The world of freedom : Heidegger, Foucault, and the politics of historical ontology / Robert Nichols.

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Nichols, Robert, 1979- [author.]

Material type: Text

TextPublisher: Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2014]Description: 1 online resource (xiv, 277 pages)Content type:

text

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computer

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online resource

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9780804792714
0804792712

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: World of freedomDDC classification:

193 23

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B3279.H49 N525 2014eb

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Contents:

Overview of the problematic -- Potentiality and authenticity : Heidegger's preparatory existential analytic in Being and time -- The field of freedom : Heidegger from fundamental to historical ontology -- Foucault contra Heidegger -- Foucault's 'autocritique' : three equivocations of conduct, experience, and thought -- The subject of spirituality -- Objectification, reification, subjectification : historical ontology and social criticism.

Summary: Martin Heidegger and Michel Foucault are two of the most important and influential thinkers of the twentieth century. Each has spawned volumes of secondary literature and sparked fierce, polarizing debates, particularly about the relationship between philosophy and politics. And yet, to date there exists almost no work that presents a systematic and comprehensive engagement of the two in relation to one another. The World of Freedom addresses this lacuna. Neither apology nor polemic, the book demonstrates that it is not merely interesting but necessary to read Heidegger and Foucault alongside o.

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Originally presented as the author's thesis (doctoral)--University of Toronto.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 258-268) and index.

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Martin Heidegger and Michel Foucault are two of the most important and influential thinkers of the twentieth century. Each has spawned volumes of secondary literature and sparked fierce, polarizing debates, particularly about the relationship between philosophy and politics. And yet, to date there exists almost no work that presents a systematic and comprehensive engagement of the two in relation to one another. The World of Freedom addresses this lacuna. Neither apology nor polemic, the book demonstrates that it is not merely interesting but necessary to read Heidegger and Foucault alongside o.

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