Karl Löwith
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Transcendence and Power. Carl Schmitt's Political Theology L' opera di CarI Schmitt (1888-1985) rappresenta una delle più forti provocazioni del pensiero del Novecento. La sua ricerca intellettuale e politica spazia nei diversi ambiti... more
Starting from Karl Löwith’s Mitanthropologie, my paper aims to put forward a principle disappointability conceived as a “trust gradient” for the interhuman dimension. Löwith’s Mitanthropologie develops a taxonomy of the different binary... more
Entrées encyclopédiques sur : Charles Andler, Alfred Bäumler, Georg Brandes, Karl Hillebrand, Karl Jaspers, Ernst Jünger, Henri Lichtenberger, Karl Löwith, la réception initiale de Nietzsche, Jean-Paul Sartre, Georg Simmel, Oswald... more
Ez a rövid tanulmány a történelemfilozófia-kritikák nézőpontjából vizsgálja a „klasszikus” horkheimeri kritikai elméletet (amelynek explicit kifejtése az 1937-ben megjelent Hagyományos és kritikai elméletben lelhető fel). Különös... more
This paper aims to present the interpretation of Così è (se vi pare) (1918) given by Karl Löwith in his habilitation thesis, namely L'individuo nel ruolo del co-uomo (1928). The investigation of Pirandello's role within the framework of... more
Karl Löwith’s "Meaning in History" presents the emergence of modern philosophy of history as a secularization of medieval theology of history. His thesis holds that modern historical consciousness transposes into the immanent frame a... more
Hans Blumenberg (1920-1996) é um dos maiores filósofos da segunda metade do século XX. Autor de uma obra gigantesca, o seu estilo sinuoso não parece conter nenhuma tese fundamental, ainda que se ramifique por entre temas tão diversos tais... more
In this paper (written in Dutch), I evaluated one of the most imporant debate in philosophy of history, namely the debate on secularization between Karl Löwith and Hans Blumenberg. By comparing Löwith's "Meaning in History" with the... more
Written version of remarks presented at Une Journée Karl Löwith, a workshop held at the Centre canadien d'études allemandes et européennes on May 9th, 2019, marking the publication of Karl Löwith, Essais américains (Presses de... more
MORAES, E. C. Além da metafísica e do niilismo: a sabedoria trágica de Nietzsche. Dissertação (Mestrado em Filosofia), Universidade Federal de Goiás. 2013. Esta dissertação de mestrado tem por objetivo refletir sobre a filosofia de... more
Against the intellectual backdrop of mounting uncertainty concerning the secular nature of modernity, the present study reconstructs a philosophical debate in Germany, concerning the origins and legitimacy of the modern age as a secular... more
These are very brief notes on the work of Richard Sorabji, Karl Löwith, Arnaldo Momigliano, and Hayden White. The goal is to summarize some of the main contributions of each author to the study of historiography and historical... more
[w:] P. Armada, A. Górnisiewicz (red.), Modernity and What Has Been Lost. Considerations on the Legacy of Leo Strauss, JUP, Kraków – St. Augustine's Press, South Bend 2010.
