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After Finitude: An Essay on the Necessity of Contingency
From the preface by Alain Badiou: It is no exaggeration to say that Quentin Meillassoux has opened up a new path in the history of philosophy, understood here as the history of what it is to know ... This remarkable "critique of critique" is introduced here without embellishment, cutting straight to the heart of the matter in a particularly clear and logical manner. It allows the destiny of thought to be the absolute once more. "This work is one of the most important to appear in continental philosophy in recent years and deserves a wide readership at the earliest possible date ... Après la finitude is an important book of philosophy by an authnted emerging voices in continental thought. Quentin Meillassoux deserves our close attention in the years to come and his book deserves rapid translation and widespread discussion in the English-speaking world. There is nothing like it." --Graham Harman in Philosophy Today Quentin Meillassoux's remarkable debut makes a strikingly original contribution to contemporary French philosophy and is set to have a significant impact on the future of continental philosophy. Written in a style that marries great clarity of expression with argumentative rigour, After Finitude provides bold readings of the history of philosophy and sets out a devastating critique of the unavowed fideism at the heart of post-Kantian philosophy. The exceptional lucidity and the centrality of argument in Meillassoux's writing should appeal to analytic as well as continental philosophers, while his critique of fideism will be of interest to anyone preoccupied by the relation between philosophy, theology and religion. Meillassoux introduces a startlingly novel 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..
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The Fundamental Concepts of Metaphysics: World, Finitude, Solitude
ñIn this text, which is crucial to understanding the transition from HeideggerÍs earlier to his later thinking, readers will find a helpful overview of HeideggerÍs conception of metaphysics . . . a brilliant phenomenological analysis of boredom . . . an investigation of the essence of life and animality . . . and an analysis of the structure of the propositional statement . . . î „Review of Metaphysics ñThis authoritative translation is essential to any Heidegger collection.î „ Choice ñWhoever thought that Heidegger . . . has no surprises left in him had better read this new volume. If its rhetoric is ïhard and heavyÍ its thought is even harder and essentially more daring than Heideggerians ever imagined Heidegger could be.î „David Farrell Krell ñThis is an important addition to the translations of HeideggerÍs lecture- courses . . .î „International Philosophical Quarterly This work, the text of Martin HeideggerÍs lecture course of 1929/30, is crucial for an understanding of HeideggerÍs transition from the major work of his early years, ¸Being and Time, to his later preoccupations with language, truth, and history..
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Love and the Abyss: An Essay on Finitude and Value
In an ultra competitive culture over concerned with the appearance of invulnerability, people become susceptible to the existential threats that undermine a sense of well being: alienation, powerlessness, relative insignificance, and death. Using traditional pathways to "transcendent value experiences," Ralph Ellis explains love's ability to support a sense of intrinsic worth and alleviate existential fears. Students of philosophy and psychology and readers interested in history, romantic love, and cultural critique will appreciate the depth of discussion. .
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Finitude's Score: Essays for the End of the Millennium (Texts and Contexts)
Suspending the distinction between headline news and high theory, Avital Ronell examines the diverse figures of finitude in our modernity: war, guerrilla video, trauma TV, AIDS, music, divorce, sadism, electronic tagging, rumor. Her essays address such questions as, How do rumors kill? How has video become the conscience of TV? How have the police come to be everywhere, even where they are not? Is peace possible? “[W]riting to the community of those who have no community—to those who have known the infiniteness of abandonment,” her work explores the possibility, one possibility among many, that “this time we have gone too far”: “One last word. It is possible that we have gone too far. This possibility has to be considered if we, as a species, as a history, are going to get anywhere at all.” .
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Heidegger, Martin. The Fundamental Concepts of Metaphysics: World, Finitude, Solitude. (book review): An article from: The Review of Metaphysics
This digital document is an article from The Review of Metaphysics, published by Philosophy Education Society, Inc. on March 1, 2002. The length of the article is 842 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser. Citation DetailsTitle: Heidegger, Martin. The Fundamental Concepts of Metaphysics: World, Finitude, Solitude. (book review) Author: D.R. Koukal Publication:The Review of Metaphysics (Refereed) Date: March 1, 2002 Publisher: Philosophy Education Society, Inc. Volume: 55 Issue: 3 Page: 639(3) Article Type: Book Review Distributed by Thomson Gale.
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Indiscretion: Finitude and the Naming of God (Religion and Postmodernism Series)
How can one think and name an inconceivable and ineffable God? Christian mystics have approached the problem by speaking of God using "negative" language—devices such as grammatical negation and the rhetoric of "darkness" or "unknowing"—and their efforts have fascinated contemporary scholars. In this strikingly original work, Thomas A. Carlson reinterprets premodern approaches to God's ineffability and postmodern approaches to the mystery of the human subject in light of one another. The recent interest in mystical theological traditions, Carlson argues, is best understood in relation to contemporary philosophy's emphasis on the idea of human finitude and mortality. Combining both historical research in theology (from Pseudo-Dionysius to Aquinas to Eckhart) and contemporary philosophical analysis (from Hegel and Nietzsche to Heidegger, Derrida, and Marion), Indiscretion will interest philosophers, theologians, and other scholars concerned with the possibilities and limits of language surrounding both God and human subjectivity. .
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The Weight of Finitude: On the Philosophical Question of God (Suny Series in Hegelian Studies)
Ludwig Heyde's award winning examination of the weight of finitude and its relation to God is translated here for the first time in English Though philosophers may question if there still is room for God in philosophy after Nietzsche's pronouncement that "God is dead," Heyde suggests that a full acceptance of the finitude of existence can lead to the affirmation of God. He criticizes conceptions that have unconsciously dominated our thinking since the Enlightenment. In relation to the philosophical tradition--Thomas Aquinas, Anselm, Descartes, Kant, and primarily Hegel, among others--certain "experiences" are developed which thought can undergo when it goes to its limits and asks after the ground of all that is. At the same time, Heyde investigates how well the affirmation of God stands up against various intellectual and existential challenges such as Kant's critique, the experience of evil and suffering, and the thought of Heidegger and Nietzsche..
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