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Author Nichols, Robert, 1979- author.

Title The world of freedom : Heidegger, Foucault, and the politics of historical ontology / Robert Nichols
Published Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2014]

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 277 pages)
Contents Overview of the problematic -- Potentiality and authenticity : Heidegger's preparatory existential analytic in Being and time -- The field of freedom : Heidegger from fundamental to historical ontology -- Foucault contra Heidegger -- Foucault's 'autocritique' : three equivocations of conduct, experience, and thought -- The subject of spirituality -- Objectification, reification, subjectification : historical ontology and social criticism
Summary Martin Heidegger and Michel Foucault are two of the most important and influential thinkers of the twentieth century. Each has spawned volumes of secondary literature and sparked fierce, polarizing debates, particularly about the relationship between philosophy and politics. And yet, to date there exists almost no work that presents a systematic and comprehensive engagement of the two in relation to one another. The World of Freedom addresses this lacuna. Neither apology nor polemic, the book demonstrates that it is not merely interesting but necessary to read Heidegger and Foucault alongside o
Notes Originally presented as the author's thesis (doctoral)--University of Toronto
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 258-268) and index
Notes English
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Subject Heidegger, Martin, 1889-1976
Foucault, Michel, 1926-1984
SUBJECT Foucault, Michel, 1926-1984 fast
Heidegger, Martin, 1889-1976 fast
Subject Ontology.
Liberty -- Philosophy
Political science -- Philosophy.
Continental philosophy.
Philosophy, European -- 20th century.
ontology (metaphysics)
PHILOSOPHY -- History & Surveys -- Modern.
Continental philosophy
Liberty -- Philosophy
Ontology
Philosophy, European
Political science -- Philosophy
Ontologie (filosofie)
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780804792714
0804792712