Sense and Finitude: Encounters at the Limits of Language, Art, and the Political (SUNY series in Contemporary Continental Philosophy) - Softcover

Vallega, Alejandro A.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1438425104 ISBN 13: 9781438425108

Publisher: State University of New York Press, 2010

Synopsis

Takes Heidegger’s later thought as a point of departure for exploring the boundaries of post-conceptual thinking.

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, and non-Western cultures with the insights of those very artists, poets, and cultures interpreted by them, Alejandro A. Vallega elucidates a certain sensibility fundamental to philosophical thought once it has come face-to-face with its concrete finitude—in the sense that philosophical ideas are always exposed to interpretation, transformation, and loss. By addressing philosophy’s exposure to experience beyond its own delimitations, Vallega shows how such investigations can enrich the philosophical enterprise.

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About the Author

Alejandro A. Vallega is Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Latin American Studies at California State University Stanislaus. He is the author of Heidegger and the Issue of Space: Thinking on Exilic Grounds.

Edition details

• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Publication date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1438425104
• ISBN 13: 9781438425108
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 224