Autor: Ralf Becker

Abstracts Becker, Ralf, Bermes, Christian, Westerkamp, Dirk: Editorial. Rauterberg, Hanno: Rückzug ins Offene!. Wie das digitale Zeitalter neue Leitideen des Wohnens begünstigt und zugleich verstellt The stronger the centrifugal forces of globalization become, the more people have to be on the move, the more uprooted they feel, the stronger the need for connection and encounter becomes. The desire for ›Heimat‹ is growing. But the digital transformation, which permeates all spheres of society and makes unexpected alliances possible, has little impact on housing, of all things. It favors new living desires that break away from old ideas of order and security and promote hybrid forms of behavior and life. At the same time, the constraints of a capital-driven housing industry are intensifying and rarely correspond to the otherwise common demand-driven goals and purposes of the capitalist economic order. While the digital mode of production and distribution aims for the greatest possible diversification and thus corresponds to the ideal of changeability, the housing market proves to be structurally conservative and usually only finds outdated answers to new demands—with the consequence that a ›right living in the wrong life‹ appears affordable for only a select few. Siebel, Walter: Soziologie des Wohnens. Sociology has a subject matter that is constantly changing. That is why it has to keep reformulating its theories and categories. One example is the profound change of housing during the course of industrial urbanization. This change is described as a change from the whole household (O. Brunner) to housing as part of the modern way of living based on the functional, social, socio-psychological, and economic dimensions of living. In connection with this change, the two basic aspects of the housing question are discussed: What defines a human habitat and why are new housing problems constantly emerging? Hasse, Jürgen: Wohnen als Ausdruckssituation des Lebens. Auf dem Weg zu einer Ethik des Wohnens Dwelling is understood in the sense of Martin Heidegger: »Dwelling is the manner in which mortals are on the earth.« The way in which people are living on earth situates them in their dwelling. Because dwelling is not an activity, but a mode of being, an ethics of dwelling is required because »habitability« of the earth is limited. This demands a sustainable way of life. Responsible housing therefore needs a structural pause in the growth-focussed process of civilisation. As a result, dwelling becomes a reason for a critical reflection on life and this becomes an existential piece of thinking about dwelling. Espinet, David: Tische, Stühle und andere Gedichte. Zur Poetik des Designs als Ethik des Wohnens In my paper, I interpret Hölderlin’s »poetic dwelling« in the sense of a contribution to the philosophy of design, i.e. a theory of beautiful yet functional artifacts. The interpretation aims at an ethics of aesthetics in which what I call ›poetry of design‹ is considered as a constitutive element for human autonomy in a world crammed with artifacts: good design is presented as morally good in the way that it does not interfere with self-determination, but instead promotes it because good design is beautiful. Figal, Günter: Wohnbilder. Bewohnbare Architektur und Photographie In this essay, I wish to elucidate the specific function architectural photography has for the experience of buildings. With photographs, the image character of buildings can be discovered and represented, and thereby the nature of habitation can be revealed as well. Taking or contemplating pictures of habitable rooms one could learn that habitation is primarily perceptional—a character mostly concealed by the dominance of everyday practice. In order to give an impression of the manifold possibilities architectural photography holds, I discuss the work of five quite different photographic artists, namely Julius Shulman, Yutaka Saito, Candida Höfer, Cy Twombly, and Yasuhiro Ishimoto. Ebert, Johannes: »Man ist am Abend porös.