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- Heidegger and the Issue of Space: Thinking on Exilic Grounds
- Book
- 2003
- Published by: Penn State University Press
- Series: American and European Philosophy
summary
As the only full-length treatment in English of spatiality in Martin Heidegger’s work, this book makes an important contribution to Heidegger studies as well as to research on the history of philosophy. More generally, it advances our understanding of philosophy in terms of its "exilic" character, a sense of alterity that becomes apparent when one fully engages the temporality or finitude essential to conceptual determinations.By focusing on Heidegger’s treatment of the classical difficulty of giving conceptual articulation to spatiality, the author discusses how Heidegger’s thought is caught up in and enacts the temporality it uncovers in Being and Time and in his later writings. Ultimately, when understood in this manner, thought is an "exilic" experience—a determination of being that in each case comes to pass in a loss of first principles and origins and, simultaneously, as an opening to conceptual figurations yet to come. The discussion engages such main historical figures as Plato, Aristotle, Descartes, Kant, and indirectly Husserl, as well as contemporary European and American Continental thought.
Table of Contents
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- Introduction
- pp. 1-14
- Part One: Themes
- Part Two: Scherzi
- Part Three: Fugue
- Bibliography
- pp. 189-196
Additional Information
ISBN
9780271052823
Related ISBN(s)
9780271028088
MARC Record
OCLC
74810385
Pages
216
Launched on MUSE
2012-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No