Papers by Donata Schoeller
Inhalt Im Zeichen der Religion Christine Abbt/ Donata Schoeller "Jihad" Sinn und Bedeut... more Inhalt Im Zeichen der Religion Christine Abbt/ Donata Schoeller "Jihad" Sinn und Bedeutung aus der Perspektive der Koranwissenschaft Nasr Abu-Zayd Islamischer Puritanismus und die religiose Gewalt Reinhard Schulze "Wehe den Unglaubigen" Das Konfliktpotential der absoluten Wahrnehmung Georg Schmid "Der Buchstabe totet - der Geist aber macht lebendig" Theologische Uberlegungen zum Verhaltnis von Aggressivitat und Literalitat der Religion Georg Pfleiderer Friede im Glauben, Friede durch Glauben: Die Losungen des Christentums Religionsphilosophisches Nachdenken Hanna-Barbara Gerl-Falkovitz91 Aggression durch den Glauben? Eine christliche Sicht zum Thema "Religion und Gewalt" unter besonderer Berucksichtigung des Toleranzbegriffes Dietmar Mieth Fundamentalismus und Machtpolitik Ein kritischer Blick auf den Westen Erich Gysling Zeichen der Gewalt in der christlichen Frommigkeit Markus Ries Islam in Iran: Zwischen Gewalt und liberalem Gedankengut Amir Sheikhzadegan Potentiale in den Quellen des Islam - Eine Suche Ralf Elger Gewalt, Krieg, Frieden und Verbreitung der Religion im Islam Bassam Tibi Autorinnen und Autoren. Dschihad, Kreuzzuge, fundamentalistische Gewalt – die Geschichte des Christentums wie des Islam ist voll von blutigen Ereignissen. Zugleich sind beide Religionen Quelle fur Frieden, Nachstenliebe und Menschenwurde. Die Bedeutung von Aggression und Friedfertigkeit in den Schriften und Traditionen beider Weltreligionen diskutieren hier Theologen, Philosophen, Journalisten, Islam- und Politikwissenschaftler.
Routledge eBooks, Mar 8, 2023
Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences
This paper introduces the Thinking at the Edge (TAE) method, developed by Eugene Gendlin with Mar... more This paper introduces the Thinking at the Edge (TAE) method, developed by Eugene Gendlin with Mary Hendricks and Kye Nelson. In the context of the international research project and training initiative Embodied Critical Thinking (ECT), TAE is understood as a political and critical practice. Our objective is to move beyond a criticism of reductionism, into a practice of thinking that can complement empirical, conceptual and logical implications with what is implied by the vibrant complexity of one’s lived experience in one’s place and time. The second person helps the first to explore, elaborate and clarify very carefully felt dimensions of thinking, which hold intricate structures, contexts, perplexities and intuitions that prove relevant for one’s research. The second person also supports the first to become sensitive to the effects of the language and concepts she uses. A non-imposing, tentative use of language that touches the intricate texture of lived experience is at the core ...
Mystik, Religion und intellektuelle Redlichkeit, 2012
philoSOPHIA: A Journal of Continental Feminism, 2019
Constructivist Foundations, 2021
Gefühle als Atmosphären, 2011
Taking a philosophical interest in authenticity is following Adorno’s encouraging appeal to turn ... more Taking a philosophical interest in authenticity is following Adorno’s encouraging appeal to turn to something as transitory and particular as individuality. At the same time, Adorno expresses the vast area of conflict such an interest holds for us. In my paper, I dip into this tension by demonstrating how difficult it is for philosophers, past and present, to convey the specificity and richness of ordinary experience. Looking closely at how people succeed in conveying their experience in psychotherapy, one can notice an unpredictable process that challenges philosophical theories of meaning. In the course of this paper I will not give a definition of authenticity. My examples suggest that authenticity needs a subtle kind of practice allowing for what one means to say to gradually emerge, instead of being determinable or constructable. This is an entry point for reconsidering meaning in terms of a transformational happening.
This manuscript is the intellectual output of the Erasmus+ Strategic Partnership Gender and Philo... more This manuscript is the intellectual output of the Erasmus+ Strategic Partnership Gender and Philosophy. The initiators of the project and the developers of the book’s original idea were the members of the project’s academic board, namely Professor Sigridur Thorgeirsdottir (University of Iceland, coordinating university), Senior Lecturer Martina Reuter (University of Jyväskylä), Professor Antje Gimmler (University of Aalborg) and Professor Tove Pettersen (University of Oslo). The board members contributed to the book through planning the content and teaching of the summer schools held in each country 2016–2017. The exchange between the board members and myself gave direction to my writing process, and I am particularly grateful for their comments on the manuscript. During the project, I shared my office with Reuter at the University of Jyväskylä, which resulted in numerous discussions on the work in process and joined involvement in various events. What is more, Reuter’s previous wor...
