INDEX
Abraham, 33
acknowledgment, 129
Adorno, Theodor, 18, 67, 78, 192–95, 237, 240
aesthetic consciousness, 103, 110–13
aesthetics, 49, 103, 105, 106, 108–16, 160
Albert, Hans, 67, 174, 176aletheia,106
Alexander the Great, 268
alterity, 93, 137
Althusser, Louis, 178, 182, 189, 196, 198, 258, 269, 280, 282
analytic philosophy, 22
Apel, Karl-Otto, 18, 74–76, 78, 213
application, 89–90, 251
arche, 36
Aristophanes, 218
Aristotle, 29, 34–35, 47, 87–88, 91, 115, 117, 130, 133, 172, 224, 258, 268, 290
Armstrong, Edwin H., 183
art, 6, 63, 66, 69–70, 74, 76–77, 103–08, 110–14, 116, 161, 191, 218
Artuad, Antonin, 186
Augustine, Saint, 152
Ayer, A.J., 26
Bachelard, Gaston, 257
Badiou, Alain, 264
Baeumler, Alfred, 219, 233
Balibar, Etienne, 179
Bataille, Georges, 186, 191, 196, 238
Baudelaire, Charles, 184
beautiful, analysis of the, 116
beauty, 115, 160–61
Becher, Oskar, 275
Beethoven, Ludwig von, 58, 160
Beiner, Ronald, 158–59, 164
being, 48
Benn, Gottfried, 191–95
Bergman, Gustav, 26
Bergson, Henri, 22
Berkeley, George, 25–26
Bernasconi, Robert, 37
Bernstein, Richard, 18
Berve, Helmut, 214
Bettleheim, Bruno, 86
Bible, 184
Bildung (education), 108
Blake, William, 29
Blanchot, ref, ix, 44, 135–40
Bohr, Niels, 24–25
Bonhoeffer, Dietrich, 125, 236, 283–84
Booth, Wayne, 130
Brandes, Georg, 189
Brandom, Robert, 24, 28
Brecht, Bertolt, 219
breeding, 186
Brown v. Board of Education,96–97
Bruns, Gerald, x, 138
Buddha, 182
Butler, Judith, 133
capitalism, 169, 176, 196, 199, 264–65, 275, 279–85, 287, 291–93
Caputo. John, 124–25
care, 31
Carnap, Rudolf, 22
Celan, Paul, 141–43
Cervantes, Miguel de, 256, 258
Christ, Jesus, 124, 284–85
Christianity, 185
Cioran, E. M., ix
circle, 171, 173, 177, 276
class struggle, 190
classic, 16, 17
Cliburn, Van, 160
cogito, 34
Cohen, Leonard, 198
common sense, 109, 291
communism, 191, 193, 196, 238, 261, 281, 284, 288–89, 292
community, 127. See also common sense consciousness, 36, 40, 46, 73, 93–94, 113–14, 164–65, 178, 184, 193, 195
consensus, 78, 131, 133, 191
Constitution, 89
conversation. See dialogue Curie, Marie, 183
Curie, Pierre, 183
Dalton. John, 22, 24, 29
Darwin, Erasmus, 185
Davidson, Donald, 28, 64, 71, 128
death, 183, 286–87, 292–93
Deleuze, Gilles, 180–81, 189, 194, 196, 198–99, 237
deliberation, 88
democracy, 77, 198, 266
Derrida, Jacques, x, 28, 124, 134–35, 145–46, 148–53, 158, 169–71, 180, 194, 196–97, 238–39, 263, 266–67, 281, 283
Descartes, Rene, 36, 65, 68
Deussen, Paul, 177
dialogue, 38–39, 44, 46, 65, 91–92, 126, 129–32, 135, 137–43, 150–52, 154, 160, 169–71, 173, 175–76, 180, 192, 194, 196, 212, 216, 232, 234, 239–40, 244, 248, 251, 256–61, 263–64, 266–67, 277–79, 286–87, 291–93; and conversation, 29, 95, 123–24, 127, 137–40, 143, 159
