Sense and Finitude

Alejandro Vallega

Description

Sense and Finitude interrogates one of continental philosophy's central insights: the temporality or finitude of philosophical thought. Juxtaposing the views of such philosophers as Plato, Heidegger, Walter Benjamin, Gadamer, and Derrida on art, poetry, and non-Western cultures with the insights of those very artists, poets, and cultures interpreted by them, Alejandro A. Vallega elucidates a certain sensibility fundamental to philosophical thought once it has come face-to-face with its concrete finitude—in the sense that philosophical ideas are always exposed to interpretation, transformation, and loss. By addressing philosophy's exposure to experience beyond its own delimitations, Vallega shows how such investigations can enrich the philosophical enterprise.
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Introduction

Part I: Unbounded Thoughts: Fecund Overflowing in Philosophy’s Finitude

1. Four Meditations on Heidegger’s Undergoing of Thought’s Finitude

2. Second Meditation: Machination, The Decomposition of an Illusion and the Fecundity of Thinking

3. Third Meditation: Thought’s Sensibility in its Finitude and its Exposed Word

4. Fourth Meditation: Thought’s Ambiguous Finitude: Between Abyssal Fecund Thought and the Historical Destiny of the West

5. Exposed Memories: Towards Reading the History of Philosophy Beyond its Historical Destiny in the West

Part II: Unbounded Words: Language in its Ephemeral and Concrete Finitude

6. Ephemeral Concrete Words: the Translucence of the Philosophical Logos in Plato’s Phaidros

7. The Tactility of Words (from Silent Gestures): Gadamer’s Reading of Paul Celan’s Atemkristall

8. Quand un Corps se met en Œuvre: The Word in the Flesh, at the Limit of Derrida’s Reading of Antonin Artaud

Part III: Unbounded Finitudes: Thought’s Sensibility in Art and Politics

9. The Sensibility of Art in its Finitude: Undergoing the Disaster Through Benjamin’s “Politics of Art”

10. Unbounded Spirits: From Solitude to Ethical Words in Hegel, Fanon, and Gabriel García Márquez

11. Towards a Politics of Lightness

Notes
Index

Sujets

• Philosophie
• Épistémologie
• Philosophie de l'esprit
• Esthétique et philosophie de l'art
• Epistémologie
• Epistémologie
• Epistémologie
• Philosophy

Informations

• Publié par: State University of New York Press
• Date de parution: 18 mars 2009
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781438424903
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 5 Mo

Extrait

Alejandro A. Vallega

Sense and Finitude Encounters at the Limits of Language, Art, and the Political

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Sense and Fînîude

SUNY serîes în Conemporary Conînena Pîosopy

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Sense and Fînîude

Encouners a e imis o anguage, Ar, and e Poiica

AEJANDRO A. VAEGA

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Vaega, Aejandro A.  Sense and inîude : encouners a e îmîs o anguage, ar, and e poîîca / Aejandro A. Vaega.  p. cm. — (SUNY serîes în conemporary conînena pîosopy)  ïncudes îîograpîca reerences and îndex.  ïSBN 978-1-4384-2509-2 (ardcover : a. paper)  1. Conînena pîosopy. ï. Tîe.

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Par ï: Unounded hougs: Fecund Overlowîng în Pîosopy’s Fînîude

 1. Four Medîaîons on Heîdegger’s Undergoîng o houg’s  Fînîude  Fîrs Medîaîon: Aandonmen: A Vîoen Encouner  wî houg’s Fînîude

 2. Second Medîaîon: he Decomposîîon o an ïusîon and  e Fecundîy o hînîng

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 4. Four Medîaîon: houg’s Amîguous Fînîude: Beween  Ayssa Fecund houg and e Hîsorîca Desîny o e Wes

 5. Exposed Memorîes: Towards Readîng e Hîsory o Pîosopy  Beyond îs Hîsorîca Desîny în e Wes

Par ïï: Unounded Words: anguage în îs Epemera and Concree Fînîude

 6. Epemera Concree Words: On e Transucence o e  Pîosopîca ogos în Pao’s Paidros

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Par ïïï: Unounded Fînîudes: houg’s Sensîîîy în Ar and e Poîîca

 9. he Sensîîîy o Ar în îs Fînîude: Undergoîng e  Dîsaser hroug Benjamîn’s “Poîîcs o Ar”

10. Unounded Spîrîs: From Soîude o Eîca Words în  Hege, Fanon, and Garîe García Márquez

11. Towards a Poîîcs o îgness

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