Disorientations

This academic work, edited by Marcia Sá Cavalcante Schuback and Tora Lane, titled "Dis-orientations: Philosophy, Literature and the Lost Grounds of Modernity," explores the concept of disorientation across philosophical and literary perspectives. It examines how thinkers like Kant, Husserl, Heidegger, Nietzsche, and authors like Kundera, Platonov, and Beckett grapple with fundamental shifts in understanding space, time, knowledge, and existence in the modern age. Key themes include the relationship between corporeal experience and intellectual orientation, the loss of foundational grounds and the emergence of a sense of abyss or groundlessness, and the challenges to language and meaning in a rapidly changing world. The collection considers the various ways in which disorientation manifests, from the physical sensation of vertigo to the philosophical challenges of nihilism and the disorientation within language itself.