Dilthey, Wilhelm, 60, 131, 169–71, 290
Dionysus, 190
due process, 89
Edison, Thomas, 184
effect in history (wirkungsgeschichtliches Bewusstsein),59–60, 62, 69, 112, 117, 170
ego, 37
eminent text, 17
encryption, 172–73
Enlightenment, 56–57, 59, 64, 68, 70–71, 125, 146, 191, 219–20, 251
environment, 8episteme,34
esotericism, 152–53, 158–59, 170–73, 175–76, 179, 181, 183–84, 195, 197–98, 220, 236, 260–63, 265, 268–69, 271–72, 278, 291–92
ethics, 49
Euclidean geometry, 2
Europe, 1, 4
experience, 35, 40, 60, 93, 103, 109–14, 130. See also openness
face, 32, 40–41, 45, 49
Farias, Victor, 264
Faust, 187
Fichte. Johann Gottlieb, 68–69, 71
finitude, 32–33, 46–47. See also reason
Fischer, Hugo, 273
Foerster, Friedrich Wilhelm, 219
Ford, John, 270
Foucault, Michel, 239
Frank, Manfred, 57, 64–67, 69, 70, 74
Frankfurt School, 192, 194, 239
Fraser, 24
Frederick the Great, 222
Frege, 26, 285
Freud, Sigmund, 24, 67, 186, 190, 257, 292–93
Freyer, Hans, 222, 275
Fricke, Gerhard, 214
Friedlander, Paul, 217
friendship, 279–80
fusion: of cultures, 3; of horizons, 29, 46, 62, 71, 125, 129, 149–50, 159, 160, 164, 215, 230, 260, 263, 278. See also horizon
Gadamer, Hans-Georg, x, 8, 17. See also National Socialism Galileo, 29
Gass, William, 84
Cast, Peter, 188
Gehlen, Arnold, 18, 273–74 Gdassenheit,39
generosity, 101
George, Stefan, 235
Gibbon, Edward, 125
globalization, 3
God, 16
Goebbels, 219, 287
Goethe, Johann W., 290–91
Gompertz, Heinrich, 217
Gramsci, Antonio, 280, 285, 291
Grivel, Charles, 182
Grondin. Jean, 17, 19, 171–73, 213
Guattari, Felix, 180–81, 189, 237
Gundolf, Friedrich, 219
Habermas. Jurgen, 27–28, 34, 49, 56, 67, 76–77, 99–100, 130, 212, 235–36, 251
habitation, 31
Hamann, Johann Georg, 67
Harder, Richard, 214
Hartmann, Nicolai, 15, 215
Haydn, Franz Joseph, 58
Hegel, Georg., 3–4, 16, 23, 28, 36, 40, 59, 62, 65–66, 71, 131, 163, 179, 222, 268
Hegel Prize, 19
Heidegger, Martin, ix, 16–19, 23, 26, 28–29, 35, 39, 43, 48, 55, 65–67, 69–70, 76, 106, 112, 127, 135, 140, 145–50, 152, 158, 165, 169–71, 174–76, 185, 188, 192–93, 212, 214, 224, 229–30, 233–34, 239–40, 245–46, 251, 264–65, 271, 273, 274, 277, 281, 290, 292; Being and Time,15, 31, 32, 42
Heidelberg, 214
Heinse, Wilhelm, 59
Henning, Ritter, 212
Henrich, Dieter, 18, 66–68
Herder, Johann Gottfried, 245
hermeneutics, philosophical: of facticity, 31; of suspicion, 152
Hildebrandt, Kurt, 214, 217
Hitler, Adolf, 214, 246, 265, 274, 281, 286, 288
Hobbes, Thomas, 23–24, 36, 222–23
Hofmannsthal, Hugo von, 139
Holderlin, Friedrich, 29, 170, 193
Holocaust, 37
Homer, 3, 33, 128, 218
Horace, 257
