Of Spirit: Heidegger and the Question
"I shall speak of ghost, of flame, and of ashes." These are the first words of Jacques Derrida's lecture on Heidegger. It is again a question of Nazism — of what remains to be thought through of Nazism in general and of Heidegger's Nazism in particular. It is also "politics of spirit" which at the time people thought — they still want to today — to oppose to the inhuman.
"Derrida's ruminations should intrigue anyone interested in Post-Structuralism... . This study of Heidegger is a fine example of how Derrida can make readers of philosophical texts notice difficult problems in almost imperceptible details of those texts." — David Hoy, London Review of Books
"Will a more important book on Heidegger appear in our time? No, not unless Derrida continues to think and write in his spirit... Let there be no mistake: this is not merely a brilliant book on Heidegger, it is thinking in the grand style." — David Farrell Krell, Research in Phenomenology
"The analysis of Heidegger is brilliant, provocative, elusive." — Peter C. Hodgson, Religious Studies Review
- Format
- paperback
- Pages
- 148
- Publisher
- University Of Chicago Press
- Language
- english
- ISBN
- 9780226143194
- Genres
- philosophy, theory, france
- Release date
- 1991
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