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The Aconceptual Mind: Heideggerian themes in holistic naturalism

By Pauli Pylkkö

Book information

Publisher
John Benjamins Publishing Company
Year
1998
ISBN
9027251312, 9789027251312
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
33 MB (34262498 bytes)
Series
Advances in Consciousness Research
Pages
324\324
Time added
2016-04-06 02:12:52
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Description

According to Heidegger, naturalistic thinking is naive and unable to deal with its own essence and limitations. It can only serve the veiled interests of modern Western technology in its inherent inclination to attain global dominance. But these eight thematically intertwined essays face Heidegger’s critique of naturalistic thinking habits. The author develops a holistic and antirealistic version of naturalism. This ‘holistic naturalism’ does not approach nature as a set of entities or things which can be used for technological purposes. Instead, nature is approached as human experience which originally lacks conceptual structure and which can therefore not be fully controlled by a rational subject. (Series A)

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