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Bhdg – 8, 2018 ISSN 2034-7189 BULLETIN HEIDEGGÉRIEN (Bhdg) - Secrétaires : Christophe PERRIN (Université catholique de Louvain) Sylvain CAMILLERI (Université catholique de Louvain) - Comité scientifique : Jeffrey Andrew BARASH (Université de Picardie Jules Verne) Rudolf BERNET (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven) Steven CROWELL (Rice University) Jean-François COURTINE (Université Paris-Sorbonne) Dan DAHLSTROM (Boston University) Françoise DASTUR (Université de Nice Sophia-Antipolis) Günter FIGAL (Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg) Jean GRONDIN (Université de Montréal) Theodore KISIEL (Northern Illinois University) Richard POLT (Xavier University) Jean-Luc MARION (Académie française) Claude ROMANO (Université Paris-Sorbonne) Hans RUIN (Södertörn University) Thomas SHEEHAN (Stanford University) Makito SHIGERU (Aoyama Gakuin Daigaku) Christian SOMMER (CNRS, Paris) Peter TRAWNY (Bergische Universität Wuppertal) Jean-Marie VAYSSE (Université de Toulouse-Le Mirail) † Helmut VETTER (Universität Wien) Holger ZABOROWSKI (Philosophisch-Theologische Hochschule Vallendar) - Comité de rédaction : Diana AURENQUE (Universidad de Santiago de Chile) Vincent BLOK (Radboud University Nijmegen) Cristian CIOCAN (Universitatea din Bucuresti) Guillaume FAGNIEZ (FNRS-Université libre de Bruxelles) Dean KOMEL (Univerza v Ljubljani) François JARAN (Universitat de València) - Correspondants locaux : Claudio CALABRESE (Universidad Panamericana) Tziovanis GEORGAKIS (Πανεπιστήμιο Κύπρου) Urs GOESKEN (Université de Berne) Takashi IKEDA (University of Tokyo) Celso MARQUES JR (Universidade de São Paulo) 1 Bhdg – 8, 2018 ISSN 2034-7189 Kata MOSER (Université de Berne) Francesco PAOLO DE SANCTIS (Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia) Young-Hwa SEO (Seoul National University) Yuliya Aleksandrovna TSUTSEROVA (University of Chicago) Wenqi YANG (University of Copenhagen) Erdal YILDIZ (Mimar Sinan Güzel Sanatlar Üniversitesi) 2 Bhdg – 8, 2018 ISSN 2034-7189 SOMMAIRE DU BHDG – 8 LIMINAIRES .................................................................................................................................... I. « Rapport sur le fonds d’archives Martin Heidegger de la ville de Meßkirch », par Ian Alexander MOORE ……………………………………………………….. 4 II. « État de la recherche heideggérienne actuelle au Japon », par Makito SHIGERU ……………………………………………………………................ 6 III. « "Heidegger aujourd’hui : actualité et postérité de la pensée de l’Ereignis". Chronique du colloque international du de la Faculté de philosophie de l’Université Laval, Québec, 20-23 septembre 2017 », par Jean-François RIOUX ……………………………………………………………………………… 15 BIBLIOGRAPHIE POUR L’ANNÉE 2017 ………………………………………... 21 1. Textes de Heidegger …………………………………………………………….... 21 2. Traductions de textes de Heidegger ……………………………………………… 21 3. Collectifs et numéros de revues …………………………………………………... 23 4. Études générales …………………………………………………………………. 34 5. Études particulières ……………………………………………………………… 40 6. Suppléments bibliographiques aux livraisons précédentes ………………………... 69 RECENSIONS ………………………………………………………………………. 74 INSTRUMENTUM ………………………………………………………………... 140 « Concordance Heidegger, GA 95, 96 et 97 », par François JARAN & Christophe PERRIN * Les secrétaires du Bhdg remercient le Centre d’études phénoménologiques de l’Université catholique de Louvain (dir. Mme Danielle Lories) et le Centre d’herméneutique phénoménologique de l’Université Paris-Sorbonne (dir. MM. Claude Romano, Jean-Claude Gens et Michael Foessel) d’accueillir cette publication sur leurs sites respectifs. ** Il est possible de se procurer des tirés-à-part du Bhdg en écrivant à l’adresse : [email protected]. Nota bene : le numéro ISSN de la version imprimée diffère de celui de la version électronique. 