Diogenes articles from June 1998

Diogenes archives from June 1998

On the Political Incompetence of Philosophy.
June 22, 1998... The conflict which has tended recently to crystallize in particular around the name of Martin Heidegger goes back a long way. Where do philosophers stand in relation to political and social reality? What assistance can their problems and...

Ethics and Politics.
June 22, 1998... Increasingly frequent discussions in our country over the last few years on the question of morals have roused the old theme of the relation between morals and politics.(1) Although it is an old theme, it is nevertheless a theme that remains...

"As Philolaos the Pythagorean Said".
June 22, 1998... Philosophy, Geometry, Freedom In his collection of anecdotes, Lives, Opinions, and Remarkable Sayings of the Most Famous Ancient Philosophers, Diogenes Laertius devotes a chapter to the life of Zeno of Elea. Zeno's reputation is based on...

On Literary Subjectivity in the Seventeenth Century.
June 22, 1998... In psychoanalytic theory, the notion of the person inevitably evokes the notion of subjectivity.1 Not that the former can be reduced to the latter; but if psychoanalytic theory is anything more a certain type of therapeutic practice, it is...

Dead World, Living Hearts.
June 22, 1998... Elements of Romantic Mythology(1) for Yves Bonnefoy Senancour The Reveries sur la nature primitive de l'homme are one of the important books of the dawn of the nineteenth century. In this text, Senancour limns an image of the...

Praise of Astrology.
June 22, 1998... By the end of the seventeenth century, high culture had banished astrology as a mixture of superstition and imposture. The great astrological treatises of the past -- in particular the Ptolemaic Tetrabiblos (whose very authenticity was cast...

From Inter-Religious Dialogue to the Recognition of the Religious Phenomenon.
June 22, 1998... Modernity has been working since the sixteenth century in western Europe at what Mr. Gauchet has described as the "exit from religion," adding that Christianity alone has been able to gain the historical position of "the religion of the exit...

Arbeit am Mythos.(Review)
June 22, 1998... Hans Blumenberg, Arbeit am Mythos, Frankfurt, 1979 (Work on Myth, trans. Robert M. Wallace, Cambridge, 1985)(1) It may be that the final statement of the Tractatus -- "What we cannot speak about we must pass over in silence"(2) --...

De Senectute e altri scritti autobiografici,.(Review)
June 22, 1998... Norberto Bobbio, De Senectute e altri scritti autobiografici, Turin, Einaudi 1997, and Autobiografia, Alberto Papuzzi, ed., Bari, Laterza 1997 Born in 1909 in Turin, Norberto Bobbio,(1) a philosopher of law who also wore the hat of a...