| Heidegger and the Subject Contributor(s): Raffoul, Francois (Author) |
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ISBN: 1573926183 ISBN-13: 9781573926188 Publisher: Humanities Press Intl OUR PRICE: $98.80 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: April 1999 Annotation: Against traditional interpretations, which claim either that Heidegger has rendered all accounts of subjectivity -- and consequently of ethics -- impossible, or, on the contrary, that Heidegger merely renews the modern metaphysics of subjectivity, Raffoul demonstrates how Heidegger's destruction/deconstruction of the subject opens the space for a radically nonsubjectivistic formulation of human being. Raffoul reconstitutes and analyzes Heidegger's debate with the great thinkers of subjectivity (Descartes, Kant, Husserl), in order to show that Heidegger's "destructive" reading of the modern metaphysics of subjectivity is, in fact, a positive reappropriation of the ontological foundations of the subject. Raffoul's recasting of Heidegger's work on human subjectivity should prove indispensible in future debates on the fate of the subject in the postmodern era. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Philosophy | Movements - Existentialism - Philosophy | Metaphysics - Philosophy | History & Surveys - Modern |
| Dewey: 126.092 |
| LCCN: 96048463 |
| Series: Contemporary Studies in Philosophy and the Human Sciences |
| Physical Information: 0.97" H x 5.6" W x 8.38" (1 lbs) 335 pages |
| Themes: - Theometrics - Academic |
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| Publisher Description: Against traditional interpretations, which claim either that Heidegger has rendered all accounts of subjectivity-and consequently of ethics-impossible, or, on the contrary, that Heidegger merely renews the modern metaphysics of subjectivity, Raffoul demonstrates how Heidegger's destruction/deconstruction of the subject opens the space for a radically nonsubjectivistic formulation of human being. Raffoul reconstitutes and analyzes Heidegger's debate with the great thinkers of subjectivity (Descartes, Kant, Husserl), in order to show that Heidegger's "destructive" reading of the modern metaphysics of subjectivity is, in fact, a positive reappropriation of the ontological foundations of the subject. Raffoul's recasting of Heidegger's work on human subjectivity should prove indispensable in future debates on the fate of the subject in the postmodern era. |