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A poetics of homecoming : Heidegger, homelessness and the homecoming venture / Brendan O'Donoghue.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- O'Donoghue, Brendan.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Homelessness--Philosophy.
- Homelessness.
- Homecoming--Philosophy.
- Homecoming.
- Heidegger, Martin, 1889-1976.
- Heidegger, Martin.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (403 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Pub., 2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This investigation addresses a pressing anxiety of our time - that of homelessness. Tersely stated, the philosophical significance of homelessness in its more modern context can be understood to emerge Other Nietzsche and his discourse on nihilism, which signals the loss of the highest values hitherto. Diverging from Nietzsche, Heidegger interprets homelessness as a symptom of the oblivion of being. The purpose of the present enquiry is to rigorously confront humanity's state of homelessness, ...
- Contents:
- TABLE OF CONTENTS; PREFACE; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; ABBREVIATIONS; INTRODUCTION; CHAPTER ONE; CHAPTER TWO; CHAPTER THREE; CHAPTER FOUR; CHAPTER FIVE; CHAPTER SIX; CHAPTER SEVEN; CONCLUSION; BIBLIOGRAPHY
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [373]-387).
- ISBN:
- 1-283-43577-2
- 9786613435774
- 1-4438-3123-9
- OCLC:
- 821179565
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