Nietzsche, Heidegger, and the Transition to Postmodernity

Name: Nietzsche, Heidegger, and the Transition to Postmodernity
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ISBN: 9780226763408

ISBN-10: 0226763404

ISBN-13: 9780226763408

Edition: 1995

Authors: Gregory Bruce Smith

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Among the most influential and enigmatic thinkers of the modern age, Nietzsche and Heidegger have become pivotal in the struggle to define postmodernism. In this work, Gregory Smith offers the most comprehensive examination to date of the turn to postmodernity in the writings of these philosophers. Smith argues that, while much of postmodern thought is rooted in Nietzsche and Heidegger, it has ironically attempted, whether unwittingly or by design, to deflect their philosophy back onto a modern path. Other alternative paths emanating from both Nietzschean and Heideggerian thought that might more powerfully speak to postmodern culture have been ignored. Nietzsche and Heidegger, Smith…

Book details

List price: $33.00
Copyright year: 1995
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 2/15/1996
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 376
Size: 0.60" wide x 0.89" long x 0.09" tall
Weight: 1.100
Language: English



Abbreviations



Modernity, Postmodernism, and Beyond



The Modern Longing: Protomodernity



Modernity Deflected: Metaphysical Freedom and History



Modernity's Codification and Closure: The End of History?



Responses to Modern Closure: Reconciliation or Transcendence?



The Protean Nietzsche



The Critique: The Early Nietzsche



The Transition: Zarathustra's Five Modes of Speech



Zarathustra and the Dynamic of Transition: Epigones and Interpretations



The Future Possibility: After the Metamorphosis



Nietzsche's Vision of the Postmodern Future



Recovering Heidegger



The "Early" Heidegger: Recovery and Deconstruction



Being and Time



The "Middle" Heidegger: Heidegger's Confrontation with Nietzsche and the Turn to Seinsgeschichte



Technology as the Culmination of Metaphysics



The "Late" Heidegger: Mid-Course Corrections



The Transition to Postmetaphysical Thinking



From Eigentlichkeit to Gelassenheit: Poetry and Phenomenological Openness to the World



Variations on a Theme: Postmodern Elements in Heidegger's Teaching



Unending Modernity or Postmodernity? Severing Theory and Praxis



The Problem of "Nature": Beyond the Sublimation of the Political



Dialectical Thinking: From the Phenomenology of Immediate Experience to Poetry



Letting the Future Present Itself: Constitutional Government and Postmodernity


Selected Bibliography


Index