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Broken Hegemonies

Broken Hegemonies

Schürmann, Reiner

Paperback

Series: Studies in Continental Thought

Philosophy

ISBN10: 0253215471
ISBN13: 9780253215475
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: Oct 29 2003
Pages: 692
Weight: 2.17
Height: 1.44 Width: 5.98 Depth: 9.42
Language: English

. . . 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 Schürmann offers a radical rethinking of the history of Western philosophy from the Greeks through Heidegger. Schürmann 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, and vernacular tongues. Analyzing philosophical texts from Parmenides, Plotinus, and Cicero, through Augustine, Meister Eckhardt, and Kant, to Heidegger, Schürmann traces the arguments by which these ideas gained hegemony and by which their credibility was ultimately demolished. Recognizing the failure of ultimate norms, Broken Hegemonies questions how humanity today is to think and act in the absence of principles.

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