Babette Babich
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 462084 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Babette Babich |
| NOMBRES | Babette |
| APELLIDO | Babich |
| FIRMA | BABICH B |
| AFILIACIONES | Fordham University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4499-0718 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 51 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 19 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 49 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 2 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1989 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
Smells and politics of Utopia - Corrigendum
Smells and politics of Utopia
Utopia is nominally a 'nowhere' that is also, as Thomas More tells us, a 'good' place. Although there are competing cognate notions, the Greek description looms large in most accounts of utopia. The details of this ideal are so specified that utopic literature consists in a catalogue (and critique) of specifications. This essay draws attention to the fragrance attributed to Lucian's 'Isles of the Blest' together with Ivan Illich's attention to 'a…
Entre Nietzsche y de Beauvoir
Este ensayo lee a Simone de Beauvoir junto con Friedrich Nietzsche sobre convertirse en mujer. Basándose en la mitología, tal como lo hace de Beauvoir en El segundo sexo, se pueden establecer conexiones con Georges Bataille pero también con el propio compromiso de Sarah Kofman con el Ecce Homo de Nietzsche. La muerte y la limitación son parte de las propias reflexiones de Nietzsche sobre él y corresponden a lo que de Beauvoir destaca en términos …
Kant Between Chemistry and Alchemy
This essay takes its point of departure from a post-Nietzschean reading of Kant and the limits of logic and critique. The focus is on science, particularly chemistry and alchemy via mercurial cinnabar (HgS), to this day the primary source of elemental mercury. Seeking to raise the question of science as Nietzsche names it along with the question of truth, this essay undertakes to raise the question of historiography in science, using the illustra…
Material hermeneutics and Heelan’s philosophy of technoscience
Gnosticism, political theory and apocalypse
Beginning with Jacob Taubes and Günther Anders on eschatology, apocalypse and political theology, including Saint Paul and Frankfurt School critical theory along with bombs and power plants (energy/climate), this essay parallels a re-reading of Tracy B. Strong’s political reading of Nietzsche on Jesus (and love) with Taubes, Anders and Carl Schmitt on politics (and technology). Highlighted throughout is the politically charged (and inherently eso…
L’atmosphère, le parfum et la politique de l’utopie
L’utopie est nominalement un nulle part qui est aussi, comme nous le dit Thomas More, un “bon” endroit. Bien qu’il existe des notions concurrentes, la description grecque occupe une place importante dans la plupart des récits d’utopie. Les détails de cet idéal sont si précis que la littérature utopique consiste en un catalogue (et une critique) de ces caractéristiques. Cet essai attire l’attention sur le parfum attribué aux « Îles des bienheureux…
Twitter and the aphoristic (re)turn in thought, knowledge and education
The article focuses on the resurgence of aphoristic expression, particularly in relation to Twitter, examining its impact on thought, knowledge, and education. Topics include the definition and ambiguity surrounding aphorisms, their role in philosophy across different cultures, and defense of Twitter as a medium for intellectual discourse, connecting historical and modern examples of aphoristic styles from Wittgenstein to contemporary criticisms …
Dimitri Ginev (1956-2021)
On the ‘Very Idea of a Philosophy of Science’
On Necropolitics and Techno-Scotosis
To talk about automation and invisibility in our digitally projected world, I argue the case for the “cancelled” or lost voices of postphenomenology such as, most notably, Günther Anders. Reflecting on Nietzsche as on the role of GPS for location and for dating services like Grindr, I take up Nietzschean humanism (all-too humanism) including the fragility of his portable brass typing ball, latterly not unlike daisy wheel printer technologies and …
Heidegger and Leonard Cohen
This article seeks to ask the question of Leonard Cohen as a poet in terms of what Heidegger calls destitute or desperate times (dürftigerZeit) in his WozuDichter ("What Are Poets For")? This question requires reflection on voice and attunement, including music and eros along with nothing less Heideggerian than the thought of death, reading Leonard Cohen on what appears to be a relation to the religious-for us? for him? for the Christ? "forsaken,…
Günther Anders' Philosophy of Technology
Gunter Anders' Philosophy of Technology is the first comprehensive exploration of the ground-breaking work of German thinker Gunter Anders. Anders' philosophy has become increasingly prescient in our digitised, technological age as his work predicts the prevalence of social media, ubiquitous surveillance and the turn to big data. Anders' ouevre also explored the technologies of nuclear power and the biotech concerns for the human and transhuman c…
Nietzsche
