Author: Rafael Fernandez (Rafael Fernandez)

Leonardo Mastromauro Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea Volume 17, 2025 A special issue of Philosophy Today recently has been published, entirely dedicated to Reiner Schürmann’s thought, a philosopher whose political, as well as theological and philosophical, significance has not yet been fully explored by specialists, despite authors such as Giorgio Agamben and Catherine Malabou engaging with his...

Donovan StewartLeuphana University Lüneburg/ Leiden University Volume 17, 2025 We have abolished the true world: which one remains? Perhaps the world of appearances? … But no! With the true world we have also abolished the apparent one! Nietzsche, F. Götzen-Dämmerung, KSA 6, 81 Nihilism is a posture that is completely symmetrical to, thus dependent upon,...

Shane Montgomery EwegenTrinity College Volume 17, 2025 GA 99—Heidegger’s so-called “Four Notebooks [Vier Hefte]” from 1948 to 1950—carries out a gesture of almost limitless withdrawal. As a self-described continuation and transformation of the project of “sigetics”that Heidegger had attempted in Contributions to Philosophy, GA 99 attends to the way in which beyng, in the contemporary...

Philippe LynesUniversity of Dundee/ University of Glasgow Volume 17, 2025 Im Tragischen nun ist das Zeichen an sich selbst unbedeutend, wirkungslos, aber das Ursprüngliche ist gerade heraus. Eigentlich nämlich kann das Ursprüngliche nur in seiner Schwäche erscheinen, insofern aber das Zeichen an sich selbst als unbedeutend = 0 gesetzt wird, kann auch das Ursprüngliche, der...

Stefano FranchiIndependent Scholar Volume 17, 2025 If we extend Nietzsche’s classical understanding of moral nihilism to the political realm, we might define political nihilism as the impossibility of positing values guiding action aimed at social change. That would be incorrect, though, because political nihilism has a partially independent and rather peculiar history of its own....

Elliot R. WolfsonUC Santa Barbara Volume 17, 2025 Here atheism and nihilism—there theologizing and mysticism. All of this is because one has no idea what the question is and searches for nothing and is capable of nothing, not even of raising the question. Martin Heidegger, On My Own Publications  I begin this study with Martin Heidegger’s...

Teresa M. Vilarós Texas A&M University Volume 16, 2024 In 1974, the Paris’s central slaughterhouse, operating since 1867 in La Villette in the outskirts of Paris, officially closed its doors. Its closing was part and parcel of the emerging supra mass-consumption mode of the postmodern period and beyond.  Massification was changing forever the modes and...

Rafael FernándezTexas A&M University   Volume 16, 2024 In this paper, I think through Alberto Moreiras’ elaboration of Philippe Lynes’s idea of a Heideggerian general ecology, focusing first on the concept of “ruinance” as elaborated on by Martin Heidegger in his 1921-22 lecture course, Phenomenological Interpretations of Aristotle. In the first section, I reflect on...

James Martell & Tyler M. Williams Volume 16, 2024 The essays collected in this special issue of Política Común do not pretend to encapsulate its topic completely. Rather, they serve as openings and invitations to consider for our era the relevance of deconstruction (broadly construed) to critiques of rising tides of fascism. Much work has...