In this Book
- Broken Hegemonies
- Book
- 2003
- Published by: Indiana University Press
- Series: Studies in Continental Thought
"... a book of striking originality and depth, a brilliant and quite new interpretation of the nature and history of philosophy." -- John Sallis
In Broken Hegemonies, the late distinguished philosopher Reiner Schürmann offers a radical rethinking of the history of Western philosophy from the Greeks through Heidegger. Schürmann interprets the history of Western thought and action as a series of eras governed by the rise and fall of certain dominating philosophical ideas that contained the seeds of their own destruction. These eras coincided with their dominant languages: Greek, Latin, and vernacular tongues. Analyzing philosophical texts from Parmenides, Plotinus, and Cicero, through Augustine, Meister Eckhardt, and Kant, to Heidegger, Schürmann traces the arguments by which these ideas gained hegemony and by which their credibility was ultimately demolished. Recognizing the failure of ultimate norms, Broken Hegemonies questions how humanity today is to think and act in the absence of principles.
Table of Contents
- TRANSLATOR'S REMARKS
- p. xiii
- VOLUME ONE
- General Introduction
- pp. 3-48
- CHAPTER 4: Henology Turned against Itself?
- pp. 110-121
- Introduction
- pp. 139-142
- CHAPTER 6: The Temporalizing Event
- pp. 143-160
- CHAPTER 7: The Singularizing Contretemps
- pp. 161-188
- CHAPTER 8: Concerning Singular Given Natures
- pp. 205-221
- CHAPTER 9: On the Erratic Differend
- pp. 222-239
- Introduction
- pp. 271-274
- CHAPTER 12: Feet on One's Neighbor's Head
- pp. 298-318
- CHAPTER 13: Nature Denatured by the Origin
- pp. 319-340
- VOLUME TWO
- Introduction
- pp. 353-363
- CHAPTER 1: The Identity of the "I"
- pp. 371-407
- CHAPTER 2: A Pathetic Differend
- pp. 408-443
- Introduction
- pp. 447-451
- CHAPTER 3: The Torments of Autonomy
- pp. 453-481
- Introduction: Proteus Alone Can Save Us Now
- pp. 513-528
- CHAPTER 5: On the Historial Differend
- pp. 529-552
- CHAPTER 6: What, the Deferred There?
- pp. 553-574
- CHAPTER 7: On the Discordance of Times
- pp. 575-620
- Conclusion
- pp. 621-632
- INDEX OF NAMES
- pp. 681-683
- INDEX OF TERMS [Includes About the Author]
- pp. 685-692