The fate of philosophy
By: Arvydas Šliogeris ; translated from the Lithuanian by Robertas Beinartas
Series: Critical bodies
Publisher: Hampton Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 228
ISBN-13: 9781612890166; 9781612890173
Subjects: Philosophy
Description: "Can Western philosophy get into the view of the here-and-now living mortal only in the way as it gets there now: as a historicist mummy and as the ever-thickening mass of dead language? Is the only way to get in touch wit the greatest thinkers of the past the so-called "research," that is, a hermeneutical citing of the pure text, its hoeing, scratching, and commenting? Can the prevailing logophagy be replaced by a dialog with the great Greek philosophers as our contemporaries, living in the timeless present? Are the philosopher and the thinker the same existential personage? Does philosophy have not only history, but also fate, which not only does not coincide with history, but also is quite different from the dominating historicist picture of Western philosophy?"--Pub. desc.
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: The scandal of ends: the funeral of philosophy; title: The philosophical event: the beginning in the end; title: The center of the philosophical event: the presumption of ignorance; title: Wonder: the lightning of individualization; title: The problem of the given: the surface of the sensible; title: Individual; title: Theoretical contemplation: a landmark toward divinity; title: The adventures of the individual: the machine's victory; title: The substantial individual: an animal paradigm; title: The blade of fate: experience; title: The first counter-revolution: Christianity; title: The second counter-revolution: technognosis; title: The return of philosophy: philotopy.