"Heidegger Beyond Deconstruction" argues that Heidegger's question
of being cannot be separated from the question of nature and
culture, and that the history of being describes the growing
predominance of culture and technology over nature, resulting in
today's environmental crisis. It proposes that we turn to
Heidegger's thought in order fully to understand this crisis.In
doing so it is necessary to retrieve those elements of his thought
which are most maligned by Derridean deconstruction: the pastoral,
the homely, the local. In a world coming to terms with the
destructive nature of 'globalisation' and the networks of
distribution and travel which lacerate the globe, we are witnessing
a gradual return to the 'locally produced', the 'organic', the
'micro-generation' of energy unplugged from the national and
international grid: in other words, a return to the 'near'. The
necessities and problems inherent in this return, which the
'environmental movement' must address, are already to be found in
Heidegger's thought.Lewis confronts this thought with that of
Lacan, Levinas, Zizek, and Marx in order to reinvent the element to
which deconstruction usually confines it and bring it into a
position from which to confront the most pressing ethical and
political questions of today.
General
| Imprint: |
Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd.
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| Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
| Series: |
Continuum Studies in Continental Philosophy |
| Release date: |
December 2007 |
| First published: |
February 2008 |
| Authors: |
Michael Lewis
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| Dimensions: |
234 x 156 x 21mm (L x W x T) |
| Format: |
Hardcover
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| Pages: |
208 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-0-8264-9779-6 |
| Languages: |
English
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| Subtitles: |
English
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| Categories: |
Books >
Humanities >
Philosophy >
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Books >
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| LSN: |
0-8264-9779-9 |
| Barcode: |
9780826497796 |
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