Martin Heidegger And European Nihilism

Author : Karl Löwith
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 326 pages
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Release : 1995
Category : History
ISBN : 0231084072

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Martin Heidegger and European Nihilism by Karl Löwith Pdf

Martin Heidegger and European Nihilism makes available in English Lowith's major writings concerning the origins of cultural breakdown in Europe that paved the way for the Third Reich. Including incisive discussions of Heidegger and Carl Schmitt, a noted legal theorist of the same period who also supported the Third Reich, Heidegger and European Nihilism helps to illuminate the allure of Nazism for scholars committed to revolutionary nihilism. Lowith's landmark essay on European nihilism is also included in its entirety here, along with two never-before-published letters from Heidegger to Lowith. In a work of impressive historical depth, Lowith traces the abandonment of higher European ideals in favor of a fatal flirtation with nihilism. These essays explore the enthronement of man above God, a trend that had begun to appear in European thought by the mid-nineteenth century in the works of Nietzsche and Marx and one that informed the nihilist philosophies of Heidegger and other theorists of the early twentieth century. An introduction by editor Richard Wolin provides lucid commentary, placing the three essays gathered here in a broad historical context, along with suggestions for further reading. This seminal work of intellectual history sheds light on the fascist impulses of nihilism in the first half of the twentieth century, but also offers unique perspective on the intellectual malaise of today.

Author : Laurence Paul Hemming,Kostas Amiridis,Bogdan Costea
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2011-03-03
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780826438690

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The Movement of Nihilism by Laurence Paul Hemming,Kostas Amiridis,Bogdan Costea Pdf

When Nietzsche announced 'the advent of nihilism' in 1887/88, he argued that he was sketching 'the history of the next two centuries': 'For some time now', he wrote, 'our whole European culture has been moving as toward catastrophe [...]: restlessly, violently, headlong, like a river that want to reach the end, that no longer reflects, that is afraid to reflect.' Can we gain a ground for reflection upon our own condition? Can we heed Nietzsche's warning? Can we respond to the challenge? In this book, eleven newly commissioned essays from leading scholars offer an attempt to grasp Nietzsche's prescience through Heidegger's critique of it; attempting to think through the philosophical consequences of the last century in reading the signs of our own condition. The book also provides and fascinating and unique discussion of some of the lesser-known texts of the later Heidegger.

Author : Daniel Fidel Ferrer,Fredrich Nietzsche
Publisher : Daniel Fidel Ferrer
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2020-08-25
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781979968591

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Nietzsche’s Lenzer Heide Notes on European Nihilism by Daniel Fidel Ferrer,Fredrich Nietzsche Pdf

Nietzsche’s Lenzer Heide Notes on European Nihilism / By Daniel Fidel Ferrer. ©2020 Daniel Fidel Ferrer. All rights reserved. Book formatted: 177 pages. Publisher: Kuhn von Verden Verlag. Language: English ISBN-13: 978-1979968591. Includes many bibliographical references. I have translated the entire group of Nietzsche’s notes that start with a note giving Nietzsche’s location “Lenzer Heide” (Graubünden, Switzerland) dated June 10, 1887 (Lenzer Heide den 10. Juni 1887). From the first note, eKGWB/NF-1886. 5 [71] and then subsection ending at the final note: eKGWB/NF-1886. 5 [110]. Volume information, KSA 12. Nachgelassene Fragmente 1885-1887, (1967). Section for this notebook is five. 5 = NVÜ3. Sommer 1886—Herbst 1887. Pages for this subsection are p. 211-229 (KSA 12). Over 190+ Nietzsche’s notes are also translated in this book. Additional materials from his published writing are included in the topics discussed. Principle conclusion: all of Nietzsche’s philosophical thought can be seen as his response to the urgent crisis of Nihilism. Countermovement to Nihilism. “The tragic era for Europe: due to the struggle with nihilism.” (Das tragische Zeitalter für Europa: bedingt durch den Kampf mit dem Nihilismus). KGWB/NF-1886, 7 [31]. More translations from all of Nietzsche’s writings covering such topic as: the eternal return of the same, Will to Power, B. Spinoza, concept of meaninglessness, Nihilism and Nietzsche Thought, Stages or the outline of Nihilism, Chronological Nietzsche’s Thoughts on Nihilism, and Nietzsche on the Nihilist. Nietzsche Contra Metaphysics: Rejection of ontology and Being Rejection of God Rejection of metaphysicians Rejection of the idea of eternal Rejection of supersensuous Rejection of Platonism Rejection of the dignity of humanity (metaphysicians) Rejection of eternal values Rejection of immorality Possible Metaphysical Claims for the idea of Will-to-Power, Connection of Will to Power and Amor Fati, Anti-metaphysical and perspectivism, Nietzsche's Metahistory of philosophy, and Bibliographic sources.

