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Telling Time

Sketch of a Phenomenological Chronology

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Telling Time

Sketch of a Phenomenological Chronology

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Telling Time takes up Heidegger's ideas of a "phenomenological chronology" in an attempt to pose the question of the possibility of a phenomenological language that would be given over to the "temporality of being" and the finitude of existence. The book combines a discussion of approaches to language in the philosophical tradition with readings of Husserl on temporality and the early and late texts of Heidegger's on logic, truth and the nature of language. As well as Heidegger's "deconstruction" of logic and metaphysics Dastur's work is informed by Derrida's deconstruction of the metaphysics of presence and Nietzschean genealogy. Appealing as much to Humboldt's philosophy of language as to H÷derlin's poetic thought, the book illuminates the eminently dialectical structure of speech and its essential connection with mortality.

Product details

Published 01 Jan 2000
Format Ebook (PDF)
Edition 1st
Extent 194
ISBN 9780567269492
Imprint The Athlone Press
Series Athlone Contemporary European Thinkers
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

About the contributors

Author

Francoise Dastur

Francoise Dastur, University of Paris VII (Val-de-…

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