The New Yearbook for Phenomenology and Phenomenological Philosophy (3): Volume 3

Product description About the Author Burt Hopkins, Steven Crowell Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved. The New Yearbook for Phenomenology and Phenomenological PhilosophyNoesis Press, Ltd.Copyright © 2003 Noesis Press, Ltd.All right reserved.ISBN: 978-0-9701679-3-4ContentsI. EssaysDavid R. Cerbone Distance and Proximity in Phenomenology: Husserl and Heidegger........................................................................1Wayne Martin The Judgment Stroke and the Truth-Predicate: Frege, Heidegger, and the Logical Representation of Judgment.................................27James G. Hart Wisdom, Knowledge, and Reflective Joy: Aristotle and Husserl.............................................................................53Ral Gutirrez "The Logic of Decadence": On the Deficient Forms of Government in Plato's Republic......................................................73Jacques Derrida Phenomenology and the Closure of Metaphysics: Introduction to the Thought of Husserl (1966)............................................103Heribert Boeder Derrida's Endgame......................................................................................................................121Carl Friedrich Gethmann Hermeneutic Phenomenology and Logical Intuitionism: On Oskar Becker's Mathematical Existence...................................143Hans Rainer Sepp On the Border: Cultural Difference in and beyond Jan Patocka's Philosophy of History..................................................161Dennis J. Schmidt On Counting, Stars, and Music........................................................................................................179Claus-Artur Scheier Die Dialektik der Asymmetrie und die Instanz des Dritten. Probleme der Lvinasschen Ethik...........................................191Burt C. Hopkins The "Origin" of Metaphysical Thinking and the so-called "Metaphysics of Presence": Boeder's Contest with Heidegger.....................225Klaus Erich Kaehler History of Philosophy as Philosophical Task........................................................................................241Wilhelm Metz God and the State: On the Descartes-Hobbes Analogy........................................................................................255Martn Zubira TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII]: On Boeder's Discovery of the Middle Epoch of Philosophy................................................265Javier Giordano [TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII].......................................................................................................276Franco Volpi "We Homeless Ones": Heidegger and the "Homelessness" of Modern Man........................................................................277II. Texts and DocumentsEdmund Husserl The Idea of a Philosophical Culture: Its First Germination in Greek Philosophy (1923)..................................................285Jacob Klein On Aristotle (I)...........................................................................................................................295III. Discussions - Reviews - NoticesJohn J. Drummond On Welton on Husserl..................................................................................................................315Robin Rollinger Obituary: Karl Schuhmann (1941-2003)...................................................................................................333Mark van Atten Author's Notice: On Brouwer.............................................................................................................335Notes on Contributors...................................................................................................................................337Chapter OneDistance and Proximity in Phenomenology: Husserl and Heidegger David R. Cerbone West Virginia University This book may need more than one preface, and in the end there would still remain room for doubt whether anyone who had never lived through similar experiences could be brought closer to the experience of this book by means of prefaces. - Nietzsche, The Gay Science Perhaps this book will be understood only by someone who has himself already had the thoughts that are expressed in it-or at least similar thoughts. - Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus We do not philosophize in order to become philosophers, no more than to fashion for ourselves and others a salutary world-view that could be procured like a coat and hat. The goal of philosophy is not a system of interesting information, nor a sentimental edification for faltering souls. Only he can philosophize who is already resolved to grant free dignity to Dasein in its radical and universal-essential possibilities, which alone makes it suitable for withstanding the remaining uncertainty and gaping discord, while at the same time remaining untouched by all the idle talk of the day. There is, in fact, a philosophical world-view, but it is not the result of philosophy and