Jeffrey Andrew Barash Libros

The book explores Martin Heidegger's critique of contemporary philosophy, particularly his view that it strayed from essential questions about existence. He argued that philosophers focused on secondary issues, neglecting the fundamental inquiry into Being. Following this critique, Heidegger aimed to redirect philosophical thought towards the Seinsfrage, significantly influencing future generations of thinkers worldwide. The text delves into the implications of his ideas and their lasting impact on philosophical discourse.

When Mary Curran became suspicious of hairdresser Jessie Jordan's frequent trips to Nazi Germany in 1937, she could not have known that she would become one of the world's most successful amateur spycatchers. This is her untold true story, the story of how a Nazi spy's letter, intercepted in Scotland, broke spy rings across Europe and America.

There is one critical way we honor great tragedies: by never forgetting. Collective remembrance is as old as human society itself, serving as an important source of social cohesion, yet as Jeffrey Andrew Barash shows in this book, it has served novel roles in a modern era otherwise characterized by discontinuity and dislocation. Drawing on recent theoretical explorations of collective memory, he elaborates an important new philosophical basis for it, one that unveils profound limitations to its scope in relation to the historical past. Crucial to Barash’s analysis is a look at the radical transformations that symbolic configurations of collective memory have undergone with the rise of new technologies of mass communication. He provocatively demonstrates how such technologies’ capacity to simulate direct experience—especially via the image—actually makes more palpable collective memory’s limitations and the opacity of the historical past, which always lies beyond the reach of living memory. Thwarting skepticism, however, he eventually looks to literature—specifically writers such as Walter Scott, Marcel Proust, and W. G. Sebald—to uncover subtle nuances of temporality that might offer inconspicuous emblems of a past historical reality.

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Now in paperback, this important book explores the central role of historical thought in the full range of Heidegger’s thought, both the early writings leading up to Being and Time, and after the “reversal” or Kehre that inaugurated his later work.Barash examines Heidegger’s views on history in a richly developed context of debates that transpired in the early 20th-century German philosophy of history.He addresses a key unifying theme―the problem of historical meaning and the search for coherent criteria of truth in an era of historical relativism―as he traces the engagement with historicity throughout all major epochs and works.Barash revises this edition to explore new material, including Heidegger’s lecture course texts from 1910 to 1923, and adds an expanded, updated bibliography.

Os oito ensaios que formam este livro discutem a filosofia heideggeriana. A abordagem é fundada na comparação dos escritos e das aulas do filósofo com o contexto teórico, no qual elaborou o seu pensamento, a partir de uma investigação das fontes às quais foi buscar elementos ou com aquelas em relação às quais tomou um devido distanciamento. O seu encadeamento traduz uma interrogação - qual foi a ressonância na obra de Heidegger da 'crise' aberta na teologia liberal, os Geisteswissenschaften e a filosofia da história, da Guerra de 1914? Partindo da leitura detalhada de textos, como o curso de 1921 sobre Santo Agostinho, distanciando-se, igualmente, do fechamento nos limites do método heideggeriano, como da redução da sua filosofia a um simples posicionamento ideológico, Jeffrey Andrew Barash pretende clarificar as origens e as implicações da tentativa de identificar um 'impensado' sob o ideal de 'validade universal' no pensamento da história. Interpretando o juízo de Heidegger sobre a Segunda Guerra Mundial, agrupa, por fim, os elementos que permitem perceber, no coração da concepção heideggeriana de história do Ser, uma 'falha' indefinidamente retomada, relativa à própria ideia de imparcialidade intelectual.