Results for “Schirmacher”

Publications and talks 4

2023
Talk
Beyond dualism: Homo Generator, antagonism, agonism

From Plato’s famous dualism of body and soul we are today confronted with a plethora of perspectives promising to overcome historical dichotomies, and putting in their place a promise of social unity and reconciliation.…

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2022
Peer-reviewed
The silence of the educated
Journal of Silence Studies in Education

This essay presents Wolfgang Schirmacher's philosophy of education. As a "living philosopher" Schirmacher's thought should be regarded as standing at a critical and engaged distance to official, consecrated philosophy. …

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2022
Talk
A silent trace: introducing Wolfgang Schirmacher's philosophy of the future

Wolfgang Schirmacher’s formulation of *Homo Generator* relies on a sense of the human subject that can be traced back to Martin Heidegger’s that we are at our most authentic when we are not identical to ourselves, or, i…

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2018
Inscriptions
Hope will die at last: an interview with Wolfgang Schirmacher
Inscriptions

To Wolfgang Schirmacher philosophy is about reading in the spirit of, so that we may follow the logic of the phenomenon that shows itself to us. It is in this spirit of phenomenology Schirmacher asks whether Martin Heid…

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Blog posts 8

21 Jan, 2023
Inscriptions 6, no. 1, is out
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The most recent edition of Inscriptions features prominently a new essay by Pedro José Grande Sánchez on the topic of Michel Henry’s critique of technology. To Henry our age of scientific-technologica…
7 Dec, 2022
Living philosophy: new essay on Schirmacher’s philosophy of education
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For Wolfgang Schirmacher philosophy has always been as much about “doing” as about “knowing”; the domains of traditional essays and other forms of philosophical praxis are deeply connected. In a new e…
13 Apr, 2022
Schirmacher’s event of technology
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How do we think about the philosophical legacy of Martin Heidegger today, and how does the answer to that question influence our assessment of his student Wolfgang Schirmacher’s philosophy of technolo…
11 Sep, 2020
Ereignis: the thought
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We are expanding the Library of our Ereignis website. Recently we added some more detail to our approach to what the term Ereignis might mean. Does it ring true or interesting to you? We’d be very int…
17 Jun, 2020
CfP Inscriptions 4, n1: Artificial Life: ethics and the good life
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Deadline for proposals: 15 September 2020. Full manuscripts due 15 October 2020. Ethics, the question of how to live right and well, has been one of philosophy’s key concerns from its beginnings. In…
9 Jul, 2018
Editorial on Schirmacher
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Our first edition of Inscriptions is out. The issue is chiefly concerned with the technophilosophy of Wolfgang Schirmacher. Here is an excerpt from the editorial: In the philosophy of Wolfgang Schirm…
2 May, 2018
Wolfgang Schirmacher on Ereignis
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Professor Wolfgang Schirmacher (New School for Social Research, European Graduate School) will be coming to the 2018 Ereignis Seminar in scenic Lofoten, Norway, in October to speak on the event. Will …
10 Apr, 2018
Ereignis Retreat 2018
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Mike Figgis, yoga, coaching: nine days of true freedom and the art of living at an exceptional resort in scenic Norway 20 to 28 October. Sign up at ereignis.no/
About Torgeir Fjeld
Torgeir Fjeld is a writer, publisher, and educational administrator, holding PhDs in Philosophy (EGS, 2017) and Cultural Theory (Roehampton, 2012). His publications include Introducing Ereignis: Philosophy, Technology, Way of Life (2022) and Rock Philosophy (2019), with articles in Sport, Ethics and Philosophy, International Journal of Žižek Studies, and elsewhere. He serves as Head of Ereignis Center for Philosophy and the Arts, Publisher at Tankebanen forlag, and Editor-in-Chief of the peer-reviewed journal Inscriptions, and has taught at universities across North America, Europe, and Africa. Torgeir Fjeld‘s latest talk was “Snow blind: on inoperativity and desolation in Askildsen, Fosse, and Naess” at 50 years of Scandinavian studies in Gdańsk, University of Gdańsk, Poland in November 2025. Here is section dedicated to poetry in translation. This page has a cookie policy.
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