« (Interview mit Johannes Ebert). Über digitale und physische Begegnungen und Kultur in Zeiten der Pandemie Die ZKph im Gespräch mit Johannes Ebert, Generalsekretär des Goethe-Instituts. Borck, Cornelius: Die Epistemologie von Forschungsumwelten. Zum Kasseler Projekt einer Philosophie der Tierforschung Heinen, René: »Vergebliche Courage«?. Über Adornos versteckte Anthropologie und Ethik Rogozinski, Jacob: Noli me tangere. Eine Erfahrung der Reversibilität in Zeiten der Pandemie Schlitte, Annika: »A different sense of nature«. Ästhetische Perspektiven auf Natur-Kultur-Verhältnisse Weidtmann, Niels: Die interkulturelle Dimension des Menschen. Kritik. Benjamin Bedersdorfer: Don’t criticise, be happy? Demontage einer Pseudowissenschaft (Edgar Cabanas/Eva Illouz: Das Glücksdiktat)Christian J. Emden »Geld ist die reinste Form des Werkzeugs«. Kulturphilosophie und Finanzialisierung in der Moderne (Timo Klattenhoff: Geld – Eine symbolische Form. Perspektiven mit Ernst Cassirer und Georg Simmel) Christian Krijnen: Denken der Freiheit (Klaus Vieweg: Hegel. Der Philosoph der Freiheit. Biographie) Ursula Reitemeyer: Kontinuitäten und Brüche. Anmerkungen zum Strukturwandel des philosophischen Seminars in Münster (Reinold Schmücker / Johannes Müller-Salo (Hrsg.): Pietät und Weltbezug. Universitätsphilosophie in Münster) Jennifer Stevens: Sinn und Unsinn der kritischen Theorie. Annäherung an ein Oxymoron (Gunnar Hindrichs: Zur kritischen Theorie) Hartmut von Sass: Zwischen Genie und Apostel. Dieter Thomä und die Demokratisierung des Helden (Dieter Thomä: Warum Demokratien Helden brauchen. Plädoyer für einen zeitgemäßen Heroismus)

Becker, Ralf, Bermes, Christian, Westerkamp, Dirk: Editorial. Cioflec, Eveline, Weidtmann, Niels: Einleitung. Belonging - Zugehörigkeit Kimmich, Dorothee: Belonging – Zugehörigkeit und Eigentum. Eine prekäre Verbindung »Belonging« is usually discussed in the context of social participation. However, the English »belonging« also associates – similar to the German word ›zugehörig‹– the aspect of possession and property: it is also about »belongings«. In the following, various examples from religion, politics, literature, and film will be used to discuss the narratives that intertwine social belonging and material possession and reveal as well as conceal their (neo)mythical connection. Gehrlach, Andreas: Die Zugehörigkeit der Dinge zu den Menschen. Western Culture knows only a single judicial concept of ownership: private property. Private property meaning, all things belong to people in the same normalized way. A closer look reveals that our relationship with things is more complex than that and confirms a gradual belonging of things to persons that stretches from an organic or intimate property to things being only vaguely attached to persons. This essay tries to outline this plural concept of ways of owning. Cioflec, Eveline: Vom zugehörigen Selbst. Narrative der Gemeinschaft In my paper I discuss belonging to a community as a lived experience aiming at interrogating with Hannah Arendt the dynamics of constituting or reshaping communities through action. The ungraspable »we« of communities allows for both constraining narratives and initiating new forms of belonging as a response to the need to belong. Acting together creates communities which can overturn the often painful experience of belonging to unbearable social units. Kanoor, Abbed: Gezähmte Schizophrenie. Eine philosophische Analyse von Zugehörigkeit und kultureller Ich-Spaltung Our time as the age of fragmented cultural ontologies, acceleration, and ongoing socio-cultural transformations is the age of the quest of belonging par excellence. My paper deals with this quest out of a singular culturally situated perspective – the work of the Indologist and comparative philosopher Daryush Shayegan (1935–2018) – which despite its singularity hints at a general hypothesis: the recognition of a tamed cultural schizophrenia can be an inspiring model of belonging for our time. Rieger-Ladich, Markus: Tertium non datur. Über Gewalt und Zugehörigkeit The books by Annie Ernaux and Didier Eribon can be interpreted as testimonies of the struggle for belonging. With their rich descriptions of growing up in poverty, of shame and degradation, they make an important contribution to the analysis of orders of belonging. Educational institutions play a significant role in this. In this way, Ernaux and Eribon shed light on the mechanisms through which belonging is created or denied. Grabau, Christian: Umkämpfte Zugehörigkeit. Ralph Ellison und das Recht des Künstlers, seine Vorfahren zu wählen »[W]hile one can do nothing about choosing one’s relatives, one can, as artist, choose one’s ›ancestors‹.