Rethinking Facticity (S U N Y Series in Contemporary Continental Philosophy)

ed. Francois Raffoul and Eric Sean Nelson

ISBN 10: 0791473651 / ISBN 13: 9780791473658

Published by State University of New York Press, 2008

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2008. Hardcover. Cloth, dj. Slight shelf wear. Very Good.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Rethinking Facticity (S U N Y Series in Contemporary Continental Philosophy)
• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Publication Date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0791473651
• ISBN 13: 9780791473658
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Used - Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
• Seller catalogs:
  • Philosophy

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Synopsis

Examines the historical context and contemporary relevance of facticity.

The concept of facticity has undergone crucial transformations over the last century in hermeneutics and phenomenology, but it has not yet received the attention that it warrants. Following a suggestion by Merleau-Ponty that philosophy is not about essences but rather the facticity of existence, prominent philosophers examine the significance of facticity in its historical context and reflect on its contemporary relevance. Focusing on the works of Husserl, Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty, Sartre, Lacan, and Fanon, among others, they trace its significance from life-philosophy to contemporary European thought and explore its philosophical implications. The following questions are addressed: What thoughts of experience, of subjectivity, of finitude, of nature, of the body, of racial and sexual difference does facticity provoke? What thinking of language, of history, of birth and death, of our ethical being-in-the-world does it mobilize? Exploring these questions, the contributors offer new interpretations of facticity.

About the Author

Eric S. Nelson is Professor of Philosophy at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. He is the coeditor (with John E. Drabinski) of Between Levinas and Heidegger, also published by SUNY Press, and the author of Chinese and Buddhist Philosophy in Early Twentieth-Century German Thought.