Nietzsche-Studien, 2017
Nietzsche’s concept of overcoming and his analysis of traditional disembodied thinking patterns a... more Nietzsche’s concept of overcoming and his analysis of traditional disembodied thinking patterns and values stand in an uneasy tension. How can anything be overcome, if it is analysed? Nietzsche himself not only seems sceptical about this possibility, but outright pessimistic. His concept of the eternal recurrence undercuts the possibility of overcoming our habituated ways of thinking, behaving and acting. Therefore, the overhuman as a concept itself needs to be overcome, as Zarathustra sees clearly in his most silent hour. This paper strives to show that feminist and phenomenological approaches are able to pick up where Nietzsche’s thinking stopped and went no further. These approaches involve a shift from an analytical to a transformational mode of thinking. This means that one not only thinks about, but is with the body. In order to explain what this method involves I turn to Judith Butler, Luce Irigaray, Claire Petitmengin, and Eugene Gendlin.
philoSOPHIA, 2019
In this paper, we establish the convergence of the proximal alternating direction method of multi... more In this paper, we establish the convergence of the proximal alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM) and block coordinate descent (BCD) for nonseparable minimization models with quadratic coupling terms. The novel convergence results presented in this paper answer several open questions that have been the subject of considerable discussion. We firstly extend the 2-block proximal ADMM to linearly constrained convex optimization with a coupled quadratic objective function, an area where theoretical understanding is currently lacking, and prove that the sequence generated by the proximal ADMM converges in point-wise manner to a primal-dual solution pair. Moreover, we apply randomly permuted ADMM (RPADMM) to nonseparable multi-block convex optimization, and prove its expected convergence for a class of nonseparable quadratic programming problems. When the linear constraint vanishes, the 2block proximal ADMM and RPADMM reduce to the 2-block cyclic proximal BCD method and randomly permuted BCD (RPBCD). Our study provides the first iterate convergence result for 2-block cyclic proximal BCD without assuming the boundedness of the iterates. We also theoretically establish the expected iterate convergence result concerning multi-block RPBCD for convex quadratic optimization. In addition, we demonstrate that RPBCD may have a worse convergence rate than cyclic proximal BCD for 2-block convex quadratic minimization problems. Although the results on RPADMM and RPBCD are restricted to quadratic minimization models, they provide some interesting insights: 1) random permutation makes ADMM and BCD more robust for multi-block convex minimization problems; 2) cyclic BCD may outperform RPBCD for "nice" problems, and therefore RPBCD should be applied with caution when solving general convex optimization problems.
Deutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie, 2008
Gendlins Charakterisierung einer „Responsive Order" zeichnet sich durch ein Erschließungspot... more Gendlins Charakterisierung einer „Responsive Order" zeichnet sich durch ein Erschließungspotenzial aus, das der Beziehung von Erleben und Ausdruck beziehungsweise der Wechselwirkung zwischen beidem in vielfacher Hinsicht gerecht zu werden vermag. Deshalb wird seiner noch spärlich bekannten Philosophie von denjenigen, die sie rezipieren, eine außerordentliche Bedeutung beigemessen. So schreibt zum Beispiel David Levin: „In the course of many years, Eugene Gendlin has worked out a major new philosophical theory and employment of language, equal in its originality, boldness and power to the theories of Husserl, Heidegger, Wittgenstein, and Derrida. Although he draws on those familiar resources, he gives them an original use, introducing theoretical terms of an entirely new kind, to illuminate and employ what is involved in the formations of meaning." Neben den systematisch-theoretischen Impulse, die Gendlin in gegenwärtige Debatten einbringt, wiederbelebt er ein Philosophieverständnis, das zwar in gewisser Weise genuin amerikanisch ist, in seinen Konsequenzen jedoch an dasjenige der Antike anknüpft. Mit genuin amerikanisch ist ein Ansatz gemeint, der am besten mit den Worten Stanley Cavells zu charakterisieren ist: „Checking one's experience is a rubric an American, or a spiritual American, might give to the empiricism practiced by Emerson and by Thoreau. I mean the rubric to capture the sense at the same time of consulting one's experience and of subjecting it to examination, and beyond these, of momentarily stopping, turning yourself away from whatever your preoccupation and turning your experience away from it's expected, habitual track, to find itself, it's own track: coming to attention. The moral of this practice is to educate your experience sufficiently so that it is worthy of trust." Gendlin scheint nichts Geringeres als eine Argumentation dafür liefern zu wollen, inwiefern überhaupt auf die persönliche Erfahrung Verlass sein kann. (Erfahrung ist hier offen-
