Allgemeine Zeitschrift für Philosophie: Artikulationsformen des Denkens

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• Vorwort
• Günter Abel: Formen des Wissens im Wechselspiel
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  The concept of »systematic knowledge research« is being developed. Systematic knowledge research assumes an irreducible variety of types of knowledge (e. g. verbal, pictorial, theoretical, practical, explicit, implicit, technical, aesthetic, or ethical knowledge). The focus lies on researching the intersections and interactions of the different types of knowledge. Clarifying the mechanisms of interaction of the knowledge types in everyday life, sciences, technologies, and arts represents a cross-cutting issue for philosophy and all scientific disciplines, technologies, and arts as well as an independent research subject. At the same time, expansions and re-orientations of epistemology are connected with systematic knowledge research. What exactly knowledge research is capable of achieving and why it is of value is spelled out in this paper. Five examples shall illustrate knowledge research in action.
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• Katrin Wille: Forme(l)n ohne Inhalt? Formale Sprachen als Artikulationsformen des Denkens
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  To consider formal languages as »articulation« of thought requires a »protological« investigation. The crucial question is how the mental structures are obtained, which are to be expressed by different types of symbols. With the following proposal I suggest as starting point the activity of distinguishing and not the logical analysis of the proposition. Formalization is not to be understood as an abstraction of an elementary form, but as a maximum withdrawal of definiteness, called »condensation«.
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• Werner Stegmaier: Wenn Organisationen denken, wie zeigt sich, dass sie denken?
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  Do organizations think? This question can best be addressed if one considers »thinking« as an effort in orientation that does not merely render facts predictable following logical standards. In a doubly contingent orientation towards another orientation, it rather works to achieve reliability and decisiveness. In the process of doing so, orientational thinking determines and selects differences and their premises, adapting them to the times. This is not only true for organizations but for individuals as well. My reflections proceed in four steps: I. The self-constitution of thinking, II. Phenomenology of thinking, III. Communication of thinking, IV. Thinking of organizations.
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• Inigo Bocken: Das Denken des Übens. Die Exerzitien des Ignatius von Loyola als Artikulationsform des Denkens
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  In this contribution we discuss the question whether the spiritual model which can be found in the Exercices by Ignatius of Loyola is also a form of philosophical reflection. What does it mean to understand the philosophical presuppositions of this spiritual practice, which was so influential in the Modern Era? It will be shown that the Exercices offer a method for the exploring and articulation of the original desire which marks every individual life. The discretion of the spirits and the ›mise en scene‹ are the central categories Ignatius presents in his text in order to reach this goal. As such the Exercices offers a space for a philosophical reflection on human desire.
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• Michael Hampe: Nachdenken über die Welt. Erklären und Erzählen in der Kosmologie
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  Under the term »cosmology« different projects are hidden. Following Hans Blumenberg it is shown that in thinking about the world one can distinguish between producing meaning and giving explanations. Both projects make monopolistic demands and are often not distinguished clearly enough from another even by their authors. That leads to confusions like the one in which the biblical story about the creation of the world is confronted with the big bang theory of physics. In this essay I analyse the difference between meaning producing and explaining thinking by looking at Poe’s ›Eureka‹ and Alexander von Humboldt’s ›Kosmos‹.
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• Georg W. Bertram: Was heißt es, Musik als eigenständige Artikulationsform des Denkens zu begreifen? Ein musikphilosophischer Versuch im Anschluss an Heidegger
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  Relying on Heidegger’s ›Being and Time‹, the paper discusses music as a discrete form of thinking. It argues that music should be understood as the future-oriented articulation of humans’ fundamentally affective relatedness to the world. Conceiving of music as the articulation of fundamental affectivity allows us to combine formalist and expressivist approaches to music: Music must have form in order to articulate, but has significance only insofar as it articulates humans’ fundamentally affective relatedness to the world. By taking this approach we are able to account for the discreteness of music as a form of thinking without limiting ourselves to art music.
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• Rolf Elberfeld: Kann Architektur »Wahrheit« erschließen? Überlegungen im Anschluss an Heideggers Gedanken zum Bauwerk
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  In the article two buildings by the Japanese architect Tadao ANDO are analyzed as a specific form of articulation of thought. After analysing the first building – Meditation Space in the main building of UNESCO in Paris – Heidegger’s thoughts on art are the startingpoint to reflect the sensual and philosophical content of architecture. These ideas are tested and expanded again in the analysis of the second building.
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• Thomas Lange: Erscheinen – Verschwinden. Kann man mit Bildern Endlichkeit denken? Überlegungen zu Christian Boltanskis Arbeiten ›Menschlich‹ und ›Geist(er)‹
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  Christian Boltanski, in his works ›Menschlich‹ and ›Geist(er)‹, reverses the protogesture of photography: to capture something or someone that has been. In doing so he prevents the usual animation of photography through the memory of the beholder and visualizes instead the vanishing of the depicted. In exposing this loss of the image, Boltanski lets the beholder experience the fugitiveness, the ephemerality of memory and the inconceivable extent of oblivion. In my article I will discuss how this peculiar use of photography even dematerialises the index which is usually immanent in photography, pointing out that Boltanski understands the medial function of photography not as a presence of a past, generated in the visualisation but as a withdrawal of this presence in the visualisation of an absence. In doing so, the memory- medium par excellence is used to indicate the fragility of memory and remembrance, the shortness of the afterlife of previous generations, the nameless human condition, the inevitable disappearance – to enable to think finitude.
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• Wolfgang Chr. Schneider: Sprechen über das Wort hinaus. Das Denken der Philosophie und das Denken der Dichtung
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  Thought and poetry are twinned. Poetry seeks to create order, aiming at understanding, as does the other wisdom-seeking speaking that becomes ›philosophy‹. Gradually both efforts diverge, while keeping their orientation, albeit in increasingly different formalizations, which also leads to conflict. In doing so each achieves its own. The more that the concrete-immediate analytical approach comes to the fore in philosophy, and exclusivity and unambiguity are called for, the more poetry becomes significant as a thinking space of the indistinctimmanent, non-exclusively ambiguous. Which is precisely why philosophy and poetry need each other, to open and expand that thinking space, to grasp and deepen what is said.
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• Teruaki Takahashi: Zitate als Artikulationsformen des Denkens
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  Our speech and therefore our thinking based on language consist almost exclusively of citations since we learn languages by repeating what others say. The Japanese language is an excellent example to illustrate this phenomenon because it adopted, i. e. cited and cites permanently, Chinese characters and terms to a large extent. In order to demonstrate this, I will use a couple of representative excerpts from a travel diary by the Japanese Haiku poet Basho¯ that show various forms of articulation generated by citations. Some of the stylistic devices of the Japanese poetical tradition turn out to be types of an art of citation and thus a form of poetic thinking. In this way, whenever words are cited, a modification and transformation of the originally articulated thought itself takes place.
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• Tilman Borsche: Orte des philosophischen Denkens
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  This article confronts the notoriously difficult challenge to define the relationship between speaking and thinking. The well-known metaphoric extension of both terms beyond a meaning that is based merely on words towards a concept that encompasses all forms of mental communication lays out the path to this redefinition. Viewed in this metaphorically extended way, speaking emerges as an expression of thinking and thinking as that which is expressed through speech and might as well be expressed in a different way. Thinking and speaking are thus fused together to create a self-generating process of expression in which thinker, thought and languages of thought are formed, continuously re-formed and transformed over time. Therefore, languages of thought can be understood as »forms of articulation«. These include not only human languages based on words in all their varieties but also the arts and sciences and ultimately all creative processes of mental communication.
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