... and theorizations about the Holocaust as an extreme yet paradigmatic experience of ontological truth. Following allusions in the novel to concepts and tropes in the thought of Martin Heidegger, I unearth a provocative dialogue with Heidegger’s postwar anti-humanism and infamous refusal to confront the significance...

... to measure, chart, and demarcate the world. At various points in his narrative, Pynchon sums up this basic anthropocentric view as mathesis , a term that recalls the early modern scientific project of mathesis universalis or the attempt to “mathematize” nature. According to Heidegger, mathesis, which sums up...

...Michael Moon Philosophy, Revision, Critique: Rereading Practices in Heidegger, Nietzsche, and Emerson. By David Wittenberg. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2001. 266 p. University of Oregon 2002 COMPARATIVE LITERATURE/268 BOOK...

... presence. Celan's depictions of negative subjectivity, I argue, vitally inform his attempt to create a negative poetics and reveal an important distinction between Celan's and Heidegger's ontologies of nothing. For Heidegger, nothing is nothing more than negation; for Celan, however, nothing may itself...

...Adrienne Janus This essay analyzes Jean-Luc Nancy's recent work À L'Écoute (2002)/ Listening (2007) as a culminating moment in what might be called the “anti-ocular” turn in Continental philosophy. It situates Nancy within a genealogy of “otocentric” thinkers that includes Martin Heidegger, Peter...

..., a reluctant heir to Heidegger. Approaching Marlovian drama from the perspective of Badiou's meta-ontology of truth-procedures sheds new light on the etiology of dramatic impasse. This perspective exacts the subtraction of a “subject of truth” from every community and from received metaphysical notions...

...: Verso, 1997 . Heidegger, Martin. Basic Writings . San Francisco: Harper Collins, 1977 . ____. Being and Time . 1927. Trans. J. Stambaugh. New York: SUNY, 1996 . Lévinas, Emmanuel. Entre Nous: Thinking of the Other . New York: Columbia University Press, 1998 . ____. Totality...

... University Press, 1962 . Bahti, Timothy. Allegories of History . Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1992 . Bambach, Charles R. Heidegger, Dilthey, and the Crisis of Historicism . Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1995 . Beck, Lewis White. Early German Philosophy: Kant and His...

..., discursive field, or addressee. In his reflections on philosophy’s investment in knowing where it wants to go and how it might get there, Derrida frequently looks to Martin Heidegger and his well-known efforts to radicalize the paths, the Wege , of thinking in his expositions of Auswege (exits), Umwege...

... to a more daring tendency in German thought that began with Nietzsche, runs through Stefan George and Hugo von Hofmannsthal, and achieves a certain closure in Heidegger. In this BOOK REVIEWS / 341 sense, if we follow Adorno, jargon...

... . Blitz, Mark. Heidegger's Being and Time and the Possibility of Political Philosophy . Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1981 . Castro Gómez, Santiago. Crítica de la razón latinoamericana . Barcelona: Puvill, 1996 . ____. “El nacimiento de América Latina como problema filosófico en México (1930-1968...

... Harvey’s idea that “aesthetic practices . . . have the power of letting us see an alternative world” (89), he discusses Heidegger’s definition of the world and then considers Hannah Arendt’s and Derrida’s responses to it. While Heide- gger rejects the idea of the world as an objective presence created...

... positivism aligned with progressivist liberalism and modern appropriations of Romantic irrationalism. Peter Gordon’s important framing of the 1929 Heidegger-Cassirer debate in The Continental Divide argues for the centrality of what Lehman refers to as this “epistemological Scylla and Charybdis” ( Lehman...

... Jürgen . The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere: An Inquiry into a Category of Bourgeois Society . Trans. Burger Thomas . Cambridge : MIT Press , 1991 . Print . Heidegger Martin . Mindfulness . Trans. Emad Parvis Kalary Thomas . London : Continuum , 2006...

... trajectory, Moyn offers brilliant, critical, and occasionally mordant analyses of philosophers and theologians who shaped Levinas’s perspectives. These include Henri Bergson, Edmund Husserl, Carl Löwith, Hannah Arendt, Martin Heidegger, Franz Rosen- zweig, Karl Barth, and many others. Moyn’s erudition...

... Journey: Literary Reflections, 1958-1998. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1999 . Heidegger, Martin. Basic Writings . Rev. ed. Ed. David Farrell Krell. San Francisco: HarperSan Francisco, 1993 . ____. Existence and Being . Ed. Werner Brock. Washington DC: Gateway Editions, 1949...

... and Zurich: Piper, 1996 . Arendt, Hannah, and Martin Heidegger. Briefe 1925 bis 1975 und andere Zeugnisse . Ed. Ursula Ludz. Frankfurt am Main: Vittorio Klostermann, 1998 . Arendt, Hannah, and Karl Jaspers. Hannah Arendt, Karl Jaspers. Briefwechsel , 1926-1969. Munich and Zurich: Piper, 1985...

... Hermann , 2012 . Print . ———. “La vie comme œuvre.” Nos Grecs et leurs modernes: les stratégies contemporaines d'appropriation de l'antiquité . Ed. Cassin Barbara . Paris : Éditions du Seuil , 1992 , 321 – 33 . Print . Heidegger Martin . Sein und Zeit . Tübingen : Max...

...SUSANNAH YOUNG-AH GOTTLIEB University of Oregon 2001 Arendt, Hannah and Martin Heidegger, Briefe 1925-75 . Ed. Ursula Ludz. Frankfurt am Main: Klostermann, 1998 . ____. The Human Condition . Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1958 . ____. Der Liebesbegriff bei Augustin...

..., Agamben, and ‘Reproductive Rights’ ”. South Atlantic Quarterly , vol. 107 , no. 1 , 2008 , pp. 55 – 70 . Farred Grant . “ The Mundanacity of Violence Living in a State of Disgrace .” Interventions , vol. 4 , no. 3 , 2002 , pp. 352 – 62 . Heidegger Martin . Being and Time...