On Translation
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Drawing on Jakobson, Gadamer, Benjamin, and Derrida, Sallis shows how the classical concept of translation has undergone mutation and deconstruction.
Studies in Continentale GedachteReeks
Deze serie duikt in het uitgestrekte landschap van de continentale filosofie, waarbij de lijn wordt gevolgd van het 19e-eeuwse Duitse idealisme via klassieke fenomenologie en existentialisme tot hedendaags denken. Het bevat rigoureus academisch werk dat kritisch ingaat op en voortbouwt op fundamentele filosofische tradities. De collectie is essentiële lectuur voor academici en studenten die op zoek zijn naar diepgaande verkenningen van Europese filosofische stromingen en hun blijvende relevantie.
Aanbevolen leesvolgorde
The author, a prominent figure in Religious Studies, brings a wealth of academic insight to the exploration of faith and spirituality. His background as a professor at Stanford University underscores his expertise, offering readers a deep understanding of complex religious themes and philosophical inquiries. Through his work, he aims to engage with the nuances of belief systems and their impact on human experience, making significant contributions to the field of religious studies.
John Sallis untersucht den Kerngedanken der Einbildungskraft und zeigt, daß deren Kraft auf alle Bereiche des menschlichen Lebens Einfluß hat. Aus dem Blickwinkel der gegenwärtigen Dekonstuktion des klassischen Gegensatzes zwischen der intelligiblen und der sinnlichen Wirklichkeit setzt er sich kritisch mit der gesamten Geschichte der Philosophie auseinander. Dadurch, daß er das Wesen der Einbildungskraft hinterfragt, wendet sich seine Untersuchung dem Sinnlichen und dem Elementaren in der Natur zu. Er greift auf die Methoden der radikalisierten Phänomenologie und der Hermeneutik zurück, um ein ganz neues Konzept der Einbildungskraft zu erarbeiten. So wird deutlich, daß die Einbildungskraft eine zentrale Rolle für das Verständnis des Wesens von Zeit, Eigenen und Fremden sowie der Kunst spielt. Dies wird an Werken von Shakespeare, Keats und Hölderlin veranschaulicht. Der Autor zeigt, daß die Einbildungskraft, sobald sie von jeglicher Subjektivität befreit ist, die Momente unserer Wahrnehmung sinnlicher Dinge zusammenbringt und gleichzeitig die Wahrnehmung für Licht, Atmosphäre, Erde und Himmel öffnet.
Living with Indifference
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Indifference is explored as a neutral dimension of life, devoid of care or feeling, yet rich in implications. Charles E. Scott delves into various themes, including time, beauty, and virtue, demonstrating how embracing indifference can lead to positive outcomes, while its denial may result in harm. His examination calls for a deeper consideration of personal values and ethics, ultimately advocating for the appreciation of diversity and the importance of human passion in our lives.
Contributions to philosophy
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"The fugally structured work comprises six "joinings" - "Echo," "Playing-Forth," "Leap," "Grounding," "The Ones to Come," and "The Last God" - and a final section, "Be-ing," which together illuminate what enowns and thus enables thinking."--BOOK JACKET.
Kant and the Problem of Metaphysics
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Country Path Conversations
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First published in German in 1995, volume 77 of Heidegger's Complete Works consists of three imaginary conversations written as World War II was coming to an end. Composed at a crucial moment in history and in Heidegger's own thinking, these conversations present meditations on science and technology; the devastation of nature, the war, and evil; and the possibility of release from representational thinking into a more authentic relation with being and the world. The first conversation involves a scientist, a scholar, and a guide walking together on a country path; the second takes place between a teacher and a tower-warden, and the third features a younger man and an older man in a prisoner-of-war camp in Russia, where Heidegger's two sons were missing in action. Unique because of their conversational style, the lucid and precise translation of these texts offers insight into the issues that engaged Heidegger's wartime and postwar thinking.
The text of Martin Heidegger's 1927--28 university lecture course on Immanuel Kant's Critique of Pure Reason presents a close interpretive reading of the first two parts of this masterpiece of modern philosophy. In this course, Heidegger continues the task he enunciated in Being and Time as the problem of dismatling the history of ontology, using temporality as a clue. Within this context the relation between philosophy, ontology, and fundamental ontology is shown to be rooted in the genesis of the modern mathematical sciences. Heidegger demonstrates that objectification of beings as beings is inseparable from knowledge a priori, the central problem of Kant's Critique. He concludes that objectification rests on the productive power of imagination, a process that involves temporality, which is the basic constitution of humans as beings.
