Philosophy of Finitude
Title | Philosophy of Finitude PDF eBook |
Author | Rafael Winkler |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
Pages | 171 |
Release | 2018-08-23 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 1350059374 |
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.
Natality and Finitude
Title | Natality and Finitude PDF eBook |
Author | Anne O'Byrne |
Publisher | Indiana University Press |
Pages | 218 |
Release | 2010-09-22 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 0253004772 |
Philosophers are accustomed to thinking about human existence as finite and deathbound. Anne O'Byrne focuses instead on birth as a way to make sense of being alive. Building on the work of Heidegger, Dilthey, Arendt, and Nancy, O'Byrne discusses how the world becomes ours and how meaning emerges from our relations to generations past and to come. Themes such as creation, time, inheritance, birth and action, embodiment, biological determinism, and cloning anchor this sensitive and powerful analysis. O'Byrne's thinking advances and deepens important discussions at the intersections of feminism, continental philosophy, philosophy of religion, and social and political thought.
Philosophies of Defeat
Title | Philosophies of Defeat PDF eBook |
Author | Bruno Bosteels |
Publisher | Verso Books |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2025-02-11 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 1784780200 |
How radical thought has internalized the experience of defeat A rising star of contemporary critical theory offers an expansive critique on a prominent tradition of thought, 'the jargon of finitude.' Associated with Martin Heidegger and Jacques Derrida, over the past few decades this tradition has been able to bolster its credentials as an indispensable contribution in the rethinking of the Left. However, rather than constituting a radical leftist opening in contemporary political thought, these are in many ways philosophies of defeat. Bosteels exmines the paradoxes inherent in materialist thinking and argues against time as the primordial mode of access to a thinking of finitude that today has become the dominant form of a new idealism, parading in the guise of a radical, post-metaphysical, anti-dialectical and hyper-ethical form of materialism.
The Finitude of Being
Title | The Finitude of Being PDF eBook |
Author | Joan Stambaugh |
Publisher | State University of New York Press |
Pages | 216 |
Release | 2016-03-22 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 1438420900 |
After Finitude
Title | After Finitude PDF eBook |
Author | Quentin Meillassoux |
Publisher | A&C Black |
Pages | 157 |
Release | 2008-06-07 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 0826496741 |
After Finitude provides readings of the history of philosophy and sets out a critique of the unavowed fideism at the heart of post-Kantian philosophy. Author Quentin Meillassoux introduces a philosophical alternative to the forced choice between dogmatism and critique. After Finitude proposes a new alliance between philosophy and science and calls for an unequivocal halt to the creeping return of religiosity in contemporary philosophical discourse.
Sense and Finitude
Title | Sense and Finitude PDF eBook |
Author | Alejandro A. Vallega |
Publisher | State University of New York Press |
Pages | 225 |
Release | 2009-03-18 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 1438424906 |
Takes Heidegger’s later thought as a point of departure for exploring the boundaries of post-conceptual thinking.
Heidegger and a Metaphysics of Feeling
Title | Heidegger and a Metaphysics of Feeling PDF eBook |
Author | Sharin N. Elkholy |
Publisher | A&C Black |
Pages | 249 |
Release | 2011-10-27 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 1441154914 |
The early Heidegger of Being and Time is generally believed to locate finitude strictly within the individual, based on an understanding that this individual will have to face its death alone and in its singularity. Facing death is characterized by the mood of Angst (anxiety), as death is not an experience one can otherwise access outside of one's own demise. In the later Heidegger, the finitude of the individual is rooted in the finitude of the world it lives in and within which it actualizes its possibilities, or Being. Against the standard reading that the early Heidegger places the emphasis on individual finitude, this important new book shows how the later model of the finitude of Being is developed in Being and Time. Elkholy questions the role of Angst in Heidegger's discussion of death and it is at the point of transition from the nothing back to the world of projects that the author locates finitude and shows that Heidegger's later thinking of the finitude of Being is rooted in Being and Time.