by Justin Carmien
In a journal entry published to The Pop-Up School on February 4th 2024, Bonnitta Roy introduced the series “Why Metaphysics Matters, A Lively Discussion About Why Metaphysics Matters In Our Current Metamodern Era”. In this article, Roy began to answer the question which I had posed to her a few years ago in this video:…
In the 1999 book Heidegger’s Temporal Idealism, William Blattner argues for something quite novel and interesting for his time. Blattner believes that Martin Heidegger’s Sein und Zeit (“Being and Time”) belongs to a philosophical project which can be exemplified by the philosophies of Plotinus, G.W. Leibniz, Immanuel Kant, and Henri Bergson. Blattner characterizes each of these thinkers, along…
Reflections in this article follow from a conversation with Aleksandr Dugin, recorded on May 27th, 2023. My ambition going into this conversation was to understand Dugin’s relationship to Fourth Political Theory. I assume the historical importance of the announcement of Fourth Political Theory is unquestionable. Dugin has initiated the announcement. Therefore, Dugin’s relationship to Fourth…
Let us ask a question. Is it accidental that a pronounced moment of post-metaphysical thinking appears alongside the political projects invested in disarming and disempowering world institutions, or those invested in dismantling patriarchy, and the remaining after-effects of colonialism? Following WWII, the horrors of Nazi gas chambers, and fears of atomic warfare had demanded that…
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”. His claim is that time must be brought to…