Volume 68 (2013), 5

In accordance with the spirit of Philosophie-Performance Festival [soundcheck philosophie] which took place in 2011 and 2012 in Halle (Germany) the paper deals with possible forms of expressing philosophical thoughts. In the frame of an optical experiment the notions embodiment and the public have been focused on in order to take a closer look – in accordance with… Read more

The essay reveals the relationship between Heidegger’s thinking and the nature of dancing with regard to his lecture Building Dwelling Thinking. In it Heidegger provides an inspiring illustration of the bridge: “The bridge swings over the stream with ease and power”; “even where the bridge covers the stream, it holds its flow up to the sky by taking it for a… Read more

The article deals with some aspects of Heidegger’s essay Building Dwelling Thinking in a new and more performative way. It explores the meaning of two common things from the author’s own lifeworld/Lebenswelt (a small ball he uses in psychotherapy and his stethoscope he uses as a medical doctor). Both things create living relationships between human beings, things… Read more

Since ancient Greek philosophers like Gorgias, Plato or Aristotle called the art of poetry a (magic) form of fiction that contradicts scientific forms of knowledge, a historical abyss has been introduced between the arts and the sciences, which still haunts us today. It was Nietzsche who first questioned the legitimacy of this distinction by calling the sciences a… Read more

The specific art of the actor is an ecstatic kind of art which makes all body-soul antagonisms invalid. By the acting of actors it becomes evident that the body is in no case hiding inner values which then are attributed to the soul, and that outer spaces do not exist closed off and separated from the body. The body itself is expansion, open field, open space,… Read more

The practices of philosophy and the arts can meet in a fruitful way. The text describes and analyses examples of this encounter and tries to show how the experience in the arts (regardless if European or Asian) can open up new ways of thinking. At the University of Hildesheim the combination of philosophy and the arts is a part of the BA and MA-program in… Read more