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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.
Now in paperback, this important book explores the central role of
historical thought in the full range of Heidegger's thought, both
the early writings leading up to Being and Time, and after the
"reversal" or Kehre that inaugurated his later work. Barash
examines Heidegger's views on history in a richly developed context
of debates that transpired in the early 20th-century German
philosophy of history. He addresses a key unifying theme-the
problem of historical meaning and the search for coherent criteria
of truth in an era of historical relativism-as he traces the
engagement with historicity throughout all major epochs and works.
Barash revises this edition to explore new material, including
Heidegger's lecture course texts from 1910 to 1923, and adds an
expanded, updated bibliography.
There is one critical way we honor great tragedies: by never
forgetting. Collective remembrance is as old as human society
itself, serving as an important source of social cohesion, yet as
Jeffrey Andrew Barash shows in this book, it has served novel roles
in a modern era otherwise characterized by discontinuity and
dislocation. Drawing on recent theoretical explorations of
collective memory, he elaborates an important new philosophical
basis for it, one that unveils profound limitations to its scope in
relation to the historical past. Crucial to Barash's analysis is a
look at the radical transformations that symbolic configurations of
collective memory have undergone with the rise of new technologies
of mass communication. He provocatively demonstrates how such
technologies' capacity to simulate direct experience-especially via
the image-actually makes more palpable collective memory's
limitations and the opacity of the historical past, which always
lies beyond the reach of living memory. Thwarting skepticism,
however, he eventually looks to literature-specifically writers
such as Walter Scott, Marcel Proust, and W. G. Sebald-to uncover
subtle nuances of temporality that might offer inconspicuous
emblems of a past historical reality.
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