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...Krzysztof Ziarek Placed side by side, Giorgio Agamben's The Open and Martin Heidegger's “Letter on Humanism” might read like two versions of the critical question about the aftermath of humanism. For Agamben, the answer lies in the rendering inoperative of the anthropological machine of humanism...

...Burleigh T. Wilkins Poetic Thinking: An Approach to Heidegger . By Halliburton David . Chicago : The University of Chicago Press , 1982 . Pp., 235 . $22.50 . Copyright © 1983 by Duke University Press 1983 Book Reviews 459 Genovese s work, Oakes suggests in his introduction...

...Grant Farred The discipline is against thought; inter- and transdisciplinarity are against thought. Working with Martin Heidegger's careful explication of what thinking is in Was Heisst Denken? this essay argues that both disciplinarity and interdisciplinarity are hostile to thought. Since we do...

... of the relation between human and animal and of any attempt to manage that relation. It suggests how this relation changes historically, generating instabilities in political and metaphysical formations, and why the collapsing of human-animal differences encounters obstacles. Drawing on Martin Heidegger's...

..., it has turned to a fundamental rift in the past or to the need to invent a utopian future as ways of escaping the present crisis. This is due to the influence of Heidegger and, especially, Nietzsche. The result is a tendency to abandon the present as destitute and to treat the current situation...

...: because it was me.” —Michel de Montaigne, On Affectionate Relationships At the point of assembling the “four guiding threads” with which the argument of Of Spirit: Heidegger and the Question...

...Lisa Trahair 2002 by Duke University Press 2002 Lisa Trahair The Ghost in the Machine: The Comedy of Technology in the Cinema of Buster Keaton In his essay ‘‘The Question Concerning Tech- nology Martin Heidegger argues...

... Quarterly (Heidegger quoted by Halliburton, p. 133). Which reminds me of the son of a famous actress I met once in Palm Springs: accompanied by a wealthy friend, he had left Beverly Hills to escape from peers who could do nothing but play backgammon, and now adrift in Palm Springs he was looking for a game...

... postmodernity was never quite in Japan but never simply exterior to it either?1 The other bit of ignorance I offered up for discussion was a dim awareness, which again I share with many of my colleagues, of the vast Japanese literature on Heidegger. 1 wondered why this literature has had no Western reception...

...). DUKE UNIVERSITY ROBERT F. DURDEN Poetic Thinking: An Approach to Heidegger. By David Halliburton. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1982. Pp., 235. $22.50. Beginning with Descartes, western philosophers in their quest for clarity and exactness have tended to look to mathematics and science...

.... But there are two types of existentialism, frequently confused. One, represented by Kierkegaard, the originator of exis­ tentialism, aims at the rebirth of genuine Christianity. The other uses misinterpretations of Kierkegaard as the foundation of its own nihilism. Its best known representative is Heidegger...

... sustains; not, however, for the sake of man so that civilization and culture through man’s doings might be vindicated. —Martin Heidegger, Letter on Humanism I. Subjectivity as Homelessness...

... of Being. When Heidegger argues in a perhaps related manner that the Greek notion of ousia is derived from the Greek notion of property, he does not urge that the Greek ‘‘essence’’ derives from property, but rather that the latter derives from the Greek experience of Being, which involves...

... form (in his final lectures), so preoccupy Martin Heidegger: how is thought pro- duced? How do we think? In Was Heißt Denken? (What Is Called Thinking?) Heidegger tries to explain what thinking is. As Heidegger so elliptically phrases it, “In order to be capable of thinking, we need to learn...

.... It is his complex relationship with Martin Heidegger’s account of metaphysics and the implications of this for language, subjectivity, historicity, and politics (to name but the most important fields) that justifies this slide. The general movement of Agamben’s thought is inspired by Heidegger...

... evocations of life-worlds and of ways of being-in-the-world, its invocations of the preanalytical or Heidegger’s ‘‘ready to hand’’ (as distinct from the analytical ‘‘present at hand and its articulations of the time of gods and spirits. These ‘‘fragmentary histories’’ exist alongside the objectifications...

..., into postindustrial society. The Japanese nineteenth century may have been an impediment to modernization, but it promises to be an accelerating factor for a postmodern society. In The Way to the Word, Heidegger makes mention of the concept of iki as spoken of by the Japanese philosopher, Kuki Shuzo, whom he knew...

... Intellectual Labor  399 would like to explore a different philosophical precursor—one that is more developed and more pervasive—which can be found in the current uses of Martin Heidegger. The Heideggerian orientation of contemporary theory can be seen as, among many other things, a skewed attempt...

... the philosophers whose work I more or less know, it is Martin Heidegger, paradoxically, in whom I find a rationalization for my twofold reaction of feeling contaminated by my German past and choos­ ing American citizenship. I am referring to the famous passage in para­ graph 74 of Being and Time, where Heidegger...

... the essence of things, an essence that constantly conceals itselfanew. That is precisely the reason this knowledge can never be useful. Martin Heidegger, Basic Questions of Philosophy Wha, can we gain, if anything, by juxtapos­ ing psychoanalysis and imperialism'? With this arrangement, do we intend...