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Dis-orientations: Philosophy, Literature and the Lost Grounds of Modernity
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Marcia Sa Cavalcante Schuback (Contributor) Tora Lane (Contributor)
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This highly original collection of essays contributes to a critique of the common understanding of modernity as an enlightened project that provides rational grounds for orientation in all aspects and dimensions of the world. An international team of contributors contend that the modern principles of foundation show in themselves rather how modernity is disorienting itself.
The book brings together discussions on the writings of philosophers who treat more systematically the questions of foundation and orientation, such as Kant, Nietzsche, Husserl, Heidegger, Pascal, and Patocka, and studies of literary works that explicitly thematize this question, such as Novalis, Hoelderlin, Beckett, Platonov, and Benjamin. This multi-disciplinary approach brings to the fore the paradox that modern figures of grounding and orientation unground and disorient and demonstrates a critical path to review current understandings of modernity and post-modernity.
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Marcia Sa Cavalcante Schuback is professor of philosophy at Soedertoern University, Sweden. She has published widely in both English and Portuguese, including the Portuguese translation of Heidegger's Being and Time.Tora Lane is a Project Researcher at CBEES, Soedertoern University, Sweden. Contributors: Ludger Hagedorn, Research Fellow, Institut fuer die Wissenschaften vom Menschen, Austria; Peter Hanly, Research Fellow, Boston College, USA; Krystof Kasprzak, PhD Student in Philosophy, Soedertoern University, Sweden; Tora Lane, Project Researcher, CBEES, Soedertoern University, Sweden; Michael Marder, Ikerbasque Research Professor of Philosophy, University of the Basque Country, Spain; Helena Martins, Associate Professor, Pontificia Universidade do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; Jan Patocka; Johan Redin, Research Fellow, Soedertoern University, Sweden; Marcia Sa Cavalcante, Schuback Professor of Philosophy, Soedertoern University, Sweden; Irina Sandomirskaja, Professor in Cultural Studies, Soedertoern University, Sweden; Gustav Strandberg, PhD student in Philosophy, Soedertoern University, Sweden; Peter Trawny, Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Martin Heidegger Institute, Wuppertal University, Germany; Sven-Olov Wallenstein, Professor of Philosophy, Soedertoern University, Sweden.
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- Contributor: Marcia Sa Cavalcante Schuback
- Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield International
- ISBN13: 9781783482573
- Number of Pages: 260
- Packaged Dimensions: 151x232x19mm
- Packaged Weight: 395
- Format: Paperback
- Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield International
- Release Date: 2014-12-22
- Binding: Paperback / softback
- Biography: Marcia Sa Cavalcante Schuback is professor of philosophy at Soedertoern University, Sweden. She has published widely in both English and Portuguese, including the Portuguese translation of Heidegger's Being and Time.Tora Lane is a Project Researcher at CBEES, Soedertoern University, Sweden. Contributors: Ludger Hagedorn, Research Fellow, Institut fuer die Wissenschaften vom Menschen, Austria; Peter Hanly, Research Fellow, Boston College, USA; Krystof Kasprzak, PhD Student in Philosophy, Soedertoern University, Sweden; Tora Lane, Project Researcher, CBEES, Soedertoern University, Sweden; Michael Marder, Ikerbasque Research Professor of Philosophy, University of the Basque Country, Spain; Helena Martins, Associate Professor, Pontificia Universidade do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; Jan Patocka; Johan Redin, Research Fellow, Soedertoern University, Sweden; Marcia Sa Cavalcante, Schuback Professor of Philosophy, Soedertoern University, Sweden; Irina Sandomirskaja, Professor in Cultural Studies, Soedertoern University, Sweden; Gustav Strandberg, PhD student in Philosophy, Soedertoern University, Sweden; Peter Trawny, Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Martin Heidegger Institute, Wuppertal University, Germany; Sven-Olov Wallenstein, Professor of Philosophy, Soedertoern University, Sweden.
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