Thinking After Heidegger / Edition 1

by David Wood

Overview

In Thinking After Heidegger, David Wood takes up the challenge posed by Heidegger - that after the end of philosophy we need to learn to think. But what if we read Heidegger with the same respectful irreverence that he brought to reading the Greeks, Kant, Hegel, Husserl and the others? For Wood, it is Derrida's engagements with Heidegger that set the standard here – enacting a repetition through transformation and displacement. But Wood is not content to crown the new king. Instead he sets up a many-sided conversation between Heidegger, Hegel, Adorno, Nietzsche, Blanchot, Kierkegaard, Derrida and others. Derrida and deconstruction are first critically addressed and then drawn into the fundamental project of philosophical renewal, or renewal as philosophy.

The book begins by rewriting Heidegger's inaugural lecture, 'What is Metaphysics?' and ends with an extended analysis of the performativity of his extraordinary Beitrage. Thinking after Heidegger will be a valuable text for scholars and students of contemporary philosophy, literature and cultural studies.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780745616230
Publisher:	Polity Press
Publication date:	10/11/2002
Pages:	232
Product dimensions:	5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

David Wood is Professor of Philosophy at Vanderbilt University and an Honorary Professor at Warwick. He is the author of Philosophy at the Limit and The Deconstruction of Time.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements.

INTRODUCTION.

I Liminal Interrogations.

1. Thinking at the Limit.

2. The Return of Experience.

3. The Voyage of Reason.

II Dangerous Intersections.

4. Heidegger and the Challenge of Repetition.

5. Heidegger on Hegel.

6. Heidegger after Derrida.

7. The Actualization of Philosophy: Heidegger and Adorno.

III Unlimited Responsibility.

8. Much Obliged.

9. Comment ne pas manger: Derrida and Humanism.

10. The Performative Imperative: Reflections on Heidegger's Contributions to Philosophy (from Eventuation).

Notes.

Bibilography.

Index

Editorial Reviews

'David Wood writes a poineering passion and reflective patienceworthy of Heidegger himself. This is the sort of book that givecontinental philosophy a good name.' — Richard Kearney, BostonCollege

‘This is a fascinating book. Its appeal to those doingresearch on Heidegger, phenomenology and deconstruction will bestrong, and it is likely to form a major reference point for futurediscussion.' Stephen Mulhall, New College, Oxford

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