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Robert L. Bernasconi is Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of Philosophy at Pennsylvania State University. He is well known as a reader of Martin Heidegger and Emmanuel Levinas, and for his work on the concept of race. He has also written on the history of philosophy. His books include How to Read Sartre (2007), Heidegger in Question: The Art of Existing (1993) and, co-edited with Simon Critchley, The Cambridge Companion to Levinas (2002).
Preface
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations of Works by Heidegger
Introduction
Part I: Ethics and Politics
- The Fate of the Distinction between Praxis and Poiesis
- “The Double Concept of Philosophy” and the Place of Ethics in Being and Time
- Justice and the Twilight Zone of Morality
- Habermas, Arendt, and Levinas on the Philosopher’s “Error”: Tracking the Diabolical in Heidegger
Part II: Art and Literature
- Literary Attestation in Philosophy: Heidegger’s Footnote on Tolstoy’s “The Death of Ivan Ilyich”
- The Greatness of the Work of Art
- Ne sutor ultra crepidam: Erasmus and Dürer at the Hands of Panofsky and Heidegger
- “Poet of Poets. Poet of the Germans” Hölderlin and the Dialogue between Poets and Thinkers
Part III: History and Historiology
- Descartes in the History of Being: Another Bad Novel?
- Bridging the Abyss: Heidegger and Gadamer
- The Transformation of Language at Another Beginning
- Deconstruction and the Possibility of Ethics: Reiterating the “Letter on Humanism”
Notes
Index
""There is a sense that the questions addressed here-concerning ethics, politics, literature, and history—all belong to the same family of questions. Bernasconi worries over the concrete commitments of Heidegger's text and thought, which he takes to be inseparable from Heidegger's radicality." —Research in Phenomenology
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