Broken hegemonies / by Reiner Schurmann ; translated by Reginald Lilly.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Schürmann, Reiner, 1941-1993.

Contributor:

Lilly, Reginald.

Series:

Studies in Continental thought.

Studies in Continental thought

Standardized Title:

Des hégémonies brisées. English

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Knowledge, Theory of.

Phenomenology.

Norm (Philosophy).

Philosophy--History.

Philosophy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (708 p.)

Place of Publication:

Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c2003.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"... a book of striking originality and depth, a brilliant and quite new interpretation of the nature and history of philosophy." -- John SallisIn Broken Hegemonies, the late distinguished philosopher Reiner Schürmann offers a radical rethinking of the history of Western philosophy from the Greeks through Heidegger. Schürmann interprets the history of Western thought and action as a series of eras governed by the rise and fall of certain dominating philosophical ideas that contained the seeds of their own destruction. These eras coincided with their dominant languages: Greek, Latin, and vernacular tongues. Analyzing philosophical texts from Parmenides, Plotinus, and Cicero, through Augustine, Meister Eckhardt, and Kant, to Heidegger, Schürmann traces the arguments by which these ideas gained hegemony and by which their credibility was ultimately demolished. Recognizing the failure of ultimate norms, Broken Hegemonies questions how humanity today is to think and act in the absence of principles.

Contents:

Translator's Remarks; VOLUME ONE; VOLUME TWO; Notes; Index of Names; Index of Terms

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [633]-680) and indexes.

ISBN:

9786612072376

1-282-07237-4

0-253-10126-3

0-253-11053-X

OCLC:

475945613