Author : José Daniel Parra
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2019-04-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781498576734

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Heidegger’s Nietzsche by José Daniel Parra Pdf

This text explores Martin Heidegger’s thinking in response to Nietzsche’s philosophy: beginning with the problem of European nihilism, moving toward a period of transition situated in-between classical and post-Cartesian ontology.

Author : Richard Wolin
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2016-11-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780231543026

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The Politics of Being by Richard Wolin Pdf

Martin Heidegger's ties to Nazism have tarnished his stature as one of the towering figures of twentieth-century philosophy. The publication of the Black Notebooks in 2014, which revealed the full extent of Heidegger's anti-Semitism and enduring sympathy for National Socialism, only inflamed the controversy. Richard Wolin's The Politics of Being: The Political Thought of Martin Heidegger has played a seminal role in the international debate over the consequences of Heidegger's Nazism. In this edition, the author provides a new preface addressing the effect of the Black Notebooks on our understanding of the relationship between politics and philosophy in Heidegger's work. Building on his pathbreaking interpretation of the philosopher's political thought, Wolin demonstrates that philosophy and politics cannot be disentangled in Heidegger's oeuvre. Völkisch ideological themes suffuse even his most sublime philosophical treatises. Therefore, despite Heidegger's profundity as a thinker, his critique of civilization is saturated with disturbing anti-democratic and anti-Semitic leitmotifs and claims.

Author : Martin Heidegger
Publisher : Harper San Francisco
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : IND:30000002821613

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Nihilism by Martin Heidegger Pdf

Author : Martin Heidegger
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 175 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2022-11-29
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781509540068

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Metaphysics and Nihilism by Martin Heidegger Pdf

The two treatises The Overcoming of Metaphysics (1938/39) and The Essence of Nihilism (1946–1948) do not belong together temporally or formally, but they are brought together in this volume because they both treat a common thesis from the standpoint of different questions – namely, that nihilism is the essence of metaphysics in relation to the history of being. The overcoming of metaphysics is, for Heidegger, the decisive historical moment in which metaphysics is experienced as the history of the abandonment by being and overcome at the same time. The abandonment of beings by being reveals itself in the final and most extreme intensification of metaphysics as the “unconditioned predominance of manipulation.” Manipulation means here the all-dominating producibility of beings. The Essence of Nihilism is linked to the idea of overcoming. This text deals with the attempt to elucidate the essence of nihilism through Nietzsche’s words “God is dead.” The killing of God springs from the will to power as the most extreme form of manipulation. The being of beings is grasped here as the positing of values emanating from the will to power. In this positing of being as value, it becomes clear that being itself remained unthought in metaphysics. Therefore, metaphysics as such is nihilism proper. These key works by Heidegger, now available in English for the first time, will be of great interest to students and scholars of philosophy and to anyone interested in Heidegger’s thought.

Author : Dominic Kelly
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2022-08-25
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781350133778

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Beyond Nihilism by Dominic Kelly Pdf

Martin Heidegger's (1889-1976) criticism of Friedrich Nietzsche's nihilism represented a 'turn' in his thought. In this new and perceptive book, Dominic Kelly explores nihilism through the work of two relatively modern and much studied philosophers; Heidegger and Nietzsche and shows how Heidegger began to think in a way that was not solely philosophical and instead used poetry to achieve a new relation to being. In doing so, Heidegger was able to move past Nietzsche's concepts and thus, nihilism itself. Through his exploration of Heidegger's journey to a form of thinking beyond the philosophical then, Kelly exposes nihilism's crucial place in Continental philosophy and has written a book that is essential for students and academics working in Heidegger studies. Kelly's engagement with Heidegger's more poetic philosophy also benefits students of metaphysics, the philosophy of art and aesthetics, and visual culture more widely. By putting nihilism into its historical context and examining its Ancient Greek origins, Kelly's book will also be of use to those studying early philosophical thought - a requirement for all philosophy courses – and provides a valuable account of nihilism's historical trajectory.

Author : Gianni Vattimo
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2021-08-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780228007845

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Being and Its Surroundings by Gianni Vattimo Pdf

Gianni Vattimo, one of Europe's foremost contemporary philosophers and most famously associated with the concept of weak thought, explores theoretical and practical issues flowing from his fundamental rejection of the traditional Western understanding of Being as an absolute, unchanging, and transcendent reality. The essays in this book move within the surroundings of Being without constructing a systematic, definitive analysis of the topic. In Being and Its Surroundings, Vattimo continues his career-long exploration of the philosophy of Martin Heidegger, in particular his repudiation of metaphysics with its presupposition of the existence of permanent, universal truth, and that of Friedrich Nietzsche, with its promotion of nihilism. One consequence of problematizing the idea of an attainable truth is the relativization of values and cultures. In the face of the death of God – or the absence of a transcendent guarantor of the validity of human judgments – we have the postmodern tendency to see all value systems and assertions of truth as purely subjective, and to suggest that "anything goes," which Nietzsche called passive nihilism. Vattimo advocates a more active response as he challenges all forms of authoritarianism in the world today. He brings his intellectual acumen to bear on such urgent issues as globalization, the clash of civilizations and terrorism, the crisis of democracy, and the relevance of orthodox religion. Rather than endorse dogmatism or indifference and detachment from social engagement in the name of relativism, Vattimo opts for the path of meaningful dialogue and a search for a mediated consensus based on reason, with all its limitations.