The far right appropriates a Nietzsche invented out of its own fantasies, likewise the left in its critique of these appropriations, battles a projection cobbled in response to that of the far righ
Machenschaft and Seynsgeschichte in the Black Notebooks
One of the outcomes of the publication of the Black Notebooks has been to invite scholars to rethink their understanding of Heidegger’s thinking, including his “world-historical anti-Semitism,” his relation to war and politics, via Schmitt and Jünger, as well as machination/calculation but not less his Seynsgeschichte. Other questions include education and academic life in addition to Heidegger’s anxieties regarding the reception of Being and Tim…
Blood for the Ghosts
A focus on roots, localizations, usurpations, and obliterations together with commemoration and different fields of scholarly research, along with a thematic focus on Homer's Nykia, permit Hans Ruin to revisit the foundations of history in Being with the Dead. Ruin draws on cultural sociology, including the work of Alfred Schütz, as well as Heideggerian historicity and the dead of the distant past, including archaeology and ethnography, paleograp…
Reading David Hume’s 'Of the Standard of Taste'
Radio ghosts
Günther Anders offers one of the first phenomenological analyses of broadcast radio (in 1930) and its transformation of the contemporary experience of music. Anders also develops a reflection on its political consequences as he continues his reflection in a discussion of radio and newsreel, film and television in his 1956 'The World as Phantom and Matrix'. A reflection on the consequences of this transformation brings in Friedrich Kittler's refle…
On Günther Anders, political media theory, and nuclear violence
Günther Anders was a philosopher concerned with the political and social implications of power, both as expressed in the media and its tendency to elide the citizenry and thus the very possibility of democracy and the political implications of our participation in our own subjugation in the image of modern social media beginning with radio and television. Anders was particularly concerned with two bombs dropped on Japan at the end of World War II…
Philosophy Bakes No Bread
Far from baking bread, far from practical applicability, philosophy traditionally sought to explain the world, ideally so. Thus, when Marx argued that it was high time philosophy “change the world,” his was a revolutionary challenge. Today, philosophy is an analytic affair and analytic philosophers seek less to explain the world than to squirrel out arguments or, more descriptively, to resolve the minutiae of this or that name problem. Faced with…
Nietzsche (as) educator
There has been no shortage of readers who take Nietzsche as educator (cf., for a by no means exhaustive list: Allen, 2017; Aviram, 1991; Bell, 2007; Cooper 1983; Fairfield, 2017; Fitzsimons, 2007
Hermeneutic Philosophies of Social Science
Heidegger on technology and Gelassenheit
Nietzsche's Chaos Sive Natura
Nietzsche's philosophy of science
Continental philosophies of science tend to exemplify holistic themes connecting order and contingency, questions and answers, writers and readers, speakers and hearers. Such philosophies of science also tend to feature a fundamental emphasis on the historical and cultural situatedness of discourse as significant; relevance of mutual attunement of speaker and hearer; necessity ofpre-linguistic cognition based in human engagement with a common soc…
Philosophy Bakes No Bread
Far from baking bread, far from practical applicability, philosophy traditionally sought to explain the world, ideally so. Thus, when Marx argued that it was high time philosophy “change the world,” his was a revolutionary challenge. Today, philosophy is an analytic affair and analytic philosophers seek less to explain the world than to squirrel out arguments or, more descriptively, to resolve the minutiae of this or that name problem. Faced with…
Adorno’s radio phenomenology
Adorno’s phenomenological study of radio offers a sociology of music in a political and cultural context. Situating that phenomenology in the context of Adorno’s philosophical background and the world political circumstances of Adorno’s collaboration with Paul Lazarsfeld on the Princeton Radio Project, illuminates both Adorno’s Current of Music and the Dialectic of Enlightenment with Max Horkheimer and the ‘Culture Industry’. Together with an ana…
Nietzsche's Zarathustra and Parodic Style
It is well-known that as a term, Nietzsche'sÜbermenschderives from Lucian of Samosata'shyperanthropos. I argue that Zarathustra's teaching of the overman acquires new resonances by reflecting on the context of that origination from Lucian'sKataplous- literally, "sailing into port" - referring to the soul's journey (ferried by Charon, guided by Hermes) into the afterlife. TheKataplous he tyrannos, usually translatedDownward Journey or The Tyrant, …
Towards a Critical Philosophy of Science
Continental philosophy of science has developed alongside mainstream analytic philosophy of science. But where continental approaches are inclusive, analytic philosophies of science are not–excluding not merely Nietzsche's philosophy of science but Gödel's philosophy of physics. As a radicalization of Kant, Nietzsche's critical philosophy of science puts science in question and Nietzsche's critique of the methodological foundations of classical p…
