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Item Details
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METAPHYSICS AND OPPRESSION
HEIDEGGER'S CHALLENGE TO WESTERN PHILOSOPHY |
| By: |
John McCumber |
| Format: |
Hardback |
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£41.00 |
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| ISBN 10: |
025333473X |
| ISBN 13: |
9780253334732 |
| Publisher: |
INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
1 June, 1999 |
| Series: |
Studies in Continental Thought |
| Pages: |
360 |
| Description: |
Reinterprets the history of metaphysics from Aristotle in the light of Heidegger's unrecognized challenge to oppression. This book provides an explication of Western philosophy that both confronts the important task of Heidegger's political alignment and breaks out of traditions of domination, exploitation, and oppression. |
| Synopsis: |
In this compelling work, John McCumber unfolds a history of Western metaphysics that is also a history of the legitimation of oppression. That is, until Heidegger. But Heidegger himself did not see how his conception of metaphysics opened doors to challenge domination encoded in structures and institutions - such as slavery, colonialism, and marriage - that in the past have given order to the Western world. McCumber brings to light this unperceived challenge by tracing the history of the inscription of domination into the very nature of Being as it is conceived by Aristotle, Aquinas, Descartes, Hobbes, and Locke. The result is a unique and creative explication of Western philosophy that both confronts the difficult and important task of Heidegger's political alignment and breaks out of traditions of domination, exploitation, and oppression. |
| Illustrations: |
3 figures, 1 bibliog., 1 index |
| Publication: |
US |
| Imprint: |
Indiana University Press |
| Returns: |
Non-returnable |
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