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Kieran Aarons (ed.), Reiner Schürmann, ...: Modern Philosophies of the Will

Reiner Schürmann, Kieran Aarons (ed.), Francesco Guercio (ed.)

Modern Philosophies of the Will

Softcover, 192 pages

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How did the will come to dominate the self-understanding of the modern subject? What lies at the root of the megalomania of desire that defines human experience in the age of global technology? In Modern Philosophies of the Will, Reiner Schürmann traces a philosophical archeology of the willing subject from Ancient Greece into the 20th century.

 

Through a series of original readings of Kant, Schelling, Nietzsche, and Heidegger, Schürmann uncovers the strategic interplay of submission and command that sets the stage for the will’s epochal “triumph,” while hinting at possibilities of subverting its mastery over both the self and the world. With an appendix offering a polemical critique of Hannah Arendt’s The Life of the Mind, as well as an editorial afterword contextualizing these lectures in Schürmann’s broader work, this volume will be of value to specialist and student alike.

Content
  • 7

    Syllabus

  • 9–13

    List of Abbreviations

  • 15

    Edition Guidelines

  • 17–25

    Historical Introduction

  • 27–73

    Part I: Rationality and Irrationality of the Will

  • 75–108

    Part II: The Ontological Turn in the Philosophy of the Will

  • 109–115

    Part III: Legislation and Transgression

  • 117–124

    Appendix: The Time of the Mind and the History of Freedom. Review of Hannah Arendt, »The Life of the Mind«

  • 125–153

    Notes

  • 155–179

    Afterword: The willing animal to whom nature must conform

  • 181–189

    Tentative Chronology of Reiner Schürmann’s Courses at the New School for Social Research

  • 190–191

    Lecture Notes of Reiner Schürmann at the NSSR— Pierre Adler’s Inventory (1994)

  • Nietzsche
  • Heidegger
  • Kant

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Kieran Aarons

teaches political philosophy at Loyola University Chicago. His articles have appeared in Theory & Event, Mute Magazine, Hostis, and elsewhere. He is the translator of François Zourabichvili’s Deleuze: A Philosophy of the Event, as well as many other articles in French and Italian philosophy. He is currently completing a book on the concept of destituent power, linking the philosophies of time and festivity in Furio Jesi and Giorgio Agamben to contemporary social and ecological movements.
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Francesco Guercio

Francesco Guercio is an independent scholar. He holds a PhD in Philosophy, Art, and Social Thought from the European Graduate School. He is a founding member of the editorial board of the Reiner Schürmann Selected Writings and Lecture Notes edition published by Diaphanes (2017– ). He has edited: Reiner Schürmann, The Philosophy of Nietzsche, (2020; Italian expanded ed. and trans. La filosofia di Nietzsche, 2023); Id., Le origini, Italian trans. by F. Scabbia (2020); Id., Modern Philosophies of the Will, co-edited with K. Aarons (2022); Id., Ways of Releasement: Writings on God, Eckhart, and Zen, co-edited with I. A. Moore (2023); and «Reiner Schürmann Today», Philosophy Today 68, no. 4 (Fall 2024), co-edited with I. A. Moore. With the latter, he is currently writing a monograph on Reiner Schürmann’s philosophy (forthcoming, SUNY Press).
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Reiner Schürmann

Reiner Schürmann

(1941–93) was a German philosopher. He was born in Amsterdam and lived in Germany, Israel, and France before immigrating to the United States in the 1970s, where he was professor and director of the Department of Philosophy at the New School for Social Research in New York. He is the author of three books on philosophy: Heidegger on Being and Acting, Wandering Joy, and Broken Hegemonies. Origins is his only work of fiction. He never wrote nor published in his native German.
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