Edition Moderne Postmoderne, 2009
Die Punkte, um die es hier gehen soll, stehen meistens mitten im Satz bei einem Denker, dessen Te... more Die Punkte, um die es hier gehen soll, stehen meistens mitten im Satz bei einem Denker, dessen Texte durch diese fünf Punkte schon formal auff allen. Das Ungewöhnliche an den ..... ist nicht nur, dass sie ein neues Zeichen sind, sondern dass sie von einem Philosophen geschaff en worden sind. Dass sie meistens unterstrichen sind, betont ihre Bedeutung. Als Zeichen dienen sie nicht der Satzstruktur und zeigen auch nicht das Fehlen von Wörtern an. Sie machen auf etwas aufmerksam, was die Bedeutung unserer Sätze mit trägt, ohne dass das wiederum ein Satz von Begriff en wäre. Die fünf Punkte sind ein Zeichen eines philosophischen Grundgedankens, der in seiner systematischen Ausarbeitung eine Lücke in der sprachphilosophischen Herangehensweise zu füllen trachtet. Als Punkte deuten sie an, dass im jeweiligen Kontext, in dem sie sich befi nden, kein einzelner Fachbegriff sie ersetzen kann. Das ist der springende Punkt dieser Punkte: sie schaff en den Raum, um auf ein Geschehen hinzuweisen, das auf keinen Begriff reduziert werden kann, das sich aber in alle unsere Begriff e bedeutend einbringt. Wer sich auf die Wirkung der fünf Punkte einlassen will, muss bereit sein, seine routinierte Lesart zu entschleunigen. Er muss bereit sein, etwas beim Lesen zu erfahren, das so selbstverständlich ist, dass man meist darüber hinweg liest und auch leicht darüber hinweg schreibt oder spricht, weil man meistens bereits damit liest, schreibt oder spricht. Wenn man sich der Erfahrung, auf die die Punkte hinweisen, zuwendet, dann kann dies zu einem gewissen Staunen Anlass
Deutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie, 2008
Eugene Gendlins Philosophie bringt Fragen in die Sprachphilosophie ein, die bislang kaum ins Blic... more Eugene Gendlins Philosophie bringt Fragen in die Sprachphilosophie ein, die bislang kaum ins Blickfeld geraten sind. Wie wirkt sich ein Ausdruck auf unsere Erfahrung aus, wieso verändert sich etwas, wenn wir es verbalisieren, welche Funktion spielen Gefühle für die symbolische Bedeutung und umgekehrt? Ausgehend von therapeutischer und kreativer Praxis, entwickelt Gendlin ein Prozess-Modell, um eine interaktive, „empfindliche Ordnung” zu denken, die unter anderem Alternativen zu gängige Kategorien und Modalitäten expliziert. Eugene Gendlin's philosophy introduces questions to the philosophy of language, that have hitherto been neglected. How does articulation affect experience, why can verbalizing change our experiencing, what is the function of feeling in the creation of meaning? Reflecting therapeutically and creative practices, Gendlin develops A Process Model, to conceive of a, responsive order' that establishes alternatives to traditional categories and modalities.
Continental Philosophy Review, 2018
Prior to A Process Model, Gendlin's theoretical and practical work focused on the interfacing of ... more Prior to A Process Model, Gendlin's theoretical and practical work focused on the interfacing of bodily-felt meaningfulness and symbolization. In A Process Model, Gendlin does something much wider and more philosophically primary. The hermeneutic and pragmatist distinction between the concept of experience, on the one hand, and actual experiential process, on the other, becomes for Gendlin the methodological basis for a radical reconceptualization of the body. Wittgenstein's formulation of ''meaning'' as ''language-use in situations'' is spelled out by Gendlin in embodied terms, yielding a profound new grasp of language, meaning, situation, language-use and culture as interactional body-process. Gendlin, in building his text, answers the pragmatist critique of a wrong progression of thinking where the results of an inquiry are read back to be its premises. With his central concept ''eveving'' (''everything interaffected by everything'') Gendlin shows how the seeming determinacy of preceding structure is opened in the actual occurring. He thereby elaborates a new conception of continuity where the possibility for responsive novelty is emergent in the event itself. The conceptual development of the text itself instances this kind of emergent novelty. We will somewhat follow Gendlin's own path in using language-in-situations as entry-point into his more fundamental process-thinking, thereby asking ourselves how to engage his new kind of model. In the last part, we introduce some of the philosophical roots of Gendlin's A Process Model.
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