Heidegger and criticism : retrieving the cultural politics of destruction / William V. Spanos ; foreword by Donald E. Pease.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Spanos, William V.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Criticism (Philosophy).

Philosophy and civilization.

Heidegger, Martin, 1889-1976.

Heidegger, Martin.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (362 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c1993.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Donald E Pease has contributed to Heidegger and Criticism as a designer.Born in Trinidad in 1901, C. L. R. James moved to England in 1932 where he was a leading Marxist theorist, a founder of the Pan-African movement, cricket correspondent for the Manchester Guardian, and author of numerous books, including the influential history of the Haitian slave rebellion, The Black Jacobins (1938). From 1938 to 1953 he lived in the United States, where he wrote, lectured, and organized for the Socialist Worker's Party and was a leader of the Trotskyite sect the ""Johnson-Forest Tendency."" Arrested for

Contents:

Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; 1. On Heidegger's Destruction and the Metaphorics of Following: An Introduction; 2. Breaking the Circle: Hermeneutics as Dis-closure; 3. Heidegger, Kierkegaard, and the Hermeneutic Circle; 4. The Indifference of Differance: Retrieving Heidegger's Destruction; 5. Heidegger and Foucault: The Politics of the Commanding Gaze; 6. Heidegger, Nazism, and the ""Repressive Hypothesis"": The American Appropriation of the Question; Notes; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 253-322) and index.

ISBN:

0-8166-8442-1

OCLC:

476093257