Wolfgang Schirmacher - Videos
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Wolfgang Schirmacher, philosopher and author, talking about the different kinds of philosophical methodologies. In this lecture, Wolfgang Schirmacher discusses dialectics, phenomenology, hermeneutics and deconstruction in relationship to Georges Bataille, Martin Heidegger, Hegel, Hans-Georg Gadamer, Jacques Derrida, and Theodor Adorno focusing on death, discontinuity, contradiction, truth in art, the second negation, and creative destruction. European Graduate School EGS
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Wolfgang Schirmacher, philosopher and author, talking about the four Kantian questions. In this lecture, Wolfgang Schirmacher discusses knowledge, hope, ethics, subjectivity, objectivity, methodology and the human being in relationship to Hegel, Martin Heidegger, Jacques Derrida, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Edmund Husserl, Aristotle and Elia Suleiman focusing on Kantian dualism, Hegelian dialectics, phenomenology, the real and perspecitivism. European Graduate School EGS
06/13/2011
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Wolfgang Schirmacher, philosopher and author, talking about Geert Lovink's background and topics from his book Zero Comments. In this lecture, Wolfgang Schirmacher discusses methodology, the art of living, language games, facebook and social networking in relationship to Jean Baudrillard, Jean-Francois Lyotard, Walter Benjamin, Hegel, and Jean-Paul Sartre focusing on terrorism, totalization, the ad hoc, globalization, blogging, youth movements and forgiveness. European Graduate School EGS
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Wolfgang Schirmacher, philosopher and author, talking about Geert Lovink's background and topics from his book Zero Comments. In this lecture, Wolfgang Schirmacher discusses the relationship between the virtual intellect and the body, Wikileaks, the uncanny, subjectivity, nihilism and the panopticon in relationship to Julian Assange, Sandy Stone, Michel Foucault, Aristotle and Friedrich Nietzsche focusing on the philosopher's passion, insight, suicide, internet reputation, the naked truth, serial killers and airport security. European Graduate School EGS
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Wolfgang Schirmacher, philosopher and author, talking about the end of metaphysics. In this lecture, Wolfgang Schirmacher discusses metaphysics as doctrine, the event of technology and living the good life, or gelingen Leben , in relationship to Plato, Martin Heidegger, Jean-Francois Lyotard, Jean Baudrillard, Spinoza, and Giorgio Agamben focusing on Ereignis as life technique, the inhumanity of acting and the ecological crisis. European Graduate School EGS
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In an excerpt of Schirmacher lecturing dialectics and phenomenology, the expectation or negation of the continuity of life, Schirmacher gives some insight into the philosophy of EGS.
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Schirmacher strips down some of Michael Hardt's arguments, and tries to go into more fundamental philosophical questions. Schirmacher posits that perpetual war described by Hardt, is the same as war against Nature and puts forward a vision of a future without fighting. Schirmacher's commentary makes a delineation between concerns of philosophers and those of activists, sociologists, etc.
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Wolfgang Schirmacher lecturing about media philosophy and the concept of Geviert; exploring the deeper philosophy behind the evaluation criteria for dissertation projects and proposals at European Graduate School EGS Media and Communication Studies Department Program
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A short introductory clip recorded back in year 2000 in Saas Fee, Switzerland at the European Graduate School campus. Schirmacher talks, in his unique tone and style, about what media philosophy is and what EGS is to be. European Graduate School, EGS Media and Communications Program Studies Department, Saas-Fee, Switzerland, Europe