Contemporary Metaphysics

The starting points and assumptions of metaphysical thought. Major changes in the development of metaphysics.

The development of metaphysical thought in the 20th and 21st century. Metaphysics in modern and postmodern. The difference between a-metaphysical and post-metaphysical thought.

Critique of metaphysics in 19th Century Philosophy. The idea of the "death" of God. The idea of the eternal return of the same.

Metaphysics and the linguistic turn. An attempt to rehabilitate metaphysics in contemporary philosophy based on a critique of traditional metaphysics.

Forms of transcending and/or transforming metaphysical thought. Metaphysics, ethics and utopia. The tradition of pragmatism and its relation to metaphysics.

A selection of chapters and sections from the reference works below.

Grossmann, Reinhardt. 1994. The Existence of the World. London: Routledge. COBISS.SI-ID - 56847360
Heidegger, Martin. 1995. Uvod v metafiziko. Ljubljana: Slovenska matica. COBISS.SI-ID - 53056256
Rorty, Richard. 2002. Izbrani spisi. Ljubljana, LUD Literatura. COBISS.SI-ID - 119900416
Putnam, Hilary. 2004. Ethics without Ontology. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. LINK: https://adz.izum.si/UNILJ?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&url_ctx_fmt=info%3Aofi%3A…
Rorty, Richard. 2009. Contingency, irony, and solidarity. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. COBISS.SI-ID - 48210018
McDowell, John. 1998. Mind and World. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. COBISS.SI-ID - 10150242
Brandom, Robert. 2015. From Empiricism to Expressivism. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. LINK: https://adz.izum.si/UNILJ?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&url_ctx_fmt=info%3Aofi%3A…
Sloterdijk, Peter. 2003. Kritika ciničnega uma. Ljubljana: Študentska založba. COBISS.SI-ID - 125271552
Hedžet Tóth, Cvetka. 2008. Hermenevtika metafizike. Metafizika-materializem-etika-utopija. Ljubljana: Založba 2000. COBISS.SI-ID - 242595328