... to eliminate or at least deny human finitude Heidegger seeks to overcome by advancing a political agenda of embracing struggle, death, and openness. Nazism from this perspective has a potential greatness that Heidegger seeks to realize in the properly Heideggerian state, the true philosophical state, Germany...

... on the theme of “unburdening from the absolute”—the task of human beings to keep an overwhelming reality at bay. Marquard thus interprets him mainly as a proponent of the German current of “philosophical anthropology.” The text also sheds light on Blumenberg’s relationship to finitude, his life...

... opposite to his own concern with human finitude, or Dasein. But in 1929 Heidegger called for a fruitful contestation with Hegel, allotting him a key place, alongside Aristotle and Immanuel Kant, in the destruction of the history of philosophy outlined in Being and Time . 14 Therefore in German...

... . Bloomington : Indiana University Press , 2012 . Heidegger Martin . Die Grundbegriffe der Metaphysik: Welt, Endlichkeit, Einsamkeit . Vols. 29–30 of Gesamtausgabe . Frankfurt am Main : Klostermann , 1983 . Heidegger Martin . The Fundamental Concepts of Metaphysics: World, Finitude...

.... The uncertainty, unpredictability, undecidability, lack of control, and role of chance that Miriam identified with the contingency of life in the modern world invariably direct our attention to mortality and finitude. Yet I think we do her life’s work a disservice if we forget the intimate connections...

..., if experience is finite in terms of its very possibility and through finitude proves itself to be necessary—if experience on the basis of its constitutive finitude takes place “between mountain and deep, deep vale,” not in a landscape open on all sides? Is the limit touched by the one who is attentive...

... man. Such a consideration was one-sided, because it failed to account for how a consideration of ontology led us to infinite Being or God: “[Heidegger’s] principal standpoint of finitude closes him off from the doc- 30. Przywara did not stop there. Rather, he wanted to read Heidegger...

....13 According to Strauss, the core of Hobbes’s political philosophy arises from the contrast between the endless human passion for recognition and control, on the one hand, and, on the other, the fear of finitude, death, and the possibility of causing or suffering violent death, all...

... finitude whereby death discloses the radical singularity of a human being and claims a position outside the Hegelian “All” (SE, 3/9). The exis- tential self, however, which is gained in the encounter with death, is described as self-enclosure or “mute” and is to be viewed only as a point of departure...

... of finitude and mortality. In other words, Davos is a debate about the nature of the human: for Cassirer, it is about the symbolic; for Heidegger, it is about the ontological basis of culture as human nature. Both approaches are concerned with the conceptualization of human surroundings...

... organs in nature: surpassing physical reality, it turns vision into a matter of free choice. Lastly, film exceeds the limits of time. Unaffected by human finitude, the cinemato- graph occupies a liminal space between death and life: The modern eye [the cinematograph] looks beyond death...

... of the cognitive and tem- poral challenge of sustainability: it strains both our affective and temporal consciousness by compelling us to think ahead into a future that stretches out beyond our own finitude. Given the ubiquity of the notion of sustainability in contemporary dis- courses...

....” The significance that Benjamin attributes to the concept of Untergang , which indicates both the downward course of history and the end it tends toward, lies precisely in the introduction of an irreducible finitude to the historical experience articulated here. In Benjamin, the catastrophe recognized...

..., social, and cultural sciences confronted philosophy with the limits of human understanding and the finitude of the human’s natural existence. No longer could metaphysics or the real course of history ensure the rational meaning of being human. With philosophy’s traditional authority undermined...

... with the individual subject and finitude . . . but has an open temporal horizon. ‘Significance’ is related to finitude” ( WM , 67, 68). Modernity fused these two subjects, assuming an open temporal horizon, which has led to delusional fantasies of unlimited growth and progress, a dangerous conflation of life-time...

... body itself being rejoined to the earth. Mendieta’s haunting images remind us that women have been taken as nothing but nature in the midst of culture, that in truth the human is part of nature, that our finitude is our belonging to living nature; above all, these images of the still or absent woman...

... in which only unfortunate, accidental circumstances doom the hero, when he or she is brought down simply by “fate of finitude.” In such a case, the ending “is also displayed as purely the effect of unfortunate circumstances and external accidents which may have turned out otherwise.” Interestingly...

... (the limits of the limits of growth, as it were) and life’s finitude. This difficult intellectual bal- ancing act—“to reconcile such extravagance with such insignificance,” to quote Montesquieu’s Rica one last time68—is the real challenge that ecological posthumanism poses to the environmental...

...” ( eigenstes ) because death is that experience that cannot be universalized; we cannot truly experience or understand death through someone else. Death can only be understood as one’s own death; the facing of this possibility—which is also to accept the radicality of one’s own finitude—is the only way...

... is an effect of the infinity of the Romantic subject, while for Hölderlin, it is rather an intrusion of the subject’s finitude as negativity. Hölder- lin’s fragment is not the absolutely accomplished Romantic fragment—not a “hedgehog.” Nevertheless, like the Romantics, Hölderlin builds his poetry...