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Record Nr.

UNINA9910824101703321

Autore

Nichols Robert

Titolo

World of Freedom [[electronic resource] ] : Heidegger, Foucault, and the Politics of Historical Ontology

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Palo Alto, : Stanford University Press, 2014

ISBN

0-8047-9271-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (294 p.)

Disciplina

193

Soggetti

Foucault, Michel, -- 1926-1984

Heidegger, Martin, -- 1889-1976

Ontology - Philosophy - 20th century

Liberty - Philosophy

Political science

Continental philosophy

Philosophy, European

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- CONTENTS -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- 1. Overview of the Problematic -- 2. Potentiality and Authenticity: Heidegger’s Preparatory Existential Analytic in Being and Time -- 3. The Field of Freedom: Heidegger from Fundamental to Historical Ontology -- 4. Foucault Contra Heidegger -- 5. Foucault’s “Autocritique”: Three Equivocations of Conduct, Experience, and Thought -- 6. The Subject of Spirituality -- 7. Objectification, Reification, Subjectification: Historical Ontology and Social Criticism -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

Martin Heidegger and Michel Foucault are two of the most important and influential thinkers of the twentieth century. Each has spawned volumes of secondary literature and sparked fierce, polarizing debates, particularly about the relationship between philosophy and politics. And yet, to date there exists almost no work that presents a systematic and comprehensive engagement of the two in relation to one another. The World of Freedom addresses this lacuna.Neither apology nor polemic, the book demonstrates that it is not merely interesting but



necessary to read Heidegger and Foucault alongside o