The Unthought Debt: Heidegger and the Hebraic Heritage (Cultural Memory in the Present)

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UPC:
9780804736862
Maximum Purchase:
2 units
Binding:
Paperback
Publication Date:
4/17/2006
Author:
Marlene Zarader
Language:
english
Edition:
1

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Drawing on Heidegger's corpus, the work of historians and biblical specialists, and contemporary philosophers like Levinas and Derrida, Zarader brings to light the evolution of an impensor unthought thoughtthat bespeaks a complex debt at the core of Heidegger's hermeneutic ontology. Zarader argues forcefully that in his interpretation of Western thought and culture, Heidegger manages to recognize only two main lines of inheritance: the Greek line of philosophical thinking, and the Christian tradition of faith. From this perspective, Heidegger systematically avoids any explicit or meaningful recognition of the contribution made by the Hebraic biblical and exegetical traditions to Western thought and culture. Zarader argues that this avoidance is significant, not simply because it involves an inexcusable historical oversight, but more importantly because Heidegger's own philosophical project draws on and develops themes that appear first, and fundamentally, within the very Hebraic traditions that he avoids, betraying an unthought debt to Hebraic tradition.

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