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The Remains of Being. Hermeneutic Ontology After Metaphysics.
Santiago Zabala
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Num Pages: 178 pages. BIC Classification: HPCF7; HPJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 188 x 149 x 20. Weight in Grams: 340.
In Basic Concepts, Heidegger claims that "Being is the most worn-out" and yet also that Being "remains constantly available." Santiago Zabala radicalizes the consequences of these little known but significant affirmations. Revisiting the work of Jacques Derrida, Reiner Schurmann, Jean-Luc Nancy, Hans-Georg Gadamer, Ernst Tugendhat, and Gianni Vattimo, he finds these remains of Being within which ontological thought can still operate. Being is an event, Zabala argues, a kind of generosity and gift that generates astonishment in those who experience it. This sense of wonder has fueled questions of meaning for centuries-from Plato to the present day. Postmetaphysical accounts of ... Read more
In Basic Concepts, Heidegger claims that "Being is the most worn-out" and yet also that Being "remains constantly available." Santiago Zabala radicalizes the consequences of these little known but significant affirmations. Revisiting the work of Jacques Derrida, Reiner Schurmann, Jean-Luc Nancy, Hans-Georg Gadamer, Ernst Tugendhat, and Gianni Vattimo, he finds these remains of Being within which ontological thought can still operate. Being is an event, Zabala argues, a kind of generosity and gift that generates astonishment in those who experience it. This sense of wonder has fueled questions of meaning for centuries-from Plato to the present day. Postmetaphysical accounts of ... Read more
Product Details
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
178
Condition
New
Number of Pages
178
Format
Hardback
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780231148306
SKU
V9780231148306
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About Santiago Zabala
Santiago Zabala is ICREA Research Professor at the University of Barcelona. He is the author of The Hermeneutic Nature of Analytic Philosophy: A Study of Ernst Tugendhat; editor of Art's Claim to Truth, Weakening Philosophy, Nihilism and Emancipation, and The Future of Religion; and coeditor (with Jeff Malpas) of Consequences of Hermeneutics.
Reviews for The Remains of Being. Hermeneutic Ontology After Metaphysics.
Zabala has given us a book which deserves wide reading and debate.
David Jasper Literature & Theology An effective reminder of some of the most important developments twentieth-century continental philosophy.
Richard Polt Parrhesia ...the book offers illuminating characterizations and suggestions.
Andrew B. Irvine Religious Studies Review
David Jasper Literature & Theology An effective reminder of some of the most important developments twentieth-century continental philosophy.
Richard Polt Parrhesia ...the book offers illuminating characterizations and suggestions.
Andrew B. Irvine Religious Studies Review