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Broken Hegemonies
". . . a book of striking originality and depth, a brilliant and quite new interpretation of the nature and history of philosophy." ―John Sallis
In Broken Hegemonies, the late distinguished philosopher Reiner Schürmann offers a radical rethinking of the history of Western philosophy from the Greeks through Heidegger. Schürmann interprets the history of Western thought and action as a series of eras governed by the rise and fall of certain dominating philosophical ideas that contained the seeds of their own destruction. These eras coincided with their dominant Greek, Latin, and vernacular tongues. Analyzing philosophical texts from Parmenides, Plotinus, and Cicero, through Augustine, Meister Eckhardt, and Kant, to Heidegger, Schürmann traces the arguments by which these ideas gained hegemony and by which their credibility was ultimately demolished. Recognizing the failure of ultimate norms, Broken Hegemonies questions how humanity today is to think and act in the absence of principles.
In Broken Hegemonies, the late distinguished philosopher Reiner Schürmann offers a radical rethinking of the history of Western philosophy from the Greeks through Heidegger. Schürmann interprets the history of Western thought and action as a series of eras governed by the rise and fall of certain dominating philosophical ideas that contained the seeds of their own destruction. These eras coincided with their dominant Greek, Latin, and vernacular tongues. Analyzing philosophical texts from Parmenides, Plotinus, and Cicero, through Augustine, Meister Eckhardt, and Kant, to Heidegger, Schürmann traces the arguments by which these ideas gained hegemony and by which their credibility was ultimately demolished. Recognizing the failure of ultimate norms, Broken Hegemonies questions how humanity today is to think and act in the absence of principles.
- GenresPhilosophy
712 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1996
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Reiner Schürmann
18 books13 followersReiner Schürmann, O.P. was a German philosopher. From 1976 to his death, he was Professor in the department of philosophy of the Graduate Faculty of the New School for Social Research in New York City. He wrote all his major published work in French.
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September 14, 2012
I'm really going to do it this time. . . I'm going to read this book. I'm currently on p.20. I've owned this book for about 2 years, and this is at least my third attempt. But I'm not messing around anymore. I've got to learn about the singularization to come, before it comes. And I die.
May 6, 2017
Can your Ur be more Arche please?
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December 30, 2015Opuesta a la generación se alza la corrupción. Lejos de ser el complemento necesario de la generación, como les gustaría a las diversas corrientes Platónicas de la filosofía, la corrupción es apenas su simple negación.
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