Heidegger's innovative dialogue with Kant's transcendental philosophy.
Die Vorlesung knupft an das Ende der Grundprobleme der Phanomenologie an. Sie gibt ausfuhrlicher als dort eine Bestimmung des Verhaltnisses von positiver Wissenschaft, wissenschaftlicher Philosophie oder Ontologie und Fundamentalontologie. Die phanomenologische Interpretation der transzendentalen Asthetik und des ersten Buches der transzendentalen Analytik ist gegenuber der spateren Arbeit Kant und das Problem der Metaphysik weniger die abgeloste Darstellung als die Herausarbeitung der Kantdeutung in einer genauen und detaillierten Textanalyse, in der Abschnitt fur Abschnitt durchgegangen wird. Die Vorlesung bietet einen breiteren Zugang zur lntention der Kantdeutung Heideggers.
Lógica
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"Basic Concepts of Ancient Philosophy" presents a lecture course given by Martin Heidegger in 1926 at the University of Marburg. First published in German as volume 22 of the "Collected Works", the book provides Heidegger's most systematic history of Ancient philosophy beginning with Thales and ending with Aristotle. In this lecture, which coincides with the completion of his most important work, "Being and Time", Heidegger is working out a way to sharply differentiate between beings and Being. Richard Rojcewicz's clear and accurate translation offers English-speaking readers valuable insight into Heidegger's views on Ancient thought and concepts such as principle, cause, nature, unity, multiplicity, Logos, truth, science, soul, category and motion
Phenomenological interpretations of Aristotle
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Here, Heidegger first takes up the role of the definition of philosophy and then elaborates a unique analysis of "factical life," or human life as it is lived concretely in relation to the world, a relation he calls "caring." Heidegger's descriptions of the movement of life are original, striking, and unique to this lecture course. As he works out a phenomenology of factical life, Heidegger lays the groundwork for a phenomenological interpretation of Aristotle, whose influence on Heidegger's philosophy was pivotal. Important and detailed discussions of phenomenological research, philosophical definition, formal indication, the relationship between philosophy and the sciences, facticity, the surrounding world, questionability, and temporality emerge from this provocative text.
The Principle of Reason
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Focussing on Leibniz's principle: 'nothing is without reason', this book shows that the principle of reason is in fact a principle of being. It also contains discussions of language, translation, reason, objectivity, and technology - as well as readings of Leibniz, Kant, Aristotle, and Goethe.
The Essential Husserl, the first anthology in English of Edmund Husserl's major writings, provides access to the scope of his philosophical studies, including selections from his key works: Logical Investigations, Ideas I and II, Formal and Transcendental Logic, Experience and Judgment, Cartesian Meditations, The Crisis of European Sciences and Transcendental Phenomenology, and On the Phenomenology of the Consciousness of Internal Time. The collection is an indispensable resource for anyone interested in twentieth-century philosophy.
Logic
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Martin Heidegger's 1925-26 lectures on truth and time provided much of the basis for his work, "Being and Time". This title is central to Heidegger's overall project of reinterpreting Western thought in terms of time and truth. It shows the degree to which Aristotle underlies Heidegger's hermeneutical theory of meaning.
Argues that not only our thought is governed by an imperative, as Kant had maintained, but, rather, our sensual, sensing, perceiving, and emotional life is continually regulated by imperatives that come to us from the world around us.
Topographies
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Featuring forty illustrations, this book enriches the reader's understanding of the world and highlights the importance of connection. Each visual element is designed to deepen the exploration of themes related to perception and awareness, inviting readers to engage more fully with their surroundings.
The Lives of Things
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With a blend of lightness and wit, the author explores themes that challenge conventional perceptions of reality. The narrative delves into the complexities of understanding phenomena that elude verbal and cognitive expression, offering a fresh perspective on how we interpret the world around us.
Reconstructs Martin Heidegger's lecture course at the University of Marburg, devoted to an interpretation of Plato's "Sophist" and Aristotle. The lectures approach Plato through a detailed reading of the "Nichomachean Ethics", providing one of Heidegger's major interpretations of Aristotle.
