Philosophy, Revision, Critique - David Wittenberg
Rereading Practices in Heidegger, Nietzsche, and Emerson
KORTE INHOUD
Philosophers have almost always relegated the topic of revision to the sidelines of their discipline, if they have thought about it at all. This book contends that acts of revision are central and indispensable to the project of philosophizing and that philosophy should be construed essentially as a practice of rereading and rewriting. The book focuses chiefly on Heidegger’s highly influential interpretation of Nietzsche, conducted in lectures during the 1930s and 1940s and published in 1961. The author closely analyzes the rhetorical means by which Heidegger repositions Nietzsche’s thinking within a broad history of metaphysics, even as Heidegger positions his own reinterpretation as that history’s more “proper” reading. The author argues that Heidegger’s revisionist project recasts the philosophical text as paralipsis, a special kind of ironic statement that when “properly” received by the philosophical rereader, expresses what the text did not and could not say. The study of such paraliptical revisionism w...
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2001Uitgever: Stanford University Press288 paginasTaal: EngelsISBN-10: 0804734151ISBN-13: 9780804734158Koop dit boek tweedehands
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Stanford University Presss: Stanford, 2001. Cloth with dustwrapper, 266 pp., notes, works cited, index, 14x22x2,5 cm, in very good condition (F/VG). [Categorie: Filosofie] [Auteur: Wittenberg, David.] [Pagina's: 266] [Jaar: 2001] [Titel: Philosophy, Revision, Critique: Rereading practices in Heidegger, Nietzsche and Emerson.]
