An essay by philosopher Slavoj Zizek, with an English translation of Schelling's beautiful and evocative "Ages of the World, " second draft.

[v. 1] Sein werden; familien- und freundesbriefe, 1783 bis 1804.-[v. 2] Sein wirken; familien- und freundesbriefe, 1804 bis 1834.

Christian Thomasius gehört zu jenen Autoren der Frühen Neuzeit, an die sich die Wissenschaft nicht nur bei Gelegenheit von Gedenktagen erinnert. Der hier dokumentierte Stand der Forschung zeigt, daß sich mit den historischen Erkenntnissen nicht nur das Themenspektrum erweitert hat, sondern auch die Probleme gewachsen sind. Die Vermehrung unseres Wissens hat dazu beigetragen, das Bild des Frühaufklärers schärfer zu profilieren und stereotype Einzelzüge aufzulösen, womit Raum für die Kombination neuer Fragen und Erklärungen geschaffen wurde. Der vorliegende Band vereinigt die Beiträge (...) eines interdisziplinären Kolloquiums, das im Juni 1995 in Magdeburg stattgefunden hat. (shrink)

It seems to make perfectly good sense to distinguish between what is expressed and the way in which it is expressed. There is little doubt that there are many different ways of saying the same thing open to us. If I denied this, I would certainly be wrong. And yet a word of caution may not be amiss. Among logicians a tendency has grown up to concentrate their attention on those properties of a statement which make it true or false, (...) what they call a “proposition”, and to neglect the form in which it is expressed. I think it is a dangerous tendency as it may lead to overlooking all sorts of differences which are due to the form. Let me give an example taken from F. P. Ramsey. (shrink)

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Die Dialektik Hegels und ein romantisch-mystischer Grundzug des Denkens bilden den gemeinsamen Hintergrund, auf dem der Begriff des Schöpferischen bei Ernst Bloch und Franz von Baader entwickelt wird. Die vorliegende Untersuchung bringt nicht nur eine Klärung wenig beachteter geistesgeschichtlicher Zusammenhänge, sondern leistet darüber hinaus einen wertvollen Beitrag zur Auseinandersetzung der katholischen Theologie mit dem Neomarxismus.