Allgemeine Zeitschrift für Philosophie: Heft 39.1/2014

Abhandlung:

• Cord Friebe: Kants Transzendentaler Idealismus: Eine Verteidigung der »methodologischen« Zwei-Aspekte-Deutung
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  The debate over Kant’s transcendental idealism focuses on two variants of the two-aspect view: an »ontological« reading challenges the Prauss /Allison interpretation, by arguing that Kant is ontologically committed to the existence of things as they are in themselves. With this paper the original view strikes back: it will be shown that its characterization as being merely »methodological« is a misunderstanding. The original view rather implies an ontology, according to which the appearance aspect is fundamentally more basic than the in-itself aspect. This renews the sense in which Kant’s philosophy is as well a critical metaphysics as a transcendental idealism.
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Berichte und Diskussionen. Praxis und Subjektivierung: Ein Werkstattbericht aus der interdisziplinären philosophischen Forschung. Fünf Beiträge:

• Thomas Alkemeyer: Zur Einleitung: Warum die Praxistheorien ein Konzept der Subjektivierung benötigen Buy article
• Maxi Berger: »Kritik der kritischen Kritik«. Zu den philosophischen Grundlagen praxeologischer Kritik bei Pierre Bourdieu und Luc Boltanski
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  Following a praxeological perspective, the author intends to put the relationship between Practice Theory and Classical German Philosophy up for discussion. She reconstructs two praxeological programs of critique, i. e. Pierre Bourdieu’s conception of critique as a method of empirical observation and Luc Boltansky’s program of pragmatical social critique. Both programs, as the author demonstrates, need philosophical concepts, if they want to justify their standards of critique. Closing, the author develops a term of political self-determination intending to combine the praxeological and the philosophical perspectives.
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• Nils Baratella: Kritik und Wandel. Subjektivität und die Herstellung von Veränderbarkeit
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  The concept of subjectivity comprehends a traditional philosophical contrast. On the one hand, the process of subjectivation can be understood as a creative, unfinished process, which brings forth something new and incomplete and provisional at the same time. On the other hand, that which is being created must be named. Although subjectivation remains unfinished, it aims at the generation of a form, or presents this form, retrospectively, as the completion of a process. The traditional philosophical antagonism of rest and motion, of concept and process can be found here. In order to distinguish them from each other as well as bring them together, the concept of subjectivation has to be linked with the concept of critique.
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• Reinhard Schulz: Wider den Methodenzwang: Erfahrung, Praktiken und Beobachtung. Eine hermeneutische Kritik
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  The history of the Science Studies Program shows some similarities with the development of the Practice Theories. Through the concentration on case studies in both programs they lost unity, reflexivity and critique. In contrast to this mangle Hermeneutics, which focus as well as the Practice Theories on experience and the body develop some categories which include more than empirical observation but less as transcendental thinking. Especially the category of the human historical experience looks like a hopefully candidate to enrich the observation of subjectivation through those moments which where missed over an exaggerated claim of objectivity in the Practice Theories and the Science Studies.
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• Johann Kreuzer: Subjektbildung und Selbstverhältnisse
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  The contribution contrasts »the« classical philosophy of the subject and her criticism, which has become some kind of commonplace at the beginning of the 21st century, with discoveries, open questions and »dates« of the philosophical history of mind, which are relevant for the connection and the question »Subjektbildung-Selbstverhältnisse«. Treated are the explanations and concepts of self-reflexive consciousness in the discussions in German Idealism following Kant, the status of the self, discovered and questioned for example in the 14th century, and finally the alternative to the cartesianian concept of the subject, articulated through Vico. The material analysis of the forms of »self-getting«, linked with the question on the practices of subjectivation, offers something like the possibility of an update of philosophical research on and within the realm of self-consciousness. Especially the semantics of autonomy and self-determination will thus be discussed in adequate manor.
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Buchbesprechung:

• Christoph Kann: Alter und Desillusionierung. Ein Spätkapitel in Odo Marquards Kompensationsphilosophie (zu Odo Marquard, ›Endlichkeitsphilosophisches. Über das Altern‹)Buy article