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Ernst Jünger, Skulls and Reefs Krzysztof Michalski, Martin VOLUME VI / 2017 / ISSN 2392-0963 Ernst Jünger, Skulls and Reefs Krzysztof Michalski, Martin Heidegger and the Question of Truth Richard Capobianco, Heidegger’s Being as Ἀλήθεια: Older Than the Human Being Piotr Nowak, Nothingness and Absence Christian Sommer, Fall of Dasein: Heidegger Reading Luther 1924-1927 Christoph Jamme, Martin Heidegger’s Reinvention of Phenomenology Thomas Sheehan, Heidegger and the Right Heideggerians: Phenomenology vs. Crypto-Metaphysics Andrzej Serafin, Heidegger’s Patricide Dennis J. Schmidt, Heidegger and the Call for an Original Ethics Babette Babich, Between Heidegger and Adorno: Airplanes, Radios, and Sloterdijk’s Atmoterrorism Krzysztof Ziarek, Event and Nothingness Jean-Luc Nancy, Here Color Seems to Think by Itself PHILOSOPHICAL JOURNAL VOLUME VI / 2017 / ISSN 2392-0963 Piotr Nowak, Editorial Introduction . 3 PRESENTATIONS Ernst Jünger, Skulls and Reefs . 5 ESSAYS Krzysztof Michalski, Martin Hei degger and the Question of Truth . 13 Richard Capobianco, Hei degger’s Being as Aletheia: Older Than the Human Being . 29 Krzysztof Ziarek, Event and Nothingness . 38 Piotr Nowak, Nothingness and Absence . 48 Christian Sommer, Fall of Dasein: Hei degger Reading Luther 1924-1927 . 58 Christoph Jamme, Martin Hei degger’s Reinvention of Phenomenology . 65 Thomas Sheehan, Hei degger and the Right Hei deggerians: Phenomenology vs . Crypto-Metaphysics . 78 Andrzej Serafin, Hei degger’s Patricide . 91 Jason King, Hei degger’s Seam . 99 Dennis J. Schmidt, Hei degger and the Call for an Original Ethics . 112 Dmitri Nikulin, The Burdens and Blessings of Boredom: Hei degger and Kracauer . 120 Babette Babich, Between Hei degger and Adorno: Airplanes, Radios, and Sloterdijk’s Atmoterrorism . 133 Robert Bernasconi, Desire Become Abstract . 159 Peter Kalkavage, Schopenhauer’s Will and Wagner’s Eros . 166 Richard Kearney, Narrative Imagination and Catharsis . 182 Bruce Rosenstock, The Origins of Jewish Tragic Drama: An Episode in Gershom Scholem’s Relationship with Oskar Goldberg . 197 Jean-Luc Nancy, Here Color Seems to Think by Itself . 209 REDISCOVERED BOOKS Piotr Nowak, The Man from Under Ground . 217 ABOUT THE AUTHORS . 230 SUMMARY . 235 VOLUME III / 2014 / ISSN 2392-0963 VOLUME IV / 2015 / ISSN 2392-0963 Leo Strauss, Introduction to Political Philosophy: A Course Gustav Shpet, Consciousness and Its Owner Given in the Winter Quarter, 1965, in the Department of Natalia Avtonomova, The Problem of the Philosophical Political Science the University Of Chicago Language in Gustav Shpet’s Works Thomas Pangle, Xenophon on Whether Socratic Political Tatiana Shchedrina, Boris Pruzhinin, On Specificity Theorizing Corrupts the Young of Historical Knowledge: David Hume and Gustav Shpet Gabriel Pihas, Dante’s Return to Greece: The Sophist and Natalia Kuznetsova, Soviet Philosophical Underground the Philosopher in The Inferno Piotr Nowak, A Colloquy on the End of the World: The Marek A. Cichocki, The Concept of the Political Whole Letters of Konstantin Leontiev and Vasily Rozanov in Light of the Current Crisis in the West: Carl Schmitt Revisited Guido Ceronetti, “Blessed are the Perplexed.” Henryk Głębocki, Count Adam de Gurowski, 1805-1866 Thomas Bartscherer, Mimetic Images, Double Vision, and Dramatic Poetry in Plato’s Republic Count Adam de Gurowski, Manifest: Destiny of America and Russia, 1849-1866 Irena Księżopolska, The Garden of Circular Paths: Nabokov’s Symbols of Continuity Sergio Quinzio, Justice and Mercy Wojciech Kruszewski, Adam Jerzy Czartoryski’s Sergio Quinzio, The Birth of Political Realism from the Introduction to Lithuanian History, or Why Did a Polish Spirit of Eschatology: A Passage from Sergio Quinzio’s Prince Compose a Mythology on the Origins of Lithuania Early Reflections Marta Gibińska, Time, the Old and the Young, or Chaos Controlled Piotr Nowak, The Child of War free at www.kronos.org.pl Editor in Chief: Wawrzyniec Rymkiewicz Deputy Editor in Chief: Piotr Nowak Editorial Assistance: Ivan Dimitrijević, Krzysztof Rosiński, Andrzej Serafin Reviewers: Prof . Jeff Love, Clemson University Prof . Svetozar Minkov, Roosevelt University PhD Paulina Sosnowska, University of Warsaw Published by Fundacja Augusta hr . Cieszkowskiego ul . Mianowskiego 15/65, 02-044 Warszawa, Poland ISSN 2392-0963 (print) ISSN 1899-9484 (online) All material remains © copyright of the respective authors . Please address all queries to the editor at the following address . redakcja@kronos .org .pl EDITORIAL INTRODUCTION A teacher who expects continuous approval and docile subservience from his students is not a good teacher . Also, a student who wants to remain a disciple, still digesting his master’s ideas, does not reciprocate the efforts the latter put into him . Thus, the risk of apostasy is embedded in teaching – the more eminent the thinker, the more likely is the desertion of his closest disciples whose careers might follow a variety of paths . They do not have to swim as one school; they can be divided by individual businesses, values or aesthetic