Broken Hegemonies Book

..". a book of striking originality and depth, a brilliant and quitenew interpretation of the nature and history of philosophy." -- JohnSallis In Broken Hegemonies, the late distinguished philosopherReiner Sch rmann offers a radical rethinking of the history of Western philosophyfrom the Greeks through Heidegger. Sch rmann interprets the history of Westernthought and action as a series of eras governed by the rise and fall of certaindominating philosophical ideas that contained the seeds of their own destruction.These eras coincided with their dominant languages: Greek, Latin, and vernaculartongues. Analyzing philosophical texts from Parmenides, Plotinus, and Cicero, through Augustine, Meister Eckhardt, and Kant, to Heidegger, Sch rmann traces thearguments by which these ideas gained hegemony and by which their credibility wasultimately demolished. Recognizing the failure of ultimate norms, Broken Hegemoniesquestions how humanity today is to think and act in the absence ofprinciples.