Human Life Is Radical Reality: An Idea Developed From The Conceptions Of Dilthey, Heidegger, And Ortega Y Gasset

Tuttle, Howard N.

ISBN 10: 0820476048 / ISBN 13: 9780820476049

Published by Peter Lang Pub Inc, New York, New York, U.S.A., 2007

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200 Pages. Five inked lines of author's signature on front endpaper. Includes date April 2010. No defects noted. Interior text pages are flawless. The 21st century needs a new paradigm for phiosophy, because both Anglo-American and Continental philosophy have ended in analytic sterility and desconstructive nihilism. They have ignored the radical reality of humman life, which all other realities must presuppose. Three Europoean philosophers in the 20th centurey, Dilthey, Heidegger, and Ortega y Gasset, began to develop this idea, but never before has it been systiematicall conceptualized and adequately expounded. With reference to the works of these phiosophers, this book examines the major categories and essential properties of human life as it is lived, for example, in time, circumstance, hsitory, and understanding.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Human Life Is Radical Reality: An Idea Developed From The Conceptions Of Dilthey, Heidegger, And Ortega Y Gasset
• Publisher: Peter Lang Pub Inc, New York, New York, U.S.A.
• Publication Date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0820476048
• ISBN 13: 9780820476049
• Binding: Hard Back
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket As Issued
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)

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Synopsis

The twenty-first century needs a new paradigm for philosophy, because both Anglo-American and Continental philosophy have ended in analytic sterility and deconstructive nihilism. They have ignored the radical reality of human life, which all other realities must presuppose. Three European philosophers in the twentieth century – Dilthey, Heidegger, and Ortega y Gasset – began to develop this idea, but never before has it been systematically conceptualized and adequately expounded. With reference to the works of these philosophers, this book examines the major categories and essential properties of human life as it is lived, for example, in time, circumstance, history, and understanding.

About the Author

The Author: Howard N. Tuttle is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at the University of New Mexico at Albuquerque. He received advanced degrees from Harvard University and the University of Vienna, and a Ph.D. in the history of philosophy from Brandeis University. He is the author of Wilhelm Dilthey’s Philosophy of Historical Understanding: A Critical Analysis (1969); The Dawn of Historical Reason: The Historicality of Human Existence in the Thought of Dilthey, Heidegger, and Ortega y Gasset (Peter Lang, 1994); The Crowd Is Untruth: The Existential Critique of Mass Society in the Thought of Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Heidegger, and Ortega y Gasset (Peter Lang, 1996); and Fire Night: A Story of Pompeii, 79 A.D (1978).