The Time of Revolution
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The Time of Revolution

Kairos and Chronos in Heidegger

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  2. English
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The Time of Revolution

Kairos and Chronos in Heidegger

About this book

This book presents Heidegger as a thinker of revolution. Understanding revolution as an occurrence whereby the previously unforeseeable comes to appear as inevitable, the temporal character of such an event is explored through Heidegger's discussion of temporality and historicity. Beginning with his magnum opus, Being and Time, Heidegger is shown to have undertaken a radical rethinking of time in terms of human action, understood as involving both doing and making and as implicated in an interplay of the opportune moment (kairos) and temporal continuity (chronos).

Developing this theme through his key writings of the early 1930s, the book shows how Heidegger's analyses of truth and freedom led to an increasingly dialectical account of time and action culminating in his phenomenology of the - artistic and political - 'work'. A context is thus given for Heidegger's political engagement in 1933. While diagnosing the moral failure of this engagement, the book defends Heidegger's account of the time of human action and shows it to foreshadow his later thought of a 'new beginning'.

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Information

Year
2012
Print ISBN
9781472570765
eBook ISBN
9781441119452
Edition
1

Table of contents

  1. FC
  2. Half title
  3. Bloomsbury Studies in Continental Philosophy
  4. Title
  5. Copyright
  6. Dedication
  7. Contents
  8. Acknowledgements
  9. Abbreviations
  10. Introduction
  11. 1 Historicity and Temporality in Being and Time
  12. 2 Praxis and Poiesis
  13. 3 Freedom, Contingency, Truth: Time as Emerging
  14. 4 The Time of the Work I: Art
  15. 5 The Time of the Work II: Thinking and Politics
  16. Conclusion
  17. Notes
  18. Bibliography
  19. Index

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