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Philosophy, Revision, Critique - Rereading Practices in Heidegger, Nietzsche, and Emerson (Hardcover)
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Philosophy, Revision, Critique - Rereading Practices in Heidegger, Nietzsche, and Emerson (Hardcover)
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Philosophers have almost always relegated the topic of revision to
the sidelines of their discipline, if they have thought about it at
all. This book contends that acts of revision are central and
indispensable to the project of philosophizing and that philosophy
should be construed essentially as a practice of rereading and
rewriting. The book focuses chiefly on Heidegger's highly
influential interpretation of Nietzsche, conducted in lectures
during the 1930s and 1940s and published in 1961. The author
closely analyzes the rhetorical means by which Heidegger
repositions Nietzsche's thinking within a broad history of
metaphysics, even as Heidegger positions his own reinterpretation
as that history's more "proper" reading.
The author argues that Heidegger's revisionist project recasts the
philosophical text as paralipsis, a special kind of ironic
statement that when "properly" received by the philosophical
rereader, expresses what the text did not and could not say. The
study of such paraliptical revisionism within the philosophical
canon offers a new way of understanding the basic historicity of
the philosophical text, a text that is critically indistinguishable
from its own future history of interpretations. Philosophy itself
is revision, a deeply historicist rereading practice, a continuous
reappropriation of its own improper textual past.
In addition to being the first book-length published study of
Heidegger's interpretation of Nietzsche, the book also examines the
work of Hans-Robert Jauss, Harold Bloom, and other critics of
revision. In particular, Ralph Waldo Emerson's early essays on
history, read both with and against Heidegger's analysis of
metaphysics, demonstrate why the historical intervention achieved
by revisionist reading is not only a formal and thematic alteration
of the past, but also a rhetorical coercion of future interpretive
tendencies. No philosophical reader is simply a user or victim of
revisionist methods: in rereading philosophical pasts, the reader
is the very mechanism by which such interpretive tendencies are
first formed into problems or thoughts within the philosophical
canon.
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