The Path of Archaic Thinking

Unfolding the Work of John Sallis

316 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

The first anthology of commentary on Sallis that shows what is genuinely unique in his thought: the transformative relation of reason and imagination in thinking "after HeideggerThis book demonstrates that the kind of philosophy called Continental thought belongs to America in its own right. It reflects the depth, originality, and revolutionary character of Sallis's "re-doing" imagination-of his twisting imagination free from a metaphysics of presence and of subjectivity.The book includes essays by Walter Biemel, Peg Birmingham, Walter Brogan, Françoise Dastur, Jacques Derrida, Parvis Emad, Eliane Escoubas, Bernard Freydberg, Rodolphe Gasché, Michel Haar, John Llewelyn, Kenneth Maly, Adriaan Peperzak, James Risser, and Charles Scott. This array of contributors demonstrates the place that Sallis's work has on the forefront of contemporary Continental thought.The book concludes with an original piece by John Sallis himself, in which he thinks the philosophical sense of wonder in Aristotle, Plato, Hegel, the end of metaphysics, and Heidegger.

• Themen: Philosophie und Religion Philosophie
• ISBN: 9780791423561
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 16.03.1995
• Größe: 229 x 151 mm
• Verlag: State University of New York Press
• Herausgegeben von: Kenneth Maly