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Siobhan Kattago
Melancholic Imprisonment in Memory:
How “Never Again” Crumbled When Russia Invaded Ukraine
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The phrase ‘Never Again,’ ‘plus jamais, ‘nie wieder,’ ‘nunc más’ and ‘nunca mais’ promises to end the atrocities of the 20th century and warns of their return if individuals and governments remain indifferent to injustices in the world. Never Again is based on the moral claim that active remembrance is central to learning from the past and to preventing violence in the future. Indeed, as President Volodymyr Zelensky argued in his speech on May 8th commemorating the end of World War II, ‘Never Again’ is ‘the anthem of the civilized world.’ While the promise of Never Again was undermined by genocide in Yugoslavia and Rwanda, and the bombing of civilians in Syria and war in Afghanistan, Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine tests the ethics of Never Again on a larger scale with its looming specter of nuclear war and growing list of war crimes. In an effort to understand how the very institutions that were created in the aftermath of World War II could not prevent war from returning to Europe, my argument proceeds in three parts: (1) Never Again is based on a paradox between the universal and the particular, as well as between the historical experience of individuals in the past and the universal promise to avert its reoccurrence. (2) Never Again refers to a break in historical time that links the living with memories of the dead and promises not to repeat the violence of the past in the future. At issue is the kind of intergenerational responsibility implied in the ethics of Never Again. (3) The imperative of Never Again is weakened when memory is reduced to a melancholic gaze of catastrophe that privileges a tragic understanding of history.
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Marcia Sá Cavalcante Schuback
The Implex of Oblivion
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This essay is a reflection on oblivion, taking its cue from trauma as the experience of how the unforgettable acts upon existence. It presents oblivion not as the negative counterpart of memory, or as a repressive force generating complexes, but as the intricate knot of feelings and sensations that are the sources for the possible. By bringing together the experience of blindness and Paul Valéry’s concept of "implex" as guiding thoughts for understanding oblivion as a source of sensibility for the gerund of existence, for the is-being, this article seeks to show how oblivion is capacity of its own.
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Katherine Elkins
Memory, Technology, and Wisdom
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Drawing from classical philosophical discourse, including Plato's reflections on knowledge and memory, this essay navigates the transition from traditional memory repositories to modern insights from Proust and Wordsworth to digital platforms. With the rise of AI, particularly Large Language Models (LLMs), new generative technologies challenge our traditional notions of memory and knowledge. Integrating Ong's concept of "secondary orality," the essay explores how technology, especially AI, might be ushering in a new era reminiscent of oral traditions, yet distinct in its digital nature. How do these AI models, which mimic human cognition, influence our understanding of knowledge and wisdom? And as these technologies become more integrated into our daily lives, what does it mean for the future of human knowledge?
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John Russon
Being Present:
The Existential Challenges of Remembering and Forgetting
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Lior Levy
Remembering Women:
Hegel, Irigaray, and Beauvoir on Women and Memory
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Allison Merrick
On Seeing What There Is to See:
Nietzsche on Forgetting and Aspectival Captivity
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How are we to understand Nietzsche’s championing of forgetting? Does Nietzsche consider unreconstructed forgetting an ethical and political ideal? If so, does Nietzsche’s counsel on forgetting thereby support and work at the behest of the dominant system of evaluation? Is, to frame it another way, Nietzschean forgetting but a mechanism by which the dominant evaluative framework repeats, reinscribes, retrenches, or otherwise reaffirms itself? By offering a close reading his remarks, most notably those that appear in On the Genealogy of Morality, I aim in this paper to contest the view that Nietzsche’s account of forgetting seeks to silence historical hurts and is, thereby, as ethically problematic as it is politically objectionable. By attending to and reconstructing key passages where Nietzsche’s view comes out most clearly, I demonstrate, contra the dominant account, that Nietzschean forgetting offers us important conceptual resources that can be used to combat any dominant moral evaluative framework.
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Alphonso Lingis
The Need, the Duty
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Marcia Morgan
Review of Ágnes Heller’s Tragedy and Philosophy: A Parallel History
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Karen Koch
Elena Ficara, The Form of Truth: Hegel’s Philosophical Logic
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Anita Merlini
Emmanuel Alloa, Looking through Images: A Phenomenology of Visual Media
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Michael L.J. Greer
Sarah Ahmed, Complaint!
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Notes on Recent Work
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Books Received
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Notes on Contributors
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Penelope Deutscher
Qualifying Disqualification and Its Inversions:
Power after Foucault and the Distributions of Incapacity
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Thomas Khurana
The Art of Second Nature:
Modern Culture after Kant
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Mauro Bonazzi, Paul Ziche
“Walten” in Schleiermacher, Heidegger, and Derrida:
Purifying Plato and Poeticizing the Purified Plato
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Lawrence J. Hatab
Proto-Phenomenology and the Work of Truth:
Hope in a Time of Degradation
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Laurie E. Naranch
Hopes for Nonviolence:
Recent Work in Feminist Ethics from Judith Butler and Adriana Cavarero
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Richard J. Bernstein
The Resurgence of Richard Rorty:
Review of Richard Rorty’s Pragmatism as Anti-Authoritarianism
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