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By diminishing fear of death and anxiety of over our mortal condition we are slicing “the problem” into manageable little bits. This approach, however, does not eradicate death from the world but makes it all-pervasive, as life becomes a continuing rehearsal to live in a rational way. This is of course a very instrumental approach, bound to over-emphasised rationality, prone to the language of science, with elements of mixed paranoia and hubris. Natural death has become unnatural, something outside the system. Only death with an explanation is tolerable, as we can then put the blame on a specific cause.
The postmodern strategy differs from its modern counterpart in that it promises instant satisfaction:It deprives mortality of its vile terror by taking it out of hiding, and tossing it into the realm of the familiar and the ordinary – to be practiced there day in, day out.Daily life becomes a perpetual dress rehearsal of death. What is being rehearsed in the first place, is ephemerality and evanescence of things humans may acquire and bonds humans may weave.
Apart from German discourses we are here to enable Anglo-European discusssion, which usually occurs on the stages of international congresses of philosophy and in mutual receptions for years. That was not always like that; analytical philosophy and the American pragmatism did came into European perception at the 60's and 70´s . They gained publicity, particularly since Habermas brought in language philosophers such as Ryle, Austin or Searle as well as pragmatists such as Peirce or James into the German discussion. On the other hand European theoretical "links" were missing at the analytic tradition in England and in the USA.
That has changed particularly with the works of Rorty and other "post -analytic" philosophers, who tie in their philosophies on the one hand at the pragmatism - on the other hand they had to take up with "Hermeneutik" and also "Heidegger".We have the chance - although admittedly not on the level of congresses - to establish a Anglo-German dialogue communicating across the future of philosophy or its "END", across postmodernism or completion of the project of the modernity, over the rewording of the truth term or its "Tradierung" within hermeneutical courses (see in addition also the discussion around the truth term on " Philtalk"
, over formal and multi-valued logic... up to questions that arise in connection with the topic "artificial intelligence".To make this discourse a successfull one we have to overcome language barriers. Therefore I ´ll be doing my utmost bridging the gap with a little help from my friends .
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Best wishes
Temp
By diminishing fear of death and anxiety of over our mortal condition we are slicing “the problem” into manageable little bits. This approach, however, does not eradicate death from the world but makes it all-pervasive, as life becomes a continuing rehearsal to live in a rational way. This is of course a very instrumental approach, bound to over-emphasised rationality, prone to the language of science, with elements of mixed paranoia and hubris. Natural death has become unnatural, something outside the system. Only death with an explanation is tolerable, as we can then put the blame on a specific cause.
The postmodern strategy differs from its modern counterpart in that it promises instant satisfaction:It deprives mortality of its vile terror by taking it out of hiding, and tossing it into the realm of the familiar and the ordinary – to be practiced there day in, day out.Daily life becomes a perpetual dress rehearsal of death. What is being rehearsed in the first place, is ephemerality and evanescence of things humans may acquire and bonds humans may weave.
Apart from German discourses we are here to enable Anglo-European discusssion, which usually occurs on the stages of international congresses of philosophy and in mutual receptions for years. That was not always like that; analytical philosophy and the American pragmatism did came into European perception at the 60's and 70´s . They gained publicity, particularly since Habermas brought in language philosophers such as Ryle, Austin or Searle as well as pragmatists such as Peirce or James into the German discussion. On the other hand European theoretical "links" were missing at the analytic tradition in England and in the USA.
That has changed particularly with the works of Rorty and other "post -analytic" philosophers, who tie in their philosophies on the one hand at the pragmatism - on the other hand they had to take up with "Hermeneutik" and also "Heidegger".We have the chance - although admittedly not on the level of congresses - to establish a Anglo-German dialogue communicating across the future of philosophy or its "END", across postmodernism or completion of the project of the modernity, over the rewording of the truth term or its "Tradierung" within hermeneutical courses (see in addition also the discussion around the truth term on " Philtalk"
, over formal and multi-valued logic... up to questions that arise in connection with the topic "artificial intelligence".To make this discourse a successfull one we have to overcome language barriers. Therefore I ´ll be doing my utmost bridging the gap with a little help from my friends .
________________________________________________________________
Best wishes
Temp
as Shakespeare would have put it?) And isn´t our mortal condition more likely to be turning out as a castaway? Just one too many question leaving us a thousand miles behind. I never spotted anyone returning from death,yet (LOL) but one can be sure at least from a communitarism point of view; Physical death is just the first death. The second one is a symbolic one : the dying of communitarism is more dangerous. The WTC for instance - after being destroyed - had become a much stronger symbol of power than ever before. Lol Baudrillard would have loved it 
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