<<The>> World of Freedom : Heidegger, Foucault, and the Politics of Historical Ontology

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Nichols, Robert.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Foucault, Michel, -- 1926-1984.

Heidegger, Martin, -- 1889-1976.

Ontology--Philosophy--20th century.

Ontology.

Liberty--Philosophy.

Liberty.

Political science.

Continental philosophy.

Philosophy, European.

Local Subjects:

Foucault, Michel, -- 1926-1984.

Heidegger, Martin, -- 1889-1976.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (294 p.)

Place of Publication:

Palo Alto : Stanford University Press, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Martin Heidegger and Michel Foucault are two of the most important and influential thinkers of the twentieth century. Each has spawned volumes of secondary literature and sparked fierce, polarizing debates, particularly about the relationship between philosophy and politics. And yet, to date there exists almost no work that presents a systematic and comprehensive engagement of the two in relation to one another. The World of Freedom addresses this lacuna.Neither apology nor polemic, the book demonstrates that it is not merely interesting but necessary to read Heidegger and Foucault alongside o

Contents:

Front matter

CONTENTS

Acknowledgments

Abbreviations

1. Overview of the Problematic

2. Potentiality and Authenticity: Heidegger’s Preparatory Existential Analytic in Being and Time

3. The Field of Freedom: Heidegger from Fundamental to Historical Ontology

4. Foucault Contra Heidegger

5. Foucault’s “Autocritique”: Three Equivocations of Conduct, Experience, and Thought

6. The Subject of Spirituality

7. Objectification, Reification, Subjectification: Historical Ontology and Social Criticism

Notes

Works Cited

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 15. Sep 2020)

ISBN:

9780804792714

0804792712

OCLC:

1198930055