Gnosticism, political theory and apocalypse
Beginning with Jacob Taubes and Günther Anders on eschatology, apocalypse and political theology, including Saint Paul and Frankfurt School critical theory along with bombs and power plants (energy/climate), this essay parallels a re-reading of Tracy B. Strong’s political reading of Nietzsche on Jesus (and love) with Taubes, Anders and Carl Schmitt on politics (and technology). Highlighted throughout is the politically charged (and inherently eso…
Günther Anders' Philosophy of Technology
Gunter Anders' Philosophy of Technology is the first comprehensive exploration of the ground-breaking work of German thinker Gunter Anders. Anders' philosophy has become increasingly prescient in our digitised, technological age as his work predicts the prevalence of social media, ubiquitous surveillance and the turn to big data. Anders' ouevre also explored the technologies of nuclear power and the biotech concerns for the human and transhuman c…
Nietzsche
The far right appropriates a Nietzsche invented out of its own fantasies, likewise the left in its critique of these appropriations, battles a projection cobbled in response to that of the far righ
Radio ghosts
Günther Anders offers one of the first phenomenological analyses of broadcast radio (in 1930) and its transformation of the contemporary experience of music. Anders also develops a reflection on its political consequences as he continues his reflection in a discussion of radio and newsreel, film and television in his 1956 'The World as Phantom and Matrix'. A reflection on the consequences of this transformation brings in Friedrich Kittler's refle…
On Günther Anders, political media theory, and nuclear violence
Günther Anders was a philosopher concerned with the political and social implications of power, both as expressed in the media and its tendency to elide the citizenry and thus the very possibility of democracy and the political implications of our participation in our own subjugation in the image of modern social media beginning with radio and television. Anders was particularly concerned with two bombs dropped on Japan at the end of World War II…
Nietzsche (as) educator
There has been no shortage of readers who take Nietzsche as educator (cf., for a by no means exhaustive list: Allen, 2017; Aviram, 1991; Bell, 2007; Cooper 1983; Fairfield, 2017; Fitzsimons, 2007
Nietzsche and/or/Versus Darwin
This essay claims that, despite the explicit opposition to Darwin in his writings, Nietzsche is regarded as a Darwinist both by the educated public and, increasingly, by Anglo analytic philosophers. In part, the problem is that, while scholars correctly observe the influence on Nietzsche's thinking of Spencer and Malthus, Roux and Haeckel - names commonly associated with Darwin - they pay no attention to the greater impact on Nietzsche's thought …
Heidegger's will to Power
Not so long ago, everyone was engaged in the search for psychoanalytic foundations of poetry, jetzt trieft alles von Volkstum und Blut und Boden, but it’s still all the same. Heidegger, GA 39, 254 Heidegger’s Beiträge and Nietzsche’s Will to Power Nietzsche’s importance for Heidegger is not in doubt as Heidegger engages Nietzsche, directly or indirectly, throughout his writings, both early and late. But without a discussion of the complexities of…
The Essence of Questioning After Technology
Dans le cadre du trentieme anniversaire de la Societe anglaise de phenomenologie celebre les 11-13 avril 1997 a Oxford dans le cadre d'un colloque consacre au theme du renouveau de la phenomenologie, l'A. interroge l'avenir de la question comme projet de pensee apres l'ere de la technologie critiquee par Heidegger dans le contexte de la phenomenologie hermeneutique de «Etre et temps». Au-dela du calcul infini de la question technologique, l'A. mo…
Philosophy of science and the politics of style
A musical retrieve of Heidegger, Nietzsche, and technology
From Nietzsche's artist to Heidegger's world
A musical retrieve of Heidegger, Nietzsche, and technology
Philosophy of science and the politics of style
The logic of woman in Nietzsche
Physics vs. Social Text
Scientists defend “impersonal, objective truth” against the postmodern claim that there is no truth, only interpretations. The hoax on cultural studies orchestrated by a physicist, Alan Sokal, has highlighted this perspective. Sokal's disclosure of the hoax and subsequent polemics has ripped through the complacency of academic disciplines, exposing the fragility of academic integrity and raising questions concerning the function of peer review. S…
Nietzsche, Theories of Knowledge, and Critical Theory
Nietzsche, Epistemology, and Philosophy of Science
The Essence of Questioning After Technology
Dans le cadre du trentieme anniversaire de la Societe anglaise de phenomenologie celebre les 11-13 avril 1997 a Oxford dans le cadre d'un colloque consacre au theme du renouveau de la phenomenologie, l'A. interroge l'avenir de la question comme projet de pensee apres l'ere de la technologie critiquee par Heidegger dans le contexte de la phenomenologie hermeneutique de «Etre et temps». Au-dela du calcul infini de la question technologique, l'A. mo…
Nietzsche and Eros between the devil and God's deep blue sea
Nietzsche’s Imperative as a Friend’s Encomium