Exploring the complexities of human memory, the book delves into various forms such as recognizing, reminiscing, and body memory, while also addressing collective memory, forgetting, and trauma in its updated preface. Edward S. Casey connects these themes to his latest insights on place and space, illustrating how deeply intertwined remembering is with every aspect of our lives. This comprehensive examination highlights the fundamental role memory plays in shaping human experience.
First Published in German in 1981 as Grundbegriffe (volume 51 of Heidegger's collected works), this translation of Martin Heidegger's lecture course at the University of Freiburg in the winter semester of 1941 offers a concise introduction to new directions in the philosopher's later thought. Shifts in Heidegger's thought from the problem of the meaning of being to the question of the truth of being are evident in this outstanding translation.
Exploring philosophical themes, this collection features essays that delve into concepts such as beginnings, memory, and the nature of images. It examines the interplay between imagination and temporality, offering insights into poetic expression and elemental properties. The contributions reflect a deep engagement with continental thought, inviting readers to reconsider the complexities of perception and representation in relation to the works of Plato and Nietzsche. Edited by John Sallis, this volume presents a rich tapestry of ideas for those interested in philosophy and aesthetics.
Ontology - the hermeneutics of facticity
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Ontology - The Hermeneutics of Facticity, first published in 1988 as volume 63 of Martin Heidegger's Collected Works, is the first English translation of a lecture course given during his legendary early Freiburg period (1915-1923). Anticipating both the phenomenological hermeneutical analysis of factical Dasein in Being and Time (1927) and the poetic thinking in Heidegger's writings after 1930, the experimental theme of these renowned lecture course notes from the summer semester of 1923 is the "be-ing there" of facticity in "the awhileness of its temporal particularity." The 33-year-old Heidegger illustrates this theme with an ingenious interpretation of the table in his home and the activities of his young family around it.
". . . remarkable account of the impact of postmodern philosophy on the question of ethics and politics . . . commendable also for its balanced view of Heidegger's relationship to politics and ethics. . . . an excellent account of Heidegger's philosophical understanding of technology . . ." ―ChoiceThis book takes as its point of departure the question of that values and their pursuit in the West often perpetuate their own worst enemies. At issue are the dangers in the structures and movements of images, values, and ways of knowing that are most intimately a part of our lives.
The phenomenology of religious life
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One of Heidegger's most important early lecture texts
Martin Heidegger's reading of Aristotle was one of the pivotal influences in the development of his philosophy. First published in German in 1981 as volume 33 of Heidegger's Collected Works, this book translates a lecture course he presented at the University of Freiburg in 1931. Heidegger's careful translation and his probing commentary on the first three chapters of Book IX of Metaphysics show the close correlation between his phenomenological interpretation of the Greeks (especially of Aristotle) and his critique of metaphysics. Additionally, Heidegger's confrontation with Aristotle's Greek text makes a significant contribution to contemporary scholarship on Aristotle, particularly the understanding of potentiality in Aristotle's thought. Finally, the book exemplifies Heidegger's gift for teaching students how to read a philosophical text and how to question that text in a philosophical way.
Race and Racism in Continental Philosophy
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Features 15 essays which explore the resources that continental philosophy brings to debates about contemporary race theory and investigate the racism of some of Europe's most important thinkers. This volume provides a critical introduction to various perspectives on thinking about race and racism.
Thinking through French Philosophy
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A powerful and original engagement with France's most influential philosophers. schovat popis
Discusses both the role and meaning of sacrifice in our lives. This book explores the religious and ethical issues that sacrifice entails. It considers the views of Hegel, Schelling, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Heidegger, Bataille, Lacan, Levinas, Blanchot, Irigaray, Derrida, and more. It affords a philosophical treatment of the question of sacrifice.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel gave many lectures in logic at Berlin University between 1818 and his untimely death in 1831. Edited posthumously by Hegel's son, Karl, these lectures were published in German in 2001 and now appear in English for the first time. Because they were delivered orally, Lectures on Logic is more approachable and colloquial than much of Hegel's formal philosophy. The lectures provide important insight into Hegel's science of logic, dialectical method, and symbolic logic. Clark Butler's smooth translation helps readers understand the rationality of Hegel's often dark and difficult thought. Readers at all levels will find a mature and particularly clear presentation of Hegel's systematic philosophical vision.
