Stephen Mulhall

Inheritance and Originality

Wittgenstein, Heidegger, Kierkegaard

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Through detailed re-readings of these authors' most influential texts, as attentive to their specificity as to their family resemblances, Stephen Mulhall reorients our sense of the philosophical work each text aims to accomplish, to engender a critical dialogue between them from which the elements of a new conception of philosophy might emerge, and to uncover that conception's indebtedness to certain fundamental theological preoccupations.

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What does it mean to think of philosophy in the condition of modernism, in which its relation to its past and future has become a relevant problem? This book argues that the writings of Wittgenstein, Heidegger, and Kierkegaard are best understood as responsive (each in their own way) to such questions. Through detailed analysis of these authors' most influential texts, Stephen Mulhall reorients our sense of the philosophical work each text aims to accomplish, engendering a critical dialogue between them from which the elements of a new conception of philosophy might emerge.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 460
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. August 2001
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 821g
• ISBN-13: 9780199243907
• ISBN-10: 0199243905
• Artikelnr.: 22373166

Autorenporträt

Stephen Mulhall is Fellow and Tutor in Philosophy, New College, Oxford.

Inhaltsangabe

* Introduction
* 1: Modernist Origins: Reading Stanley Cavell's The Claim of Reason
* Part One
* Wittgenstein's Vision of Language: Reading the Philosophical
Investigations
* Part Two
* Heidegger's Vision of Scepticism: Reading Being and Time and What is
Called Thinking?
* Part Three
* Kierkegaard's Vision of Religion: Reading Philosophical Fragments,
Fear and Trembling, and Repetition
* Acknowledgements
* Bibliography