Philosophische Dimensionen des Impersonalen

This volume presents, for the first time, an assemblage of contributions on the philosophical dimensions of the impersonal, the multiplicity of its linguistic, social, scientific, religious and artistic perspectives, as well as initial approaches to its unified definition.
• Linguistic and logical impersonality
• The “It" in K. Kraus
• “Impersonality” in the subject and in events
• The impersonal ontology of H. Rombach
• Levinas on the “Il y a”
• Organisation in non-egological consciousness
• The witness of consciousness in the Vedānta traditions
• Anonymous self-consciousness
• G. Deleuzes figures of the impersonal
• The impersonal in G. Agamben's Philosophy
• Formal and collective thought in Spinoza
• Cusanus and the person as stake in the game of life
• Impersonal subjectivity and the comedy of solipsism
• Dimensions of the impersonal in T. Nagel, E. Husserl and H. Plessner
• On the figure of the impersonal in the Anthropocene
• Language and mask in F. Nietzsche
• Theodoros Terzopoulos on impersonality and theatre

With contributions by
Michael Astroh, Eric Ebner, Eric Eggert, Rolf Elberfeld, Katrin Felgenhauer, Ralf Gisinger, Annika Hand, Stefan Lang, Robert Lehmann, Enrico Müller, Daniel Neumann, Frank Raddatz, Christian Rößner, Thomas Schmaus, Fabian Strobel and Theodoros Terzopoulos.