Aportes a la filosofía
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Merleau-Ponty's Philosophy
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The work of French philosopher Maurice Merleau-Ponty touches on some of the most essential and vital concerns of the world today, yet his ideas are notoriously difficult and not widely understood. This work redresses this problem by offering a carefully argued, critical appreciation of Merleau- Ponty's philosophy.
Introduction to Phenomenological Research , volume 17 of Martin Heidegger's Gesamtausgabe, contains his first lectures given at Marburg in the winter semester of 1923–1924. In these lectures, Heidegger introduces the notion of phenomenology by tracing it back to Aristotle's treatments of phainomenon and logos . This extensive commentary on Aristotle is an important addition to Heidegger's ongoing interpretations which accompany his thinking during the period leading up to Being and Time. Additionally, these lectures develop critical differences between Heidegger's phenomenology and that of Descartes and Husserl and elaborate questions of facticity, everydayness, and flight from existence that are central in his later work. Here, Heidegger dismantles the history of ontology and charts a new course for phenomenology by defining and distinguishing his own methods.
The World at a Glance
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What happens when we glance around a room? How do we trust what we see in fleeting moments? Glancing counts for more of human perception than previously imagined. An entire universe is perceived in a glance, but our quick and uncommitted attention prevents examination of these rapid acts and processes.
Heidegger and the Greeks
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Martin Heidegger's reflection on Greek thought is recognized as a decisive feature of his philosophical development. This work sheds light on the issues raised by his encounter and engagement with the Greeks. It also sheds light on how core philosophical concepts such as phenomenology, existentialism, hermeneutics, and ethics are understood.
It then takes up Husserl's interpretation of world as horizon, the most fruitful of his insights, to develop a theory of background. This serious reflection on the meaning of phenomenology is the first book in English to outline the full scope of Husserl's phenomenological method and to argue for its cogency."--BOOK JACKET.
An introduction to Heidegger's essential writings
Presents Martin Heidegger's important 1924 Marburg lectures that anticipate much of the revolutionary thinking which he subsequently articulated in "Being and Time". This book interprets Aristotle's "Rhetoric" and looks at the Greek notion of pathos.
Les concepts fondamentaux de la métaphysique
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Plato and the Question of Beauty
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Reveals the intimate connection between beauty and the philosophical life. What Plato meant by beauty is not easily characterized, this work shows that Plato ultimately gives up on the possibility of a definition. It provides a serious investigation into the meaning of beauty and places it at the very heart of philosophy.
Getting Back into Place, Second Edition
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Enlarged edition of a classic work on the significance of place
Die "Beiträge zur Philosophie (Vom Ereignis)" gelten als Heideggers zweites Hauptwerk nach "Sein und Zeit". Sie bieten eine neue Perspektive auf die Seinsfrage, indem sie das Wesen des Seins im Kontext des ereigneten Entwurfs untersuchen. Diese Arbeit markiert den Übergang von der Metaphysik zur Wahrheit des Seins und vollzieht die "Kehre" im Denken.
Engaging with both contemporary and ancient philosophical themes, this work offers valuable insights for readers interested in the evolution of philosophical thought, particularly regarding Plato's influence. It presents a thorough examination of key concepts, encouraging deep reflection and serious consideration from scholars and enthusiasts alike.
Being and Truth
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Gregory Fried, a prominent philosopher and chair of the Philosophy Department at Suffolk University, explores the intersections of Heidegger's thought in his works. His notable publication, "Heidegger's Polemos: From Being to Politics," delves into the philosophical implications of Heidegger's ideas, while he also contributes as an editor to "A Companion to Heidegger's Introduction to Metaphysics," collaborating with Richard Polt to provide insights into this foundational text.