3 Bhdg – 8, 2018 ISSN 2034-7189 BULLETIN HEIDEGGÉRIEN VIII Organe international de recension et de diffusion des recherches heideggériennes pour l’année 2017 LIMINAIRES I. RAPPORT SUR LE FONDS D’ARCHIVES MARTIN HEIDEGGER DE LA VILLE DE MEßKIRCH En mai 2016, j’ai passé une semaine en Allemagne au château de la ville de Meßkirch pour, en tant que titulaire de la bourse « Martin Heidegger », mener des recherches au fonds d’archives consacré au penseur qui siège en ces murs. Puisque n’existe ni en lui, ni hors de lui, aucun fichier ou synopsis de ses collections, je dresse ici le résumé des différents supports mis à la disposition des chercheurs en me permettant de souligner plusieurs éléments tout à fait dignes d’intérêt. On y trouve d’abord des centaines de volumes provenant de la chambre de la maison de Fritz Heidegger où Martin avait l’habitude de travailler. La plupart appartenait à Fritz bien que, comme en témoignent des dédicaces dans ces ouvrages ainsi que la correspondance qu’il entretenait avec son grand frère, certains fussent des présents de Martin 1 . Bon nombre de ces volumes, et plus particulièrement ceux qui traitent de théologie, de l’histoire de l’Église ou de la philosophie de Martin sont copieusement annotés par Fritz. Ces annotations ne révèlent pas seulement le brillant et vif esprit du cadet, elles offrent souvent également un éclairage sur la propre réflexion de l’aîné de même que sur sa vie. À cet égard, les notes ajoutées par Fritz quant à la biographie de Walter Biemel, Martin Heidegger in Selbstzeugnissen und Bilddokumenten2, viennent diversement corroborer, compléter comme mettre à l’épreuve les affirmations de l’auteur. Fondé par Sylvain Camilleri & Christophe Perrin. Ont collaboré à ce Bulletin : Mmes Jill Drouillard, Kata Moser, Yuliya Aleksandrovna Tsutserova, Wenqi Yang ; MM. Duilio Albarello, Claudio Calabrese, Sylvain Camilleri, Benoît Donnet, Guillaume Fagniez, Tziovanis Georgakis, Urs Goesken, Takashi Ikeda, François Jaran, Grégoire Langouët, Celso Marques Jr, Ian Alexander Moore, Francesco Paolo De Sanctis, Sébastien Perbal, Christophe Perrin, Jean-François Rioux, Makito Shigeru, Felipe Shimabukuro, Paul Slama, Claude Vishnu Spaak et Erdal Yildiz. Le symbole signale les publications recensées de l’année. 1 Consultable au Deutsches Literaturarchiv de Marbach, l’abondante correspondance entre Fritz et Martin Heidegger est à présent accessible aux chercheurs sans autorisation de leur famille. Pour une courte sélection comparative, on se reportera à Walter Homolka et Arnulf Heidegger (éds.), Heidegger und der Antisemitismus. Positionen im Widerstreit, Fribourg-en-Brisgau, Herder, 2016. 2 Walter Biemel, Martin Heidegger in Selbstzeugnissen und Bilddokumenten, Reinbek, Rowohlt, 1973. 4 Bhdg – 8, 2018 ISSN 2034-7189 Beaucoup de ces livres contiennent de même des dédicaces faites à Fritz ou Martin par des personnes qui ont joué un rôle important dans la vie de celui-ci, ainsi Jean Beaufret, Max Müller, Sophie Dorothee von Podewils et Bernhard Welte. Dans un des numéros du Philosophisches Jahrbuch édité par Max Müller et Michael Schmaus qui fait partie de la collection de Fritz figure même une lettre de Müller à Martin qui n’a pas encore été publiée à ce jour3. Autre pièce d’une importance toute particulière dans cette collection : une longue lettre de William Richardson adressée à Martin qui servit de base à la célèbre préface de ce dernier à Heidegger: Through Phenomenology to Thought, l’œuvre maîtresse de Richardson. On trouve la lettre dans la copie du livre de Richardson adressée à la bibliothèque « avec les compliments de l’auteur ». Autant la lettre que la préface comportent des passages soulignés et des annotations qui, s’ils peuvent être l’oeuvre de Fritz, sont probablement davantage de la main de Martin lorsqu’il travaillait à la composition de la préface et qu’il en reçut la version publiée. Ces archives ne semblent pas comporter de grandes nouveautés de Martin Heidegger