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Martin Heidegger saved my life / Grant Farred.
Van Pelt Library DT1949.F37 A3 2015
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Farred, Grant, author.
- Series:
- Forerunners (Minneapolis, Minn.)
- Forerunners: ideas first
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Heidegger, Martin, 1889-1976.
- Black people--South Africa--Biography.
- Black people.
- College teachers--United States--Biography.
- College teachers.
- Race relations.
- United States.
- South Africa.
- Racism--United States.
- Racism.
- Thought and thinking.
- Farred, Grant.
- Heidegger, Martin, 1889-1976--Influence.
- Heidegger, Martin.
- Heidegger, Martin, 1889-1976. Was heisst Denken?.
- United States--Race relations--21st century.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Autobiographies.
- Physical Description:
- 87 pages ; 18 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Minneapolis, MN : University of Minnesota Press, [2015]
- ©2015.
- Summary:
- "In Martin Heidegger Saved My Life, Grant Farred combines autobiography with philosophical rumination to offer this unusual meditation on American racism."--Page 4 of cover.
- Contents:
- Introduction : a statement of intent
- The question demands an answer
- The benefits of an apartheid education
- My debt to Martin Heidegger
- The Cayuga Heights dialectic
- Thoughts come to us
- "Words are wellsprings"
- "Foreign to its own spontaneity"
- The only thing essential to thinking is thinking
- Who thinks?
- The order of the voice
- The UnExceptional.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 9780816699360
- 0816699364
- OCLC:
- 919107220
- Publisher Number:
- 99979060240
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