Se nei primi anni Venti il giovane Heidegger, ancora assistente di Husserl, aveva interrogato soprattutto Aristotele, divenuto professore a Marburgo inizia, con le dense lezioni universitarie qui raccolte - fondamentali nell'evoluzione del suo pensiero -, un cammino a ritroso che penetra nelle maglie concettuali di Platone. Ed è in questo percorso che matura quell'indagine sulla questione dell'essere che illuminerà, di lì a breve, l'analitica di Essere e tempo, e rimarrà sempre cifra ispiratrice di tutta la speculazione heideggeriana. Nell'abbordare il problema ontologico per via negationis, attraverso la ricostruzione dello statuto del non-essere, del nulla - cruciale per tutto l'Occidente sin da Parmenide -, Heidegger mostra come sia dunque di importanza centrale la definizione del «sofista», nucleo dell'omonimo dialogo platonico. Assumendo infatti che egli professi pensieri privi di sussistenza, e affermi cose che non sono, si ammette implicitamente - contro il divieto di Parmenide - la realtà di ciò che non è. Ne consegue l'inevitabilità di una riflessione sul «nulla» - il che obbliga a un fondamentale ripensamento della questione dell'essere.La rigorosa chiarificazione storico-filosofica - prima ancora che filologica - del testo platonico (ma anche di decisivi passaggi di Aristotele) fa così emergere nel cuore del Novecento la domanda più radicale - e ineludibile: perché l'essere e non piuttosto il nulla?
Quest'opera dall'aura esoterica – stesa tra il 1936 e il 1938 sull'orlo di una drammatica crisi filosofica e personale, ma pubblicata solo nel 1989 – è il tentativo più organico e coerente compiuto da Heidegger per riorganizzare il suo pensiero dopo la cosiddetta «svolta». Prende dunque forma un universo speculativo nuovo e sorprendente rispetto a quello di Essere e tempo: entrano in scena l'interpretazione della metafisica come oblio dell'Essere, la diagnosi storico-epocale del nichilismo e della tecnica, il confronto con Nietzsche e con Hölderlin, la dottrina dell'"ultimo Dio» e di un «altro inizio» della storia. In realtà già alla fine del capolavoro del 1927 si profilava l'esigenza di rovesciare la teoria quasi trascendentale dell'esserci per considerare non solo il suo puro autoprogettarsi, ma anche l'immemoriale e insondabile provenienza della sua finitudine dalla storia dell'Essere. Con il pensiero della «svolta», cui quest'opera dà corpo, Heidegger teorizza la coappartenenza di Essere ed esserci in quell'«evento-appropriazione», l'Ereignis, con cui l'Essere si affida all'esserci in un'alternanza di donazioni e sottrazioni, concessioni e rifiuti, manifestazioni e occultamenti, che ritmano le «epoche» della storia.
Diese als sogenannter "Natorp-Bericht" bekannt gewordene Ausarbeitung Heideggers entstand im Zusammenhang mit der Wiederbesetzung zweier philosophischer Extraordinariate in Marburg und Göttingen im Jahre 1922. Dem Text kommt eine besondere Bedeutung für Heideggers Denkweg zu. Wie kaum zuvor gelingt es Heidegger hier, sein noch suchendes Denken auf die wesentlichen und prinzipiellen Probleme hin zu konzentrieren und methodisch zu schärfen. Mit der "Anzeige der hermeneutischen Situation" entwirft Heidegger einen programmatischen Leitfaden für sein weiteres Philosophieren auf dem Weg hin zu seinem Werk "Sein und Zeit", als dessen "Keimzelle" (Günter Figal) dieser frühe Text daher zu Recht gelten kann. (amazon.de)
Gesamtausgabe Abt. 2 Vorlesungen 1919 - 1944 Bd. 18. Grundbegriffe der aristotelischen Philosophie
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Die Vorlesung über Grundbegriffe der aristotelischen Philosophie von Martin Heidegger aus dem Sommersemester 1924 beschäftigt sich mit der ontologischen Forschung des Aristoteles. Heidegger interpretiert zentrale Begriffe und betont das menschliche Dasein als Grundlage der Begrifflichkeit, was zur Entwicklung seiner fundamentalontologischen Analytik führt.
Defends the notion of obligation without ethics, of responsibility without the support of ethical foundations. Retelling the story of Abraham and Isaac, this work strikes the pose of a postmodern-day Johannes de Silentio, accompanied by communications from such startling figures as Johanna de Silentio, Felix Sineculpa, and Magdalena de la Cruz.
