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HEGEL, HEIDEGGER, AND MAN-MADE DEATH
Contemporary phenomena of mass death -- such as Hiroshima and Auschwitz -- have brought with them the threat of annihilation of human life. In this provocative and disturbing book, Edith Wyschogrod shows that the various manifestations of man-made mass death from a single structure, ‘death event,’ which radically alters our understanding of language, time, and self. She contends that the death event has its own logic and driving force that she traces to pre-Socratic philosophy and to certain mythological motifs that recur in Western thought. (On the jacket of the book)
Edith Wyschogrod -- professor of Philosophy at Queens College, City University of New York.
Contemporary phenomena of mass death -- such as Hiroshima and Auschwitz -- have brought with them the threat of annihilation of human life. In this provocative and disturbing book, Edith Wyschogrod shows that the various manifestations of man-made mass death from a single structure, ‘death event,’ which radically alters our understanding of language, time, and self. She contends that the death event has its own logic and driving force that she traces to pre-Socratic philosophy and to certain mythological motifs that recur in Western thought. (On the jacket of the book)
Edith Wyschogrod -- professor of Philosophy at Queens College, City University of New York.
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Dinesh club has replied to Diane Putnam clubDinesh club has replied to Diane Putnam clubWhen I read, I came across references to other authors / books and then I select them to read! Thanks have a wonderful day
Die Vergangenheit, bzw. Gegenwart zeigt nur, dass der Mensch zu unsagbarem Bösen fähig ist.
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