Otto Neumaier

Wolfgang Gratzer

Der Gordische Knoten

Christopher Hamilton

Clemens Sedmak

Gottfried Schweiger

The essays in this volume grew out of the reflections and discussions conducted during the second international conference "Impulses from Salzburg" from May 6 to 9, 2008, on "Facing Tragedies". In accordance with the aims of this project, participants were asked to reflect not simply on the nature and meaning of tragedy but also on ways in which those who are the victims of tragedy make sense of, or cope with, their condition. It was recognised that abstract reflection is important in this regard, but also that such reflection must be rooted in ordinary, everyday. experience, and thus the conference had as one of its aims the attempt to ensure that philosophical reflection not lose the moorings it needs in the reality of ordinary life.

Facing Tragedies

"Vielen Menschen erscheint es selbstverständlich, dass uns Wissenschaften Erkenntnisse vermitteln, Künste aber Schönheitserlebnisse. Dieser 'Trennzwang' der Disziplinen wird anscheinend vor allem in den Wissenschaften gepflegt, während die 'Kunstfreunde' eher den Zusammenhang von Wissenschaft und Kunst betonen. Die seit einiger Zeit zunehmenden Bemühungen um eine eigenständige künstlerische Forschung geben nun Anlass, das Verhältnis von Wissenschaften und Künsten neu zu reflektieren sowie zu überprüfen, wo Grenzen verlaufen und welche Optionen für 'Grenzgänger' offen stehen." --

Grenzgänge zwischen Wissenschaft und Kunst

Mind, Language, and Society

Daina Teters

This collection of essays is devoted to the diversity of the conceptual and terminological definitions of the notion of the “absolute”. Absolute comprises both the concepts of the Western world related to God and the verbal constructions flowing from these ideas in the spheres of law, philosophy, linguistics, politics, medicine, literature, and arts. Over time, absolute and its neologisms have undergone various modifications, assuming the associated characteristics of syntactic ambiguity and inflation. Absolute can imply an increase in the degree of a quality attached to some object or phenomenon and can be used as either an adverbial modifier or a proper noun. In its appearances as a procedural term, absolute mostly conveys a negative connotation when evaluating some action. The question posed in this book is not what absolute is, but what possibilities exist with regard to perceiving and conceptualizing it in human terms, both historically and in the present.

Otto Neumaier

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