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  • (Philosophical Investigations 274) within ontotheology as anthropology (W1 67-68), and that confines the trauma of the "rotary movement" to a paganism that is decisively past (38-39).

    'The Abyss of the Past': Psychoanalysis in Schelling's Ages of the World (1815) 2008

  • God without Being: "the Ungrund is contaminated from the start by the universe it subtends, making the impulse to misrecognize the groundless as the primal ground, and thereby firmly reappropriate it to ontotheology, quite irresistible";

    Hegel on Buddhism 2007

  • The more this ontotheology spreads the more we relate to the world and ourselves differently.

    Archive 2009-04-01 enowning 2009

  • As it produces more insight, the more Heidegger's critique of technology becomes apparent, and for Heidegger, the situation of this ontotheology is not replacing itself as it did in the past.

    Archive 2009-04-01 enowning 2009

  • In other words, the very words we use must refer only to real things as determined by this pervasive ontotheology.

    Archive 2009-04-01 enowning 2009

  • It is designed to steer a course between asserting that things exist — in this view, that would be theism, or what Derrida and others call ontotheology — and asserting that they do not — that would be nihilism, which for Nagarjuna still implies holding on to a concept, in which case there is a separation of knower and known, and the return of dualism.

    Hegel on Buddhism 2007

  • If there is genuine justification for the thesis that ontotheology, the metaphysics of presence, correlationism, and anti-realism are necessarily masculinist forms of thought, then this is because the conception of the subject upon which these orientations of thought are founded are premised on a forgetting of the real of the body.

    Larval Subjects . 2010

  • The decline of ontotheology goes along with the decline in the experience of language that the ontological argument is getting at.

    An und für sich 2009

  • We will once again be able to recognize and restore the intrinsic meaning to entities, if only we can learn to practice a phenomenological comportment sensitive to the "Appropriation" (her somewhat old-fashioned translation of Ereignis), an ontological truth event that — even after the end of ontotheology – still "takes away that which is its own from boundless unconcealment" (as Heidegger puts it in the 1962 essay, "Time and Being", in a passage White quotes).

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  • a Supreme Being from a general experience, without any closer reference to the world to which this experience belongs, and in this case it is called cosmotheology; or it endeavours to cognize the existence of such a being, through mere conceptions, without the aid of experience, and is then termed ontotheology.

    The Critique of Pure Reason Immanuel Kant 1764

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