Being and Contingency - Decrypting Heidegger''s Terminology

Using a hypothetical language game as a premise and working through the theory of decryption of power, the book decrypts the pillars of the philosophy of being, mainly Heidegger¿s construction of the "ready to hand," proposing a novel theory of being as difference that is impregnated in politics.

List of contents

Introduction

Chapter 1. The 'X Game of Language'

Chapter 2. Definition of The Ready to Hand

Chapter 3. That 'Thing' with the They and the Hinges of Signification

Chapter 4. Naming and Difference. Multiple Worlds and the Power Play

Chapter 5. Objects and Social Performances: Seeing as Gathering

Chapter 6. Resoluteness (Entschlossenheit), Discourse and Disclosedness

Conclusion

About the author

Ricardo Sanín-Restrepo is a member of the Caribbean Philosophical Association and a professor of legal and political theory at several institutions across Latin America, including Universidad Autónoma de Mexico (UNAM), Universidad Central de Quito, Universidad San Luis de Potosí (Mexico), PUC Rio de Janeiro, and Universidad Javeriana in Colombia, among others. He is the author of Decolonizing Democracy (RLI, 2016).

Product details

• Authors: Ricardo Sanfn-restrepo, Ricardo Sanin-Restrepo, Ricardo Sanín-Restrepo, Sanín-Restrepo Ricardo
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.11.2020
• EAN: 9781538147672
• ISBN: 978-1-5381-4767-2
• No. of pages: 160
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Phenomenology, PHILOSOPHY / Individual Philosophers, PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Existentialism, Phenomenology & Existentialism