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The Subject of Modernity : Liber amicorum for Klaus Erich Kaehler

Publication at Faculty of Humanities |
2021

Abstract

The contributions in this volume have their common focus in Klaus E. Kaehler's approach to the decentered subject.

They look for traces of the decentering of the subject already in Hegel's work, take a look at the ambivalent form of completion of the subject in Hegel, Schelling and early Romanticism, draw attention to Heidegger's confrontation with Hegel and Husserl using the example of time and to the fact in which Husserl and Heidegger respectively locate the ultimate reason for action. Furthermore, the theme of desire is explored via Alexandre Kojève, Hegel's mediator in France, in the work of Sartre and Levinas, and the concept of the anonymous subject in the work of Nishida is examined and the limit of language in relation to the reference to imaginative contents is shown.