János Kristóf Nyíri Boeken

A volume of essays on the themes of tradition, oral communication versus literal communication, Wittgenstein, and computers. The later Wittgenstein is shown to be on the one hand a traditionalist , and on the other hand, along with Heidegger, a philosopher of postmodern -- secondary -- orality , yearning for bygone, premodern times -- the times of primary orality. Under conditions of primary orality traditions fulfilled the specific cognitive role of conserving information -- a role subsequently taken over by writing, and today by electronic data processing.The message of the volume is that the Western values of individuality and critical thinking are intimately bound up with the technology of writing . It offers arguments in favour of the standards and techniques of classical education even under conditions of, indeed as a foundation for, the emerging computer culture.

A new research topic has emerged in the social sciences and the humanities: mobile telephony. The volume summarizes the results of the new discipline of Mobile Studies, and opens up new perspectives on the mobile phone in the age of telecommunications convergence. Around the year 2000, a new research topic emerged in the social sciences and the humanities: mobile telephony. Drawing on earlier scholarship on the classic phone, the internet, and the information society, and applying the conceptual tools of communication theory, sociology, psychology, political science, etc., mobile telephone research began as, and continues to be, an interdisciplinary enterprise. Nonetheless, over the years an impressive array of paradigmatic research results has crystallized into what can be termed as the new discipline of Mobile Studies. Summarizing these results, the volume also opens up new perspectives on mobile telephony in the age of telecommunications convergence.

There is an intrinsic connection between the notions of image and time. Visual images can strike us as incomplete, as ambiguous, unless they are moving ones, happening in time. However, time cannot be conceptualized except by metaphors, and so ultimately by images, of movement in space. The philosophy of images and the philosophy of time are interdependent. This book argues for the reality of time and for visual images as natural carriers of meaning. The experience of the passage of time, of the reality of time, is embodied and made visible in the bodily gestures of time, and indeed in all our gestures. Meaning, both emotional and cognitive, is grounded in the motor dimension. By implication, no meaningful philosophy of time can neglect the aspect of motor imagery.

This book contains studies by J. C. Nyiri , From Eötvös to Musil. Philosophy and its Negation in Austria and Hungary„ William M. Johnston , Cultural Criticism as a Neglected Topic in Austrian Studies“ Lee Congdon "The Tragic Sense of Life: Lukacs's 'The Soul and Forms'„ Allan Janik “Wittgenstein: An Austrian Enigma„ Rudolf Haller “Wittgenstein and Austrian Phjlosophy„ Ferruccio Rossi-Landi , Towards a Marxian Use of Wittgenstein“ Robert Musil , Der deutsche Mensch als Symptom„ Joseph Eötvös , Der Einfluß der herrschenden Ideen des 19. Jahrhunderts auf den Staat“ This important collection of original pieces and translations on Austrian philosophy rests on two axes: the background of liberalism and pluralism in the Monarchy, especially as this manifested itself in the work of Hungarian authors; and the work of Wittgenstein relation to Austrian philosophy and also - in Rossi-Landi's masterly essay, here translated into English for the first time - in relation to philosophy in the Anglo-Saxon world. Of interest to: philosophers, historians, historians of literature

Denken vollzieht sich nicht bloß in Wörtern, sondern auch - wesentlich - in kinästhetisch fundierten mentalen Bildern. Unsere alltäglichen Zeitmetaphern entsprechen bildlich vermittelten leiblichen Erfahrungen und führen zu einer Common-Sense-Auffassung der Wirklichkeit der Zeit, welche von der Philosophie nicht widerlegt, sondern gerechtfertigt werden sollte. Kristóf Nyíri argumentiert auf der Grundlage einer nicht-konventionalistischen Auffassung der bildlichen Bedeutung für die These der Realität der Zeit. Er zeigt: Die Grenzen des Vorstellbaren fallen sowohl in der Religion als auch in der Wissenschaft mit den Grenzen des Verbildlichbaren zusammen.