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Zusatztext "There is a sense that the questions addressed here-concerning ethics! politics! literature! and history—all belong to the same family of questions. Bernasconi worries over the concrete commitments of Heidegger's text and thought! which he takes to be inseparable from Heidegger's radicality." —Research in Phenomenology Informationen zum Autor Robert Bernasconi is Moss Professor of Philosophy at Memphis State University. Klappentext Robert Bernasconi explores in the context of Heidegger's thought a number of questions of far-reaching concern: what is the role of literary examples within philosophy? Is art dead? What is the relation of art to nature? Is there a place for the idea of a "people" in art and literary theory, and in philosophy? Is the history of philosophy to be written as a narrative? What is the status of ethics within philosophy? What place does philosophy give to praxis? What is the place today of the belief in the nobility of the philosophical life? What is the relation of politics to thought? Reflecting a dominant concern of recent Heidegger scholarship, the focal point of a number of the essays is the relation of Heidegger's own politics to his thought. In addition to this examination of what appears to compromise Heidegger's philosophy, Bernasconi explores its relation to the further possibilities which that thought has opened in the writings of Arendt, Gadamer, Levinas, and Derrida. Zusammenfassung Explores in the context of Heidegger's thought a number of questions of far-reaching concern: what is the role of literary examples within philosophy? Is art dead? What is the relation of art to nature? This book also explores its relation to the further possibilities which that thought has opened in the writings of Arendt! Gadamer! and Levinas.