horizon, concept of, 46, 88, 90–91, 97, 125, 129, 146, 148, 195, 221, 233. See also fusion, of horizons
Horkheimer, Max, 192–95, 237, 240
hostage, 41
human sciences, 5, 16, 18
humanistic tradition, 219–20, 235
Hume, David, 57
Hutchins, Robert M., 123
iconography, 7
idealism, 25–26
identity, 35
ideology, 177–78, 221, 238, 260, 269, 291
imagination, 28
imitation, 218
incompetence, 277–78
intentional, 96
interpretation, 64, 165, 170–71, 173–74, 215, 217, 224, 235, 238, 250–51, 262, 264, 270, 272, 275–76, 288–89, 293
Jacobi, Friedrich Heinrich, 67–68
Jaeger, Werner, 216–17
James, Henry, 82, 86, 101
Jaspers, Karl, 18, 191, 194, 214
Jefferson, Thomas, 124
Johnson, Samuel, 257
judgment, 87, 108–09, 115–16, 267
jurisprudence, 4
justice, 38, 49, 161, 249
Kafka, Franz, 219, 269
Kalinowski, Isabelle, 251
Kant, Immanuel, 17, 28, 34, 36, 56–58, 61, 63–64, 68–70, 93, 103, 108–11, 114–16, 131, 189, 261, 279
Karatani, Kojin, 196, 259
Kaufmann, Walter, 191, 194
Kimmerle, Heinz, 63
Kittler, Friedrich, 187–88
Kleist, Heinrich von, 127, 182
knowledge, 2, 34, 47, 57, 97, 105, 114–15
Kraftwerk, 169
Kraus, Karl, 133
Krieck, Ernst, 250
Kriiger, Felix, 214
Kriiger, Gerhard, 19
Kuhn, Helmuth, 18
Kuhn, Thomas, 28
Lacan, Jacques, 182–83, 196, 257
Lacoue-Labarthe, Philippe, 190
Lamentations,38
language, 190
Laplanche, Jean, 292
Laugstien, Thomas, 275
law, 82
Leacock, Stephen B., 285
Lecourt, 269
legal interpretation, 163
Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm, 169
Leipzig, 214, 229, 245, 250
Lenin, Vladimir, 266
Lessing, Theodor, 17
Levinas, Emmanuel, 30, 32
lie(s), 103, 104, 109, 111, 260
Lifton, Robert J., 86
listening, 41
literary criticism, 82, 90, 95, 196
Litt, Theodor, 215
Lledo, Emilio, 213
Locke, John, 26, 114
logic, 288–89
Lowith, Karl, 17–19, 214
Lucretius, 29
Lukacs, Georg, 192
Luther, Martin, 258
Lyotard, Jean-Francois, 261
Machiavelli, Nicolo, 222
Maimonides, Moses, 238
Mann, Thomas, 219
Marx, Karl, 180, 189, 196, 257, 282
Marxism, 192, 282
mass culture, 184, 192–93
McDowell, John, 56
meaning, 42–43
measuring, 5–7
Mendeleev, 22
metaphysics, 173, 176, 181
method, 125, 143, 213, 244, 271
Michelfelder, Diane, 135
Milbankjohn, 129
Milton, John, 29
Misgeld, Dieter, 131–33
misinterpretation, 86
model (Vorbild), 6
moderation, 169, 240, 256, 258–61, 266–67, 279, 291, 293
monologue, 195, 239, 260
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, 58
multiculturalism, 193
music, 58–59, 61, 66–67, 74, 76, 160, 177, 186, 190, 232, 276
Nabokov, Vladimir, 84–85
National Socialism, 192, 212–24, 229–34, 244, 246–51, 262, 270–81, 283–84, 290
natural sciences, 55–56, 59–61, 76, 285
Nehamas, Alexander, 82–87, 91, 98, 101
