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Author Schürmann, Reiner, 1941-1993, author.

Title Heidegger on being and acting : from principles to anarchy / Reiner Schürmann ; translated from the French by Christine-Marie Gros in collaboration with the author
Published Bloomington : Indiana University Press, ©1987

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 406 pages)
Series Studies in phenomenology and existential philosophy
Studies in phenomenology and existential philosophy.
Summary What happens when "thinking" no longer secures a rational foundation for knowledge and "acting" no longer means conforming one's daily enterprises, public and private, to that foundation? In his brilliant deconstructionist analysis Reiner Schürmann provides a comprehensive interpretation of Heidegger's thinking from the perspective of this question. Focusing on the relationship between theory and practice in an era in which metaphysical rationality has come to an end, Schürmann explicates an economy of presencing in which thinking can no longer be called upon to legitimize praxis by measuring it against some enduring principle or archē. Thinking and acting, he concludes, can then become an-archic
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 387-391)
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Subject Heidegger, Martin, 1889-1976
SUBJECT Heidegger, Martin, 1889-1976
Heidegger, Martin, 1889-1976. fast (OCoLC)fst00032385
Subject Philosophy.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780253053268
0253053269
Other Titles Principe d'anarchie. English