Broken Hegemonies

by Schürmann, Reiner; Lilly, Reginald

• ISBN13: 9780253215475
• ISBN10: 0253215471
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-10-01
• Publisher: Indiana Univ Pr

Summary

InBroken Hegemonies, the late distinguished philosopher Reiner Sch?rmann offers a radical rethinking of the history of Western philosophy from the Greeks through Heidegger. Sch?rmann interprets the history of Western thought and action as a series of eras governed by the rise and fall of certain dominating philosophical ideas that contained the seeds of their own destruction. These eras coincided with their dominant languages: Greek, Latin, and vernacular tongues. Analyzing philosophical texts from Parmenides, Plotinus, and Cicero, through Augustine, Meister Eckhardt, and Kant, To Heidegger, Sch?rmann traces the arguments by which these ideas gained hegemony and by which their credibility was ultimately demolished. Recognizing the failure of ultimate norms,Broken Hegemoniesquestions how humanity today is to think and act in the absence of principles.

Author Biography

Reiner Sch++rmann (1941--1993) was Professor of Philosophy at the New School for Social Research. His books include Meister Eckhardt: Mystic and Philosopher and Heidegger on Being and Acting: From Principles to Anarchy (both Indiana University Press).

Reginald Lilly, Associate Professor of Philosophy at Skidmore College, is translator of The Principle of Reason by Martin Heidegger and editor of The Ancients and the Moderns (both Indiana University Press).

Table of Contents

Translator's Remarks	xiii
VOLUME ONE	1	(48)
General Introduction	3	(46)
On Hegemonic Fantasms	6	(10)
From Difference to Differend	16	(10)
The Birth of the Law from the Denial of the Tragic	26	(11)
The Law of the One, of Nature, and of Consciousness	37	(12)
PART ONE: IN THE NAME OF THE ONE	49	(2)
The Greek Hegemonic Fantasm
I. Its Institution: The One That Holds Together	51	(86)
Parmenides
Contradictories: Their Juxtaposition and Their Confusion	55	(16)
Two paths?	55	(4)
Only one path?	59	(6)
Or three paths?	65	(6)
Contraries: The Ground for Obligation	71	(24)
The ``symphysis'' of thinking and being	74	(7)
The ``synthesis'' of the present and the absent	81	(8)
The ``synechia'' of contraries	89	(6)
On Power and Forces: The Normative System	95	(15)
Legality and legitimacy	96	(7)
The logos, condition of laws	103	(7)
Henology Turned against Itself?	110	(12)
The Disparate: Narrative of a Journey	122	(15)
Narrating gathered singular things	122	(3)
Nomadic and eonic procedures	125	(6)
The henological differend: the phenomenalizing and singularizing one	131	(6)
II. Its Destitution: The One Turned against Itself	137	(52)
Plotinus
Introduction	139	(4)
The Temporalizing Event	143	(18)
The henological difference	145	(2)
The one as event	147	(4)
Originary time	151	(2)
Time as bad eternity	153	(3)
Being as time	156	(5)
The Singularizing Contretemps	161	(28)
On an insubordinate act that makes the law	164	(6)
From detachment to solitude	170	(9)
From stabilizing solitude to temporalizing audacity	179	(7)
The one, destituted by its agonic truth	186	(3)
PART TWO: IN THE NAME OF NATURE	189	(12)
The Latin Hegemonic Fantasm
Introduction	191	(10)
Excursus: Xerxes punished by nature	195	(6)
I. Its Institution: The Principle of Telic Continuity	201	(68)
Cicero
Augustine
Concerning Singular Given Natures	205	(17)
On the nature that returns	206	(6)
On self-narrating natures	212	(10)
On the Erratic Differend	222	(18)
On a normative singular that was	223	(8)
On a normative singular that will be	231	(9)
On the Natural Double Bind: The Will Turned against Itself	240	(29)
Willing one's own as well as the common	244	(5)
Willing one's own as well as what is exogenous	249	(12)
On natural contre-temps: the law suffering singularizations	261	(8)
II. Its Destitution: the Double Bind of Principle and Origin	269	(72)
Meister Eckhart
Introduction	271	(4)
Nature, Principle of Subordinations	275	(23)
The rotation of elements	278	(4)
The rotation of forces	282	(9)
Thomas Aquinas: nerves on edge	291	(7)
Feet on One's Neighbor's Head	298	(21)
The immediate communication of the law	299	(2)
A poietic law	301	(2)
The temporality of natural law	303	(1)
The instance of self-possession	304	(3)
From a pure place to proper places	307	(4)
Limitation, delimitation, illimitation	311	(8)
Nature Denatured by the Origin	319	(22)
``Detaching oneself'': against the appropriation of ends	320	(4)
``Re-imaging oneself'': against the a priori imagination of order	324	(6)
``Piercing through'': for absolute freedom	330	(5)
``Articulating oneself'': for singularization	335	(6)
VOLUME TWO	341	(10)
Preface: Analytic of Ultimates and Topology of Broken Hegemonies	343	(8)
PART THREE: IN THE NAME OF CONSCIOUSNESS	351	(2)
The Modern Hegemonic Fantasm	353	(12)
Introduction	353	(12)
Excursus: the consciousness of Ulysses	356	(9)
I. Its Institution: On the Consciousness That Determines	365	(146)
Kant
Luther
The Regime of Passive Consciousness: `An Obedient Spirit that Lets Itself Be Broken . . .'	369	(2)
The Identity of the ``I''	371	(37)
Topography of speech	371	(7)
Being-for-consciousness	378	(6)
Consciousness through the word	384	(6)
The consciousness of a causality	390	(8)
The unity of receptive consciousness	398	(10)
A Pathetic Differend	408	(45)
The time of the ego and the time of the self	412	(8)
Positing and letting-be	420	(7)
Perverse teleology	427	(4)
Normative consciousness broken	431	(14)
The Regime of Spontaneous Consciousness: ``I, the Possessor of the World''	445	(2)
Introduction	447	(6)
The Torments of Autonomy	453	(29)
On pre-regional unification: the self reconsidered	454	(15)
On a pre-individual singularization: the ego reconsidered	469	(13)
The Differend in Being-for-Consciousness	482	(29)
On givenness as position	486	(1)
The singular, limit of doing	487	(7)
The singular in consciousness	494	(5)
Time turned against itself	499	(5)
Recanting the denial	504	(7)
II. The Diremption: On Double Binds without a Common Noun	511	(122)
Heidegger
Introduction: Proteus Alone Can Save Us Now	513	(16)
Riveted to a monstrous site	515	(7)
A ``terrible warning''	522	(7)
On the Historical Differend	529	(24)
On the late modern pathology: the self as other	529	(6)
Fantasms of the same: the integrative violence of the law	535	(6)
On the isomorphic: archic and anarchic	541	(5)
On the other that is being: what the diremption reveals	546	(7)
What, the Deferred There?	553	(22)
On topology	553	(9)
``Now, in the transition toward the other beginning . . .''	562	(13)
On the Discordance of Times	575	(58)
On the singularizing ``momentary sites''	575	(7)
The ``fissured'' moment	582	(7)
The event of what?	589	(10)
Whither expropriation?	599	(10)
The singularization to come	609	(12)
Conclusion	621	(12)
On the conditions of evil: denying dispossession	621	(6)
On impossible normative simplicity	627	(6)
Notes	633	(48)
Index of Names	681	(4)
Index of Terms	685