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• Allonomy (Nancy)

  Nancy's name for the constitutive otherness-of-self that is more originary than any autonomy. From Greek allos (other) + nomos (law): "his own law is other than himself" (Fragile Skin II §3 a). The diagnostic operates at three registers: (…

• Das Ende der Philosophie und die Aufgabe des Denkens (1964) Martin Heidegger, 1964

  Author(s): Martin Heidegger Year: 1964 (this version: GA 14, 2007 — Klostermann edition with Heidegger's marginalia from his Handexemplar) Type: essay (originally Heidegger's contribution to the UNESCO Paris colloquium "Kierkegaard vivant,…

• Dividuation

  Carbone's coinage (2016) for the condition of screen-mediated life: since "individual" etymologically means in-dividuus, "indivisible," the self that simultaneously lives in/through many screens and windows — playing many roles, maintainin…

• End of Philosophy (das Ende der Philosophie)

  Heidegger's late thesis: philosophy as metaphysics — from Plato through Hegel-Husserl-Nietzsche-Marx — has ended in the present age. The end is Vollendung, not cessation: a Versammlung in die äußerste Möglichkeit (gathering into outermost…

• Ge-stell (Enframing)

  Heidegger's name for the Wesen der Technik — not technology as equipment but the mode of Being in which everything (including the human) shows up as Bestand (standing-reserve), available for ordering and optimization. The hyphenation Ge-st…

• Gilbert Simondon

  French philosopher (1924–1989) best known for his theory of individuation and for his rehabilitation of the philosophical significance of technical objects. On this wiki he matters primarily as the background figure behind dividuation (Car…

• Identität und Differenz (GA 11) Martin Heidegger, 2006

  Author: Martin Heidegger · Year: 2006 (GA edition; texts 1949–1963) · Editor: Friedrich-Wilhelm von Herrmann · Type: book (Sammelband)

• Is Cybernetics the Same Philosophical Enemy for Heidegger and Merleau-Ponty?

  Short answer. Both clauses of the question are partly true, but the or is too strong. Cybernetics (in Heidegger 1964) and pensée opératoire (in Merleau-Ponty 1960–61) target the same structural phenomenon — the reduction of beings to manip…

• Kehre (the Turn)

  The Kehre names a structural reversal internal to the Sachverhalt of Sein und Zeit / Zeit und Sein — not a biographical change of standpoint in Heidegger's thinking but the turning within Being itself whereby the Vergessenheit (forgetfulne…

• Kybernetik as Grundwissenschaft

  Heidegger's 1964 thesis: Cybernetics is the new Grundwissenschaft (fundamental science) that determines and steers the dispersed sciences in the completed-philosophy age. Locus classicus: "Das Ende der Philosophie und die Aufgabe des Denke…

• List der Vernunft (cunning of reason)

  The List der Vernunft — cunning of reason — is the formal-logical structure by which a finite end realizes itself by interposing an object as means between itself and the world, exposing the means to mechanical and chemical wear while the…

• Machenschaft

  Heidegger's name for the mode of Being in the completed epoch of metaphysics — the form Seiendheit (beingness) takes when the Vollendung has installed Seinsverlassenheit (abandonment by Being) as the prevailing condition. Machenschaft is n…

• The Fragile Skin of the World Jean-Luc Nancy, 2021

  Author(s): Jean-Luc Nancy · Year: 2021 (French 2020) · Type: book

• Vanishing Ontology (Nancy)

  Nancy's name for the late-period ontological formulation in which Being is no prior or ultimate given but a sending or referral — being-as-being-toward. Locus classicus: Fragile Skin II §3 e (raw 573): "Ontology vanishes here — or makes it…

• Vollendung der Metaphysik

  Heidegger's name for what Nietzsche's thought is: not the overcoming of Western metaphysics but its completion. Vollendung is the most load-bearing thesis of the Nietzsche I lectures (1936-1939) and the operative frame for Heidegger's read…