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Title: The Unthought Debt
Condition: New
Subtitle: Heidegger and the Hebraic Heritage
Author: Marlène Zarader
Translator: Bettina Bergo
Contributor: Bettina Bergo (Translated by)
Format: Paperback
EAN: 9780804736862
ISBN: 9780804736862
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Genre: Philosophy & Spirituality
Release Date: 11/04/2006
Description:

Drawing on Heidegger's corpus, the work of historians and biblical specialists, and contemporary philosophers like Levinas and Derrida, Zarader brings to light the evolution of an impensé—or unthought thought—that bespeaks a complex debt at the core of Heidegger's hermeneutic ontology.

Zarader argues forcefully that in his interpretation of Western thought and culture, Heidegger manages to recognize only two main lines of inheritance: the "Greek" line of philosophical thinking, and the Christian tradition of "faith." From this perspective, Heidegger systematically avoids any explicit or meaningful recognition of the contribution made by the Hebraic biblical and exegetical traditions to Western thought and culture. Zarader argues that this avoidance is significant, not simply because it involves an inexcusable historical oversight, but more importantly because Heidegger's own philosophical project draws on and develops themes that appear first, and fundamentally, within the very Hebraic traditions that he avoids, betraying an "unthought debt" to Hebraic tradition.


Language: English
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Item Height: 229mm
Item Length: 152mm
Item Weight: 358g
Series: Cultural Memory in the Present
Release Year: 2006

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