Antonio Cerella - Heidegger and the Global Age

The New Heidegger Research series promotes informed and critical dialogue that breaks new philosophical ground by taking into account the full range of Heideggers thought, as well as the enduring questions raised by his work.

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Correspondence 19491975, Martin Heidegger, Ernst Jnger, translated by Timothy Quinn

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Heidegger and the Global Age, edited by Antonio Cerella and Louiza Odysseos

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Heideggers Gods, Susanne Claxton

Making Sense of Heidegger, Thomas Sheehan

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For the people of LAquila,
who witnessed the disappearance of their world
and who, despite everything, are seeking to reanimate it through their being.

At the end of a long intellectual journey, it is only right to look back and acknowledge our debts to those institutions that have made this research possible. Our thanks go to the British International Studies Association (BISA), the School of Global Studies of the University of Sussex and its Center for Advanced International Theory (CAIT) for supporting and funding the workshop on Heidegger and the Global Age (2930 October 2015), which laid the foundations of this volume. We also owe thanks and gratitude to the Series Editors, Gregory Fried and Richard Polt, for their constructive comments on an early version of this book, and to the anonymous reviewers who with their thoughtful criticisms have certainly improved the quality of this project. Special thanks, however, go to our contributors, without whom this volume would have not seen the light of the day.

Following the publication of the so-called Schwarze Hefte, Heidegger scholarship has, once again, entered into a crisis. Behind the accusations and condemnations, judgments and prejudgments, absolutions and excommunications, lurks something more profound than an academic interpretation or a page in the history of ideas. The crisis of Heideggerian thinking should be placed within the broader process of obliteration of the human sciences that, slowly but firmly, is propagating across the academic system. The answer to the question of whether or not Martin Heideggers thought should be thrown away, along with the violent world that elicited it, is only partially contained in the following pages. However, if a thought is still capable of provoking more thought and a fight for the truth; if a philosophy is still able to give a different atmosphere to things, to shed a magic light on them, it must necessarily be related to life.

This book is dedicated to the people of LAquila, who witnessed the devastation of their world caused by the earthquake. In their testimonies, one can still encounter that direct and deep experience of space, which is philosophically articulated by Heidegger: the worries, tears, grief, mourning, sorrow, compassion and altruism of those who, within a few moments, were left without the totality of involvements that generates the meaning of being-in-the-world. Yet, paradoxically, this physical destruction the tragic erasing of space has not removed the experience of place; the disappearance of the visible world has not swallowed the invisible one as well but, in some cases, has strengthened it, providing this invisible place with a more distinct boundary, an indelible memory from which to replenish itself. It is as if the soul of a world is sedimented in the remains, in the survivors. Thus, in the poignant testimony of one survivor, one can still discern the epochal relevance of the question of being: My house is intact but my sister Claudia is gone. Sometimes after lunch she would give me a ride to work: we would stroll along via Strinella, and park near the Villa Comunale for a coffee at the Chalet. Sometimes C. would join us and, afterwards, I would go towards Collemaggio, my sister and C. towards the city centre. Via Strinella is semi-deserted now, the Chalet is one of the few bars still open near the historic centre and one can easily park near the Villa because almost no one works there anymore. C. moved to Pescara. I take my coffee alone, moving within a microcosm that I dont recognize, thinking about all those losses we Aquilani will hardly ever fill. But I will stay here for you, sister!

Peg Birmingham is professor of philosophy at DePaul University in Chicago, United States. She is the author of Hannah Arendt and Human Rights: The Predicament of Common Responsibility (2006), co-editor (with Philippe van Haute) of Dissensus Communis: Between Ethics and Politics (1996) and co-editor (with Anna Yeatman) of Aporia of Rights: Citizenship in an Era of Human Rights (2014). She is the editor of Philosophy Today.

Antonio Cerella is lecturer in politics, international relations and human rights at Kingston University, London, United Kingdom. He is convenor of CRIPTBritish International Studies Association working group on contemporary research on international political theory. He is the co-editor of Mimetic Theory and International Studies (2015); The Sacred and the Political: Explorations of Mimesis, Violence and Religion (2016); Carl Schmitt, Political Theology and Modernity (2016); and Machiavelli and International Relations: Critical Reassessments