Memory of Thought

Erscheinungsjahr 2007
ISBN: 978-0-8264-9471-9
Verlag: Continuum International Publishing Group

Buch, Englisch, 352 Seiten, Format (B × H): 138 mm x 216 mm

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‘A groundbreaking book.truly of the first importance!’
Werner Hamacher

What kind of impact can an historical event have on philosophy? If philosophy is understood as a discipline of concepts refined in an ideal space untouched by the demands of the "real world", it is difficult to imagine that history can have any impact. And yet two of the most influential philosophers of the twentieth century have both tied thought to a historical event.

Martin Heidegger conceived of truth in the light of a Greek origin to be recovered by the German people. This recovery describes a movement - Germania - which extends from a historical beginning to an end of history. Conversely, Theodor Adorno argued for the necessity for philosophy to radically revise its concepts after Auschwitz, since everything that comes before this event belongs to a historical development leading right up to Auschwitz.

The Memory of Thought explores how these two incompatible ways of relating philosophy and history both allow us to think of history as a positive totality that needs to be established and as a negative totality that needs to be comprehended.

Zielgruppe

Academics, Postgraduate, Upper Level Undergraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Düttmann, Alexander García

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie Westliche Philosophie: 20./21. Jahrhundert
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichtsphilosophie, Philosophie der Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein Geschichtsphilosophie, Philosophie der Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

PART I. Guilts and Debts
1. Fate and Sacrifice.
2. Dialectics and the Ban on Images.
3. Constellation and De-constitution.
PART II. Inaugurations
1. Counter-Turning of the Beginning.
2. Rise and Downfall.
3. Keeping to the Names.
Afterword: The Reeling Philosopher.

Über Autor(innen)

Alexander Garcia Duttmann is Professor of Modern European Philosophy at Middlesex University, UK, and author of The Gift of Language and Memory of Thought, published in the Athlone Contemporary European Thinkers series.