« These words lead to the heart of a dispute between Ralph Ellison and the Dissent editor Irving Howe in the early sixties which had an impact far beyond literary criticism and scholarship. From this well documented controversy we can learn something about both the power of attributions of belonging and the art of evading them. Hilt, Annette: Ein Zuhause, das mehr als Heimat ist. Phänomenologische Überlegungen zur Zugehörigkeit My contribution interrogates how to conceive belonging and how to clarify conceptual connotations of this and other concepts as ›home‹ or a ›dwelling in a place‹ according to their meaning for orienting our social life and identities. Methodically, I start with the phenomenological consideration of ›operative concepts‹ and how these might be reflexively brought into work with experiencing loss of belonging, negation of a home to stay in, and infraction of identity as they are expressed in personal life-stories. Weidtmann, Niels: Zugehörigkeit als Menschenrecht. Eine phänomenologische Intervention Based on her own experience of long years of statelessness, Arendt demands that the right of the individual to belong to a political community be recognized as the only human right. However, while the »right to have rights« can serve as a regulative idea, belonging that respects an individual’s personhood can neither be decreed nor granted but must have constitutive meaning for the individual. In the article, belonging therefore is described as different ways of a human’s being-in-the-world or simply as different ways of experience. Stoellger, Philipp: Von der Theodizee zur Religiodizee. Zur neuen Lust an der Religionslosigkeit Dzwiza-Ohlsen, Erik Norman: Deixis – Grundzüge einer phänomenologischen Anthropologie des Zeigens. Deixis als Praxis zwischen Berührung und Begriff Hauck, Christian: Fortschritt. Skizzen zu einer absoluten Metapher Schmidt, Stefan W.: Phänomenologie der Räumlichkeit und die Gestaltung des Sozialen. Entwurf einer Topologie des Social Design van der Walt, Johan: Recht, Poesie und liberale Demokratie. Überlegungen zu Voßkuhle, Kohlhaas und Kleist Kritik. Sophia Gräfe: Noch einmal nachdenken. Tierforschung für Philosophen (Martin Böhnert, Methodologische Signaturen. Ein philosophischer Versuch zur Systematisierung der empirischen Erforschung des Geistes von Tieren) Arne Klawitter: Die Erfahrung des Fleisches und die Hermeneutik des Begehrens. Michel Foucaults vierter Band von »Sexualität und Wahrheit« (Michel Foucault, Die Geständnisse des Fleisches) Nikola Mirković: Anerkennung als Autorität (Alexandre Kojève, Der Begriff der Autorität) Johannes Röß: Krisenhaftes Denken. Erkundungen zu Georg Simmels Philosophie und ihrer Wirkung (Gerald Hartung/Heike Koenig/Tim-Florian Steinbach (Hrsg.), Der Philosoph Georg Simmel) Volker Schürmann: Bekennender Anti-Reduktionismus (Thomas Fuchs, Verteidigung des Menschen. Grundfragen einer verkörperten Anthropologie)

Becker, Ralf, Bermes, Christian, Westerkamp, Dirk: Editorial. Cioflec, Eveline, Weidtmann, Niels: Einleitung. Belonging - Zugehörigkeit Kimmich, Dorothee: Belonging – Zugehörigkeit und Eigentum. Eine prekäre Verbindung »Belonging« is usually discussed in the context of social participation. However, the English »belonging« also associates – similar to the German word ›zugehörig‹– the aspect of possession and property: it is also about »belongings«. In the following, various examples from religion, politics, literature, and film will be used to discuss the narratives that intertwine social belonging and material possession and reveal as well as conceal their (neo)mythical connection. Gehrlach, Andreas: Die Zugehörigkeit der Dinge zu den Menschen. Western Culture knows only a single judicial concept of ownership: private property. Private property meaning, all things belong to people in the same normalized way. A closer look reveals that our relationship with things is more complex than that and confirms a gradual belonging of things to persons that stretches from an organic or intimate property to things being only vaguely attached to persons. This essay tries to outline this plural concept of ways of owning. Cioflec, Eveline: Vom zugehörigen Selbst. Narrative der Gemeinschaft In my paper I discuss belonging to a community as a lived experience aiming at interrogating with Hannah Arendt the dynamics of constituting or reshaping communities through action. The ungraspable »we« of communities allows for both constraining narratives and initiating new forms of belonging as a response to the need to belong. Acting together creates communities which can overturn the often painful experience of belonging to unbearable social units. Kanoor, Abbed: Gezähmte Schizophrenie. Eine philosophische Analyse von Zugehörigkeit und kultureller Ich-Spaltung Our time as the age of fragmented cultural ontologies, acceleration, and ongoing socio-cultural transformations is the age of the quest of belonging par excellence. My paper deals with this quest out of a