10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «FINITUDE»
Discover the use of
finitude in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
finitude and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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After
Finitude: An Essay on the Necessity of Contingency
Quentin Meillassoux, a former student of Alain Badiou, is considered to be one of the most talented and exciting new voices in contemporary French philosophy.
Quentin Meillassoux, 2010
Building on the work of Heidegger, Dilthey, Arendt, and Nancy, O'Byrne discusses how the world becomes ours and how meaning emerges from our relations to generations past and to come.
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The Metamorphosis of
Finitude: An Essay on Birth and ...
This book starts off from a philosophical premise: nobody can be in the world unless they are born into the world.
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Ethics and
Finitude: Heideggerian Contributions to Moral ...
This book explores what anyone interested in ethics can draw from Heidegger's thinking. Heidegger argues for the radical finitude of being. But finitude is not only an ontological matter; it is also located in ethical life.
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The Fundamental Concepts of Metaphysics: World,
Finitude, ...
This work, the text of Martin Heidegger's lecture course of 1929/30, is crucial for an understanding of Heidegger's transition from the major work of his early years, Being and Time, to his later preoccupations with language, truth, and ...
Stambaugh (philosophy, City U. of New York) elucidates one of the central themes in the work of German philosopher Martin Heidegger (1889-1976), based on her talks with him, and on her extensive study of his works, several of which she has ...
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Finitude: A Study of Cognitive Limits and Limitations
The essays gathered together in this volume explore various facets of this not altogether pleasing fact with which we must realistically come to terms.
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Hermeneutics and Human
Finitude: Toward a Theory of Ethical ...
In further elaborating Hans-Georg Gadamer's hermeneutical reception of Plato, Aristotle, Aquinas, Kant, and Hegel, and in referring simultaneously to Edmund Burke's parallel political rhetoric, among other tradition-oriented arguments in ...
P. Christopher Smith, 1991
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Finitude's Score: Essays for the End of the Millennium
Suspending the distinction between headline news and high theory, Avital Ronell examines the diverse figures of finitude in our modernity: war, guerrilla video, trauma TV, AIDS, music, divorce, sadism, electronic tagging, rumor.
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Death: An Essay on
Finitude
Explores how philosophical thanatology - from Plato to Levinas - relates to psychoanalysis and the anthropology of Western and Oriental religions and myths.
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «FINITUDE»
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finitude is used in the context of the following news items.
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Mes trois enfants sont nés en Polynésie et dans l'île de la Réunion. Je trouve que les îliens ont tout compris de la finitude. Que détestez-vous le ... «Le Parisien, Jul 15»
Stanford scholar upends interpretation of philosopher Martin …
Sheehan explains, "Humans are characterized by the need to interpret everything they meet, and this need arises from our radical finitude, from ... «Stanford University News, Jul 15»
Bravo Greece!
The “care of the self” as systematic practice in the Hellenistic-Roman era was therefore predicated on human fallibility, finitude and relative ... «Thought Leader, Jul 15»
The long goodbye: confronting death
Whereas some might merely acquire some memento mori for their desk or, following the Dalai Lama, meditate on their finitude, Doughty ... «Financial Times, Jul 15»
The Crimson Hour: The Mule-Pivot Formula
We frame periods in innings and recover a more intimate acquaintance with beginnings and endings, with the origin of finitude. This is the hour ... «The Good Phight, Jul 15»
Criticwire Classic of the Week: Hal Ashby's 'The Last Detail'
Few films have such a sense of time running out, an obsession with finitude that renders each coarse naturalistic second poignant. When they ... «Indie Wire, Jul 15»
The Legitimacy of Political Science As a Discipline in Nigeria
The lesson is this: they all fought a good fight; but they were not done fighting, and scholarship need not bow to finitude. The battle is still raging ... «AllAfrica.com, Jun 15»
Death: Uncomfortable Fact and Conquered Foe
“Natural death,” explained Fr. Hans Urs von Balthasar, “is a corollary of the finitude of existence; unnatural death is the result of man's ... «Catholic World Report, Jun 15»
Rachel Dolezal and the complexities of identity
... and more permanent; so we yearn to transcend our finitude and mortality. That's explicit in religions but extends along the identity continuum, ... «rabble.ca, Jun 15»
Doing Less Bad is Not Good Enough
To be circular, one should integrate the finitude of the planet and, therefore, the limits to growth. This bring us to the “simple living” lifestyle ... «Katoikos.eu, Jun 15»
