Challenging the absolute : Nietzsche, Heidegger, and Europe's struggle against fundamentalism / Simon F. Oliai.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Oliai, Simon F., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Fundamentalism--History.

Fundamentalism.

Absolute, The.

Philosophy--Europe--History.

Philosophy.

Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm, 1844-1900--Criticism and interpretation.

Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm.

Heidegger, Martin, 1889-1976--Criticism and interpretation.

Heidegger, Martin.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (171 p.)

Place of Publication:

Lanham, Maryland : University Press of America, [2015]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

<span><span>In this book, written in the wake of such influential European thinkers as Nietzsche, Heidegger, Foucault, Derrida, and Vattimo, Simon Oliai argues that unless the "European" affirmation of man's finite existence becomes universal, we shall never rid ourselves of the repressive shadow of a long dead metaphysical idol.</span></span>

Contents:

Contents; Acknowledgments; An Inevitably Endless Introduction; I: The Use and the Danger of Heidegger for Contemporary Thought; 1 On the Contemporary Pertinence of Heidegger's Philosophical Questioning; 2 Safeguarding "Being" from Its Fundamentalist Self-Persecution; II: Nietzsche, Heidegger, and the Historical Destiny of "European" Thought; 3 Nietzsche on the Art of Resistance to Onto-Theology; 4 On "Be-coming European Today"; 5 Heidegger on the Promise of Art at the Twilight of Philosophy; III: On "Europe's" Endless Struggle Against "Fundamentalisms"; 6 On Europe's Enlightening Example

7 Thinking the Essence of Neo-Fundamentalism8 Only a "God-Artist" Can Save Us; Notes

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-7618-6516-0

OCLC:

899240313