Jürgen Lawrenz
Biographic Data
| ID | 1444534 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jürgen Lawrenz |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jürgen |
| FAMILY NAME | Lawrenz |
| SIGNATURE | LAWRENZ J |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Sydney |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 18 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
A Consummate Translation
This edition is an astonishing piece of work. Indeed, I feel urged to acknowledge at once that it opens doors to multiple perspectives on a subject matter which ought to belong to our common poetic
Schopenhauermusik
Let us make no bones about it: Arthur Schopenhauer (1788–1860) was a philosophical and literary genius, as well as a polymath and egomaniac. But to scale this essay down to manageable proportions
Rudolf Borchardt’s Epilegomena to Homer
This essay is as brilliant and imaginative a piece of literary investigation of the vexed ‘Homeric Question’ as the reader is likely to encounter anywhere. Let us make no bones about it: despite ex
The Homer We Always Knew
This article mounts an argument for the Trojan War as Homer’s invention, possibly fired by sundry legends that still formed part of the rhapsodic currency in his time. Yet the poet gives us only a
Borchardt and the 'Jumping on the Bandwagon' Fillip
The trends of literary history and criticism can never be foretold. Indeed, they can be as arbitrary as the opinions of the proverbial “man in the street” and allow themselves to be stimulated to l
"Scruton, Wagner, and the "Re-enchantment of the World
The late lamented Sir Roger Scruton (1944–2020) must have written more books on music than many professional musicologists. One also wonders if specialists on Wagner, his favourite composer, have b
Sound as a Source of Engagement with Life
We do not often acknowledge that, in terms of survival, hearing is our dominant sensory faculty, serving us for ascertaining location and orientation: the howling of wolves there, the thresh of an
"The Brandy of the Damned"-Ruminations on Music and Spirituality
Music is the brandy of the damned.—G. B. Shaw, Man and SupermanLife without music would be just a mistake.—Nietzsche, Twilight of the GodsThe word “spirituality,” which is mostly associated with re
Homer as the Maker of His Own Myth, or The Enduring Enigma of the Invisible Poet
All the way back in 1916, in the middle of the Great War, the prominent Homer scholar Ulrich Wilamowitz-Moellendorf wrote: “More and ever more the challenge narrows down to the crucial issue for me
Spengler and the Sunset on the European Geist
Spengler’s Untergang des Abendlandes (The Decline of the West) (1918–22) was a sensational success in its own time, but has since slipped into oblivion. In this article I attempt to restore those aspects of his doctrine which could speak to us today and alert us to a crisis of the European Geist and its survival exigencies. This involves a reorientation on several issues on which our present perspectives differ from those that were current 100 ye…
Redemption, Reconciliation, Authenticity
Despite the presence of three major religions in his upbringing, Theodor Adorno was fundamentally irreligious.1 This seems at once to disqualify any discussion of a theologically fecund resource in
Do Scientists Uncover Reality or Interpret Experience?”
“When a scientist speaks, it behoves us to attend with respectful silence.” This precept could be written over our whole era, beginning with the middle of the nineteenth century. Some readers may r
Music and the Ineffable
In this article we confront the ineffability of music to seek out a tenable conception of profound depths being plumbed in many such works. We take our initial bearings from the writings of the late Peter Kivy, who was a musically trained thinker and tackled the subject no less than four times. Our main interest lies in his outright dismissal of the idea. However, the scaffolding of his arguments reveals that he privileges the discursive metier w…
The Return of the Blind Watchmaker
Confucius, Aristotle, and the Golden Mean
Although Western and Chinese philosophy evolved from disparate doctrinal foundations, the department of ethics is a notable exception. “How to live the good life” is a subject treated by Confucius and Aristotle in a manner that exhibits many surprising points of coincidence, not least in the colossal influence of both these philosophers on the social and political shape of their respective civilisations. This article is an attempt to correlate th…
Music and the Aesthetic Copernican Revolution of the Eighteenth Century
In the mid-eighteenth century music underwent a sudden and drastic revolution when composers “discovered” a new dimension to their art. This had immense repercussions on the philosophy of art, for the music created before and after this divide represents two different species of aesthetic experience, which in due course affected our understanding of the meaning and import of the other arts as well. Despite the immense aesthetic repercussions of t…
Danto and the Pale of Aesthetics
Arthur Danto’s Transfiguration of the Commonplace is a new theory of art, seeking to catch the flavour and essence of its contemporary phenomenology. It is obliged, however, to pit itself in toto against aesthetic philosophy, leaning on the derivatives from deuteropraxis and institutional definition while committing itself to a concept of arthood extracted from exoteric ideas, which are held to comprise the artworks’ individuation and identity. T…
Leibniz's Kehre
This article examines the rift in Leibniz’s conception of determinism after being rebuffed by the Parisian theologian Antoine Arnauld in their correspondence of 1686. As, in addition, his study of surds infracted his confidence in the “complete concept,” Leibniz embarked on a new, dynamic doctrine of substance or “law of the series.” In the literature, this strategy has been widely (mis)understood as “tweaking” the system to allow some self-asser…
