1. Absolutely Divine Everyday: Tracing Heidegger's thinking on godliness - With an appendix on Aristotle's purely energetic god of the fair

Paper presented to the conference Heidegger und Religion in Meßkirch 04-07 June 2008. The appendix endeavours to rethink Aristotle's famous god in his Metaphysics. 

 

Freedom, value, power, justice, government, legitimacy are major themes of this inquiry. It explores the ontological structure of human beings associating with one another, the basic phenomenon of society. 

 

What dialectical thinking has to offer a phenomenlogy of how we come to our selves. 

 

Paper presented to the 25th North Texas Heidegger Symposium Heidegger and the Greeks at Collin College, Frisco, Texas 27-29 April 2007. 

 

'Value is a game — Thinking Marx differently', talk given at the Philosophical Café in Wuppertal on 22 January 2007. 

 

Paper presented to the conference Heidegger und die Dichtung in Meßkirch 24-28 May 2006. 

 

Paper presented to the 41st Annual North American Heidegger Conference 03-05 May 2007 at DePaul University in Chicago and (in an earlier version) to the conference 4. Aussprache über die Philosophie Martin Heideggers  01-03 June 2006 at the Bergische University in Wuppertal, Germany. 

 

A philosophical note on how and what Jon Groom's art work reveals. 

 

Thesis: the phenomenon of specifically social power, and in particular, political social power, has not been conceived adequately in the philosophical tradition starting with Plato and Aristotle. 

 

A study passing through Aristotle, Adam Smith and Karl Marx that rethinks exchange-value in connection with the question of the justice of so-called 'bourgeois relations of production'. 

 

Leaping from the ground through Leibniz, Hegel, Nietzsche and Heidegger to Anaximander and the groundlessness of interplay. 

 

In the context of a global carbon absorption 'industry' aligning economic self-interest with a universal interest in environmental protection, industriousness means also letting the Earth, in its virgin state, simply be itself. Such industriousness through letting-be is a step on the way to humankind practising custodianship of the Earth. 

 

The seductive, comforting idea of social justice leads inevitably to an all-caring, social-totalitarian state that ruins its citizens for (inter-)play. 

 

Paper as presented to the 24th North Texas Heidegger Symposium Erde—Welt—Umwelt 8-9 April 2005 at The University of Dallas, Irving, Texas. The thoughts here are distilled from my Social Ontology. 

 

The trace of how Heidegger thinks power through the history of being can be followed back to the concept of energeia in Aristotle's Metaphysics. According to Heidegger, this concept is the start of the trajectory of the being of beings cast as Wirklichkeit, actuality. Energeia is paired metaphysically with dynamis, i.e. power, potential, capability. One such power is the art of rhetoric, famously also investigated by Aristotle. But what is the power of such a know-how when faced with the otherness of the other?... 

 

Theses on how Heidegger's thinking has to be extended and revamped to cope with the phenomenon of the other human being, the as yet unfolded fold in being covered by the 'second person', both singular and plural. 

 

Revised and extended version of a paper 'Heidegger's Apolitical Conception of the Political' (see below) presented to the 22nd. Heidegger Symposium History, Historicity and Mystery in Heidegger 30 October-02 November, 2002 University of North Texas. 

 

Lectures given at the Heidegger discussion forum, mitdasein.com. 

 

Critique of Competitive Freedom and the Bourgeois-Democratic State

This is the preface to my Ph.D. dissertation in Philosophy accepted by the University of Sydney in 1984.

 

Twisting Heidegger's thinking into the 'horizontal' of social relations. 

 

Some observations on Heidegger's Beiträge zur Philosophie and leave-taking from metaphysics. 

 

Today's feminist discourse claims to be situated beyond the strictures of the metaphysics of substance. Butler's call for the subversion of "matrices of cultural intelligibility that govern gendered life" does not go deep enough in questioning gender. 

 

A study (in both German and English) of the digital casting of beings in the digital age. Where do the digital beings cast before us today come from?

 

On the ontology of togetherness (Mitsein), with a critical excursus on Lévinas' ethics of the Other as contrast.

 

In parallel to the way language makes way to language, music makes way to music. Initially, this formula does not make much sense...

 

English version of a study that attempts to substitute John Cage for Hölderlin in Heidegger's thought.

 

German version of the preceding study.

 

English version of a study that crosses and entwines Marx and Heidegger to think through the essence of technology and capitalism in a unified way.

 

German version of the preceding study.

 

German text on Bernini/Freud/Duchamp by Astrid Nettling.

 

German version of a text by Astrid Nettling that traces Antigone's tracks in the philosophical tradition. [incl. Abstract]

 

A paper by Astrid Nettling (in German) presented to the XVIth. German Congress of Philosophy.

 

A paper by Hans-Dieter Jünger (in German) on being and memory in Hölderlin and Heidegger.

 

A treatise in German on masculinity, whose ontology is explored through a phenomenology of whoness. A radical, genuinely philosophical alternative to feminist discourse to date (cultural studies, psychoanalysis, etc.) is offered.

 

Having it out with Krell's treatise on life and life-philosophy.

 

Some theses (in German) on the digital casting of being in present-day technology.

 

Last writings.