Publisher's Synopsis
In this book, Wolfram Hogrebe's nuanced thinking deals with the realm of the intermediate - an ancient philosophical tradition according to which philosophical thinking is concerned with a kind of intermediate space that brings the orders of concepts and ideas into a remarkable limbo. The in-between is, as it were, a medium that carries the thoughts and languages and is thus likely to lead to areas unknown where thinking itself changes. Hogrebe shows how frequently this in-between, which has also been known to surface in experiences of nature, is the subject theme of a host of different philosophers and poets such as Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, Martin Heidegger, Henry David Thoreau and Peter Handke. Finally, Hogrebe votes for a sensitive orientation towards the open, which itself might entail consequences for our political life.
