The member of the project-group edited and authored an afterword to the famous Hans Blumenberg's study Shipwreck with Spectator. Blumenberg investigates precisely the juncture in the relation between man and the world which no longer aspires to encapsulate the outside reality within the realm of man's consciousness and language, but rather witnesses the disclosures of reality beyond the limitations of human forms: in this way the shipwreck represents an image of the world in its chaotic, formless, inhuman dimension, while the strict counterpart of this experience is a spectator who regards the sinking ship from a safe distance. The function of the metaphor in Blumenberg is not to give meaning and to humanize the world, but rather to express and balance the revelations of the inhumanity of the world - in this sense, the metaphor can be interpreted as a truth triggering the "revelation of the untruth of reality," which is the main thesis of this project.
C.02 Editorial board of a national monograph
COBISS.SI-ID: 67455842Editing this monograph is a part of the project leader's broader attempt to elaborate and advocate a "transcendental materialist" stance for the twenty-first century. In this spirit, the author collected and edited some of Lenin's late writings which, on he one hand, reflect the political turmoil of the time and, on the other hand, develop a consistent philosophy of materialism. The collection of writings is centered less on Lenin's seizure of power in 1917 and more on the very last couple of years of his political life, when Russia had survived foreign invasion, embargo and a terrifying civil war. The author added an introduction of 80 pages to the book.
C.01 Editorial board of a foreign/international collection of papers/book
COBISS.SI-ID: 2664583This is a lecture, held within the Metaphysical Society at the renowned Trinity College, University of Dublin. The author contests the central claim of "speculative realism," which sets itself a task to imagine the world without man. This claim is thus juxtaposed with the original and less known ideas of the spiritualists of the 18th century, who rather construed scenarios of the spirit existing without matter, that is, of the life of the soul being freed from the shackles of corporality.
B.04 Guest lecture
COBISS.SI-ID: 67890786The member of the project is the editor of the monograph of the German philosopher Sebastian Rödl. It is his thesis that self-consciousness is not empirical but only arises spontaneously. In this, he opposes the programs of "speculative realism," which aspire to reduce all the elements of human subjectivity to the pre-subjectve causality of an inhuman reality. The translation of the book is important, since it advocates the irreducibility and necessity of the subject within the realist design of reality, which is one of the major theses of this project.
C.02 Editorial board of a national monograph
COBISS.SI-ID: 297400064The researcher, group-member,edited and provided the afterword to two Wittgenstein's classical works, The Blue and Brown Books, presenting the notes on his lectures in the period between 1933 and 1935 in Cambridge. The Blue and Brown Books are the most important textual documents of the genesis of Wittgenstein's mature, developed thought. But they do not merely represent an introduction to Wittgenstein's greatest oeuvre, Philosophical Investigations, but can be read as autonomous works in which some of the most original and far-reaching ideas o Wittgenstein appear for the first time.
C.02 Editorial board of a national monograph
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