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Timely Meditations: Martin Heidegger and Postmodern Politics
Focusing on the concept of freedom, Leslie Paul Thiele makes Heidegger's philosophical works speak directly to politics in a postmodern world. Neither excusing Heidegger for his political sins nor ignoring their lesson, Thiele nonetheless refrains from polemic in order creatively to engage one of the greatest philosophers of our time. The product of this engagement is a vindication of a democratic and ecological politics firmly grounded in philosophic inquiry.
Using Heidegger's understanding of freedom as a point of departure, Timely Meditations lays out the philosophic and political nature and potential of freedom in thought, speech, and deed. This disclosive freedom is contrasted to both modern (positive and negative) and postmodern (Nietzschean and Foucaultian) variations. The result is an original and provocative study that challenges our present understanding of liberty while underlining dangerous collusion with the contemporary forces of technology.
Timely Meditations marks an increasingly rare achievement today. For unlike many theorists who attempt to steer a course into the world of postmodern politics, Thiele does so without forsaking philosophic foundations and without abandoning practical hopes and tasks for rhetorical diversions.
Using Heidegger's understanding of freedom as a point of departure, Timely Meditations lays out the philosophic and political nature and potential of freedom in thought, speech, and deed. This disclosive freedom is contrasted to both modern (positive and negative) and postmodern (Nietzschean and Foucaultian) variations. The result is an original and provocative study that challenges our present understanding of liberty while underlining dangerous collusion with the contemporary forces of technology.
Timely Meditations marks an increasingly rare achievement today. For unlike many theorists who attempt to steer a course into the world of postmodern politics, Thiele does so without forsaking philosophic foundations and without abandoning practical hopes and tasks for rhetorical diversions.
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280 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1995
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February 21, 2020
Martin Heidegger: nunca vamos conseguir desculpar a sua aliança com o nazismo, o seu silêncio após o fim da II guerra mundial. Mas continuará a ser um dos maiores filósofos de sempre, um dos mais ousados, cheio de metáforas poderosas, cheio de interrogações. Porém, a sua filosofia não é desvendada sem sacrifício, sem paciência, sem silêncio. Esta obra é uma magnífica introdução a Heidegger, mas sem descurar Nietzsche, Focault, Wittgenstein, entre outros.
Uma portentosa introdução ao mundo "heideggeriano". Um hino à inquietação do filósofo, que tão bem descreveu Novalis: " a Filosofia é realmente um estado de nostalgia, um anseio por nos sentirmos em casa em qualquer parte. Para onde, então, estamos nós a ir? Sempre em direção a nossa casa."
Uma portentosa introdução ao mundo "heideggeriano". Um hino à inquietação do filósofo, que tão bem descreveu Novalis: " a Filosofia é realmente um estado de nostalgia, um anseio por nos sentirmos em casa em qualquer parte. Para onde, então, estamos nós a ir? Sempre em direção a nossa casa."
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