negation, 178
neighbor, 31
Neo-Kantianism, 15, 216–17
Nietzsche, Friedrich, 2, 26, 29, 67, 76, 145–52, 158, 169–70, 172–73, 176–83, 184–99, 229, 236–40, 263, 267, 270–71, 282, 285–86, 290; Beyond Good and Evil,197, 237; Birth of Tragedy,187; Ecce Homo,188, 189, 240; The Gay Science,190; Thus Spoke Zarathustra,171, 178, 183, 198, 236; The Wanderer and His Shadow,188
nominalism, 22–23
Novalis, 57, 61, 64, 67–68, 71–74, 78
NS Teachers Union, 174, 245, 272, 274–75, 281–87
NS Workers Party, 272, 274–75, 281–82
Nussbaum, Martha, 82–87, 126
Oakeshott, Michael, 123
Occident, 1
Odysseus, 33, 41
Olivier, Laurence, 160
ontology, 32, 162, 171, 175, 192, 212
openness, 34, 38, 107, 130, 134, 213, 244; in interpretation, 8
order of rank (Rangordnung),179, 198
Orozco, Teresa, X Ossietzsky, Carl von, 219
Othello, 160
Otherness, 164–65. See alterity
Palmer, Richard, 135
Pangle, Thomas, 153
Paul, Saint, 124
Peirce, Charles, 26
Peperzak, Adrian, 38
perception, 106
performance, 160
persecution, 37
persuasion, 213, 236
Philasophische Rundschau,18
phronesis,34, 35, 49, 256, 268, 290. See also practical knowledge; prudence
piloting, 132
Pindar, 218
Plato, 2–3, 5, 7, 22–23, 25–26, 36, 44, 47–49, 57, 72, 105, 107, 110–11, 114–15, 117, 128, 140, 145–46, 148–50, 152, 161, 170–72, 180–81, 215–24, 230–35, 237, 239–40, 244, 246–51, 258–60, 267, 271, 275, 277–78, 287–88, 290–91; Phaedrus,160; Republic,47, 104, 124, 215
Platonism, 45, 164
play, 115–16
Plessy v. Ferguson,96–99, 100
poetic language, 61
poetry, 6, 7, 231
polis,224
politics, 171, 174, 180, 189, 214, 216–17, 230–31, 233, 235–36, 238, 240, 245–46, 259, 264, 276–78, 280, 283–84, 289, 291–92
Pope, Alexander, 25
Popper, Karl, 18
positivism, 56
Posner, Richard, 82–83, 86–87, 91, 101
postmodernism, 145–46, 154, 158, 165, 179, 181, 187, 256
Pound, Ezra, ix
power, 127, 131, 137, 232, 251
practical knowledge, 90–91, 98. See also phronesis; prudence
prejudice, 32, 59–60, 92, 93, 95, 97, 99–101, 125, 131, 174, 213, 267, 269
Priestley, Joseph, 25
prolepsis, 175–76
prophets, 44
proximity, 36
prudence, 173, 236, 256, 283. See ulsophro-nesis; practical knowledge
psychoanalysis, 178, 196
Putnam, Hilary, 28, 73, 75
quantity, 5
quarrel of ancients and moderns, 172
Quine, Willard Von Orman, 23, 128
Quixote, 278
Ranke, Leopold von, 131
reason, 171, 180, 236. See also finitude
recognition, 108, 136
Ree, Jonathan, 24
Reik, Theodor, 190
relativism, 71–72, 74, 153, 262–63, 268, 271, 276
Remarque, Erich Maria, 219
representation, 57–58
responsibility, 36, 39, 41, 48
rhetoric, 170, 177, 194, 237, 256–57
Ricoeur, Paul, 152, 251
Rilke, Rainer Maria, 141
Rohde, Erwin, 187
romanticism, 56–62, 64, 66–69, 73–74, 76