lui-même, à l’exception, remarquable, de son édition de 1946 de l’oeuvre poétique de Georg Trakl4 . Outre des soulignages et des annotations en marge des annexes du volume, il existe plusieurs notes dans le poème de Trakl intitulé « Gesang des Abgeschiedenen », ainsi que des commentaires de Heidegger sur « Nachtergebung » et « Grodek ». Mentionnons également le tapuscrit de la correspondance entre Heidegger et Siegfried Schüle, le maire de Meßkirch de l’époque ; les tapuscrits de deux lettres jamais parues que Heidegger écrivit à Lev Shestov en 1929 ― d’où se devine que Heidegger avait pour projet de donner une conférence à Paris sur Husserl et de lui consacrer un article ― ; une lettre qu’il écrivit au sculpteur Bernhard Heiliger ; des photocopies des annotations faites par Heidegger sur les textes suivants : la recension de Vom Wesen des Grundes par Otto Friedrich Bollnow5, la recension de Kant und das Problem der Metaphysik par Rudolf Obebrecht6, une page de l’ouvrage de Kant Grundlegung zur Metaphysik der Sitten7 et la seconde version de « Griechenland » par Hölderlin parmi d’autres. Dans ces archives, on peut également trouver, reliés par Fritz Heidegger, deux tapuscrits des séminaires sur Nietzsche tenus par Martin durant le semestre d’hiver 1936-1937 et le semestre d’été 19378. Ceux qui s’intéressent à la relation de Martin Heidegger à Augustin seront contents d’apprendre qu’en 1954, il offrit à Heinrich Heidegger, son neveu, les volumes de l’édition latine Migne en l’honneur de la première messe qu’il célébra en tant que prêtre9. Certains de 3 Philosophisches Jahrbuch, 1962, vol. 69, n° 2. 4 Georg Trakl, Die Dichtungen. Gesamtausgabe, mit einem Anhang: Zeugnisse und Erinnerungen, Zürich, Arche, 1946. 5 Otto Friedrich Bollnow, Deutsche Literaturzeitung, 1930, n° 51, colonnes 1879-1887. Cf. GA 73.1, 445 et GA 96, 216-218. 6
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  • Nihilism and the Meaning of Life

    Nihilism and the Meaning of Life

    NIHILISM AND THE MEANING OF LIFE A Philosophical Dialogue with James Tartaglia Edited by Masahiro Morioka Journal of Philosophy of Life Nihilism and the Meaning of Life A Philosophical Dialogue with James Tartaglia Edited by Masahiro Morioka Journal of Philosophy of Life Nihilism and the Meaning of Life: A Philosophical Dialogue with James Tartaglia Edited by Masahiro Morioka July 31, 2017 © Journal of Philosophy of Life 2017 Published by Journal of Philosophy of Life www.philosophyoflife.org School of Human Sciences, Waseda University, 2‐579‐15 Mikajima, Tokorozawa‐shi, Saitama, 3591192 Japan Cover design by Masahiro Morioka ISBN 978‐4‐9908668‐2‐2 Nihilism and the Meaning of Life A Philosophical Dialogue with James Tartaglia Contents Preface i Masahiro Morioka Nihilism and the Meaning of Life ii‐xxvi James Tartaglia Transcendent Reality and the Consciousness Problem 1‐15 Adam Balmer Reply to Adam Balmer 16‐20 James Tartaglia Is Consciousness Transcendent?: Comments on James 21‐32 Tartaglia’s Philosophy in a Meaningless Life: A System of Nihilism, Consciousness and Reality Philip Goff Reply to Philip Goff 33‐49 James Tartaglia Nothing but Nihilism?: The Spirit of Purposelessness in 50‐69 James Tartaglia’s Philosophy in a Meaningless Life Ronald A. Kuipers Reply to Ronald A. Kuipers 70‐80 James Tartaglia The Deep Personal Resonance of Nihilism 81‐91 Tracy Llanera Reply to Tracy Llanera 92‐97 James Tartaglia Living in the Frame: Meaning on Loan from Nihilism 98‐119 Alan Malachowski Reply to Alan Malachowski 120‐135 James Tartaglia In Search of Perspective: Notes on Freedom, Transcendence, 136‐151 and Finitude in Tartaglia’s Philosophy in a Meaningless Life Bjørn Torgrim Ramberg Reply to Bjørn Ramberg 152‐159 James Tartaglia How Human Life Could be Unintended but Meaningful: A 160‐179 Reply to Tartaglia Brooke Alan Trisel Reply to Brooke Alan Trisel 180‐186 James Tartaglia Transcendence 187‐194 J.