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The Experience of Freedom

Nancy, Jean-LucFenves, Peter D.(Foreword by)McDonald, Bridget(Translated by)
Part of the Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics series
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This is the most systematic, the most radical, and the most lucid treatise on freedom that has been written in contemporary Continental philosophy.

Finding its guiding motives in Kant's second Critique and working its way up to and beyond Heidegger and Adorno, this book marks the most advanced position in the thinking of freedom that has been proposed after Sartre and Levinas.

If we do not think being itself as a freedom, we are condemned to think of freedom as a pure 'idea' or 'right', and being-in-the-world, in turn, as a blind and obtuse necessity.

Since Kant, philosophy and our world have relentlessly confronted this schism.

To combat this renunciation of freedom, one must think the experience of freedom in thought itself: what it is that, simply in order for there to be thinking, must partake of freedom.

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Stanford University Press
0804721750 / 9780804721752
Hardback
123.5
01/01/1993
United States
246 pages
146 x 224 mm, 445 grams
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