Heidegger in the Face of the Environmental Question
Enrique Leff, "Heidegger in the Face of the Environmental Question "
English | ISBN: 1032606541 | 2023 | 312 pages | PDF | 2 MB
English | ISBN: 1032606541 | 2023 | 312 pages | PDF | 2 MB
This volume engages with the work of Heidegger to argue that the modern environmental crisis is fundamentally a crisis of understanding Life, resulting from the symbolic codification of the world from the Logos of Greek philosophy to the rationality of the modern world and resulting in a metaphysics that privileges ontological thinking on the "question of being" over the environmental question and the concern for the conditions of life.
Exploring the work of the three principal thinkers of the Lebensphilosophie― Bergson, Dilthey, and Husserl―it charts the itinerary of Heidegger’s work and exposes its conflicts with the work of Marx, Plessner, Haar, and Derrida. A critical argument against the colonization of the world by Eurocentric reason and for the deconstruction of Capital, Heidegger in the Face of the Environmental Question
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