Die Grundbegriffe der Metaphysik
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Die im Wintersemester 1929/30 an der Freiburger Universität gehaltene Vorlesung ist in zweierlei Hinsicht bemerkenswert. Sie bietet eine umfassende Analyse der in der Freiburger Antrittsvorlesung „Was ist Metaphysik?“ nur angedeuteten Langeweile und eine detaillierte Wesensbestimmung des Organismus und des Lebens – Themen, die in „Sein und Zeit“, § 12, nur angesprochen werden. Die Vorlesung beginnt mit einer Erörterung des Begriffs der Metaphysik und kommt zu dem Schluss, dass die drei metaphysischen Fragen nach Welt, Endlichkeit und Vereinzelung aus einer Grundstimmung heraus gestellt werden müssen. Der erste Teil zielt darauf ab, die tiefe Langeweile als Grundstimmung für das Philosophieren zu wecken, wobei drei Grundformen der Langeweile aufgezeigt werden. Der zweite Teil entwickelt die drei metaphysischen Fragen aus dieser Grundstimmung. Das Fragen nach der Welt erfolgt durch den Vergleich dreier Thesen: 'der Stein ist weltlos', 'das Tier ist weltarm', 'der Mensch ist weltbildend'. Die Untersuchung beginnt mit der mittleren These, deren Entfaltung zur Klärung des Weltproblems dient. Die Analyse der Weltarmut des Tieres führt zur Wesensbestimmung der Tierheit, des Organismus und des Lebens. Der Übergang zur These 'der Mensch ist weltbildend' beinhaltet eine Wesensanalyse der Welt und der Weltbildung des Menschen. Diese Ausgabe entspricht dem Band 29/30 der Martin Heidegger Gesamtausgabe.
The fundamental concepts of metaphysics
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Includes a treatment of the history of metaphysics and an elaboration of a philosophy of life and nature. This work defines and develops Heidegger's concepts of organism, animal behaviour, and environment.
More Radical Hermeneutics
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Claims that we are not born into this world hard-wired to know Being, Truth, or the Good, and we are not vessels of a Divine, or other omnipotent supernatural force. This animated study by one of America's leading continental philosophers equally tears down and resuscitates religion and philosophy. schovat popis
Explores health, illness, and creativity in the life and thought of Friedrich Nietzsche. Drawing on a varied literature of philosophical reflections on health, and analyzing Nietzsche's confrontation with traditional values, this title deals with the legacy of Platonism and Western metaphysics that is at the core of Nietzsche's thought.
Highlights the contrast between Greek and Roman thought and the reflection of that contrast in language. The author analyzes the decline in the primordial understanding of truth - and, just as importantly, of untruth - that began in later Greek philosophy and that continues by virtue of the Latinization of the West.
Four seminars
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In Four Seminars, Heidegger reviews the entire trajectory of his thought and offers unique perspectives on fundamental aspects of his work. First published in French in 1976, these seminars were translated into German with Heidegger's approval and reissued in 1986 as part of his Gesamtausgabe , volume 15. Topics considered include the Greek understanding of presence, the ontological difference, the notion of system in German Idealism, the power of naming, the problem of technology, danger, and the event. Heidegger's engagements with his philosophical forebears―Parmenides, Heraclitus, Kant, and Hegel―continue in surprising dialogues with his contemporaries―Husserl, Marx, and Wittgenstein. While providing important insights into how Heidegger conducted his lectures, these seminars show him in his maturity reflecting back on his philosophical path. An important text for understanding contemporary philosophical debates, Four Seminars provides extraordinarily rich material for students and scholars of Heidegger.
Martin Heidegger's 1942 lecture course interprets Friedrich Hölderlin's hymn "The Ister" within the context of Hölderlin's poetic and philosophical work, with particular emphasis on Hölderlin's dialogue with Greek tragedy. Delivered in summer 1942 at the University of Freiburg, this course was first published in German in 1984 as volume 53 of Heidegger's Collected Works. Revealing for Heidegger's thought of the period are his discussions of the meaning of "the political" and "the national," in which he emphasizes the difficulty and the necessity of finding "one's own" in and through a dialogue with "the foreign." In this context Heidegger reflects on the nature of translation and interpretation. A detailed reading of the famous chorus from Sophocles' Antigone, known as the "ode to man," is a key feature of the course.
Examining tragedy as one of the highest forms of human expression for both the ancients and the moderns, this book presents what Greek tragedy and German philosophy reveal about the meaning of art for ethical life. schovat popis
