Seit Platons Schriftkritik und Aristoteles Poetik ist die Frage nach den Medien ein Grundthema philosophischer Reflexion. Durch die Weiterentwicklung der technischen Verbreitungsmedien hat dieses Thema in der Moderne zusatzliche Brisanz erlangt. Zu sich selbst jedoch ist die philosophische Reflexion der Medien erst im 20. Jahrhundert gekommen. Im Zentrum dieser bisher nur unzureichend institutionalisierten Disziplin steht die philosophische Analyse der Zusammenhange, die zwischen sinnlichen Wahrnehmungsmedien (wie Raum Zeit und den funf Sinnen), semiotischen Kommunikationsmedien (wie Bild, Sprache, Schrift und Musik) und technischen Verbreitungsmedien (wie Stimme, Korper, Theater, Buchdruck, Film, Fernsehen, Computer und Internet) existieren. Der Band gibt eine Einfuhrung in aktuelle medienphilosophische Grundpositionen und vermittelt einen systematischen Uberblick uber Geschichte und Gegenwart der unterschiedlichen medienphilosophischen Teildisziplinen. Im Mittelpunkt steht dabei die Frage, wie sich Veranderungen, die sich in den Bereichen der technischen Verbreitungsmedien und/oder semiotischen Kommunikationsmedien vollziehen, auf die sinnlichen Wahrnehmungsmedien und, vermittelt uber diese, auf unser Wirklichkeitsverstandnis auswirken konnen."

Richard Rorty was one of the most important philosophers of the last half of the twentieth century. His work helped effect global transformations in the way philosophy thinks about its work and role midst contemporary culture. He was influential across a diversity of disciplines in perturbing our inherited self-understandings of the place of intellectuals in culture and the roles of art, literature, science, and religion in contemporary liberal democratic society. This collection of essays, by an international and interdisciplinary group of eminent scholars and thinkers in their own right, including Jurgen Habermas, Saskia Sassen, Robert Brandom, and Richard Shusterman, presents the first complete posthumous study of Rorty's work as a whole. The collection reflects on Rorty's myriad accomplishments, with particular attention on the role of pragmatist philosophy in Rorty's increasing identification of his thinking with the work of cultural politics. The book covers the full range of Rortyan themes, including the practice of philosophy and metaphilosophy, the politics of culture, and Rorty's place in the contemporary philosophical and critical-cultural landscapes. These reflections serve to both introduce the arc of Rorty's thinking and advance the critical reception of his work.

Richard Rorty was one of the most important philosophers of the last half of the twentieth century. His work helped effect global transformations in the way philosophy thinks about its work and role midst contemporary culture. He was influential across a diversity of disciplines in perturbing our inherited self-understandings of the place of intellectuals in culture and the roles of art, literature, science, and religion in contemporary liberal democratic society. This collection of essays, by an international and interdisciplinary group of eminent scholars and thinkers in their own right, including Jurgen Habermas, Saskia Sassen, Robert Brandom, and Richard Shusterman, presents the first complete posthumous study of Rorty's work as a whole. The collection reflects on Rorty's myriad accomplishments, with particular attention on the role of pragmatist philosophy in Rorty's increasing identification of his thinking with the work of cultural politics. The book covers the full range of Rortyan themes, including the practice of philosophy and metaphilosophy, the politics of culture, and Rorty's place in the contemporary philosophical and critical-cultural landscapes. These reflections serve to both introduce the arc of Rorty's thinking and advance the critical reception of his work.

The subject of 'time' is currently experiencing a revival in the most diverse areas of academic discourse. Contemporary time theory attempts to relate theoretical time concepts both to one another and to everyday experience of time. This book deals with the philosopher Martin Heidegger and the chemo-physicist Iyla Prigogine (Nobel Prize for Chemistry 1977), two prominent advocates of pioneering time concepts in the 20th century. The author not only provides a transdisciplinary introduction to modern debate on the problem of time, but suggests how the basic tendencies in this debate might be pragmatically interlinked with each other.