Inheritance and Originality: Wittgenstein, Heidegger, Kierkegaard

ISBN-13: 9780199243907 / Angielski / Twarda / 2001 / 464 str.

Stephen Mulhall

Opis

What does it mean to think of philosophy in the condition of modernism, in which its relation to its past and future has become a relevant problem? This book argues that the writings of Wittgenstein, Heidegger, and Kierkegaard are best understood as responsive (each in their own way) to such questions. Through detailed analysis of these authors' most influential texts, Stephen Mulhall reorients our sense of the philosophical work each text aims to accomplish, engendering a critical dialogue between them from which the elements of a new conception of philosophy might emerge.

Recenzje

Mulhall's readings are rich, provocative and sometimes compelling ... [Reading the book] is a long and demanding journey ... to those who undertake it, Inheritance and Originality offers a complex vision of the dispensation required for a transfiguration of our moral - and religious - consciousness.

O autorze

Stephen Mulhall is Fellow and Tutor in Philosophy, New College, Oxford.