In this book Fred Dallmayr lays the groundwork for a new understanding of democracy. He argues that democracy is not a stable system anchored in a manifest authority (like monarchy), but is sustained by the recessed and purely potential rule of the "people." Hence, democracy has to constantly reinvent itself, resembling theologically a creatio continua. Like one of Calder's mobiles, democracy for him involves three basic elements that must be balanced constantly: the people, political leaders, and policy goals. Where this balance is disrupted, democracy derails into populism, Bonapartism, or...
In this book Fred Dallmayr lays the groundwork for a new understanding of democracy. He argues that democracy is not a stable system anchored in a man...
In Spiritual Guides: Pathfinders in the Desert, Fred Dallmayr challenges the -desert character- of modern culture. Political and economic corruption, incessant warmongering, spoliation of natural resources, and, above all, mindless consumerism and greedy self-satisfaction are all symptoms of what he contends is an expanding wasteland or desert where everything creative and nourishing decays and withers. Through an alternative interpretation of Nietzsche's saying -the desert grows, - this book calls for spiritual renewal, invoking in particular four prominent guides or pathfinders in...
In Spiritual Guides: Pathfinders in the Desert, Fred Dallmayr challenges the -desert character- of modern culture. Political and economic corr...
The life story of a German-American scholar deeply involved, over several decades, in evolving intellectual trends and movements and profoundly affected by successive geopolitical events and calamities.
The life story of a German-American scholar deeply involved, over several decades, in evolving intellectual trends and movements and profoundly affect...
Fred Dallmayr explores the benefits of mindfulness in respect to philosophy and theory, practical conduct, language use, art works, historical understanding, and cosmopolitanism. Students of continental, social, and political philosophy will benefit from Dallmayr's engagement with, among others, Heidegger, Panikkar, Merleau-Ponty, and Derrida.
Fred Dallmayr explores the benefits of mindfulness in respect to philosophy and theory, practical conduct, language use, art works, historical underst...
The book is a protest against some geopolitical agendas which are pushing the world toward a major global war, and possibly toward a nuclear apocalypse. As an antidote, the book issues a call to people everywhere to oppose this rush to destruction and to restore the "wholeness of humanity" through the quest for just peace.
The book is a protest against some geopolitical agendas which are pushing the world toward a major global war, and possibly toward a nuclear apocalyps...