Rorty, Richard, 18, 55–56, 65, 70–73, 75–78, 193–94, 213
Rosen, Stanley, 149, 152–53, 281
Ross, Jan, 223
Rothacker, Erich, 214
rules, 64
Rytman, Helene, 282
Sameness, 165, 175
Sartre, Jean-Paul, 33
Schadenwaldt, Wolfgang, 214
Schelling, Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von, 17, 57, 61, 67
Schlegel, Friedrich von, 57, 61–62, 67, 72–75
Schleiermacher, F, 57, 61–65, 67, 69, 73–75, 172, 216
Schmitt, Carl, 175, 222–23, 250, 261, 270
Schopenhauer, 190, 268
science, 1–4, 23–24, 26, 58, 109
self-consciousness, 67–68, 76
self-knowledge, 109
self-understanding, 115
sensus communis, 108–09. See also common
sense
Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 185
Shostakovich, Dmitri, 276
slavery, 178
socialism, 197
Socrates, 2, 29, 129, 140–41, 149, 180–81, 218–19, 240, 258–59, 284–86, 289
solidarity, 48, 141
Spaemann, Robert, 18
Spartacus, 293
Spengler, Oswald, 1, 17
Spinoza, Baruch, 185, 188–89, 257, 266, 279, 282, 284
Spranger, Eduard, 214–15, 222
Stalinism, 280, 282
Stauffenberg, 288
Stenzel, Julius, 217
Stevens, Wallace, 139
Strauss, David Friedrich, 183
Strauss, Leo, 145–50, 152–53, 158, 169, 171–73, 238, 263, 266–68, 271, 281, 283
Suetonius, 256
Talmud, 37
taste, 108, 111, 114
Taylor, Charles, 251
Taylorism, 185, 193
techne,34, 63
technology, 183, 185–87, 191, 239
theory, 47, 181, 189, 268, 270
Theunissen, Michael, 18, 28
time, 15
tolerance, 132
tradition, 16, 39, 41, 43–44, 46–47, 60, 62, 71, 89, 92, 165, 213, 244, 267
translation, 181, 195
Trotsky, Leon, 281
truth, 23, 35, 40, 57, 59–61, 69–70, 72–77, 92, 98–99, 103–10, 112–15, 117, 129, 137, 140–41, 147–48, 161–62, 231, 244, 259, 263, 269, 291; correspondence theory of, 161
Truth and Method,15, 18, 57, 61–62, 64, 104, 108, 112, 115–16, 125, 130, 134, 160, 164, 169–70, 172, 212–13, 224, 230, 235, 246, 263, 276
Tucholsky, Kurt, 219
Tugendhat, Ernst, 18
Tyler, Stephen, 129
typewriter, 188
understanding, 9–10, 17, 24, 27, 30, 32, 39, 41, 44, 59, 64, 71, 73, 75, 86, 88–89, 91–95, 97–101, 107–08, 110, 112, 116–17, 123, 125–26, 129–32, 142, 145–46, 151, 159, 164–65, 171, 173, 213, 269
Vattimo, Gianni, 28–29, 213
violence, 138, 140
Virgil, 25
Virmond, Wolfgang, 62
virtue, 261, 266, 292
voice, 184, 190, 194–95, 267
Wagner, Richard, 183, 185–86, 190
Waite, Geoff, x
Walcott, Derek, 128–29
Weber, Max, 216
Weimar Republic, 17
Weiss, Allen S., 183–84
Wellmer, Albrecht, 251
Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, Ulrich von, 217
Wilde, Oscar, 137
will, 177
will to power, 150, 170, 184
Wittgenstein, Ludwig, 18, 176, 182, 192, 278
Wolin, Richard, ix
Zuckert, Catherine, 145–49, 153–54
Zweig, Arnold, 219
Zweig, Stefan, 219