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Heidegger and Leibniz - Reason and the Path with a Foreword by Hans Georg Gadamer (Hardcover, 1998 ed.)
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Heidegger and Leibniz - Reason and the Path with a Foreword by Hans Georg Gadamer (Hardcover, 1998 ed.)
Series: Contributions to Phenomenology, 35
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Heidegger holds that our age is dominated by the ambition of reason
to possess the world. And he sees in Leibniz the man who formulated
the theorem of our modern age: nothing happens without a reason. He
calls this attitude `calculating thought' and opposes to it a kind
of thought aimed at preserving the essence of things, which he
calls `meditating thought'. Cristin's book ascribes great
importance to this polarity of thinking for the future of
contemporary philosophy, and thus compares the basic ideas of the
two thinkers. Leibniz announces the conquest of reason; Heidegger
denounces the dangers of reason. Their diversity becomes manifest
in the difference between the idea of reason and the image of the
path. But is Leibniz's thought really only `calculating'? And do we
not perhaps also encounter the traces of reason along Heidegger's
path? With these questions in mind we may begin to redefine the
relation between the two thinkers and between two different
conceptions of reason and philosophy. The hypothesis is advanced
that Heidegger's harsh judgment of Leibniz may be mitigated, but it
also becomes clear that Heidegger's rewriting of the code of reason
is an integral part of our age, in which many signs point to new
loci of rationality. With his original interpretation, aware of the
risks he is taking, Renato Cristin offers a new guide to the
understanding of reason: he shows forth Leibniz as one who defends
the thought of being in the unity of monadology, and Heidegger as a
thinker who preserves the sign of reason in his meditating thought.
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