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Author:   Alejandro Vallega
Publisher:   State University of New York Press
Imprint:   State University of New York Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.308kg
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9781438425108

ISBN 10:   1438425104
Pages:   222
Publication Date:   01 January 2010
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
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Table of Contents

Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction Part I: Unbounded Thoughts: Fecund Overflowing in Philosophy's Finitude 1. Four Meditations on Heidegger's Undergoing of Thought's Finitude 2. Second Meditation: Machination, The Decomposition of an Illusion and the Fecundity of Thinking 3. Third Meditation: Thought's Sensibility in its Finitude and its Exposed Word 4. Fourth Meditation: Thought's Ambiguous Finitude: Between Abyssal Fecund Thought and the Historical Destiny of the West 5. Exposed Memories: Towards Reading the History of Philosophy Beyond its Historical Destiny in the West Part II: Unbounded Words: Language in its Ephemeral and Concrete Finitude 6. Ephemeral Concrete Words: the Translucence of the Philosophical Logos in Plato's Phaidros 7. The Tactility of Words (from Silent Gestures): Gadamer's Reading of Paul Celan's Atemkristall 8. Quand un Corps se met en xuvre: The Word in the Flesh, at the Limit of Derrida's Reading of Antonin Artaud Part III: Unbounded Finitudes: Thought's Sensibility in Art and Politics 9. The Sensibility of Art in its Finitude: Undergoing the Disaster Through Benjamin's ""Politics of Art"" 10. Unbounded Spirits: From Solitude to Ethical Words in Hegel, Fanon, and Gabriel Garcia Marquez 11. Towards a Politics of Lightness Notes Index

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Alejandro A. Vallega is Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Latin American Studies at California State University Stanislaus. He is the author of Heidegger and the Issue of Space: Thinking on Exilic Grounds.

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