Style, Politics and the Future of Philosophy

Challenging Practice: an approach to Cooperative Analysis

“…Although different authors see the philosophies of Heidegger and Wittgenstein, despite all their divergences, as potentially complementing each other in a new pragmatic understanding (Ehn, 1988;Janik, 1989a;Rorty, 1989;Schanz, 1989), the question of whether this is a fruitful approach in philosophy or systems development in general is not important in the context of this thesis as such. What is of interest here, and what arguments from the two lines of thought are used for, is that in their respective philosophies Heidegger and Wittgenstein point to important issues for cooperative analysis.…”

“…First and foremost we are directed towards the future ('Entwerfen', projecting, being open), because we are fundamentally concerned about our own existence as a possibility (we are always doing something active directed 27 For a more thorough and more philosophically oriented account and discussion of these issues, see (Bindeman, 1981;Dreyfus & Hall, 1992;Gier, 1981;Janik, 1989a When we are driving a car, we constantly keep our awareness on what happens with the traffic in front of us while at the same time we (try to) project (design) the situations we will encounter: A traffic light is coming up, I better slow down in case it turns red (or I might speed up to catch it while it is green); this guy from the side road in front of me is driving rather fast, is he really going to stop, I better keep a foot on the break; I want to pass this slow truck, I better keep to the middle of the road to be able to look further ahead; etc. In the smooth flow of traffic, in a sense, we 'are' mentally aheadof-ourselves.…”

L'affaire Heidegger

“…Heidegger's appropriation of the poetry of Stefan George and Georg Trakl is also important in making sense of his talk of Boden. See Allan Janik (1989), especially Chapter I, "Style and Idea in the Later Heidegger: Rhetoric, Politics, and Philosophy," pp. 1-39.…”

La Relevancia De Wittgenstein Para El Pensamiento Político

“…Cambiar la sociedad tiene que ser, no simplemente cambiar ideas estipuladas, la sustancia de las reglas que acatamos, sino cambiar nuestro modo de seguir estas mismas. (Janik, 1989: 107; la traducción es mía) 4. Las anteriores afirmaciones podrían leerse como una hipostatización del lenguaje.…”

“…20 No podemos olvidar aquí el artículo de Nyíri (1982). Es importante también tener presente la crítica que a este artículo hace Allan Janik (1989) en el segundo capítulo.…”