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84%OFFSa Cavalcante Schuba - Dis-orientations: Philosophy, Literature and the Lost Grounds of Modernity - 9781783482566 - V9781783482566
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Dis-orientations: Philosophy, Literature and the Lost Grounds of Modernity

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Description for Dis-orientations: Philosophy, Literature and the Lost Grounds of Modernity Hardback. .
This highly original collection of essays contributes to a critique of the common understanding of modernity as an enlightened project that provides rational grounds for orientation in all aspects and dimensions of the world. An international team of contributors contend that the modern principles of foundation show in themselves rather how modernity is disorienting itself. The book brings together discussions on the writings of philosophers who treat more systematically the questions of foundation and orientation, such as Kant, Nietzsche, Husserl, Heidegger, Pascal, and Patočka, and studies of literary works that explicitly thematize this question, such as Novalis, Hölderlin, ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield International
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
Number of Pages
260
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781783482566
SKU
V9781783482566
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About Sa Cavalcante Schuba
Marcia Sá Cavalcante Schuback is professor of philosophy at Södertörn University, Sweden. She has published widely in both English and Portuguese, including the Portuguese translation of Heidegger’s Being and Time. Tora Lane is a Project Researcher at CBEES, Södertörn University, Sweden. Contributors: Ludger Hagedorn, Research Fellow, Institut für die Wissenschaften vom Menschen, Austria; Peter Hanly, Research Fellow, ... Read more

Reviews for Dis-orientations: Philosophy, Literature and the Lost Grounds of Modernity
This is a carefully put together and astonishingly coherent collection of insightful philosophical reflections on how major Modern thinkers and writers oriented themselves in a thoroughly disoriented world, where all metaphysical grounding had lost its footing and nothing could have been taken for granted. A vast and illuminating scope of essays, ranging from Novalis to Kundera, from Heidegger to Platonov, from ... Read more

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