"Rauch and Schneider's collection of Reiner Schürmann's essays confirms the growing recognition of the timeliness of his philosophising and the profound radicalism of his critique of philosophical and cultural modernity. It serves as a provocative introduction to his views on anarchy, law and modernity as well an indispensable supplement to the detailed historical analyses of Broken Hegemonies. The collection offers unique insight into the political investments informing Schürmann's history of metaphysics as the institution and destitution of principled regimes as well as clarifying his sense of the contemporary break with or 'diremption' of this history and the emergent promise of a life and thought of anarchic joy".
Howard Caygill, Professor of Modern European Philosophy, CRMEP, Kingston University, London
7 - 30 On Constituting Oneself an Anarchistic Subject (Reiner Schürmann)31 - 54 "What Must I Do?" at the End of Metaphysics: Ethical Norms and the Hypothesis of a Historical Closure (Reiner Schürmann)55 - 76 Modernity: The Last Epoch in a Closed History? (Reiner Schürmann)77 - 120 Legislation-Transgression: Strategies and Counter-Strategies in the Transcendental Justification of Norms (Reiner Schürmann)121 - 150 Ultimate Double Binds (Reiner Schürmann)151 - 182 Of Peremption and Insurrection: Reiner Schürmann's Encounter with Michel Foucault (Malte Fabian Rauch, Nicolas Schneider)
Schürmann, ReinerReiner Schürmann wurde 1941 in Amsterdam geboren und verbrachte seine Kindheit und Jugend in Krefeld. Ab 1960 studierte er Philosophie in München, unterbrochen durch einen Aufenthalt in einem israelischen Kibbuz. 1961 trat er als Novize bei den Dominikanern in Frankreich ein und studierte von 1962-69 Theologie im Saulchoir, Essonne, bei Paris, unterbrochen durch einen Studienaufenthalt in Freiburg i. Br. bei Heidegger. 1970 wurde er zum Dominikanerpriester ordiniert, verließ den Orden 1975 jedoch wieder. Seit den frühen siebziger Jahren lebte Schürmann in den USA und wurde 1975 von Hannah Arendt und Hans Jonas an die New School for Social Research in New York berufen. 1993 starb Reiner Schürmann an Aids. Sein umfangreiches philosophisches Werk verfasste Schürmann in französischer Sprache.
Rauch, Malte FabianMalte Fabian Rauch is a Berlin based writer and editor. His work focuses on recent continental philosophy, contemporary art and aesthetics, as well as media and design theory. After studying in Hamburg, London and at the New School in New York, he currently works in the interdisciplinary research project "Cultures of Critique" at the Leuphana University Lüneburg.
Schneider, NicolasNicolas Schneider is completing a PhD at the Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy, Kingston University London, and is currently teaching at the Humboldt University, Berlin.