Self-identity and powerlessness / / by Alice Koubova

• Autore: Koubová Alice
• Pubblicazione: Boston, : Brill, 2013
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (251 p.)
• Disciplina: 128
• Soggetto topico: Philosophy - Criticism and interpretation; Phenomenology
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Preliminary Material -- Introduction -- 1. The Principle of Identity in Heidegger’s Descartes -- 2. The Impossibility of a Powerless Da-sein and a Powerful World in Fundamental Ontology -- 3. Paul Ricoeur: Third Mode through Narrativity -- 4. The Powerlessness of Self-Relating and the Power of the World: Exemplification -- 5. Happy Powerlessness, Relaxed Da-sein -- Bibliography -- Index of Subjects -- Index of Modern Authors.
• Sommario/riassunto: In Self-Identity and Powerlessness , Alice Koubová proposes a conception of human existence that does not essentially depend on the definition of self-identity. The author shows that the philosophical stress on human identity fails to grasp essential aspects of human existence. By emphasizing the moments of Dasein’s powerlessness in Heidegger’s fundamental ontology, she develops — in her analysis of various philosophers, literary examples, and social psychology —an original phenomenology of alternation of existence and affair. How necessary is identity for thinking? Are we capable of philosophical thought even when we have neither ourselves, nor the world under our full control? Is it possible to relax, become powerless, and yet think precisely? These questions are to be answered in this book.
• Titolo autorizzato: Self-identity and powerlessness
• ISBN: 90-04-25500-1
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9911137638603321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Studies in Contemporary Phenomenology ; 8.