by Justin Carmien
Understanding Power and History in the Metamodern Paradigm Of principal importance to the metamodern political project is an understanding of both power and history. These two words direct our attention to the obstacles which previous political projects have faced, but were not able to circumvent, such that we suffer from those same obstacles today. However, even…
Including Reflections on the Psychological, Anthropological, and Economic Interpretation of the Conditions of Possibility Let us ask ourselves a question. Is it accidental that post-metaphysical thinking and the philosophical methods of deconstruction appear alongside the political projects interested in disarming and disempowering world institutions, or those interested in dismantling patriarchy, and the remaining after-effects of…
Including a Reflection on Subjectivist and Objectivist Politics Unresolved is the popular opinion on Heidegger’s neglect to speak about the horrors committed by the Nazi party, including his neglect to speak about his membership in the party and his participation in party activity during his rectorship at Freiberg University. The most popular opinion views Heidegger’s…
And the Possibility and Value of a Future Metaphysics Analyses in a recently published book, Division III of Heidegger’s Being and Time, serve to speculate on reasons why Martin Heidegger might have abandoned his 1927 magnum opus, Being and Time. As is well known, at the inception of Being and Time, Heidegger promises to answer “the sense of being”.…
A Metamodern Economic Reform Proposal In the 1920s, the German philosopher Martin Heidegger attempted a novel definition of truth. This was required in order to firmly delineate the sense of being. Taking the Ancient Greek αληθεια as his directive, he collapsed the subjective / objective dichotomy and surmounted the understanding of truth as an assertion in agreement…
Including a Critique (from the Right) of Aleksandr Dugin When thinking on the legacy of Heidegger, the Statesman, we are, of course, thinking of the legacy of a certain characterization of the German philosopher Martin Heidegger — specifically, his legacy as a political philosopher. This characterization does not appear to be too uncommon throughout the respective academic…
and the Vision of Aristotelian Socialism Characterizing Heidegger, the statesman, is a project which does not appear to be too uncommon among academic literature. Perhaps it was Leo Strauss who had prepared for this. After all, he is most likely to be the one responsible for popularizing the question of Heidegger’s commitment to the political,…