Spirit in Ashes / E. N. Anderson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Anderson, E. N., Author.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

New Haven, CT : Yale University Press, [1992]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Contemporary phenomena of mass death-such as Hiroshima and Auschwitz-have brought with them the threat of annihilation of human life. In this provocative and disturbing book, Edith Wyschogrod shows that the various manifestations of man-made mass death form a single structure, a "death-event," which radically alters our understanding of language, time, and self. She contends that the death event has its own logic and driving force that she traces to pre-Socratic philosophy and to certain mythological motifs that recur in Western thought."Spirit in Ashes is one book in contemporary philosophy that should be read aloud and taken to heart by any professional or intellectual who purports to have a conscience."-Carl Rasche, Journal of the American Academy of Religion"A masterful blend of scholarship, originality, and serious passion."-Robert C. Neville, Commonweal"An original, insightful, and challenging work."-Robert Burch, Canadian Philosophical Reviews

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Preface

Acknowledgments

List of Abbreviations

1. Kingdoms of Death

2. The Logic of Mass Death

3. Hegel and the Crises of Cognition

4. Hegel and the Aporias of Existence

5. Finitude and the Structures of Existence:

6. Technology and Poetry: The Later Heidegger

7. Self, Language, and Community

Notes

Index

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2020)

ISBN:

9780300161984

0300161980

OCLC:

1024015647