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Author Ma, Lin

Title Heidegger on East-West Dialogue : Anticipating the Event
Published Hoboken : Taylor & Francis, 2007

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Description 1 online resource (281 pages)
Series Studies in Philosophy
Studies in Philosophy
Contents Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Abbreviations of Heidegger's Works; Note on Referencing; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter One Heidegger's Asian Connection; Chapter Two Language and Being: Central Themes; Chapter Three Philosophy, the Ge-stell, and East-West Dialogue; Chapter Four The Journey Abroad and "The Few Other Great Beginning"; Chapter Five The Early Greeks' Confrontation with the Asiatic; Chapter Six Heidegger's Encounter with the Daodejing; Chapter Seven East-West Dialogue and the Question of Language; Chapter Eight Japanese Themes in "A Dialogue on Language."
Summary This book traces a most obscure and yet most intriguing theme concealed in Heideggers thinking and work, which has hitherto not yet been made the focus of a thorough and sustained investigation: that is, the emergence and course of Heideggers interest in East Asian thought and of his reflection on East-West dialogue. Lin Ma covers such complex issues as Heideggers thoughts on language, Being, technology, the other beginning, and the journey abroad, with a view to their implications for East-West dialogue. It reveals the significance of his remarks on the early Greeks confrontatio
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Subject Heidegger, Martin, -- 1889-1976
Philosophy, German -- 20th century.
Philosophy, German
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780203927786
0203927788