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Spirit in Ashes: Hegel, Heidegger, and Man-Made Mass Death

By Edith Wyschogrod

Book information

Publisher
Yale University Press
Year
1985
ISBN
0300033222, 9780300033229
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
13 MB (13467857 bytes)
Pages
247\263
Time added
2020-04-07 01:01:33

Description

'The book's main thesis--that phenomena like Auschwitz and Hiroshima, the process Wyschogrod calls 'the death world, ' have established a new historically conditioned a priori that must transforms the meaning of self, time, and language--is original, challenging and developed in a clear and forceful manner..' --Karsten Harries Contents Preface Acknowledgments List of Abbreviations 1. Kingdoms of Death 2. The Logic of Mass Death 3. Hegel and the Crises of Cognition 4. Hegel and the Aporias of Existence 5. Finitude and the Structures of Existence: 6. Technology and Poetry: The Later Heidegger 7. Self, Language, and Community Notes Index

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