Inheritance and Originality - Wittgenstein, Heidegger, Kierkegaard

Zusatztext Mulhall's readings are rich, provocative and sometimes compelling ... [Reading the book] is a long and demanding journey ... to those who undertake it, Inheritance and Originality offers a complex vision of the dispensation required for a transfiguration of our moral - and religious - consciousness. Informationen zum Autor Stephen Mulhall is Fellow and Tutor in Philosophy, New College, Oxford. Klappentext What does it mean to think of philosophy in the condition of modernism, in which its relation to its past and future has become a relevant problem? This book argues that the writings of Wittgenstein, Heidegger, and Kierkegaard are best understood as responsive (each in their own way) to such questions. Through detailed analysis of these authors' most influential texts, Stephen Mulhall reorients our sense of the philosophical work each text aims to accomplish, engendering a critical dialogue between them from which the elements of a new conception of philosophy might emerge. Zusammenfassung Presents a study of Wittgenstein, Heidegger, and Kierkegaard which argues that they find themselves unable simply to inherit the prevailing conventions definitive of philosophy. This book explains how by placing these conventions in question, they reconceive the form of philosophical writing, and of philosophy itself. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction 1: Modernist Origins: Reading Stanley Cavell's The Claim of Reason Part One Wittgenstein's Vision of Language: Reading the Philosophical Investigations Part Two Heidegger's Vision of Scepticism: Reading Being and Time and What is Called Thinking? Part Three Kierkegaard's Vision of Religion: Reading Philosophical Fragments, Fear and Trembling, and Repetition Acknowledgements Bibliography

Product details

• Authors: Stephen Mulhall, Stephen (Fellow and Tutor in Philosophy Mulhall
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.09.2001
• EAN: 9780199243907
• ISBN: 978-0-19-924390-7
• No. of pages: 460
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; History of Ideas, PHILOSOPHY / Religious, HISTORY / Social History, PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Phenomenology, RELIGION / Philosophy, PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Existentialism, Philosophy of religion, Phenomenology & Existentialism, Phenomenology and Existentialism