What is cultural analysis? And what is the role of philosophy?

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Publication date 2008
Journal Krisis
Volume | Issue number 9 | 1
Pages (from-to) 53-58
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  • Faculty of Humanities (FGw) - Amsterdam Institute for Humanities Research (AIHR) - Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis (ASCA)
Abstract 'What is' questions are suspicious in 'post-metaphysical' times. A question that starts with: 'What is ...?' aims at grasping the essence of what it is aiming at, and grasping the essence of something or even of everything is the essence of metaphysics. At least this is what Nietzsche, Heidegger and his French scholars have been telling us for more than a century.
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Published at http://www.krisis.eu/content/2008-1/2008-1-07-fruchtl.pdf
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