The Movement of Nihilism Heidegger's Thinking After Nietzsche

by Hemming, Laurence Paul; Amiridis, Kostas; Costea, Bogdan

• ISBN13: 9781441168092
• ISBN10: 1441168095
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2011-05-05
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic

Summary

An original collection of essays that aims to grasp Nietzschers"s prescience through Heideggerrs"s critique of his understanding of nihilism.

Author Biography

Laurence Paul Hemming is Senior Research Fellow in the Institute for Advanced Studies, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Lancaster University, UK. Bogdan Costea is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Organization, Work and Technology, Lancaster University, UK. Kostas Amiridis is a Lecturer in the Department of Organization, Work and Technology, Lancaster University, UK.

Table of Contents

About the Authors	p. ix
Introduction	p. 1
The Movement of Nihilism as Self-Assertion	p. 8
Heidegger's 'Movement of Nihilism' as Political and Metaphysical Critique	p. 25
Fighting Nihilism through Promoting a New Faith: Heidegger within the Debates of His Time	p. 39
'Questioning Politics, or Beyond Power'	p. 54
Living the Überfluß: Early Christianity and the Flight of Nausea	p. 71
Heidegger on Virtue and Technology: The Movement of Nihilism	p. 93
Nihilism and the Thinking of Place	p. 110
What Gives Here? ¿¿ó¿¿¿¿¿ and die Götter. A Close Reading of §§70-71 of Martin Heidegger's Besinnung	p. 128
'Myth means: the saying word' / 'The Lord said that he would dwell in thick darkness.'	p. 144
Coming to Terms with Nihilism: Heidegger on the Freedom in Technology	p. 155
Bibliography	p. 170
Index	p. 183
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