Intimations of Mortality: Time, Truth, and Finitude in Heidegger's Thinking of Being - Couverture souple

Krell, David Farrell

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0271007540 ISBN 13 : 9780271007540

Editeur : Pennsylvania State University Press, 1991

Synopsis

Heidegger&;s thinking has an underlying unity, this book argues, and has cogency for seemingly diverse domains of modern culture: philosophy and religion, aesthetics and literary criticism, intellectual history and social theory. &;The theme of mortality&;finite human existence&;pervades Heidegger&;s thought,&; in the author&;s words, &;before, during, and after his magnum opus, Being and Times, published in 1927.&; This theme is manifested in Heidegger&;s work not &;as funereal melodramatics or as despair and destructive nihilism&; but rather &;as a thinking within anxiety.&;

Four major subthemes in Heidegger&;s thinking are explored in the book&;s four parts: the fundamental ontology developed in Being and Time; the &;lighting and clearing&; of Being, understood as &;unconcealment&;; the history of philosophy&;with emphasis on Heraclitus, Hegel, and Nietzsche&;interpreted as the &;destiny&; of Being; and the poetics of Being, explicated as the &;fundamental experience&; of mortality.

Neither an introduction nor a survey, this book is a close reading of a wide range of Heidegger&;s books, lectures, and articles&;including extensive material not yet translated into English&;informed by the author&;s conversations with Heidegger in 1974&;76. Each of the four subthemes is treated critically. The aim of the book is to push its interrogations of Heidegger&;s thought as far as possible, in order to help the reader toward an independent assessment of his work and to encourage novel, radically conceived approaches to traditional philosophical problems.

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À propos de l?auteur

David Farrel Krell is Professor and Chair of Philosophy at DePaul University and author of Postponements: Woman, Sensuality, and Death in Nietzsche (1986) and Of Memory, Reminiscence, and Writing: On the Verge (1990). He is also the editor and translator of Heidegger's four-volume Nietzsche, Early Greek Thinking, and Basic Writings (1979).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Pennsylvania State University Press
• Date d'édition: 1991
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0271007540
• ISBN 13: 9780271007540
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 216
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