Wolfgang Schirmacher. The End of Metaphysics. 2011

http://www.egs.edu Wolfgang Schirmacher, philosopher and author, talking about the end of metaphysics. In this lecture, Wolfgang Schirmacher discusses metaphysics as doctrine, the event of technology and living the good life, or gelingen Leben , in relationship to Plato, Martin Heidegger, Jean-Francois Lyotard, Jean Baudrillard, Spinoza, and Giorgio Agamben focusing on Ereignis as life technique, the inhumanity of acting and the ecological crisis. Public open lecture for the students and faculty of the European Graduate School EGS Media and Communication Studies department program Saas-Fee Switzerland Europe. 2011. Wolfgang Schirmacher.

Wolfgang Schirmacher, Ph.D., is a continental philosopher, professor of philosophy and founder of the pioneering Media and Communications Division at the European Graduate School (EGS). As conceived by Professor Schirmacher, the Division brings together master's and doctoral students to work with some of the most prominent visionaries and philosophers of the world today. An enigmatic and inspirational professor, Wolfgang Schirmacher believes in the potential of every new philosopher to alter the course of philosophy and history. An internationally renowned Arthur Schopenhauer scholar, he is the President of the International Schopenhauer Association. Not surprisingly, Dr. Schirmacher is also the Arthur Schopenhauer Chair at EGS. Wolfgang Schirmacher was born in 1944 in Germany.

Wolfgang Schirmacher is the author of several books in German, including: Technik und Gelassenheit. Zeitkritik nach Heidegger (1983), Zeit Der Ernte: Studien zum Stand der Schopenhauer-Forschung (1983), Schopenhauer (1985), Schopenhauer Aktualität: Ein Philosoph wird neu gelesen (1988), Schopenhauer In Der Postmoderne (1989), and Schopenhauer, Nietzsche Und Die Kunst (1992). Ethik und Vernunft. Schopenhauer in unserer Zeit (Ethics and Reason: Schopenhauer in our Time, 1992), explores one of Arthur Schopenhauer's central insights, that ethics is the goal of epistemology and ontology and not reason.

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[chedca]

54:10 he gets back on topic lol

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the best. still.