Dis-orientations

This is a carefully put together and astonishingly coherent collection of insightful philosophical reflections on how major Modern thinkers and writers oriented themselves in a thoroughly disoriented world, where all metaphysical grounding had lost its footing and nothing could have been taken for granted. A vast and illuminating scope of essays, ranging from Novalis to Kundera, from Heidegger to Platonov, from Kierkegaard to Benjamin, this volume is an invaluable contribution to understanding Modernity at its existential best. -- Micha Pawe Markowski, Professor at University of Illinois A thought-provoking and compelling inquiry into the predicaments of our times, Dis-orientations challenges us to see a gain rather than a loss in the modern loss of grounds -- Jayne Svenungsson, Associate Professor of Systematic Theology at Stockholm School of Theology A provocative collection of essays exploring disorientation as the moving force of the present. Reflecting on disorientation in thought, in existence, in being, and in language, these essays examine the theoretical challenges of thinking our present situation of suspension, hovering, homelessness, and exile that have emerged from the lost grounds of modernity. -- Peg Birmingham, Professor of Philosophy, DePaul University

Marcia S Cavalcante Schuback is professor of philosophy at Sdertrn University, Sweden. She has published widely in both English and Portuguese, including the Portuguese translation of Heideggers Being and Time. Tora Lane is a Project Researcher at CBEES, Sdertrn University, Sweden. Contributors: Ludger Hagedorn, Research Fellow, Institut fr die Wissenschaften vom Menschen, Austria; Peter Hanly, Research Fellow, Boston College, USA; Krystof Kasprzak, PhD Student in Philosophy, Sdertrn University, Sweden; Tora Lane, Project Researcher, CBEES, Sdertrn University, Sweden; Michael Marder, Ikerbasque Research Professor of Philosophy, University of the Basque Country, Spain; Helena Martins, Associate Professor, Pontifcia Universidade do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; Jan Patoka; Johan Redin, Research Fellow, Sdertrn University, Sweden; Marcia S Cavalcante, Schuback Professor of Philosophy, Sdertrn University, Sweden; Irina Sandomirskaja, Professor in Cultural Studies, Sdertrn University, Sweden; Gustav Strandberg, PhD student in Philosophy, Sdertrn University, Sweden; Peter Trawny, Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Martin Heidegger Institute, Wuppertal University, Germany; Sven-Olov Wallenstein, Professor of Philosophy, Sdertrn University, Sweden.

Introduction Marcia S Cavalcante Schuback and Tora Lane / Part I: Disorientation in Thought / 1. Husserl and the Earth Sven-Olov Wallenstein / 2. Sublime Disorientation: An Interpretation of Kants What Does it Mean to Orient Oneself in Thinking? Krystof Kasprzak / 3. On Being Lost at Home: Disorientation between Economy and Ecology Michael Marder / 4. Lightness of Being, Gravity of Thought: (Dis-)Orientations in Nietzsche and Kundera Ludger Hagedorn / Part II: Disorientation in Existence / 5. On the Prehistory of the Science of Movement: Word, Earth, Heaven and the Movement of Human Life Jan Patoka / 6. A Place in Movement: Jan Patoka and the Disorientation of Human Existence Gustav Strandberg / 7. Exile and Existential Disorientation Marcia S Cavalcante Schuback / Part III: Disorientation in Being / 8. Intimacy and Abyss in Hlderlins Death of Empedocles Peter Trawny / 9. Hovering in the Between: Novalis and the Experience of Limit Peter Hanly / 10. Vertigo of Being Johan Redin / Part IV: Disorientation in Language / 11. Words (Mis)trusted Helena Martins / 12. Platonovs Chevengur: Disorientation and the Quest for a Transcendental Home in the World Tora Lane / 13. Disoriented Names: Benjamin and Kierkegaard on Politics and History in Language Irina Sandormirskaja / Epigraph / About the Authors / Index