Heidegger in Russia and Eastern Europe (New Heidegger Research)
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| Rating | : | 4.34 (928 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1783488646 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 392 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-05-27 |
| Language | : | English |
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Finally the volume deals with an often vexed issue in current treatments of Heidegger: the importance of Heidegger’s philosophy for politics. The 'revolution' Heidegger brought about with his compelling readings of the broader philosophical tradition transformed German philosophy and spread quickly to most of Europe, the United States and Japan. The volume surveys the complicated landscape of post-Soviet philosophy, and how the rise of widely differing appropriations of Heidegger exploit familiar fault lines in the Russian reception of Western thinkers that date back to the first stirrings of a distinctively Russian philosophical tradition.. It goes on to examine Heidegger’s philosophical influence, and features three crucial figures in the reception of Heidegger’s thought in Eastern Europe and Russia: Vladimir Bibikhin, Krzysztof Michalski, and Jan Patoka. The book begins by addressing two important literary influences on Heidegger: Dostoevsky and Tolstoy. Heidegger’s influence in the twentieth century proba
W. Jeff Love is Professor of German and Russian at Clemson University. He has also published an annotated translation of F. He is the author of Tolstoy: A Guide for the Perplexed (2008) and The Overcoming of History in War and Peace (2004). Schelling’s Philosophical Investigations into the Essence of Human Freedom (2006) with Johannes Schmidt. J
Martin Heidegger in Russia and Eastern Europe is a most welcome contribution to at least three fields of inquiry. The Russian, Czech, and Polish responses to Heidegger are extensive and often profound, and the essays here present them in unfailingly accessible, insightful, and historically grounded fashion. (William Mills Todd III, Professor of Literature, Harvard University) . It enriches our understanding of the world-wide reception of Heidegger’s philosophy, adds a dimension to Russian and Eastern European intellectual and cultural history, and provides a vivid case study in “misplaced ideas” (Roberto Schwarz), concepts and imaginaries crossing cultural, linguistic and historical boundaries and changing emphases and valences in the process. (Ilya Kliger, Associate Professor of Russian and Slavic Studies, New York University)This path-breaking collection provides in one volume a wide-ranging, innovative assessment of Heidegger’s int