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Philosophy of Finitude: Heidegger, Levinas and Nietzsche

Autor Rafael Winkler
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 20 feb 2020
Examining the legacies of Heidegger, along with Derrida, Levinas and Nietzsche, Rafael Winkler argues that it is not the search for truth or even contradictions that stimulates philosophical thought. Instead, it is our exposure to the unthinkable or the impossible - to thought's own limits.

An experience of the unthinkable is possible in our encounter with the uniqueness of death, the singularity of being, and of the self and the other. This 'thinking of finitude' also has political implications, as it provides us with a way to talk about, and evaluate, absolute strangeness and, by implication, the absolute stranger or foreigner.

Illuminating Heidegger's writings on the question of ontology, ethics and history, Winkler proves that this encounter with thought's limits is one of the mainstays of the philosophies of difference of Heidegger, Levinas, and Nietzsche.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781350150997
ISBN-10: 1350150991
Pagini: 208
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 mm
Greutate: 0.25 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Academic
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Cuprins

Acknowledgments

Abbreviations
Introduction

Chapter 1. Death, the Impossible

1. Introduction
2. Perishing and demise
3. Is dying possible?
4. Singularization
5. Schizophrenia
6. Mourning

Chapter 2. Self and Other

1. Introduction
2. Vanquishing death
3. Alterity
4. The call
5. Guilt
6. Responsibility

Chapter 3. Figurations

1. Introduction
2. Proximities
3. The feminine welcome
4. The absolute arrivant

Chapter 4. Dwelling

1. Introduction
2. The earth
3. The gods
4. Antigone
5. Holy mourning
6. The proper and the foreign
7. Guestfriendship

Chapter 5. Beyond Truth

1. Introduction
2. Truth and error
3. Justice
4. Naturalism
5. The end of metaphysics
6. The will to truth
7. Self-discipline
8. Schein

Chapter 6. Substance

1. Introduction
2. The standard hypothesis
3. Essence
4. Substance
5. Rhetoric
6. Metaphor

Bibliography

Recenzii

Through a compelling and illuminating study, Rafael Winkler asks whether "uniqueness" is a possible experience and how it should be thought. He deals with this concept in a variety of ways: the uniqueness of being, the self, the other human being, death, and responsibility for the other. By situating itself at the limits of thought, the book presents new facets of the philosophy of absolute difference. Readers will find much to ponder as the book also calls for an engaged reflection on a highly contentious problem: finitude.
A unique, original, and very welcome contribution to philosophical and literary studies of the self, experience, and singularity. Written with an admirable rigour in explication and analysis, a lucidity in expression, and an always cogent line of reasoning, Philosophy of Finitude explores the limit experiences of the 'I' through the focus on Heidegger, Levinas, and Nietzsche, that produces exciting fascinating new readings both of selfhood and identity.