Natality and Finitude

Informationen zum Autor Anne O'Byrne is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Stony Brook University. Klappentext Philosophers are accustomed to thinking about human existence as finite and deathbound. Anne O'Byrne focuses instead on birth as a way to make sense of being alive. Building on the work of Heidegger, Dilthey, Arendt, and Nancy, O'Byrne discusses how the world becomes ours and how meaning emerges from our relations to generations past and to come. Themes such as creation, time, inheritance, birth and action, embodiment, biological determinism, and cloning anchor this sensitive and powerful analysis. O'Byrne's thinking advances and deepens important discussions at the intersections of feminism, continental philosophy, philosophy of religion, and social and political thought. Zusammenfassung Reorienting our approach to fundamental questions about human existence Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments List of Abbreviations 1. Introduction: Sophocles' Wisdom 2. Historicity and the Metaphysics of Existence: Heidegger 3. Generating Life, Generating Meaning: Dilthey 4. Philosophy and Action: Arendt 5. On the Threshold of Finitude: Nancy Afterword: What Would the Clone Make of Us? Notes Bibliography Index

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• Autoren: &apos, Anne E. Richardson byrne, O&apos, Anne O'Byrne, Anne E. Richardson O'byrne, Anne O''byrne, Anne E. Richardson O''byrne, O'Byrne Anne
• Verlag: Indiana University Press
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 22.09.2010
• EAN: 9780253222411
• ISBN: 978-0-253-22241-1
• Seiten: 218
• Serien: Studies in Continental Thought; Studies in Continental Thought; Indiana University Press (IPS)
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Philosophie > Allgemeines, Lexika; Sachbuch > Philosophie, Religion > Philosophie: Antike bis Gegenwart