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Tool-Being : Heidegger and the Metaphysics of Objects.

Tool-Being offers a new assessment of Martin Heidegger's famous tool-analysis, and with it, an audacious reappraisal of Heidegger's legacy to twenty-first-century philosophy. Every reader of Being and Time is familiar with the opposition between readiness-to-hand (Zuhandenheit) and presenc...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Harman, Graham
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Open Court, 2011.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:Tool-Being offers a new assessment of Martin Heidegger's famous tool-analysis, and with it, an audacious reappraisal of Heidegger's legacy to twenty-first-century philosophy. Every reader of Being and Time is familiar with the opposition between readiness-to-hand (Zuhandenheit) and presence-at-hand (Vorhandenheit), but commentators usually follow Heidegger's wishes in giving this distinction a limited scope, as if it applied only to tools in a narrow sense. Graham Harman contests Heidegger's own interpretation of tool-being, arguing that the opposition between tool and broken tool is not m.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (343 pages)
ISBN:9780812697735
0812697731