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How are core social phenomena to be understood as modes of being? This book offers an alternative approach to social ontology. Recent interest in social ontology on the part of mainstream philosophy and the social sciences presupposes from the outset that the human being can be cast as a conscious subject whose intentionality can be collective. By contrast, the present study insistently poses the crucial question of who the human being is and how they sociate as whos. Such whoness is a clean-cut departure from the venerable tradition of questioning whatness (quidditas, essence) in philosophical thinking. Casting human being hermeneutically as whoness opens up new insights into how human beings sociate in interplays of mutual estimation that are simultaneously social power plays. Hitherto, the ontology of social power in all its various guises, has only ever been implicit. This book makes it explicit. The kind of social power prevalent in capitalist societies is that of the reified value embodied in commodities, money, capital, & co. Reified value itself is constituted through an interplay of mutual estimation among things that reflects back on the power interplay among whos. In this way a new critique of capitalism becomes possible.

Political science --- Philosophical anthropology. --- Philosophy. --- Hermeneutic phenomenology. --- social ontology. --- whoness.

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Since its founding by Jacques Waardenburg in 1971, Religion and Reason has been a leading forum for contributions on theories, theoretical issues and agendas related to the phenomenon and the study of religion. Topics include (among others) category formation, comparison, ethnophilosophy, hermeneutics, methodology, myth, phenomenology, philosophy of science, scientific atheism, structuralism, and theories of religion. From time to time the series publishes volumes that map the state of the art and the history of the discipline.

Semiotics --- Philosophy and religion --- Religion --- Religious aspects --- Study and teaching --- Pragmatism. --- hermeneutic. --- images. --- semiosphere.

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Habermas’ concept of postmetaphysics does orient us to engage in a dialogue between faith and knowledge that paves way to engage in a discourse concerning religion in public sphere. This thesis reconstructs socio-philosophical religious traditions, whose aim is to provide a discursive methodology in treating non-reflective expressions of religion.

Postmetaphysics --- Postsecular --- Religion --- Rationality --- Axial Age --- Public Sphere --- Public Opinion --- Enlightenment --- Secularity --- Disenchantment --- Society --- Translation --- Reflective Religion --- Fundamentalistic Religion --- Epistemic Religion --- Hermeneutic Responsibility --- Transformation --- Semantic Contents --- Revolution --- Faith and Knowledge --- wbg Academic

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Programming the Absolute discusses the notorious opposition between absolute and program music as a true dialectic that lies at the heart of nineteenth-century German music. Beginning with Beethoven, Berthold Hoeckner traces the aesthetic problem of musical meaning in works by Schumann, Wagner, Liszt, Mahler, and Schoenberg, whose private messages and public predicaments are emblematic for the cultural legacy of this rich repertory. After Romanticism had elevated music as a language "beyond" language, the ineffable spurred an unprecedented proliferation of musical analysis and criticism. Taking his cue from Adorno, Hoeckner develops the idea of a "hermeneutics of a moment," which holds that musical meaning crystallizes only momentarily--in a particular passage, a progression, even a single note. And such moments can signify as little as a fleeting personal memory or as much as the whole of German music. Although absolute music emerged with a matrix of values--the integrity of the subject, the aesthetic autonomy of art, and the intrinsic worth of high culture--that are highly contested in musicology today, Hoeckner argues that we should not completely discard the ideal of a music that continues to offer moments of transcendence and liberation. Passionately and artfully written, Hoeckner's quest for an "essayistic musicology" displays an original intelligence willing to take interpretive risks. It is a provocative contribution to our knowledge about some of Europe's most important music--and to contemporary controversies over how music should be understood and experienced.

Auschwitz. --- Brinkmann, Reinhold. --- Buchanan, Herbert. --- Danuser, Hermann. --- Expressionism. --- Frank, Hermann. --- Goebbels, Joseph. --- Huyssen, Andreas. --- Jansen, Gustav. --- Kierkegaard, Soren. --- Klauwell, Otto. --- Lewis, Christopher. --- Liszt, Adam. --- Malin, Yonathan. --- Momentform. --- Pederson, Sanna. --- Rellstab, Friedrich. --- Schleiermacher, Friedrich. --- Schopenhauer, Artur. --- Szondi, Peter. --- Tiedemann, Rolf. --- Tomlinson, Gary. --- Voigt, Henriette. --- Wagner, Cosima. --- Walter, Bruno. --- Wellbery, David. --- Winckelmann, Johann Joachim. --- Witz. --- Zuidervaart, Lambert. --- absolute, as detachment. --- actio in distans. --- aesthetic appearance. --- aesthetics of Argus-eyedness. --- apparition. --- arabesque. --- caesura. --- constellation. --- criticism, hermeneutic. --- dialectics at a standstill. --- dying sound. --- ekphrasis. --- fragment. --- hermeneutic circle. --- hermeneutics of the moment. --- historicism. --- ineffability. --- modernity. --- organicism. --- postmodernism. --- program music. --- truth. --- utopia.

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Rethinking Hanslick: Music, Formalism, and Expression' is the first extensive English-language study devoted to Eduard Hanslick--a seminal figure in nineteenth-century musical life. Bringing together eminent scholars from several disciplines, this volume examines Hanslick's contribution to the aesthetics and philosophy of music and looks anew at his literary interests. The essays embrace ways of thinking about Hanslick's writings that go beyond the polarities that have long marked discussion of his work such as form/expression, absolute/program music, objectivity/subjectivity, and formalist/hermeneutic criticism. This approach takes into consideration both Hanslick's important 'On the Musically Beautiful' and his critical and autobiographical writings, demonstrating Hanslick's rich insights into the context in which a musical work is composed, performed, and received. 'Rethinking Hanslick' serves as an invaluable companion to Hanslick's prodigious scholarship and criticism, deepening our understanding of the major themes and ideas of one of the most influential music critics of the nineteenth century. Dr Nicole Grimes is a Marie Curie Fellow at University College Dublin (UCD), and the University of California, Irvine. Dr Siobhán Donovan is a College Lecturer at the School of Languages and Literatures, UCD. Dr Wolfgang Marx is a Senior Lecturer at the School of Music, UCD.

Musical criticism --- Music --- Hermeneutics (Music) --- Music criticism --- Journalism --- History --- Philosophy and aesthetics. --- History and criticism --- Hanslick, Eduard, --- Hanslik, Eduard, --- Гансликъ, Эдуардъ, --- Ganslik, Ėduard, --- Music - 19th century - Philosophy and aesthetics --- Musical criticism - History - 19th century --- Hanslick, Eduard, - 1825-1904 --- Eduard Hanslick. --- absolute/program music. --- aesthetics. --- form/expression. --- formalist/hermeneutic criticism. --- literary interests. --- nineteenth-century musical life. --- objectivity/subjectivity. --- philosophy of music.