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- Series
- Series in Continental Thought
- Date
- 1996
- Publisher
- Ohio University Press
- Place
- Athens, OH
- Pages
- 181, xxvi
- ISBN
- 9780821411681
Bernhard Waldenfels
Prominent German philosopher, best known for his work on the theme of the "Other" and for translating and introducing the work of Merleau-Ponty in Germany. He studied philosophy, psychology, classical philology, and history in Bonn, Innsbruck, and Munich. He earned his PhD from the University of Munich in 1959. From 1960–1962, he studied modern French philosophy in Paris with Merleau-Ponty and Ricoeur. In 1967 he finished his Habilitation at Munich. He taught there until 1976 when he was appointed Professor of Philosophy at the Ruhr-Universität Bochum. Since 1999 he is Professor Emeritus. He is a cofounder of the German Society for Phenomenological Research.
Order in the twilight
Bernhard Waldenfels
Translated by David Parent
Order in the Twilight unites phenomenological methodology with recent work on the theory of order, normativity, and dialogue, as well as structuralism and Gestalt theory. Philosophically stringent, it expresses a more optimistic attitude than much modern philosophy, especially deconstruction. Waldenfels passes the question of order through numerous defining aspects, and concludes that there is not one global order, but rather various conflicting domains of order. Whenever the boundary of a vital or experiential domain is crossed, a discourse speaks at the boundary, not about it, and across a threshold without abolishing it. The rest is rationalization, i.e., an attempt to find a place in the respective order for what is to-be-ordered. But why, the author concludes, should a theory be more unambiguous than reality?
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