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Heidegger and Leibniz
Renato Cristin
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Description for Heidegger and Leibniz
Paperback. Translator(s): Parks, Gerald. Series: Contributions to Phenomenology. Num Pages: 159 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPCF3; HPJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 8. Weight in Grams: 240.
Heidegger holds that our age is dominated by the ambition of reason to possess the world. And he sees in Leibniz the man who formulated the theorem of our modern age: nothing happens without a reason. He calls this attitude `calculating thought' and opposes to it a kind of thought aimed at preserving the essence of things, which he calls `meditating thought'. Cristin's book ascribes great importance to this polarity of thinking for the future of contemporary philosophy, and thus compares the basic ideas of the two thinkers. Leibniz announces the conquest ... Read more
Heidegger holds that our age is dominated by the ambition of reason to possess the world. And he sees in Leibniz the man who formulated the theorem of our modern age: nothing happens without a reason. He calls this attitude `calculating thought' and opposes to it a kind of thought aimed at preserving the essence of things, which he calls `meditating thought'. Cristin's book ascribes great importance to this polarity of thinking for the future of contemporary philosophy, and thus compares the basic ideas of the two thinkers. Leibniz announces the conquest ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Springer Netherlands
Number of pages
159
Condition
New
Series
Contributions to Phenomenology
Number of Pages
136
Place of Publication
Dordrecht, Netherlands
ISBN
9789048150557
SKU
V9789048150557
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About Renato Cristin
Renato Cristin (born 1958) teaches Philosophical Hermeneutics at the University of Trieste and has been a visiting professor at the Universities of Madrid and Buenos Aires. He is on the Editorial Board of Orbis Phaenomenologicus. He has edited the Italian translations of works by Husserl, Heidegger and Gadamer. He has written or edited the following books: Fenomenologia. Storia ... Read more
Reviews for Heidegger and Leibniz
`Reason and the Path boasts a `Foreword' by Hans-Georg Gadamer, who praises Cristin's vast knowledge of Heidegger's writings ans his accurate working method (pp. VII,XI). It is a rich text, written in the lyrical style of much of the Continental secondary literature on Heidegger.' The Review of Metaphysics (March 2000)