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Danto and the Pale of Aesthetics
Arthur Danto’s Transfiguration of the Commonplace is a new theory of art, seeking to catch the flavour and essence of its contemporary phenomenology. It is obliged, however, to pit itself in toto against aesthetic philosophy, leaning on the derivatives from deuteropraxis and institutional definition while committing itself to a concept of arthood extracted from exoteric ideas, which are held to comprise the artworks’ individuation and identity. T…
Leibniz's Kehre
This article examines the rift in Leibniz’s conception of determinism after being rebuffed by the Parisian theologian Antoine Arnauld in their correspondence of 1686. As, in addition, his study of surds infracted his confidence in the “complete concept,” Leibniz embarked on a new, dynamic doctrine of substance or “law of the series.” In the literature, this strategy has been widely (mis)understood as “tweaking” the system to allow some self-asser…
Music and the Aesthetic Copernican Revolution of the Eighteenth Century
In the mid-eighteenth century music underwent a sudden and drastic revolution when composers “discovered” a new dimension to their art. This had immense repercussions on the philosophy of art, for the music created before and after this divide represents two different species of aesthetic experience, which in due course affected our understanding of the meaning and import of the other arts as well. Despite the immense aesthetic repercussions of t…
Confucius, Aristotle, and the Golden Mean
Although Western and Chinese philosophy evolved from disparate doctrinal foundations, the department of ethics is a notable exception. “How to live the good life” is a subject treated by Confucius and Aristotle in a manner that exhibits many surprising points of coincidence, not least in the colossal influence of both these philosophers on the social and political shape of their respective civilisations. This article is an attempt to correlate th…
Do Scientists Uncover Reality or Interpret Experience?”
“When a scientist speaks, it behoves us to attend with respectful silence.” This precept could be written over our whole era, beginning with the middle of the nineteenth century. Some readers may r
Music and the Ineffable
In this article we confront the ineffability of music to seek out a tenable conception of profound depths being plumbed in many such works. We take our initial bearings from the writings of the late Peter Kivy, who was a musically trained thinker and tackled the subject no less than four times. Our main interest lies in his outright dismissal of the idea. However, the scaffolding of his arguments reveals that he privileges the discursive metier w…
The Return of the Blind Watchmaker
Spengler and the Sunset on the European Geist
Spengler’s Untergang des Abendlandes (The Decline of the West) (1918–22) was a sensational success in its own time, but has since slipped into oblivion. In this article I attempt to restore those aspects of his doctrine which could speak to us today and alert us to a crisis of the European Geist and its survival exigencies. This involves a reorientation on several issues on which our present perspectives differ from those that were current 100 ye…
Redemption, Reconciliation, Authenticity
Despite the presence of three major religions in his upbringing, Theodor Adorno was fundamentally irreligious.1 This seems at once to disqualify any discussion of a theologically fecund resource in
The Homer We Always Knew
This article mounts an argument for the Trojan War as Homer’s invention, possibly fired by sundry legends that still formed part of the rhapsodic currency in his time. Yet the poet gives us only a
Borchardt and the 'Jumping on the Bandwagon' Fillip
The trends of literary history and criticism can never be foretold. Indeed, they can be as arbitrary as the opinions of the proverbial “man in the street” and allow themselves to be stimulated to l
"Scruton, Wagner, and the "Re-enchantment of the World
The late lamented Sir Roger Scruton (1944–2020) must have written more books on music than many professional musicologists. One also wonders if specialists on Wagner, his favourite composer, have b
Sound as a Source of Engagement with Life
We do not often acknowledge that, in terms of survival, hearing is our dominant sensory faculty, serving us for ascertaining location and orientation: the howling of wolves there, the thresh of an
"The Brandy of the Damned"-Ruminations on Music and Spirituality
Music is the brandy of the damned.—G. B. Shaw, Man and SupermanLife without music would be just a mistake.—Nietzsche, Twilight of the GodsThe word “spirituality,” which is mostly associated with re
Homer as the Maker of His Own Myth, or The Enduring Enigma of the Invisible Poet
All the way back in 1916, in the middle of the Great War, the prominent Homer scholar Ulrich Wilamowitz-Moellendorf wrote: “More and ever more the challenge narrows down to the crucial issue for me
A Consummate Translation
This edition is an astonishing piece of work. Indeed, I feel urged to acknowledge at once that it opens doors to multiple perspectives on a subject matter which ought to belong to our common poetic
Schopenhauermusik
Let us make no bones about it: Arthur Schopenhauer (1788–1860) was a philosophical and literary genius, as well as a polymath and egomaniac. But to scale this essay down to manageable proportions
Rudolf Borchardt’s Epilegomena to Homer
This essay is as brilliant and imaginative a piece of literary investigation of the vexed ‘Homeric Question’ as the reader is likely to encounter anywhere. Let us make no bones about it: despite ex
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