I consider that my books are a part of Germany’s moral an intellectual armament for the next war […] I am a disciple of Nietzsche, and take the greatest delight in a struggle for power wherever it occurs and whoever wins. (Ernst Jünger,... more
Die Stoßrichtung von Gadamers Antwort auf den Historismus bleibt in der Forschung ein umstrittenes Thema: Während seine philosophische Hermeneutik einerseits beschuldigt wird, lediglich die Aporien des Historismus zu radikalisieren, sehen... more
Sonderdruck aus: RELIGION UND POLITIK. Herausgegeben vom Exzellenzcluster „Religion und Politik“ der Westfälischen Wilhelms-Universität Münster. Band 13: Zukunftsvisionen zwischen Apokalypse und Utopie. Herausgegeben von Katharina Martin... more
The article seeks to disclose the phenomenon of Conservative Revolution as an attempt at the fullest projection of Nietzscheanism in philosophical and social fields, in particular, resting on the work of its face and recognized... more
Den Kontext dieser Arbeit bildet die Säkularisierungsdebatte der 1960er Jahre in Deutschland, genauer das sogenannte „Säkularisierungstheorem“, demzufolge viele als originell neuzeitlich geltende, das moderne Selbstverständnis prägende... more
Il dibattito filosofico tra Strauss e Löwith
Inhalt: 1. Der Wert des Staates und die Bedeutung des Einzelnen 1.1 Recht und Macht 1.2 Der Staat 1.3 Der Einzelne oder „‘stirb und werde‘“ 2. Der Begriff des Politischen 2.1 Bonapartistische Politik 2.2 Aporien des... more
With the rise of political populism across Europe, there is an increased investment in religion. Examples range from the apocalyptic rhetoric employed by far-right movements to seemingly more innocent references to Christian symbols as... more
In questo libro, uscito presso Queriniana all'inizio del 2019, ricostruisco il dibattito recente sulla secolarizzazione, analizzando i lavori di H. Blumenberg, D. Martin, C. Taylor, H. Joas, T. Asad, M. Gauchet, J. Habermas e G. Vattimo.... more
Monographica I, a cura di Danilo Manca e Marco Menon
In der vorliegenden Untersuchung wird der Versuch unternommen, das Problem der menschlichen Identität von der Vorstellung der geschlossenen Autonomie bzw. der Heteronomie des menschlichen Selbst zu befreien. Anhand der praktischen... more
Introduzione alla traduzione italiana di “Das Individuum in der Rolle des Mitmenschen” (“L’individuo nel ruolo del co-uomo”, Guida, Napoli 2007), scritto di abilitazione di Karl Löwith, discusso presso la Philipps-Universität di Marburgo... more
Interrogarsi sul presente comporta la messa in discussione di ogni pretesa assolutizzazione dell’esistente. Non dobbiamo perciò cadere nell’errore di sentirci alla “fine della storia”, sull’orlo del baratro, come se altri uomini prima di... more
Seguendo una suggestione di Karl Löwith, secondo il quale: «l’antropologia diviene filosofica solamente con questa enorme domanda che riguarda il rapporto dell’uomo con il mondo», queste pagine prendono a tema l’eclettica figura di Carl... more
È la questione del tempo, del divenire, a muovere e a mettere in agitazione "Il bibliotecario di Leibniz. Filosofia e romanzo", ultimo libro di Sergio Givone. La trattazione si snoda a partire da un bersaglio polemico: la filosofia della... more
Friends and Colleagues, This is a draft of a syllabus for a course I'm teaching this fall. Constructive critical feedback welcome.
Karl Löwith (1897-1973), a German-Jewish philosopher, who studied with Martin Heidegger and was obliged to leave Germany during the Nazizeit, stayed in Japan from 1936 to 1941 as professor of philosophy at Tôhoku University in Sendai. The... more
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The aim of this paper is to highlight both the ambivalence and the radicalism of Löwith’s position. The first part of this paper focuses on the historicization of historicism itself, that is, on what Löwith means by historicization and... more
La posibilidad de que hoy lo humano tenga cabida y significado en un mundo indiferente a su realidad depende de la elaboración prosaica de mundos con sentido, tarea en la que diariamente todos nos empeñamos. Nuestra esencial carencia de... more
HANS BLUMENBERG, PENSADOR POLÍTICO LECTURAS A CIEN AÑOS DE SU NACIMIENTO Ricardo Laleff Ilieff | Gonzalo Ricci Cernadas [directores] ÍNDICE Prólogo. Hans Blumenberg y su universo de obsesiones sistemáticas Elías J. Palti 11 Introducción... more
Partendo da un breve inquadramento della situazione descritta da Weber con l'espressione "politeismo dei valori", intendo discutere le istanze che essa suscita tramite un confronto tra Cassirer e Löwith. Introduco Cassirer a partire da... more
This paper presents and discusses Karl Löwith's anthropological critique of existential analytic that is formulated in his Habilitation thesis (Das Individuum in der Rolle des Mitmenschen, 1928), where he develops an anthro-pological... more
this paper deals with one of the main issue i wish to treat in my project. The thinkers of the frankfurt school and the others heterodox marxist thinkers used to express concepts and words from a theological origin. Our main question... more