Broken Hegemonies Paperback / softback
by Reiner Schurmann
Part of the Studies in Continental Thought series
Paperback / softback
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". . . a book of striking originality and depth, a brilliant and quite new interpretation of the nature and history of philosophy." —John SallisIn Broken Hegemonies, the late distinguished philosopher Reiner Schürmann offers a radical rethinking of the history of Western philosophy from the Greeks through Heidegger.
Schürmann interprets the history of Western thought and action as a series of eras governed by the rise and fall of certain dominating philosophical ideas that contained the seeds of their own destruction.
These eras coincided with their dominant languages: Greek, Latin, and vernacular tongues.
Analyzing philosophical texts from Parmenides, Plotinus, and Cicero, through Augustine, Meister Eckhardt, and Kant, to Heidegger, Schürmann traces the arguments by which these ideas gained hegemony and by which their credibility was ultimately demolished.
Recognizing the failure of ultimate norms, Broken Hegemonies questions how humanity today is to think and act in the absence of principles.
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:712 pages, 1 b&w photos, 1 index
- Publisher:Indiana University Press
- Publication Date:29/10/2003
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- ISBN:9780253215475
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:712 pages, 1 b&w photos, 1 index
- Publisher:Indiana University Press
- Publication Date:29/10/2003
- Category:
- ISBN:9780253215475
