Heidegger and Nietzsche overcoming metaphysics Louis P. Blond.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Blond, Louis P., author.

Series:

Continuum studies in Continental philosophy.

Continuum studies in Continental philosophy

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Heidegger, Martin, 1889-1976.

Heidegger, Martin.

Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm, 1844-1900.

Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm.

Metaphysics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (218 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London Continuum 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Heidegger and Nietzsche: Overcoming Metaphysics charts Heidegger's course of the 1930s that culminates in his notorious confrontation with Nietzsche. During this period, Heidegger revisits some of philosophy's fundamental questions regarding metaphysics, truth and ground and suggests that Western metaphysics is itself an obstacle that impedes the pathway to the meaning of being. For that reason, an overcoming of metaphysics becomes essential in order to initiate a new relation between truth and being. The majority of twentieth-century Continental philosophy judges the Heidegger-Nietzsche dispute in Nietzsche's favour and finds Heidegger's interpretation somewhat contemptible. This book argues that most attempts at placing Heidegger's thought fail to grasp Heidegger's philosophy and accuse him of an inadequate appreciation of reason, ethics and politics. While acknowledging some of the more profound critiques of Heidegger's thought, Louis Blond demonstrates that Heidegger's search for a new foundation for meaning aims at replacing rationality and ethics with a 'preparatory' thinking which hopes to describe a new relationship that 'rectifies' many of the errors of the Western tradition.

Contents:

Acknowledgements

Introduction

1. Kant and the Problem of Metaphysics

2. Metaphysics and the Nothing

3. Leibniz and the Search for Ground

4. On the Essence of Truth

5. Nihilism and the Overcoming of Metaphysics

6. Heidegger's Reading of Nietzsche

7. Nietzsche's Word

Being Unthought

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index

ISBN:

9786612912580

9781472546678

1472546679

9781282912588

1282912585

9781441151780

1441151788

OCLC:

693761494