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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
  • Language
  • english
  • ISBN
  • 9780226143194
  • Genres
  • philosophy, theory, france
  • Release date
  • 1991