Fark Yaraları = Scars of Différance: July 2009

Thursday, July 30, 2009

if you are in Frankfurt...

"Wo so viel sich hoffen läßt,
Wird der Abschied ja ein Fest."

Goethe, "Trauerreglement" (GW2, Dtv '77 edition, p.399)

Hi there, it has been a long time since I made a post here. Reasons are unknown to me, I couldn't come nearby. Distraction followed my steps (and like a lacanian psychoanalyst replaced the cause of my discontent). Ergo, again I continue*.

I am in frankfurt (this is the 4th week) and will be so for the end of August (learning german). If you around here, I would be very happy to meet (in a way, be my tandem partner). I wonder where are the intelligentsia, anarchists, communists... if you ahve time just e-mail to "farkyarasi1 _at_ gmail [dot] com"

and I'm reading three critiques in a row here am main, companies are welcomed with Turkish tea in thermos.

I'll write later, in a longer piece, my reflections on the german book world and bookstores (especially about the ironic coupling of two figures as bestsellers: Sloterdijk & Habermas. Is there anyone who knows how many Du musst dein lebern andern [sloterdijk's latest book] has been sold? It is in every bookstore in the bestseller shelf)

by the way, as my bibliomania reached to a coma-level here, here is the books that I have bought (I paid 3.6 euros at average, wunderbach! / "[...]" refers to the number of volumes / I put * to my favourites)

*Athaenaeum: eine Zeitschrift von A.W. & F. Schlegel < Die bibliophilen Taschenbücher [2]
Schiller - Werke in drei Banden < Hanser [3]
Goethe - Gesammelte Werke < Dtv [18]
*Robert Walser - Gesammelte Werke < Suhrkamp [12]
R.M. Rilke - Gesammelte Werke < Insel [9]
Kant - Drei Kritike < Suhrkamp [4]
Karl Jaspers - Was ist die Philosophie? < Piper
Sloterdijk - Versprechen auf Deutsch < Suhrkamp
Sloterdijk - Du musst dein Lebern andern < Suhrkamp
Sloterdijk - Kritik der Zynischen Vernunft < Suhrkamp [2]
Sloterdijk - Der Zauberbaum < Suhrkamp
Sloterdijk - Im Weltinnenraum des Kapitals < Suhrkamp
Sloterdijk - Eurotaoismus < Suhrkamp
Blumenberg - Shiffbruch mit Zuschauer < Suhrkamp
Blumenberg - Der Verführbarkeit des Philosophen < Suhrkamp
Blumenberg - Wirklichkeiten in denen wir leben < Reclam
Marquard - Abschied vom Prinzipiellen < Reclam
*Adam Soboczynski - Versuch über Kleist < Matthes&Seitz
Schiller & A.W. Schlegel - Der Briefwechsel < Dumont
Jean-Luc Godard - The Future(s) of Film < Verlag Gachnag & Springer
Gadamer - Der Anfang des Wissens < Reclam
(ed.) Das Ende der grossen Entwürfe < Suhrkamp
(ed.) Seminar: Familie und Gesellschaftstruktur < Suhrkamp
(ed.) Seminar: Literatur- und Kunstsoziologie < Suhrkamp
Norbert Elias - Über den Prozess der Zivilisation < Suhrkamp [2]
Norbert Elias - Mozart < Suhrkamp
*Dieter Henrich - Nach dem Ende der teilung. Über Identitaten und Intellektualitat in Deutschland < Suhrkamp
Peter Handke - Wunschloss. Unglück < Suhrkamp
Peter Handke - Über die Dörfer < Suhrkamp
Hondrich - Enthüllung und Entrüstung: Eine Phanomenologie des politischen Skandals < Suhrkamp
Fichant & Pecheux - Überlegungen zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte < Suhrkamp
*Sandkühler - Praxis und Geschichtsbewusstsein < Suhrkamp
Heydorn - Zu einer neufassung des Bildungsbegriffs < Suhrkamp
*Rudolf zur Lippe - Bürgerliche Subjektivitat: Autonomie als Selbstzerstörung < Suhrkamp
Henri Lefévbre - Der Dialektische Materialismus < Suhrkamp
Kracauer - Das Ornament der Masse < Suhrkamp
*Micheal Müller - Die Verdrangung des ornaments. Zum Verhaltnis von Architektur und Lebespraxis < Suhrkamp
Karl Kraus - Theater der Dichtung < Suhrkamp
*Asja Lacis - Revolutionar im Beruf < Rogner & Bernhard
Husserl - Ideen zu einer reinen Phanomenologie < Meiner
Wolfgang Borchert - Das Gesamtwerk < Rowohlt
Herfried Wünkler - Imperien < Rowohlt
Cassirer - Idee und Gestalt < Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft Darmstadt
Freud - Bildende Kunst und literatatur < Fischer

" 'Vernunft' ist im Kern - und nicht nur peripher - die Unterwerfung unter die maxime der Selbsterhaltung" Blumenberg in 'die verführbarkeit...'

eadem mutata resurgo

Jean-Luc Nancy made a comment on a post published here (not joking)

Jean-Luc Nancy (yes he, himself) made a comment here

" the photo of mine with the article is from the photographer'

ANNE IMMELE

please have her name shown near the photo - thank you

jean-luc nancy"

This made me return to blogging. Thanks.
I don't know how I silenced my sneeze since I saw it for the first time.

