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Abstract: Banalization and Leveling --- The need for a new mythology, expressed in the oldest program of the system of German idealism, already indicates the social topicality of the phenomenon that arose and came to be called nihilism. Hölderlin’s poetry expressly takes on the role of the new mythmaker. The invocation of Dionysus, the god of community, the god of all, the “common god,” aims to offer an alternative to the then-existing but still current lack of a sense of commonality and community. The nihilistic echo of man’s contemporary liberation from the shackles he has imposed on himself shows us that behind the strategies of emancipation lies a unified schematism. Thanks to it, the connection between liberation and individualization that is taken for granted in modern thinking is abolished. The irresponsibility of the contemporary world works by leveling every innovative step forward, and at the same time it does not see its own decision as the beginning of a new norm. In modern conditions, the will for new, different, original, authentic is not driven by an insatiable need to search for true breakthroughs, but, on the contrary, by the desire for their leveling. In this day and age, if something seems unusual, it becomes old and uninteresting at express speed. At the same time, successful examples of “modernization” were related to the “refreshing” of antiquity, most often associated with inventiveness, and even with a virtuoso interpretive gesture.
Keywords: banalization, leveling, Husserl, Heidegger, diastasis
Published in DiRROS: 09.01.2025; Views: 45; Downloads: 11
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Abstract: Evoking Leo Strauss’s 1941 text “German Nihilism” and his forceful claim that nihilism is above all “the rejection of the principles of civilization as such,” my intention is to thematize the possible forms of coexistence that survive and develop despite the negation and even exclusion of certain forms of civic forms of cooperation and collaboration, as well as insistence on a closed society in the Bergsonian or Popperian sense. If nihilism is often connected to a crisis of legitimacy and reasoned discourse, with a crisis of justification of certain actions or manipulative and perverted uses of language and mind, with various protocols of destruction across many levels and taking many shapes, what interests me is the role of negation and a potential classification of various negative, socially negative, destructive, or nullifying actions and acts in the construction of (non)homogenous and (in)human social groups.
Keywords: nihilism, war, negation, destruction, affirmative negation
Published in DiRROS: 09.01.2025; Views: 54; Downloads: 14
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Abstract: “The draft of our life is, indeed, a ‘rift’.” Towards an Outline of the Anthropology of Negativity in Eugen Fink --- Eugen Fink’s engagement with the nature of human being articulates essential truths about being human, without presupposing a positive essence of humanity; at the same time, it anchors this humanity in a structural negativity by placing it back into being torn open by the world. The world, in this context, is not a positive entity, but rather the “outline” of our existence in the here and now, which turns us into fragments of a whole characterized by withdrawal. It is precisely in the simultaneity of concrete situating and its transcendence through withdrawal that the crucial point of an anthropology of negativity lies, understood in the sense of the double genitive. Thus, the expression can be read once as a genetivus subjectivus (anthropology of negativity), whereby the finitude is conceived through the Absolute of “tearing,” as Fink primarily explores in his early speculative reflections following “the ontological paradox” of the subject, which here appears as a “distortion” of the Absolute. However, this meontic reading simultaneously gives rise to a reversal towards an anthropology of negativity, which will shape Fink’s middle and later thought. Here, human modes of being are to be read as ciphers of the experience of negativity.
Keywords: Eugen Fink, meontics, anthropology, ontological paradox, world antecedence, existence
Published in DiRROS: 09.01.2025; Views: 39; Downloads: 8
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Abstract: The Will to Nothing --- The once vigorous and intense discussion of the problems gathered under the name of “nihilism” has recently noticeably lost its dynamism and productivity. The thesis of the present article is that the understanding of the essence of nihilism is only possible with sufficient insight into the metaphysical history of the West as it was authoritatively thought out and presented by Nietzsche. It is therefore necessary to rethink Nietzsche’s basic insights into the essence of nihilism in all forms of its appearance. In the main part of the paper, the meaning of the will to power as a central category of Nietzsche’s philosophy is discussed in detail, and, on this basis, it is shown that the basic definition of nihilism in Nietzsche is contained in his most principle statement that the will as such cannot cease to be a will, i.e. abandon and abolish itself, and that therefore it will rather will nothing than not will at all. From this it could possibly be concluded that a kind of positive nihilism, which Nietzsche announces as a Dionysian or divine way of thinking and living, should have as its starting point the relaxation and loosening of the will to power in contrast to its self-enhancement and empowerment.
Keywords: Nietzsche, will, will to nothing, will to power, nihilism
Published in DiRROS: 09.01.2025; Views: 40; Downloads: 9
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Abstract: Tree height and vertical forest structure are important attributes in forestry, but their traditional measurement or assessment in the field is expensive, time-consuming, and often inaccurate. One of the main advantages of using remote sensing data to estimate vertical forest structure is the ability to obtain accurate data for larger areas in a more time- and cost-efficient manner. Temporal changes are also important for estimating and analysing tree heights, and in many countries, national airborne laser scanning (ALS) surveys have been conducted either only once or at specific, longer intervals, whereas aerial surveys are more often arranged in cycles with shorter intervals. In this study, we reviewed all freely available national airborne remote sensing data describing three-dimensional forest structures in Slovenia and compared them with traditional field measurements in an area dominated by uneven-aged forests. The comparison of ALS and digital aerial photogrammetry (DAP) data revealed that freely available national ALS data provide better estimates of dominant forest heights, vertical structural diversity, and their changes compared to cyclic DAP data, but they are still useful due to their temporally dense data. Up-to-date data are very important for forest management and the study of forest resilience and resistance to disturbance. Based on field measurements (2013 and 2023) and all remote sensing data, dominant and maximum heights are statistically significantly higher in uneven-aged forests than in mature, even-aged forests. Canopy height diversity (CHD) information, derived from lidar ALS and DAP data, has also proven to be suitable for distinguishing between even-aged and uneven-aged forests. The CHDALS 2023 was 1.64, and the CHDCAS 2022 was 1.38 in uneven-aged stands, which were statistically significantly higher than in even-aged forest stands.
Keywords: uneven-aged forest, freely available national airborne remote sensing data, lidar, aerial photography, dominant height, canopy height diversity, periodic annual increment
Published in DiRROS: 09.01.2025; Views: 51; Downloads: 26
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