Reading David B. Allison
I am a friend and, much more than that, I am without qualification an admirer of David Allison. I admire him for the same reasons, I believe, that most people who know him even slightly, but especially those who know him very well, also have cause to admire him. David has style, fire, and grace. He has this in his person, and he has this in his writing.\nThis text differs slightly in formatting from its original publication date.\nPresented as pa…
Words in Blood, Like Flowers
Heidegger's will to Power
Not so long ago, everyone was engaged in the search for psychoanalytic foundations of poetry, jetzt trieft alles von Volkstum und Blut und Boden, but it’s still all the same. Heidegger, GA 39, 254 Heidegger’s Beiträge and Nietzsche’s Will to Power Nietzsche’s importance for Heidegger is not in doubt as Heidegger engages Nietzsche, directly or indirectly, throughout his writings, both early and late. But without a discussion of the complexities of…
Towards a Critical Philosophy of Science
Continental philosophy of science has developed alongside mainstream analytic philosophy of science. But where continental approaches are inclusive, analytic philosophies of science are not–excluding not merely Nietzsche's philosophy of science but Gödel's philosophy of physics. As a radicalization of Kant, Nietzsche's critical philosophy of science puts science in question and Nietzsche's critique of the methodological foundations of classical p…
Nietzsche's Zarathustra and Parodic Style
It is well-known that as a term, Nietzsche'sÜbermenschderives from Lucian of Samosata'shyperanthropos. I argue that Zarathustra's teaching of the overman acquires new resonances by reflecting on the context of that origination from Lucian'sKataplous- literally, "sailing into port" - referring to the soul's journey (ferried by Charon, guided by Hermes) into the afterlife. TheKataplous he tyrannos, usually translatedDownward Journey or The Tyrant, …
Le Zarathoustra de Nietzsche et le style parodique. À propos de l'hyperanthropos de Lucien et du surhomme de Nietzsche
It is well-known that as a term, Nietzsche’s Übermensch derives from Lucian of Samosata’s hyperanthropos. I argue that Zarathustra’s teaching of the overman acquires new resonances by reflecting on the context of that origination from Lucian’s Kataplous – literally, “sailing into port” – referring to the soul’s journey, ferried by Charon, guided by Hermes, into the afterlife. The Kataplous he tyrannos, usually translated Downward Journey or The T…
On Nietzsche's Judgment of Style and Hume's Quixotic Taste
I read Nietzsche's discussion of scholarly judgments of style beginning with his own inaugural lecture at Basel together with David Hume's stylistic reflections in his “On the Standard of Taste.” This casts light both on the context and the substance of Nietzsche's own scholarly concern with the question of style and taste in terms of what Nietzsche called the “science of aesthetics” and consequently of scholarly judgment in both classics (or cla…
Politics and Heidegger
This essay discusses Heidegger's thinking on the political and technology in the context of metaphysics in an age that is increasingly directed to both technology and the imaginary or the virtual. The context of Aristotelian phronesis is traced back to Aristotle's youth in Macedonia and the circumstance of war and world conquest, to the allure of a comic book character (that would be the Action Comic's figure of Superman) and the cinematic seduct…
Nietzsche, Theories of Knowledge, and Critical Theory
Adorno’s radio phenomenology
Adorno’s phenomenological study of radio offers a sociology of music in a political and cultural context. Situating that phenomenology in the context of Adorno’s philosophical background and the world political circumstances of Adorno’s collaboration with Paul Lazarsfeld on the Princeton Radio Project, illuminates both Adorno’s Current of Music and the Dialectic of Enlightenment with Max Horkheimer and the ‘Culture Industry’. Together with an ana…
Nietzsche and/or/Versus Darwin
This essay claims that, despite the explicit opposition to Darwin in his writings, Nietzsche is regarded as a Darwinist both by the educated public and, increasingly, by Anglo analytic philosophers. In part, the problem is that, while scholars correctly observe the influence on Nietzsche's thinking of Spencer and Malthus, Roux and Haeckel - names commonly associated with Darwin - they pay no attention to the greater impact on Nietzsche's thought …
Heidegger's Jews
Once upon a time, Heidegger's thinking seemed to bear on everything and every philosopher, from the Pre-Socratics, such as Anaximander and Parmenides as well as Heraclitus, to Plato himself, to Ari
Thinking on Film
Margarethe von Trotta's 2013 film Hannah Arendt, starring Barbara Sukowa as Hannah Arendt raises sociopolitical and specifically philosophical questions in the contentious context of Arendt's 1963 book Eichmann in Jerusalem.2 The film itself generated both sociopolitical and philosophical controversy. At the same time, the overwhelming majority of both popular and academic responses to the film have tended to focus on the controversy surrounding …
Hermeneutic Philosophies of Social Science
Heidegger on technology and Gelassenheit
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