1. PRESENCE IN LANGUAGE OR PRESENCE ACHIEVED AGAINST LANGUAGE?
1. These premises are laid out and argued in much greater detail by my recent book, Production of Presence: What Meaning Cannot Convey (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2003); German translation under the title Diesseits der Hermeneutik. Die Produktion von Praesenz (Frankfurt, 2004). Regarding a possible place for this reflection on presence in today’s philosophical debates, see my essay “Diesseits des Sinns. Ueber eine neue Sehnsucht nach Substantialitaet,” in Merkur 677/678 (2005): 749–760.
2. See, above all, his book The Birth to Presence (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1993); some other contemporary examples for this tendency are mentioned and discussed in Gumbrecht, Production of Presence, pp. 57–64.
3. For a more fully developed version of this typology, see Gumbrecht, Production of Presence, pp. 78–86.
4. Hans Georg Gadamer, Hermeneutik, Aesthetik, Praktische Philosophie, ed. Carsten Dutt, 3. Auflage (Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter, 2000), p. 63.
5. This description is based on my essay: “Rhythm and Meaning,” in H. U. Gumbrecht and K. Ludwig Pfeiffer, eds., Materialities of Communication (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1994), pp. 170–186; original German version in Materialitaet der Kommunikation (Frankfurt, 1988), pp. 714–729.
6. See my analysis of some old high German charms (“The Charm of Charms”) in David Wellbery, eds., A New History of German Literature (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2004), pp. 183–191.
7. The Powers of Philology: Dynamics of Textual Scholarship (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003) German translation under the title “Die Macht der Philologie. Über einen verborgenen Impuls im wissenschaftlichen Umgang mit Texten” (Frankfurt: Suhrkamp, 2003).
8. Erwin Schroedinger, “Autobiographial Sketches,” in What Is Life? (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992), pp. 165–187.
9. Karl Heinz Bohrer, Plötzlichkeit. Zum Augenblick des ästhetischen Scheins (Frankfurt: Suhrkamp, 1981) and Der Abschied. Theorie der Trauer (Frankfurt: Suhrkamp, 1996).
10. See Gumbrecht, Production of Presence (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2003), pp. 65–78.
11. See the outlines for a history of this paradigm in my essay “Ausdruck,” in Karlheinz Barck a.o. eds., Ästhetische Grundbegriffe, vol. 1 (Stuttgart: Metzler, 2000), pp. 416–431.
12. For such resonating voices, see the 2005 special issue of the magazine Merkur dedicated to new intellectual quests for Reality.
13. For more detailed descriptions focusing on the existential effects of new communication technologies, see my essay “Gators in the Bayoo: What We Have Lost in Disenchantment?” Forthcoming in Joshua Landy and Michael Saler, eds., The Re-Enchantment of the World: Secular Magic in a Rational Age (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2006).
2. A NEGATIVE ANTHROPOLOGY OF GLOBALIZATION
1. For more on hybridity, see, e.g., Homi Bhabha, Location of Culture (London: Routledge, 1995).
2. On globalization, see John Beynon and David Dunkerley, eds., Globalization: The Reader (New York: Routledge, 2000); Ulrich Broeckling, Susanne Krasmann, and Thomas Lemke, eds., Glossar der Gegenwart (Frankfurt: Suhrkamp, 2004); Gary M. Kroll and Richard H. Robbins, eds., World in Motion: The Globalization and Environment Reader (Lanham, MD: AltaMira, 2009); Frank J. Lechner and John Boli, The Globalization Reader (Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2000; Jonathan Michie, ed., The Handbook of Globalization (Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2003); James H. Mittelman, ed., Globalization: Critical Reflections (London: Lynne Rienner, 1996); Juergen Mittelstrass, “Focus—Global Science, the Future of Science: A Welcome Address.” European Review 17 (2009): 463–468; Jochen Rack, “Bilder aus der globalisierten Welt,” Merkur 723 (2009): 736–742; Paul W. Rhode and Gianni Toniolo, eds., The Global Economy in the 1990s: A Long-Run Perspective (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006); J. Timmons Roberts and Amy Bellone Hite, eds., The Globalization and Development Reader: Perspectives on Development and Global Change (Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2007); Saskia Sassen, Globalization and Its Discontents (New York: New Press, 1998).
3. See Alfred Schütz and Thomas Luckmann, The Structures of the Life-World (Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 1973); and Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht, Production of Presence—What Meaning Cannot Convey (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2004).
4. For more, see chapter 2, Gumbrecht, Production of Presence.
5. See Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht, In Praise of Athletic Beauty (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2006).
6. Peter Sloterdijk, You Must Change Your Life (Cambridge: Polity, 2013).
7. See book on derivatives by Joseph Vogl, Das Gespenst des Kapitals, Berlin: Diaphanes, 2010).
8. Martin Heidegger, “Building Dwelling Thinking” (1951), in Poetry, Language, Thought (New York: Harper and Row, 1975), pp. 143–162.
9. See Robert Harrison, Forests—the Shadow of Civilization (Chicago: Chicago University Press, 1992), The Dominion of the Dead (Chicago: Chicago University Press, 2003), and Gardens: An Esssay on the Human Condition (Chicago: Chicago University Press, 2008).
10. Hannah Arendt, The Human Condition (Chicago: Chicago University Press, 1958).
3. STAGNATION
1. This process is described at length in chapter 2 of my book Production of Presence: What Meaning Cannot Convey (Stanford: Stanford University Pres, 2004), pp. 21–50, especially pp. 38ff.
2. Cf. the extensive account of this situation in my essay, “Die Gegenwart wird immer breiter,” Merkur 629/630 (2001): 769–784.
3. Rational Reenchantment is the programmatic title—referring, negatively, to Max Weber—of a collection of essays edited by Joshua Landy and Michael Saller (Berkeley: University of Berkeley Press, 2008).
4. Cf. my “Bibliothek ohne Buch,” Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, March 19, 2008.
5. Cf. Gumbrecht, Production of Presence, pp. 80–86.
4. “LOST IN FOCUSED INTENSITY”
1. Quoted from my book In Praise of Athletic Beauty (Cambridge: Harvard University Press), pp. 50f. This text is the source for several historical facts and, above all, the point of departure for some concepts and motifs that I will try to develop on the following pages.
2. For more evidence regarding this thesis, and a list of Heidegger references, see Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht, Production of Presence: What Meaning Cannot Convey (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2004), pp. 64–78.
3. Martin Heidegger, An Introduction to Metaphysics, trans. Ralph Manheim (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1986), p. 1.
4. The second chapter of In Praise of Athletic Beauty presents more evidence for this view.