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Demythologizing Heidegger
Contributor(s): Caputo, John D. (Author)
ISBN: 0253208386     ISBN-13: 9780253208385
Publisher: Indiana University Press
OUR PRICE:   $29.65  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: November 1993
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Annotation: This book calls for a distinction between dangerous, elitist, hierarchizing myths such as Heidegger's and salutary, liberative, empowering myths that foster the humility of justice.
Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Philosophy | History & Surveys - Modern
Dewey: 193
LCCN: 93000461
Lexile Measure: 1430
Series: Indiana the Philosophy of Religion
Physical Information: 0.69" H x 6.16" W x 9.25" (0.90 lbs) 252 pages
 
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Caputo offers a compelling plea for a reinterpretation of Heidegger that will make us more humane, and more attuned to the call of justice and mercy than to the call of Being. --Christian Century

There is no other book that focuses on the religious significance of the many 'turnings' in Heidegger's thought, nor that addresses the question of Heidegger's politics textually rather than autobiographically. --Merold Westphal

A readable chronological consideration of Heidegger's texts that assesses his achievement as a thinker, while pointing to the sources of his political and ethical failure. Caputo addresses the religious significance of Heidegger's thought.