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Sense and Finitude: Encounters at the Limits of Language, Art, and the Political, Sense and Finitude interrogates one of continental philosophy's central insights: the temporality or finitude of philosophical thought. Juxtaposing the views of such philosophers as Plato, Heidegger, Walter Benjamin, Gadamer, and Derrida on art, poetry, a, Sense and Finitude: Encounters at the Limits of Language, Art, and the Political has a rating of 3 stars
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  • Sense and Finitude: Encounters at the Limits of Language, Art, and the Political
  • Written by author Alejandro A. Vallega
  • Published by State University of New York Press, March 2009
  • Sense and Finitude interrogates one of continental philosophy's central insights: the temporality or finitude of philosophical thought. Juxtaposing the views of such philosophers as Plato, Heidegger, Walter Benjamin, Gadamer, and Derrida on art, poetry, a
  • Takes Heidegger's later thought as a point of departure for exploring the boundaries of post-conceptual thinking.
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Illustrations ix

Acknowledgments xi

Introduction 1

Part I Unbounded Thoughts: Fecund Overflowing in Philosophy's Finitude

1 Four Meditations on Heidegger's Undergoing of Thought's Finitude 9

First Meditation: Abandonment: A Violent Encounter with Thought's Finitude 12

2 Second Meditation: The Decomposition of an Illusion and the Fecundity of Thinking 19

3 Third Meditation: Thought's Sensibility in its Finitude and its Exposed Word 27

4 Fourth Meditation: Thought's Ambiguous Finitude: Between Abyssal Fecund Thought and the Historical Destiny of the West 39

5 Exposed Memories: Towards Reading the History of Philosophy Beyond its Historical Destiny in the West 51

Part II Unbounded Words: Language in its Ephemeral and Concrete Finitude

6 Ephemeral Concrete Words: On the Translucence of the Philosophical Logos in Plato's Phaidros 65

7 The Tactility of Words (from Silent Gestures): Gadamer's Reading of Paul Celan's Atemkristall 81

8 Quand un Corps se met en OEuvre: The Word in the Flesh, at the Limit of Derrida's Reading of Antonin Artaud 103

Part III Unbounded Finitudes: Thought's Sensibility in Art and the Political

9 The Sensibility of Art in its Finitude: Undergoing the Disaster Through Benjamin's "Politics of Art" 123

10 Unbounded Spirits: From Solitude to Ethical Words in Hegel, Fanon, and Gabriel Garcia Marquez 139

11 Towards a Politics of Lightness 159

Notes 171

Index 207


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