Challenging the Absolute: Nietzsche, Heidegger, and Europe’s Struggle Against Fundamentalism
Autor Simon F. Oliaien Limba Engleză Hardback – 30 dec 2014
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780761865155
ISBN-10: 0761865152
Pagini: 170
Ilustrații: black & white illustrations
Dimensiuni: 161 x 235 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.41 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția University Press of America
Locul publicării:New York, United States
ISBN-10: 0761865152
Pagini: 170
Ilustrații: black & white illustrations
Dimensiuni: 161 x 235 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.41 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția University Press of America
Locul publicării:New York, United States
Descriere
Our contemporary world presents a seemingly inexplicable paradox. It is a world where interaction among societies of different cultural traditions has never been easier. A world in which modern technology has visibly overcome the physical barriers that had long condemned the majority of men to relative isolation from one another. Yet, our world is also one in which the illusion of a lost "original" cultural or religious identity, grounded by a metaphysical absolute, pits men against one another. A physically more accessible world has thus become an increasingly fundamentalist one. In this book, written in the wake of such influential European thinkers as Nietzsche, Heidegger, Foucault, Derrida, and Vattimo, Simon Oliai analyzes the conceptual underpinnings of this paradox and argues that, unless the "European" affirmation of man's finite existence becomes universal, we shall never rid ourselves, to echo Nietzsche, of the repressive shadow of a long dead metaphysical idol.
Cuprins
Acknowledgments
An Inevitably Endless Introduction
Part I: The Use and the Danger of Heidegger for Contemporary Thought
Chapter 1: On the Contemporary Pertinence of Heidegger's Philosophical Questioning
Chapter 2: Safeguarding "Being" from Its Fundamentalist Self-Persecution
Part II: Nietzsche, Heidegger, and the Historical Destiny of "European" Thought
Chapter 3: Nietzsche on the Art of Resistance to Onto-Theology
Chapter 4: On "Be-coming European Today"
Chapter 5: Heidegger on the Promise of Art at the Twilight of Philosophy
Part III: On "Europe's" Endless Struggle Against "Fundamentalisms"
Chapter 6: On Europe's Enlightening Example
Chapter 7: Thinking the Essence of Neo-Fundamentalism
Chapter 8: Only a "God-Artist" Can Save Us: Religion as the "European" Art of Safeguarding the Earth with Others
An Inevitably Endless Introduction
Part I: The Use and the Danger of Heidegger for Contemporary Thought
Chapter 1: On the Contemporary Pertinence of Heidegger's Philosophical Questioning
Chapter 2: Safeguarding "Being" from Its Fundamentalist Self-Persecution
Part II: Nietzsche, Heidegger, and the Historical Destiny of "European" Thought
Chapter 3: Nietzsche on the Art of Resistance to Onto-Theology
Chapter 4: On "Be-coming European Today"
Chapter 5: Heidegger on the Promise of Art at the Twilight of Philosophy
Part III: On "Europe's" Endless Struggle Against "Fundamentalisms"
Chapter 6: On Europe's Enlightening Example
Chapter 7: Thinking the Essence of Neo-Fundamentalism
Chapter 8: Only a "God-Artist" Can Save Us: Religion as the "European" Art of Safeguarding the Earth with Others
Recenzii
I am strongly convinced that the crucial analysis of the metaphysical underpinnings of all manner of contemporary fundamentalism by Simon Oliai shall have not only contributed to elaborating a more precise definition of the current role of Western philosophy, but, more significantly, shed light on the universal function of all critical thought in our world.
Ever since its first efforts at integration were undertaken, Europe has constituted, historically that is, a space for reconciliation. Moreover, Europe has been founded on values among which tolerance and acceptance of differences occupy a privileged position. Simon Oliai is thus right in underscoring this line of thought whilst insisting on the need for its constant application.
Very few people have such a profound and intellectual appreciation of the cultural history
and significance of Europe and Persia whilst also having lived in and experienced North America.
Ever since its first efforts at integration were undertaken, Europe has constituted, historically that is, a space for reconciliation. Moreover, Europe has been founded on values among which tolerance and acceptance of differences occupy a privileged position. Simon Oliai is thus right in underscoring this line of thought whilst insisting on the need for its constant application.
Very few people have such a profound and intellectual appreciation of the cultural history
and significance of Europe and Persia whilst also having lived in and experienced North America.