Description: Examines the historical context and contemporary relevance of facticity.
Brief description: Eric S. Nelson is Professor of Philosophy at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. He is the coeditor (with John E. Drabinski) of Between Levinas and Heidegger, also published by SUNY Press, and the author of Chinese and Buddhist Philosophy in Early Twentieth-Century German Thought.
Review Quotes:
"Rarely have I read a collection so rich in implicit intersection and contestation, and thus so able to stimulate fresh thought." -- John T. Lysaker, author of You Must Change Your Life: Poetry, Philosophy, and the Birth of Sense
"This fine collection shows that Heidegger's work does open many rich paths for engaging experience. Each essay contributes to a dialogue between today's driving concerns in continental philosophy and Heidegger's thought. Furthermore, the volume shows how facticity can be given new and constructive impulses for today's philosophical work." -- Alejandro A. Vallega, author of Heidegger and the Issue of Space: Thinking on Exilic Grounds
Contributors include Giorgio Agamben, Robert Bernasconi, Ed Casey, Bernard Flynn, Namita Goswami, Patricia Huntington, Theodore Kisiel, Jean-Luc Nancy, Eric Sean Nelson, David Pettigrew, François Raffoul, Jacob Rogozinski, Gregory Schufreider, Anthony J. Steinbock, and Rudi Visker.