Simon F. Oliai

Challenging the Absolute (eBook, PDF)

Nietzsche, Heidegger, and Europe's Struggle Against Fundamentalism

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Produktbeschreibung

Our contemporary world presents a seemingly inexplicable paradox. It is a world where interaction among societies of different cultural traditions has never been easier. A world in which modern technology has visibly overcome the physical barriers that had long condemned the majority of men to relative isolation from one another. Yet, our world is also one in which the illusion of a lost "original" cultural or religious identity, grounded by a metaphysical absolute, pits men against one another. A physically more accessible world has thus become an increasingly fundamentalist one. In this book, written in the wake of such influential European thinkers as Nietzsche, Heidegger, Foucault, Derrida, and Vattimo, Simon Oliai analyzes the conceptual underpinnings of this paradox and argues that, unless the "European" affirmation of man's finite existence becomes universal, we shall never rid ourselves, to echo Nietzsche, of the repressive shadow of a long dead metaphysical idol.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 170
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Dezember 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780761883760
• Artikelnr.: 74848467

Autorenporträt

Simon F. Oliai is a former UNESCO adviser on the worldwide promotion of the humanities, as well as a philosopher of history who has studied and lectured in the United States, France, and Iran. He has organized several noted international seminars in Europe and the Middle East and is the editor of the landmark international anniversary dossier on the Martin Heidegger, which was published by the French review Portique in 2006.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
An Inevitably Endless Introduction
Part I: The Use and the Danger of Heidegger for Contemporary Thought
Chapter 1: On the Contemporary Pertinence of Heidegger's Philosophical
Questioning
Chapter 2: Safeguarding "Being" from Its Fundamentalist Self-Persecution
Part II: Nietzsche, Heidegger, and the Historical Destiny of "European"
Thought
Chapter 3: Nietzsche on the Art of Resistance to Onto-Theology
Chapter 4: On "Be-coming European Today"
Chapter 5: Heidegger on the Promise of Art at the Twilight of Philosophy
Part III: On "Europe's" Endless Struggle Against "Fundamentalisms"
Chapter 6: On Europe's Enlightening Example
Chapter 7: Thinking the Essence of Neo-Fundamentalism
Chapter 8: Only a "God-Artist" Can Save Us: Religion as the "European" Art
of Safeguarding the Earth with Others