..". elegant and provocative... Exhibit s] a subtle mastery of Heidegger's works." --Review of Metaphysics
..". splendidly precise study of Heidegger... to be recommended not only to Heidegger scholars but also to those interested in the question of what philosophical thinking has as its task in the modern technological world." --Religious Studies Review
..". indispensable to understanding the later Heidegger." --Choice
..". elegant and provocative... Exhibit s] a subtle mastery of Heidegger's works." --Review of Metaphysics
..". a book of striking originality and depth, a brilliant and quite new interpretation of the nature and history of philosophy." --John Sallis
In Broken Hegemonies, the late distinguished philosopher Reiner Schurmann offers a radical rethinking of the history of Western philosophy from the Greeks through Heidegger. Schurmann interprets the history of Western thought and action as a series of eras governed by the rise and fall of certain dominating philosophical ideas that contained the seeds of their own destruction. These eras coincided with their dominant languages: Greek, Latin,...
..". a book of striking originality and depth, a brilliant and quite new interpretation of the nature and history of philosophy." --John Sallis
In this remarkable work, Reiner Schurmann shows Meister Eckhart, the thirteenth-century Christian mystic, as the great teacher of the birth of God in the soul, which shatters the dualism between God and the world, the self and God. This is an exposition of Eckhar's mysticism--perhaps the best in English--and, because Eckhart is a profound philosopher for whom knowing precedes being, it is also an exemplary work of contemporary philosophy. Schurmann shows us that Eckhart is our contemporary. He describes the threefold movement of detachment, release, and "dehiscence" (splitting open), which...
In this remarkable work, Reiner Schurmann shows Meister Eckhart, the thirteenth-century Christian mystic, as the great teacher of the birth of God in ...
"Born too late to see the war and too early to forget it." So writes Reiner Schurmann in Origins, a startlingly personal account of life as a young man from postwar Germany in the 1960s. Schurmann's semi-autobiographical protagonist is incapable of escaping a past he never consciously experienced. All around him are barely concealed reminders of Nazi-inflicted death and destruction. His own experiences of displacement and rootlessness, too, are the burden of a cruel collective past. His story presents itself as a continuous quest for--and struggle to free himself from--his origins. The...
"Born too late to see the war and too early to forget it." So writes Reiner Schurmann in Origins, a startlingly personal account of life as a y...
