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Heidegger
Badiou, Alain; Cassin, Barbara
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Hardback. Translator(s): Spitzer, Susan. Series: Insurrections: Critical Studies in Religion, Politics, and Culture. Num Pages: 120 pages. BIC Classification: HPCF7. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 178 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 181.
Martin Heidegger was an ordinary Nazi and a loyal member of the provincial petty bourgeoisie. He was also a seminal thinker of the Continental tradition and one of the twentieth century's most important philosophers. How are we to make sense of this dual life? Should we factor Heidegger's domestic and political associations into our understanding of his thought, or should we treat his intellectual work independently of his abhorrent politics? How does any thinker reconcile the mundane with the ideal or the pursuit of philosophical inquiry with the demands of civic engagement? In Heidegger, Alain Badiou and Barbara Cassin ... Read more
Martin Heidegger was an ordinary Nazi and a loyal member of the provincial petty bourgeoisie. He was also a seminal thinker of the Continental tradition and one of the twentieth century's most important philosophers. How are we to make sense of this dual life? Should we factor Heidegger's domestic and political associations into our understanding of his thought, or should we treat his intellectual work independently of his abhorrent politics? How does any thinker reconcile the mundane with the ideal or the pursuit of philosophical inquiry with the demands of civic engagement? In Heidegger, Alain Badiou and Barbara Cassin ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
120
Condition
New
Series
Insurrections: Critical Studies in Religion, Politics, and Culture
Number of Pages
120
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780231157964
SKU
V9780231157964
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About Badiou, Alain; Cassin, Barbara
Alain Badiou (PhD, Philosophy, Ecole Normale Superieure) holds the Rene Descartes Chair at the European Graduate School; he also teaches at the Ecole Normale Superieure and the College International de Philosophie in Paris. He is the author of several successful novels and plays as well as more than a dozen philosophical works, including his masterwork, Being and Event (Continuum, 2007), ... Read more
Reviews for Heidegger
You will enjoy spending time with Badiou and Cassin: sharing in their witty remarks, profiting from their reserves of intellectual culture and human experience.
Graham Harman, author of Immaterialism: Objects and Social Theory The book is conversational, with touches of personality and wit - a friendly battle between thinkers who know each other well, and respect each other enormously, ... Read more
Graham Harman, author of Immaterialism: Objects and Social Theory The book is conversational, with touches of personality and wit - a friendly battle between thinkers who know each other well, and respect each other enormously, ... Read more