Author : Gianni Vattimo
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2007-02-27
Category : Law
ISBN : 023113083X

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Nihilism & Emancipation by Gianni Vattimo Pdf

Features essays on ethics, politics, and law. This book re-evaluates the meaning, values, and the idea of freedom in Western culture. A daring marriage of philosophical theory and practical politics, this collection is the first of Gianni Vattimo's many books to combine his intellectual pursuits with his public and political life. Vattimo is a paradoxical figure, at once a believing Christian and a vociferous critic of the Catholic Church, an outspoken liberal but not a former communist, and a recognized authority on Nietzsche and Heidegger as well as a prominent public intellectual and member of the European parliament.

Author : Keiji Nishitani
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1990-10-02
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781438414751

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The Self-Overcoming of Nihilism by Keiji Nishitani Pdf

Translation of an important work by the contemporary Japanese philosopher Keiji Nishitani.

Author : Richard Wolin
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2015-08-25
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781400873692

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Heidegger's Children by Richard Wolin Pdf

Martin Heidegger is perhaps the twentieth century's greatest philosopher, and his work stimulated much that is original and compelling in modern thought. A seductive classroom presence, he attracted Germany's brightest young intellects during the 1920s. Many were Jews, who ultimately would have to reconcile their philosophical and, often, personal commitments to Heidegger with his nefarious political views. In 1933, Heidegger cast his lot with National Socialism. He squelched the careers of Jewish students and denounced fellow professors whom he considered insufficiently radical. For years, he signed letters and opened lectures with ''Heil Hitler!'' He paid dues to the Nazi party until the bitter end. Equally problematic for his former students were his sordid efforts to make existential thought serviceable to Nazi ends and his failure to ever renounce these actions. This book explores how four of Heidegger's most influential Jewish students came to grips with his Nazi association and how it affected their thinking. Hannah Arendt, who was Heidegger's lover as well as his student, went on to become one of the century's greatest political thinkers. Karl Löwith returned to Germany in 1953 and quickly became one of its leading philosophers. Hans Jonas grew famous as Germany's premier philosopher of environmentalism. Herbert Marcuse gained celebrity as a Frankfurt School intellectual and mentor to the New Left. Why did these brilliant minds fail to see what was in Heidegger's heart and Germany's future? How would they, after the war, reappraise Germany's intellectual traditions? Could they salvage aspects of Heidegger's thought? Would their philosophy reflect or completely reject their early studies? Could these Heideggerians forgive, or even try to understand, the betrayal of the man they so admired? Heidegger's Children locates these paradoxes in the wider cruel irony that European Jews experienced their greatest calamity immediately following their fullest assimilation. And it finds in their responses answers to questions about the nature of existential disillusionment and the juncture between politics and ideas.

Author : Martin Heidegger
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0710007442

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Nietzsche by Martin Heidegger Pdf

Originally published in 4 v. by Harper & Row, 1979-1987.

Author : Alexander Dugin
Publisher : Radix
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2014-11-02
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1593680384

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Martin Heidegger by Alexander Dugin Pdf

There are few philosophers more influential, more misunderstood, more admired, and more feared than Martin Heidegger. He is simply unavoidable for an understanding of modern thought, modern culture, and the modern world. As Alexander Dugin explores in *Martin Heidegger: The Philosophy of Another Beginning*, Heidegger traces a particular conception of Being and truth-begun with the pre-Socratics and cemented with Plato and Aristotle-that has, over millennia, led the West to embrace materialism, egalitarianism, and nihilism. It is Heidegger, argues Dugin, who understood this most deeply; it is thus Heidegger who opens up space for "Another Beginning"-a new grounding for human experience. Drawing on the history of philosophy, political ideologies, and Heidegger's relationship to Germany and Europe-and including a useful bibliography and glossary of terms-Dugin's analysis will be of great interest to scholars as well as those encountering Heidegger for the first time.

Author : Silvia Benso,Brian Schroeder
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2010-09-29
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781438432861

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Between Nihilism and Politics by Silvia Benso,Brian Schroeder Pdf

Essays describe Italian philosopher Gianni Vattimo’s unique and radical hermeneutic philosophy.