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Is phenomenology a metaphysics of its own type? This is the question that L, szl0 Tengelyi interprets affirmatively in his last oeuvre. Such a type can be characterized as a metaphysics of transgressiveness in contrast to the metaphysics of potentiality. According to Tengelyi, phenomenology must therefore be thought of in the form of a diacritique of world and infinity, which can be seen as the metaphysical architectonics of the transfinite. By relating the difference between thing and world to the difference between transfinite and absolute infinite, it is to be proven that the actual infinite belongs to the reality of the world, precisely in the sense of phenomenology. We want to critically appreciate this attempt of radicalization by confronting it with another radicalization approach: Marc Richir's phenomenology. This will show that in the starting point of the thing-world difference a subtle subjectivism or quasi-Cartesianism is inherent, which does not do justice to the infinity of the world, one which even includes the radical sense of uninhabitability. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The influence of Eugen Fink on Jan Patočka is undeniable. Fink was his first advisor in questions concerning the phenomenology of the late Husserl in the mid-1930s. But as one can see in the correspondence between Patočka and Fink, there are also some hints to divergences, which this paper tries to make explicit, mainly on the basis of some later works and manuscripts by Patočka. They concern the status of the whole of the world (Weltganzes) as being different from the human lifeworld (Menschenwelt) and the double concept of appearing in the cosmology of Fink, which Patočka - in the early 1970s - confronts with a project of an "asubjective" phenomenology. This project, introduced by an unambiguous criticism of the Cartesianism in Husserl, still maintains a certain proximity to Husserl, defining itself as a formal transcendentalism of appearing as such that is not divided into two modes of appearing as in Fink. It can be read as Patočka's radicalization of the originary Husserlian project of phenomenology, rather than as its cosmological abandonment in an accordance with Fink. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article presents a report from a November 15-17, 2018 early modern historiography conference at the Deutsches Historisches Institut historical institute in Rome, Italy on the manufacture of credibility. Topics of presentations delivered included tutorial discourse of the 16th and 17th centuries, atomism and cartesianism in the 17th century, and the analysis of Aristotelian knowledge in light of new psychological approaches.

Freud opened the therapist's listening ear for the participation of the body in conversation (e.g. Dora and her handbag). In this way the treatment technique advanced a theory and showed practical ways how to overcome Cartesian mind-body dualism. At this time, psychoanalysis takes control of the task of reception of approaches to overcome this theoretical gap. In this article recent approaches in social science and social cognition research are outlined. They present possibilities not to play off the body against conversation but to listen to the body speaking. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article presents a report from an August 26-28, 2015 religious history conference in Rome, Italy of the Confessio im Konflikt research society and the Deutsches Historisches Institut Rom historical institute, the University of Stuttgart, Germany and the Bergische Universität Wuppertal university. Topics of presentations delivered included the portrayal of Turkish people in the propaganda of the Lutheran church, the theological perception of Cartesianism in the Netherlands, and self-perception of Romans during the Great Turkish War of 1683 to 1699.