Beschreibung
If science can be subjected to the same critique to which it subjected religion while emancipating philosophy from the threat of being reduced to a system of belief, then, illusion can be imputed to science and philosophy can claim for itself the capacity to counter, as knowledge, the deceptive influence of science. Characterizing philosophy as an alternative to metaphysics implies, in this guise, that neither religion nor science can take up the critical function of philosophy. For critique should refer to reality and contribute to designing different ways of linking human life to the quest for meaning. The reconstruction of Lask’s and Simmel’s philosophies thus alerts us to the fact that the contemporary development of philosophy from Heidegger arises from an uncritical adoption of the traditional philosophical and scientific notion of the basic contradiction of man and world. In so doing, this work facilitates another way of understanding the present development of philosophy from Heidegger’s thought onward; an understanding that, in a world riddled by Heidegger, provides a basis for the possibility of looking into some central philosophical debates in a new light. Mara Borda was born in Cordoba, Argentina. She studies Sociology at the National University of Buenos Aires; studies which she paralleled with studies in Linguistics and Literature and in the Sociology of Knowledge, receiving her diploma in three years. Once completed her studies she moves to Israel. There she pursues studies for the equivalence of her degree as a M.A. in Sociology and Social Anthropology as part of her doctoral studies, carries out studies in Jewish traditional sources, Christian Theology, and Modern Jewish Thought, and starts lecturing on topics of Western Culture and Thought. She marries the father of her child, Dr. Abed Azzam, with whom she then moves to Germany and finally doctorates in Philosophy at the Hebrew University. She is currently lecturing at the Free University of Berlin on topics of Philosophy, Political Theology and Religion. The transdisciplinary and critical character of her work and teaching clearly manifests her own search for giving voice and life to an experience she recognizes as ta-king place in, and around her, beyond the limits prescribed to experience.