The Path of Archaic Thinking: Unfolding the Work of John Sallis (SUNY Series in (SUNY series in Contemporary Continental Philosophy) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0791423565 ISBN 13: 9780791423561

Publisher: State University of New York Press, 1995

Synopsis

The first anthology of commentary on Sallis that shows what is genuinely unique in his thought: the transformative relation of reason and imagination in thinking "after Heidegger

This book demonstrates that the kind of philosophy called Continental thought belongs to America in its own right. It reflects the depth, originality, and revolutionary character of Sallis's "re-doing" imagination-of his twisting imagination free from a metaphysics of presence and of subjectivity.

The book includes essays by Walter Biemel, Peg Birmingham, Walter Brogan, Françoise Dastur, Jacques Derrida, Parvis Emad, Eliane Escoubas, Bernard Freydberg, Rodolphe Gasché, Michel Haar, John Llewelyn, Kenneth Maly, Adriaan Peperzak, James Risser, and Charles Scott. This array of contributors demonstrates the place that Sallis's work has on the forefront of contemporary Continental thought.

The book concludes with an original piece by John Sallis himself, in which he thinks the philosophical sense of wonder in Aristotle, Plato, Hegel, the end of metaphysics, and Heidegger.

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About the Author

Kenneth Maly is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Wisconsin, La Crosse.

From the Back Cover

This book demonstrates that the kind of philosophy called Continental thought belongs to American in its own right. It reflects the depth, originality, and revolutionary character of Sallis's 're-doing' imagination-of his twisting imagination free from a metaphysics of presence and of subjectivity.

Edition details

• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Publication date: 1995
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0791423565
• ISBN 13: 9780791423561
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 334
• Editor: Maly Kenneth