graham Priest\u27s work on inclosure paradoxes. Here I offer an interpretation of François Laruelle\u27s theory of the Philosophical Decision in terms of his attempt to resolve this aporia through his suspension of standard philosophy\u27s form of ontological dualism. Next, I apply non-standard philosophy to the problem of religious pluralism, presenting a novel theory of "standard religion" and the "Hierophanic Decision" through a non-standard reading of Mircea Eliade\u27s philosophy of religion, and end by pointing towards what a consistently performative and finite form of religious pluralism might look like from within the "democracy-of-thought," here rendered as the "parliament of religions.
On Culture, Values, and Peace (Selected Essays and Letters)
Get PDF1. The Banner of Peace2. The Sacred Sign of Peace3. The Heart of Culture4. The Red Cross of Culture5. The Mission of Womanhood6. Glory to Women, Bearers of Culture7. Roots of Culture8. In spite of difficulties (To the Bulgarian Society, 1930)9. Re-evaluation10. Defense of Value