preferences . Their reasons for breaking with the master are usually different: some reject his attitude as not radical enough and prefer to seek their own solutions, while others, contrarily, consider it an exaggerated or unnecessary radicalism . However, what binds them together, what determines the fact that they can be seen as one, is their idiosyncrasy about the master . If they talk about him, they most often remember him badly, constantly denying whatever they owe him . They try to think themselves up from scratch, to recreate themselves from the ashes of the old world, the scraps of recollected and distorted conversations or images . They hold a “witches’ Sabbath”, inviting their own students and drumming into their heads the simplified version of the master’s teachings. They are unable to think of the old times without regret. Although resentment constitutes a powerful weapon in their fight against the demons of the past, the dynamics of generational conflict makes them overlook a very important thing: that they cannot discard what they have learned and that, whether they want it or not, it somehow belongs to them, even if they try to disown it . They attribute the clumsiness of their own thinking to the teachings of their master, blaming him for all the evil of the world as well as for their personal disappointments and creative failures . At the same time, they happen to be extremely petty and scrupulous . With their calumnies and untimely doubts about the eminence of the master’s work, they contribute to h i s ideas, h i s concepts . But their own work (and this feature seems common to all of them) lacks the fusillade of thoughts that they found in the writings of their teacher; it lacks that thrilling atmosphere of complications in which the first intuitions and understatements begin to hatch. Their books suffer from hopeless secondariness. They always cross the finish line second, just behind the tortoise that they cannot overtake . The apostates use the rhetoric of independence . Underlying their will to shun good advice or to free themselves from the burden of authority is the desire to overthrow that authority or at least to “undermine” it . They tend to ignore the warnings coming from everywhere, forgetting that, in fact, they are cutting the branch they are sitting on . Because authority is “more than advice and less than command, an advice which one cannot safely ignore” (Hannah Arendt) . 2017 3 EDITORIAL INTRODUCTION The articles collected in this volume of Kronos and devoted to the work of Martin Hei degger differ in the attitude the authors take towards Hei degger’s thought . Some point to the ambivalent dimension of his work, whilst others can be regarded as an apology or a “repetition” . There is plenty to choose from. Taken as a whole, they are a gesture of προσκύνησις and a great tribute paid to the most outstanding philosopher of the twentieth century . Piotr Nowak Deputy Editor-in-Chief Piotr Nowak The Ancients and Shakespeare on Time Some Remarks on the War of Generations. In The Ancients and Shakespeare on Time Piotr Nowak depicts a world where tradition – devoid of gravity, “Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything” – attempts to curb the young and new, while youth resists with all its power, vitality and characteristic insolence. The wars of generations, which Nowak explores in the works of Plato, Aristophanes and Shakespeare, pertain to the essence and meaning of time. They make up the dramatic tensions in the transgenerational dialogue between the old and the young. Amsterdam/New York, NY 2014. XIV, 104 pp. (Value Inquiry Book Series 271) ISBN: 978-90-420-3820-2 Paper €27,-/US$38,- ISBN: 978-94-012-1067-6 E-Book €24,-/US$34,- Online info: http://www.rodopi.nl/senj.asp?BookId=VIBS+271 EDITORIAL INTRODUCTION PRESENTATIONS Ernst Jünger SKULLS AND REEFS 1 “What sort of foolishness are you up to, monsieur Ludovico?” Such was the question Cardinal Ippolito d’Este asked his protégé, Ariosto, upon reading his Orlando Furioso. Along with Byron’s poetry, Ariosto’s Furioso was one of my favorite works as a youth. I became acquainted with it at fourteen or fifteen years of age through the impressive folio edition illustrated by Dore. Hermann Kurz did the translation. I was less satisfied with the pocket-size Reclam edition I carried along later, translated by Gries. I read it in the spring of 1917 on the Hindenburg Line and brought the two slim volumes back home with me too. I seem to remember reading more in war years than at other times – and I was not alone in this. Reading Ariosto is dangerous – Cervantes knew this too. Above all, a literary education creates standards that reality cannot meet; the playing field is too large. The skeptical question posed by Ippolito d’Este is not only a cardinal’s question; it is also a question of cardinal importance. I have often reflected on it, even while working on this text. Endless questions arise about why I have indulged myself in this or that matter – and about what one can expect to hear in response to such questions.
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