Of Spirit: Heidegger and the Question"I shall speak of ghost, of flame, and of ashes." These are the first words of Jacques Derrida's lecture on Heidegger. It is again a question of Nazism—of what remains to be thought through of Nazism in general and of Heidegger's Nazism in particular. It is also "politics of spirit" which at the time people thought—they still want to today—to oppose to the inhuman. "Derrida's ruminations should intrigue anyone interested in Post-Structuralism. . . . . This study of Heidegger is a fine example of how Derrida can make readers of philosophical texts notice difficult problems in almost imperceptible details of those texts."—David Hoy, London Review of Books "Will a more important book on Heidegger appear in our time? No, not unless Derrida continues to think and write in his spirit. . . . Let there be no mistake: this is not merely a brilliant book on Heidegger, it is thinking in the grand style."—David Farrell Krell, Research in Phenomenology "The analysis of Heidegger is brilliant, provocative, elusive."—Peter C. Hodgson, Religious Studies Review |
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according affirmation already animal assigns avoid called Cartesian Christian comes concept cross crossing-through Dasein deconstruction degger Der Spiegel Descartes destitution of spirit Destruktion determination difference discourse entity essence of spirit essential Europe European everything evil example existential existential analytic fire flame Fragen French Frühe Führung Gedicht Geist Geistigkeit geistlich Gemüt German German language Geschlecht Gespräch ghost gives gratuitous game Greek hand Hegel Hegelian Heidegger says Heidegger's Hölderlin Husserl hypokeimenon indifference inscribed interpretation l'esprit language least logic meaning nazism Nietzsche ontological opposed origin originary passage path perhaps phenomenology philosophy pneuma pneumatology poem poet possibility precisely promise Psyché ques question quotation marks reading recall Rectorship Address remains ruah Schelling Seele seems Sein und Zeit sense simply soul speak spiritual world teleology thing thought tion trait Trakl trans translation Unterwegs zur Sprache unthought Welt Wesen word geistig word spirit Zeit Zusage