
Groundless Grounds
A Study of Wittgenstein and Heidegger
Lee Braver(Author)
MIT Press
Published on 3. February 2012
Book
Hardback
370 pages
978-0-262-01689-6 (ISBN)
Description
Ludwig Wittgenstein and Martin Heidegger are two of the most important--and two of the most difficult--philosophers of the twentieth century, indelibly influencing the course of continental and analytic philosophy, respectively. In Groundless Grounds, Lee Braver argues that the views of both thinkers emerge from a fundamental attempt to create a philosophy that has dispensed with everything transcendent so that we may be satisfied with the human. Examining the central topics of their thought in detail, Braver finds that Wittgenstein and Heidegger construct a philosophy based on original finitude--finitude without the contrast of the infinite. In Braver¿s elegant analysis, these two difficult bodies of work offer mutual illumination rather than compounded obscurity. Moreover, bringing the most influential thinkers in continental and analytic philosophy into dialogue with each other may enable broader conversations between these two divergent branches of philosophy.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge, Mass.
United States
Publishing group
MIT Press Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Interest Age: From 18 years
Product notice
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Paper over boards
With dust jacket
Dimensions
Height: 244 mm
Width: 164 mm
Thickness: 28 mm
Weight
641 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-262-01689-6 (9780262016896)
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Person
Lee Braver is Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Philosophy at Hiram College in Ohio. He is the author of a number of articles and two previous books, A Thing of This World: A History of Continental Anti-Realism and Heidegger¿s Later Writings: A Reader¿s Guide.