This is the most systematic, the most radical, and the most lucid
treatise on freedom that has been written in contemporary
Continental philosophy. Finding its guiding motives in Kant's
second "Critique" and working its way up to and beyond Heidegger
and Adorno, this book marks the most advanced position in the
thinking of freedom that has been proposed after Sartre and
Levinas. One could call it a fundamental ontology of freedom if
freedom, according to the author, did not entail liberation from
foundational acts and the overcoming of any logic that determines,
in the way ontology does, by positing being either as
self-sufficient position or as subjected to strictly immanent laws.
Once existence no longer offers itself as an empiricity that
must be related to its conditions of possibility or sublated in a
transcendence beyond itself, but instead as sheer factuality, we
must think this fact, the fact of existence as the essence of
itself, as freedom. The question is no longer "Why is there
something rather than nothing?" Instead, it becomes "Why these very
questions by which existence affirms itself and abandons itself in
a single gesture?" If we do not think being itself as a freedom, we
are condemned to think of freedom as a pure "Idea" or "right," and
being-in-the-world, in turn, as a blind and obtuse necessity. Since
Kant, philosophy and our world have relentlessly confronted this
scission.
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