Of the Sublime: Presence in Question [made in istanbul]

Librett's labor yielded such a masterpiece that its invisibility is not without reason. In this wonderfully worked out volume, he translated Cerisy essays by

Jean-luc Nancy
Philippe Lacoue-labarthe
Jean-François Courtine (very rare in english)
Michel Deguy
(the goddess) Elaine Escobar
Lyotard
Louis Marin
Rogozinski

burn down the letters, let pages get blind, for sublime is a terror and syncope, there remains for you, the task: laugh.

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Rosenzweig - Understanding the Sick and the Healthy

Understanding the Sick and the Healthy: A View of World, Man, and God

Rosenzweig's Understanding the Sick and the Healthy is a rare gem of a book. The importance of Rosenzweig's work-like that of Walter Benjaminis only now beginning to emerge. Like Wittgenstein, Rosenzweig explicitly undertakes to provide a therapy that will liberate the reader from philosophical questions as they arise. Three features of Rosenzweig's little book now seem ahead of their time: first, his desire not to eliminate the wonder with which philosophical questioning begins; second, his insistence on reconceiving and thus preserving the traditional subject-matter of metaphysics; and third, his seminal thought that wonder within that nexus could be expressed within a life lived according to the liturgical calendar of Judaism, with its alternation between profane and sacred time?
--Paul Franks, Indiana University, Bloomington

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Franz Rosenzweig, one of the century's great Jewish thinkers, wrote his gem of a book in 1921 as a more accessible prcis of his famous Star of Redemption. An elegant introduction to Rosenzweig's "new thinking," Understanding the Sick and the Healthy was written for a lay audience and takes the form of an ironic narrative about convalescence. With superb simplicity and beauty, it puts forth an important critique of the nineteenth-century German Idealist philosophical tradition and expresses a powerful vision of Jewish religion. Harvard's Hilary Putnam provides a new introduction to this classic work for a contemporary audience.

(putnam wrote an introduction to this,sorrily it's a total self-celebration)

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Charles Taylor - Hegel [made in istanbul]

Calvin O. Schragg - God as Otherwise than Being

"Gebe Gott uns allen, uns Trinkern, einen so leichten und so schönen Tod!" from (my dear) Joseph Roth's 'Die Legende vom heiligen Trinker'

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Szondi - Introduction to Literaray Hermeneutics [made in istanbul]

better than sex.

read Peter Szondi.

go

Haar - Heidegger and the Essence of Man [made in istanbul]

This is poetry, erdichten bitte Herr Haar.

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Avineri - Hegels Theory of Modern State [made in istanbul]

I think this is still one of the best book written on state(s) of Hegel (qua Marx)
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Adorno - Three Studies on Hegel [made in istanbul]

masterpiece

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Hyppolite - Genesis and Structure of Hegels Phenomenology of Spirit [made in istanbul]

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Kracauer - Form Caligari to Hitler [made in istanbul]

enjoy this masterpiece

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Rabinow - Essays on the Anthropology of Reason [made in istanbul]

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Jean-Luc Nancy - Dis-Enclosure: Deconstruction of Christianity [made in istanbul]

This book is a profound and eagerly anticipated investigation into what is left of a monotheistic religious spirit—notably, a minimalist faith that is neither confessional nor credulous. Articulating this faith as works and as an objectless hope, Nancy deconstructs Christianity in search of the historical and reflective conditions that provided its initial energy. Working through Blanchot and Nietzsche, re-reading Heidegger and Derrida, Nancy turns to the Epistle of Saint James rather than those of Saint Paul, discerning in it the primitive essence of Christianity as hope. The “religion that provided the exit from religion,” as he terms Christianity, consists in the announcement of an end. It is the announcement that counts, however, rather than any finality. In this announcement there is a proximity to others and to what was once called parousia. But parousia is no longer presence; it is no longer the return of the Messiah. Rather, it is what is near us and does not cease to open and to close, a presence deferred yet imminent.In a demystified age where we are left with a vision of a self-enclosed world—in which humans are no longer mortals facing an immortal being, but entities whose lives are accompanied by the time of their own decline—parousia stands as a question. Can we venture the risk of a decentered perspective, such that the meaning of the world can be found both inside and outside, within and without our so-immanent world?The deconstruction of Christianity that Nancy proposes is neither a game nor a strategy. It is an invitation to imagine a strange faith that enacts the inadequation of life to itself. Our lives overflow the self-contained boundaries of their biological and sociological interpretations. Out of this excess, wells up a fragile, overlooked meaning that is beyond both confessionalism and humanism.

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read at least "blanchots god"

Marder - Dead Time: Temporal Disorders in the Wake of Modernity (Baudelaire and Flaubert) [made in istanbul]

Marder - Dead Time: Temporal Disorders in the Wake of Modernity (Baudelaire and Flaubert)

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new link

“This book is stunning in its ability to range widely and effectively over some of the most important, contested, and misunderstood regions of contemporary literary and cultural theory. A major and most welcome contribution to the study of two great canonical French authors, it is also a subtle but cogent intervention in the ongoing attempt to define and theorize a relation between the catchall concepts ‘modernism’ and ‘postmodernism.’”—Kevin Newmark, Boston College

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This book explores how modernity gives rise to temporal disorders when time cannot be assimilated and integrated into the realm of lived experience. It turns to Baudelaire and Flaubert in order to derive insights into the many temporal disorders (such as trauma, addiction, and fetishism) that pervade contemporary culture.

Kant - Critique of Practical Reason [made in istanbul]

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Deleuze - Cinema 1&2 [made in istanbul] - new scan, page by page

deleuze

1

2

links renewed

Cacciari - Architecture and Nihilism [made in istanbul]

Massimo Cacciari at its best

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for a wonderful introduction to the Cacciari & Tafuri on architecture
http://leniency.blogspot.com/2008/08/vergeistigung.html