Broken Hegemonies

InBroken Hegemonies, the late distinguished philosopher Reiner Sch?rmann offers a radical rethinking of the history of Western philosophy from the Greeks through Heidegger. Sch?rmann interprets the history of Western thought and action as a series of eras governed by the rise and fall of certain dominating philosophical ideas that contained the seeds of their own destruction. These eras coincided with their dominant languages: Greek, Latin, and vernacular tongues. Analyzing philosophical texts from Parmenides, Plotinus, and Cicero, through Augustine, Meister Eckhardt, and Kant, To Heidegger, Sch?rmann traces the arguments by which these ideas gained hegemony and by which their credibility was ultimately demolished. Recognizing the failure of ultimate norms,Broken Hegemoniesquestions how humanity today is to think and act in the absence of principles.

Reiner Sch++rmann (1941--1993) was Professor of Philosophy at the New School for Social Research. His books include Meister Eckhardt: Mystic and Philosopher and Heidegger on Being and Acting: From Principles to Anarchy (both Indiana University Press).

Reginald Lilly, Associate Professor of Philosophy at Skidmore College, is translator of The Principle of Reason by Martin Heidegger and editor of The Ancients and the Moderns (both Indiana University Press).

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VOLUME ONE

1

(48)

General Introduction

3

(46)

On Hegemonic Fantasms

6

(10)

From Difference to Differend

16

(10)

The Birth of the Law from the Denial of the Tragic

26

(11)

The Law of the One, of Nature, and of Consciousness

37

(12)

PART ONE: IN THE NAME OF THE ONE

49

(2)

The Greek Hegemonic Fantasm

I. Its Institution: The One That Holds Together

51

(86)

Parmenides

Contradictories: Their Juxtaposition and Their Confusion

55

(16)

Two paths?

55

(4)

Only one path?

59

(6)

Or three paths?

65

(6)

Contraries: The Ground for Obligation

71

(24)

The ``symphysis'' of thinking and being

74

(7)

The ``synthesis'' of the present and the absent

81

(8)

The ``synechia'' of contraries

89

(6)

On Power and Forces: The Normative System

95

(15)

Legality and legitimacy

96

(7)

The logos, condition of laws

103

(7)

Henology Turned against Itself?

110

(12)

The Disparate: Narrative of a Journey

122

(15)

Narrating gathered singular things

122

(3)

Nomadic and eonic procedures

125

(6)

The henological differend: the phenomenalizing and singularizing one

131

(6)

II. Its Destitution: The One Turned against Itself

137

(52)

Plotinus

Introduction

139

(4)

The Temporalizing Event

143

(18)

The henological difference

145

(2)

The one as event

147

(4)

Originary time

151

(2)

Time as bad eternity

153

(3)

Being as time

156

(5)

The Singularizing Contretemps

161

(28)

On an insubordinate act that makes the law

164

(6)

From detachment to solitude

170

(9)

From stabilizing solitude to temporalizing audacity

179

(7)

The one, destituted by its agonic truth

186

(3)

PART TWO: IN THE NAME OF NATURE

189

(12)

The Latin Hegemonic Fantasm

Introduction

191

(10)

Excursus: Xerxes punished by nature

195

(6)

I. Its Institution: The Principle of Telic Continuity

201

(68)

Cicero

Augustine

Concerning Singular Given Natures

205

(17)

On the nature that returns

206

(6)

On self-narrating natures

212

(10)

On the Erratic Differend

222

(18)

On a normative singular that was

223

(8)

On a normative singular that will be

231

(9)

On the Natural Double Bind: The Will Turned against Itself

240

(29)

Willing one's own as well as the common

244

(5)

Willing one's own as well as what is exogenous

249

(12)

On natural contre-temps: the law suffering singularizations

261

(8)

II. Its Destitution: the Double Bind of Principle and Origin

269

(72)

Meister Eckhart

Introduction

271

(4)

Nature, Principle of Subordinations

275

(23)

The rotation of elements

278

(4)

The rotation of forces

282

(9)

Thomas Aquinas: nerves on edge

291

(7)

Feet on One's Neighbor's Head

298

(21)

The immediate communication of the law

299

(2)

A poietic law

301

(2)

The temporality of natural law

303

(1)

The instance of self-possession

304

(3)

From a pure place to proper places

307

(4)

Limitation, delimitation, illimitation

311

(8)

Nature Denatured by the Origin

319

(22)

``Detaching oneself'': against the appropriation of ends

320

(4)

``Re-imaging oneself'': against the a priori imagination of order

324

(6)

``Piercing through'': for absolute freedom

330

(5)

``Articulating oneself'': for singularization

335

(6)

VOLUME TWO

341

(10)

Preface: Analytic of Ultimates and Topology of Broken Hegemonies

343

(8)

PART THREE: IN THE NAME OF CONSCIOUSNESS

351

(2)

The Modern Hegemonic Fantasm

353

(12)

Introduction

353

(12)

Excursus: the consciousness of Ulysses

356

(9)

I. Its Institution: On the Consciousness That Determines

365

(146)

Kant

Luther

The Regime of Passive Consciousness: `An Obedient Spirit that Lets Itself Be Broken . . .'

369

(2)

The Identity of the ``I''

371

(37)

Topography of speech

371

(7)

Being-for-consciousness

378

(6)

Consciousness through the word

384

(6)

The consciousness of a causality

390

(8)

The unity of receptive consciousness

398

(10)

A Pathetic Differend

408

(45)

The time of the ego and the time of the self

412

(8)

Positing and letting-be

420

(7)

Perverse teleology

427

(4)

Normative consciousness broken

431

(14)

The Regime of Spontaneous Consciousness: ``I, the Possessor of the World''

445

(2)

Introduction

447

(6)

The Torments of Autonomy

453

(29)

On pre-regional unification: the self reconsidered

454

(15)

On a pre-individual singularization: the ego reconsidered

469

(13)

The Differend in Being-for-Consciousness

482

(29)

On givenness as position

486

(1)

The singular, limit of doing

487

(7)

The singular in consciousness

494

(5)

Time turned against itself

499

(5)

Recanting the denial

504

(7)

II. The Diremption: On Double Binds without a Common Noun

511

(122)

Heidegger

Introduction: Proteus Alone Can Save Us Now

513

(16)

Riveted to a monstrous site

515

(7)

A ``terrible warning''

522

(7)

On the Historical Differend

529

(24)

On the late modern pathology: the self as other

529

(6)

Fantasms of the same: the integrative violence of the law

535

(6)

On the isomorphic: archic and anarchic

541

(5)

On the other that is being: what the diremption reveals

546

(7)

What, the Deferred There?

553

(22)

On topology

553

(9)

``Now, in the transition toward the other beginning . . .''

562

(13)

On the Discordance of Times

575

(58)

On the singularizing ``momentary sites''

575

(7)

The ``fissured'' moment

582

(7)

The event of what?

589

(10)

Whither expropriation?

599

(10)

The singularization to come

609

(12)

Conclusion

621

(12)

On the conditions of evil: denying dispossession

621

(6)

On impossible normative simplicity

627

(6)

Notes

633

(48)

Index of Names

681

(4)

Index of Terms

685

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