Responding to Loss: Heideggerian Reflections on Literature, Architecture, and Film - Couverture rigide

Mugerauer, Robert

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 082326324X ISBN 13 : 9780823263240

Editeur : Fordham University Press, 2014

Synopsis

Much recent philosophical work proposes to illuminate dilemmas of human existence with reference to the arts and culture, often to the point of submitting particular works to preconceived formulations. In this examination of three texts that respond to loss, Robert Mugerauer responds with close, detailed readings that seek to clarify the particularity of the intense force such works bring forth. Mugerauer shows how, in the face of what is irrevocably taken away as well as of what continues to be given, the unavoidable task of interpretation is ours alone.

Mugerauer examines works in three different forms that powerfully call on us to respond to loss: Cormac McCarthy's The Crossing, Daniel Libeskind's Jewish Museum Berlin, and Wim Wenders's film Wings of Desire. Explicating these difficult but rich works with reference to the thought of Martin Heidegger, Jean-Luc Marion, Hannah Arendt, and Emmanuel Levinas, the author helps us to experience the multiple and diverse ways in which all of us are opened to the saturated phenomena of loss, violence, witnessing, and responsibility.

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À propos de l'auteur

ROBERT MUGERAUER is Professor and Dean Emeritus in the Departments of Architecture, Urban Design and Planning at the University of Washington.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Fordham University Press
• Date d'édition: 2014
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 082326324X
• ISBN 13: 9780823263240
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 206
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• Personne responsable: non disponible