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Author Meyer, Eric D

Title Questioning Martin Heidegger : on Western metaphysics, Bhuddhist ethics, and the fate of the sentient Earth / Eric D. Meyer
Edition First edition
Published Lanham, Maryland : University Press of America, [2013]
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Description 1 online resource (xxx, 236 pages .)
Contents Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; A Note to the Reader; Pretext: The Question of (Non) Being; Preface: What Is Overcoming Metaphysics?; Chapter One: The End of History, the End(s) of Man: Modernity, Post-Modernity & Overcoming Metaphysics; Chapter Two: The Question of Being: Being & Thinking & the Thinking of Being; Chapter Three: The Question of the Subject: Who (... or What? ...) is The Subject of Western Metaphysics?; Chapter Four: The Question of Technology: Gestalt & Ge-Stell
Chapter Five: The New Epistemological Starting-Point: The Standpoint of Sentience (An Imaginary Interview With The Hypothetical Author)Chapter Six: Toward a New Ecological World-View: From Western Metaphysical Humanism to Sentient Biosphere Ethics; Postscript: Final Question(s): The Last God?; Bibliography; Index
Summary In Questioning Martin Heidegger, Martin Heidegger's "Overcoming Metaphysics" provides the jumping-off point for a wide-ranging critique and deconstruction of Western philosophy. This book also addresses Martin Heidegger's controversial relationship with German National Socialism (Nazism) and the Holocaust, as well as with contemporary philosophers like J.F. Lyotard and Jacques Derrida
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-233) and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Heidegger, Martin, 1889-1976 -- Criticism and interpretation
Heidegger, Martin, 1889-1976 -- Philosophy
Heidegger, Martin, 1889-1976. Überwindung der Metaphysik
SUBJECT Heidegger, Martin, 1889-1976 fast
Subject Philosophy, Modern -- 20th century.
PHILOSOPHY -- History & Surveys -- Modern.
Philosophy
Philosophy, Modern
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 0761860673
9780761860679
Other Titles On Western metaphysics, Bhuddhist ethics, and the fate of the sentient Earth
Western metaphysics, Bhuddhist ethics, and the fate of the sentient Earth