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In this book, written in the wake of such influential European thinkers as Nietzsche, Heidegger, Foucault, Derrida, and Vattimo, Simon Oliai argues that unless the "European" affirmation of man's finite existence becomes universal, we shall never rid ourselves of the repressive shadow of a long dead metaphysical idol.
List of contents
Acknowledgments
An Inevitably Endless Introduction
Part I: The Use and the Danger of Heidegger for Contemporary Thought
Chapter 1: On the Contemporary Pertinence of Heidegger's Philosophical Questioning
Chapter 2: Safeguarding "Being" from Its Fundamentalist Self-Persecution
Part II: Nietzsche, Heidegger, and the Historical Destiny of "European" Thought
Chapter 3: Nietzsche on the Art of Resistance to Onto-Theology
Chapter 4: On "Be-coming European Today"
Chapter 5: Heidegger on the Promise of Art at the Twilight of Philosophy
Part III: On "Europe's" Endless Struggle Against "Fundamentalisms"
Chapter 6: On Europe's Enlightening Example
Chapter 7: Thinking the Essence of Neo-Fundamentalism
Chapter 8: Only a "God-Artist" Can Save Us: Religion as the "European" Art of Safeguarding the Earth with Others
About the author
Simon F. Oliai is a former UNESCO adviser on the worldwide promotion of the humanities, as well as a philosopher of history who has studied and lectured in the United States, France, and Iran. He has organized several noted international seminars in Europe and the Middle East and is the editor of the landmark international anniversary dossier on the Martin Heidegger, which was published by the French review Portique in 2006.
Summary
In this book, written in the wake of such influential European thinkers as Nietzsche, Heidegger, Foucault, Derrida, and Vattimo, Simon Oliai argues that unless the “European” affirmation of man’s finite existence becomes universal, we shall never rid ourselves of the repressive shadow of a long dead metaphysical idol.
