Is There a Measure on Earth? Foundations for a Nonmetaphysical Ethics

Name: Is There a Measure on Earth? Foundations for a Nonmetaphysical Ethics
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ISBN: 9780226509211

ISBN-10: 0226509214

ISBN-13: 9780226509211

Edition: 1987

Authors: Werner Marx, Thomas J. Nenon, Reginald Lilly, Thomas J. Nenon

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The search for an ethics rooted in human experience is the crux of this deeply compassionate work, here translated from the 1983 German edition. Distinguished philosopher Werner Marx provides a close reading, critique, and Weiterdenken, or "further thinking," of Martin Heidegger's later work on death, language, and poetry, which has often been dismissed as both obscure and obscurantist. In it Marx seeks, and perhaps finds, both a measure for distinguishing between good and evil and a motive for preferring the former. The poet Hölderlin posed the question, "Is there a measure on earth?" His own answer was emphatic, "There is none," for he was convinced that the measure for man was to be…

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List price: $45.00
Copyright year: 1987
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 4/1/1987
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 179
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.50" long x 0.80" tall
Weight: 0.902
Language: English



Translators' Note Introduction



Is There a Measure on Earth? The Measure for Responsible Action



The ""Sphere"" for the Measure Surmounting Subjectivism



Death and the Mortals



Death and Language



The Measure forSeinsgeschicklichThinking



The Measure for Poetry


Notes


Index