Autor: Karsten Harries

The capacity for reasonable argument about practical and political matters is important to our daily lives. Yet what does arguing really involve? Often, our very concept of what it is to argue seems …

If the Enlightenment turned to reason to reoccupy the place left vacant by the death of God, the history of the last two centuries has undermined the confidence that reason will bind freedom and keep …

One thing this book attempts to show is that Kant’s antinomies open a way towards an overcoming of that nihilism that is a corollary of the understanding of reality that presides over our science and …

Leading philosophers and scholars speculate on what Heidegger’s unfinished masterpiece might have said, why Heidegger didn’t publish it, and what being actually means.Heidegger’s Being and Time is on …

Heidegger scholars consider the philosopher’s recently published notebooks, including the issues of Heidegger’s Nazism and anti-Semitism.For more than forty years, the philosopher Martin Heidegger lo …

A philosophical exploration of the origin and limits of the modern world.Much postmodern rhetoric, suggests Karsten Harries, can be understood as a symptom of our civilization’s discontent, born of r …

One thing this book attempts to show is that Kant’s antinomies open a way towards an overcoming of that nihilism that is a corollary of the understanding of reality that presides over our science and …