Didacticism, romanticism, and classicism are the possible schemata for the knotting of art and philosophy, the third term in this knot being the education of subjects, youth in particular. What characterizes the century that has just come to a close is that, while it underwent the saturation of these three schemata, it failed to introduce a new one. Today, this predicament tends to produce a kind of unknotting of terms, a desperate dis-relation between art and philosophy, together with the pure and simple collapse of what circulated between them: the theme of education.
Although Martin Heidegger is undeniably one of the most influential philosophers of the twentieth century, among the philosophers who study his work there is considerable disagreement over what might seem to be basic issues: Why is Heidegger important? What did his work do? This volume is an explicit response to these differences, and is unique in bringing together representatives of many different approaches to Heidegger's philosophy. The essays discuss topics that are central to Heidegger's work, and the contributors also address the presuppositions that guide their understanding of Heidegger.
Heidegger's Contributions to Philosophy: An Introduction
"For those who want to think rigorously with Heidegger and with the movement of thinking set forth in Contributions, Vallega-Neu's book will prove to be an invaluable guide and resource. One of the great virtues of the book is its impeccable clarity and readability." --Peter Warnek
In her concise introduction to Martin Heidegger's second most important work, Contributions to Philosophy (From Enowning), Daniela Vallega-Neu provides guidance and structure to readers attempting to navigate this much-discussed but difficult text. Contributions reflects Heidegger's struggle to think at the edge of words and to bring to language what remains beyond the written or the spoken
Routledge Philosophy Guidebook to the Later Heidegger
Martin Heidegger is one of the most controversial thinkers of the twentieth century. His writings are notoriously difficult: they both require and reward careful reading. The Later Heidegger introduces and accesses:
Today We Are In A Position To Return To Althusser S Work In A New Way, And Make A New Assessment Of It, Writes Frederic Jameson In His Introduction To This New Edition Of Louis Althusser S Lenin And Philosophy. No Figure Loomed Larger Than Althusser In Marxist Thought In The West During The 1960S And 70S The Decades In Which The Soviet Model Was Discredited In The West And New Avenues Opened Up In Marxist Philosophy And Politics. Althusser Stood Out For His Attempt To Define A Marxist Philosophy That Was Rigorous, Scientific, And Revolutionary.
