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Shadows of Being - Encounters with Heidegger in Political Theory and Historical Reflection (Paperback)
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Shadows of Being - Encounters with Heidegger in Political Theory and Historical Reflection (Paperback)
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In a review of the work of Karl Jaspers composed several years
before the publication of his book Being and Time, Martin Heidegger
suggested that the philosophical orientations of his period had
made a wrong turn and skirted by the fundamental path of thought.
He suggested that instead of taking up a heritage of original
questions, his contemporaries had become preoccupied with secondary
issues, accepting as fundamental what was in fact only incidental.
In the years that followed, Heidegger's promise to reorient
philosophy in terms of the Seinsfrage, the question of Being,
exercised a well-known influence on successive generations of
thinkers on a global scale. The present book delves into the
philosophical sources of this influence and raises the question
whether Heidegger indeed made good on the promise to reveal for
thought what is truly fundamental. In proposing this investigation,
the author assumes that it is not sufficient to take Heidegger at
his word, but that it is necessary to scrutinize what is posited as
fundamental in light of its broader implications-above all for
ethico-political judgment and for historical reflection. After
addressing this question in the first part of the book, the second
part examines the significance of Heidegger's reorientation of
philosophy through the prism of its critical reception in the
thought of Hannah Arendt, Emmanuel Levinas, and Paul Ricoeur.
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