singular culturally situated perspective – the work of the Indologist and comparative philosopher Daryush Shayegan (1935–2018) – which despite its singularity hints at a general hypothesis: the recognition of a tamed cultural schizophrenia can be an inspiring model of belonging for our time. Rieger-Ladich, Markus: Tertium non datur. Über Gewalt und Zugehörigkeit The books by Annie Ernaux and Didier Eribon can be interpreted as testimonies of the struggle for belonging. With their rich descriptions of growing up in poverty, of shame and degradation, they make an important contribution to the analysis of orders of belonging. Educational institutions play a significant role in this. In this way, Ernaux and Eribon shed light on the mechanisms through which belonging is created or denied. Grabau, Christian: Umkämpfte Zugehörigkeit. Ralph Ellison und das Recht des Künstlers, seine Vorfahren zu wählen »[W]hile one can do nothing about choosing one’s relatives, one can, as artist, choose one’s ›ancestors‹.« These words lead to the heart of a dispute between Ralph Ellison and the Dissent editor Irving Howe in the early sixties which had an impact far beyond literary criticism and scholarship. From this well documented controversy we can learn something about both the power of attributions of belonging and the art of evading them. Hilt, Annette: Ein Zuhause, das mehr als Heimat ist. Phänomenologische Überlegungen zur Zugehörigkeit My contribution interrogates how to conceive belonging and how to clarify conceptual connotations of this and other concepts as ›home‹ or a ›dwelling in a place‹ according to their meaning for orienting our social life and identities. Methodically, I start with the phenomenological consideration of ›operative concepts‹ and how these might be reflexively brought into work with experiencing loss of belonging, negation of a home to stay in, and infraction of identity as they are expressed in personal life-stories. Weidtmann, Niels: Zugehörigkeit als Menschenrecht. Eine phänomenologische Intervention Based on her own experience of long years of statelessness, Arendt demands that the right of the individual to belong to a political community be recognized as the only human right. However, while the »right to have rights« can serve as a regulative idea, belonging that respects an individual’s personhood can neither be decreed nor granted but must have constitutive meaning for the individual. In the article, belonging therefore is described as different ways of a human’s being-in-the-world or simply as different ways of experience. Stoellger, Philipp: Von der Theodizee zur Religiodizee. Zur neuen Lust an der Religionslosigkeit Dzwiza-Ohlsen, Erik Norman: Deixis – Grundzüge einer phänomenologischen Anthropologie des Zeigens. Deixis als Praxis zwischen Berührung und Begriff Hauck, Christian: Fortschritt. Skizzen zu einer absoluten Metapher Schmidt, Stefan W.: Phänomenologie der Räumlichkeit und die Gestaltung des Sozialen. Entwurf einer Topologie des Social Design van der Walt, Johan: Recht, Poesie und liberale Demokratie. Überlegungen zu Voßkuhle, Kohlhaas und Kleist Kritik. Sophia Gräfe: Noch einmal nachdenken. Tierforschung für Philosophen (Martin Böhnert, Methodologische Signaturen. Ein philosophischer Versuch zur Systematisierung der empirischen Erforschung des Geistes von Tieren) Arne Klawitter: Die Erfahrung des Fleisches und die Hermeneutik des Begehrens. Michel Foucaults vierter Band von »Sexualität und Wahrheit« (Michel Foucault, Die Geständnisse des Fleisches) Nikola Mirković: Anerkennung als Autorität (Alexandre Kojève, Der Begriff der Autorität) Johannes Röß: Krisenhaftes Denken. Erkundungen zu Georg Simmels Philosophie und ihrer Wirkung (Gerald Hartung/Heike Koenig/Tim-Florian Steinbach (Hrsg.), Der Philosoph Georg Simmel) Volker Schürmann: Bekennender Anti-Reduktionismus (Thomas Fuchs, Verteidigung des Menschen. Grundfragen einer verkörperten Anthropologie)

Brauchen wir Weltanschauungen? Wenn ja, wozu? Oft werden Weltanschauungen für politische, gesellschaftliche oder individuelle Zwecke instrumentalisiert – sie kommen nicht selten in Gestalt von Verheißungen daher und entpuppen sich ebenso häufig als Zumutungen. In jedem Falle sind Weltanschauungen eine Herausforderung. Dieses Heft durchleuchtet, wie volatil und zugleich beharrlich, wie komplex und zugleich vereinheitlichend die sinnversprechenden Großnarrative sein können. Die Beiträge des Schwerpunktes kreisen das Weltanschauungsproblem auf je unterschiedliche Weise ein und fragen nach seiner Bedeutung für die kulturelle Wirklichkeit des Menschen