ON PHILOSOPHICAL THOUGHT AND ITS SURVIVING IN A TECHNICAL WORLD: STUDIES AFTER MARTIN HEIDEGGER / SOBRE O PENSAMENTO FILOSÓFICO E SUA SOBREVIVÊNCIA NUM MUNDO TÉCNICO: ESTUDOS A PARTIR DA OBRA DE MARTIN HEIDEGGER

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DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2003

RESUMO

The title of this work, On Philosophical Thought and its Surviving in a Technical World, is a good description of the problems we try to deal with. Martin Heidegger (1889-1976), through his works as well as through his tense insertion into the contemporary scene, is the thinker elected to guide and unify an investigation which tends to unfold into many others, as well as turning over into itself, because its own existence, as a philosophical work done in an increasingly technical world, also presents itself as a problem. This work deals with questions such as the mode of being of philosophical thought, how it changes and adapts, its constitution, updating or destruction in the relation among the various thinkers, dead or alive, and, in a wider sense, its relation to a world on which it depends and, at the same time, it must transform. This relation, considered in all its complexity, includes historical, linguistic, physical, political and, of course, technical dimensions. In short, all these questions constitute the universe this work deals with and, within it, has to succeed. Besides our choice of Martin Heidegger´s thought as the agglutinating point of all these problems, often viewed in interaction with thinkers as diversely related to him as Marx, Lukacs, Adorno, Schürmann, Arendt, Habermas, Vattimo, Derrida, Rorty, Loparic, Safranski and Sloterdijk, there is an important thread uniting the whole work, namely, that of the possible disposition - the equivalent of wonder, as posed by Plato and Aristotle in the origin of philosophy - to think in a creative, broad and deep fashion, in a world even more segmented and instrumental. Due to all these folding and unfolding, this work grew as a compilation of texts, all internally connected not only by the problem of the survival of philosophical thought in our times, but also as an internal cross references network: questions left open in one text (that can be read on its own), are reconsidered in another text, preceding or following the one in question. Above all, this choice arises from an actual search (not only a thematic one) of something next to a good thinking praxis, plastic, possible, attentive to the world.

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language metafisica linguagem pensamento politica politics metaphysics thought

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