Overview

In Basic Concepts, Heidegger claims that ""Being is the most worn-out"" and yet also that Being ""remains constantly available."" Santiago Zabala radicalizes the consequences of these little known but significant affirmations. Revisiting the work of Jacques Derrida, Reiner Schürmann, Jean-Luc Nancy, Hans-Georg Gadamer, Ernst Tugendhat, and Gianni Vattimo, he finds these remains of Being within which ontological thought can still operate. Being is an event, Zabala argues, a kind of generosity and gift that generates astonishment in those who experience it. This sense of wonder has fueled questions of meaning for centuries-from Plato to the present day. Postmetaphysical accounts of Being, as exemplified by the thinkers of Zabala's analysis, as well as by Nietzsche, Dewey, and others he encounters, don't abandon Being. Rather, they reject rigid, determined modes of essentialist thought in favor of more fluid, malleable, and adaptable conceptions, redefining the pursuit and meaning of philosophy itself.

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Author:   Santiago Zabala
Publisher:   Columbia University Press
Imprint:   Columbia University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 14.00cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 17.80cm
Weight:   0.340kg
ISBN:  

9780231148306

ISBN 10:   0231148305
Pages:   178
Publication Date:   26 August 2009
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Language:   English

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Being Destroyed: Heidegger's Destruction of Being as Presence 1. Retrieving the Meaning of Being 2. Questioning the Worn-Out Being Chapter 2: After the Destruction: The Remains of Being 3. Schurmann's Traits of Economical Anarchies 4. Derrida's Treasures of Traces 5. Nancy's Copresences of Singular Plurals 6. Gadamer's Conversations of Language 7. Tugendhat's Meanings of Sentences 8. Vattimo's Events of Weakness Chapter 3: Generating Being Through Interpretation: The Hermeneutic Ontology of Remnants 9. Logics of Discursive Continuities 10.Generating Being from Within Notes Bibliography Index

Reviews

Zabala has given us a book which deserves wide reading and debate. -- David Jasper, Literature & Theology

Zabala has given us a book which deserves wide reading and debate. -- David Jasper Literature & Theology An effective reminder of some of the most important developments twentieth-century continental philosophy. -- Richard Polt Parrhesia ...the book offers illuminating characterizations and suggestions. -- Andrew B. Irvine Religious Studies Review

Author Information

Santiago Zabala is ICREA Research Professor at the University of Barcelona. He is the author of The Hermeneutic Nature of Analytic Philosophy: A Study of Ernst Tugendhat; editor of Art's Claim to Truth, Weakening Philosophy, Nihilism and Emancipation, and The Future of Religion; and coeditor (with Jeff Malpas) of Consequences of Hermeneutics.

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