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Autore |
Oliai Simon F. |
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Titolo |
Challenging the absolute : Nietzsche, Heidegger, and Europe's struggle against fundamentalism / / Simon F. Oliai |
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Lanham, Maryland : , : University Press of America, , [2015] |
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©2015 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (171 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Fundamentalism - History |
Absolute, The |
Philosophy - Europe - History |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Contents; Acknowledgments; An Inevitably Endless Introduction; I: The Use and the Danger of Heidegger for Contemporary Thought; 1 On the Contemporary Pertinence of Heidegger's Philosophical Questioning; 2 Safeguarding "Being" from Its Fundamentalist Self-Persecution; II: Nietzsche, Heidegger, and the Historical Destiny of "European" Thought; 3 Nietzsche on the Art of Resistance to Onto-Theology; 4 On "Be-coming European Today"; 5 Heidegger on the Promise of Art at the Twilight of Philosophy; III: On "Europe's" Endless Struggle Against "Fundamentalisms"; 6 On Europe's Enlightening Example |
7 Thinking the Essence of Neo-Fundamentalism8 Only a "God-Artist" Can Save Us; Notes |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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<span><span>In this book, written in the wake of such influential European thinkers as Nietzsche, Heidegger, Foucault, Derrida, and Vattimo, Simon Oliai argues that unless the "European" affirmation of man's finite existence becomes universal, we shall never rid ourselves of the repressive shadow of a long dead metaphysical idol.</span></span> |
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