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Hegel, Heidegger, Schiller
Both Hegel and Heidegger had thought-provoking connections with particular poems Continue reading
Heidegger and Schiller’s Das Lied von der Glocke
Das Lied von der Glocke
Fest gemauert in der Erden Continue reading
Unnameable 2
The Unnameable
…what it’s like, where the door is, if Continue reading
An overview: Hegel
For almost two centuries now, Hegel has been read as Continue reading
Humans as the most finite beings in Hegel and Heidegger
Both Hegel and Heidegger go to great length in addressing Continue reading
Early version of Krapp’s tape
Intellectually a year of profound gloom until that wonderful night Continue reading
Hegel – the end of the Differenzschrift
Die philosophische Reflexion ist bedingt, oder die transzendentale Anschauung kommt Continue reading
Hegel – the end of Glauben und Wissen
Der reine Begriff aber oder die Unendlichkeit als der Abgrund Continue reading
Heideger: Selbe, Verschiedenheit, Differenz
Allein das Selbe ist nicht das Gleiche. Im Gleichen verschwindet Continue reading
Außer-sich bei Heidegger
Die ekstatische Einheit der Zeitlichkeit, has heißt die Einheit des Continue reading
‘Nur’ in Satz der Identität
Sein west und währt nur, indem es durch seinen Anspruch den Menschen an-geht. (…) Dies besagt keineswegs, das Continue reading
Hegel reads Schiller’s Freundschaft
The closing lines of Die Freundschaft (1782):
Freundlos war Continue reading
‘Nur’ in SZ
Allerdings nur solange Dasein ist, das heißt die ontische Möglichkeit Continue reading
Marduk: 1,2,3
In the ‘Hymn of the Fifty Names of Marduk’, he Continue reading
Enuma Elish: Mother of all, why did you have to mother war?
Discord broke out among the gods although they were brothers, Continue reading
An Overview: The Logic of/at Origin
The gigantomachia is an expression of a certain logic of/at Continue reading
Der Verstand dient als Fackelträger
Der Verstand dient als Fackelträger, jedenfalls dienend; und was heißt Continue reading
Pelion and Ossa in The Merry Wives of Windsor
The Merry Wives of Windsor (Act 2, Scene 1)
Mistress Continue reading
Hesiod on Hekate
And she [‘Asteria of happy name, whom Perses once led Continue reading
Pelion and Ossa in Hamlet
Hamlet, Prince of Denmark (Act 5, Scene 1)
LAERTES: O, Continue reading
Pelion and Ossa in Rabelais
This response, quoth Pantagruel, maketh not very much for your benefit or Continue reading
The war of the Aloadai and the gods in Virgil
Here [Tartaros] have I [the Cumaean Sibyl] seen the twin sons of Continue reading
The war of the Aloadai and the gods in Ovid
Nor were the heights of heaven more secure: Gigantes, it’s said, to win the Continue reading
The war of the Aloadai and the gods in Hyginus
Otos and Ephialtes, sons of Aloeus and Iphimede, are said to have been of Continue reading
The war of the Aloadai and the gods in Apollodorus
Aloeus married Triops’ daughter Iphimedeia, who, however, was in love with Continue reading
The war of the Aloadai and the gods in Homer
Many of us who have our homes on Olympos endure things from men, when ourselves Continue reading
The battle of Zeus and Typhon in Apollodorus
The defeat of the Gigantes by the gods angered Ge all the more, so she had Continue reading
The battle of Zeus and Typhon in Aeschylus
I am distressed by the fate of my brother Atlas, who, towards the west, stands bearing on his Continue reading
The battle of Zeus and Typhon in Hesiod
But when Zeus had driven the Titans from heaven, huge Continue reading
The Gigantomachia in Diodorus
Herakles then moved on from the Tiber, and as he passed down the coast of Continue reading
The Gigantomachia in Apollodorus
Now because of her anger over the Titans, Ge gave birth to the Gigantes, Ouranos was the father. These creatures were Continue reading
The Titanomachia in Apollodorus
When Zeus was grown, he engaged Okeanos’ daughter Metis as a colleague. She gave Kronos a Continue reading
The Titanomachia in Aeschylus
Prometheus to the Okeanides:
When first the heavenly powers were moved to Continue reading
Equinox in Hamlet
Some say that ever ‘gainst that season comes
Wherein our Continue reading
An Overview: Gigantomachias in Greek myth
In Greek myth, accounts of a war between the gods Continue reading
Hekate
It is no accident that Hekate (Ekath) played such an Continue reading
Gigantomachia in Heidegger’s 1929 Kantbuch
Die fundamentalontologische Grundlegung der Metaphysik in “Sein und Zeit” muß Continue reading
An Overview: Solzhenitsyn
Solzhenitsyn’s enormous output in novels, short stories, plays, Continue reading
Live not by lies
The circle–is it closed? And is there really no way out? And is there only one Continue reading
So the darkness shall be the light
I said to my soul, be still, and wait without Continue reading
A World Split Apart (r)
If the world has not approached its end, it has reached a major watershed in history, equal in importance to the turn from the Middle Ages to the Continue reading
A World Split Apart (q)
We have placed too much hope in politics and social reforms, only to find out that Continue reading
A World Split Apart (p)
Is it right that man’s life and society’s activities should be ruled by material expansion above all? Is it permissible to promote such expansion to Continue reading
A World Split Apart (o)
…the calamity of an autonomous, irreligious humanistic consciousness. It has made man the measure of all things on Continue reading
A World Split Apart (n)
…in early democracies, as in American democracy at the time of its birth, all individual Continue reading
A World Split Apart (l)
This means that the mistake must be at the root, at the very foundation of thought in modern times. I refer to the prevailing Western view of the world in Continue reading
A World Split Apart (m)
The turn introduced by the Renaissance was probably inevitable historically: the Middle Ages had come to a Continue reading
A World Split Apart (k)
…the fight for our planet, physical and spiritual, a fight of cosmic proportions, is not a vague matter of Continue reading
A World Split Apart (a)
The split in today’s world is perceptible even to a Continue reading