Preliminary Material -- Philologie des Nicht-Wissens: Vorgehen und Thesen -- David Hilberts Über das Unendliche (1926) und Kurt Gödels Über formal unentscheidbare Sätze der Principia Mathematica und verwandter Systeme I (1931) -- Werner Heisenbergs Über den anschaulichen Inhalt …
"This book identifies a historical paradigm in ethics that has been largely ignored in more recent philosophy. I call this paradigm existential modernism and discuss its central claims through detailed examination of the thought of four of its main exponents: Friedrich Nietzsche…
Allen Thiher demonstrates that major modernists were not only concerned with the sciences, but they also were influenced by them. He argues that there are direct relations between science and the formal shape of fiction developed by some of the most important modernists.
"Although boredom appears to be a perennial feature of the human condition, it is linked to ways of experiencing time and thinking about human existence that are recognizably modern. By tracing the emergence and evolution of the modern discourse on boredom in French and German l…