Negativity,Finitude, and the Leap in Heidegger's Contributions to Philosophy |
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Authors: | Niall Keane |
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Affiliation: | Department of Philosophy, Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick, South Circular Road, Ireland |
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Abstract: | This article examines Heidegger's assessment of negativity and finitude in the late 1930s and his enlargement of these issues in the name of a leap from one type of philosophy, one type of beginning, to a wholly other beginning. The guiding concerns of this article are negativity, finitude and the leap, and how these overlapping concerns coalesce around Heidegger's attempts to move towards a wholly other type of philosophy; in fact, one which no longer understands itself to be philosophy at all. The article concludes with a discussion of the role of death, sacrifice, and mourning in Heidegger's thought in the 1930s. |
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