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For a Philosophy of Freedom and Strife: Politics, Aesthetics, Metaphysics

For a Philosophy of Freedom and Strife: Politics, Aesthetics, Metaphysics

Figal, Günter
Klein, Wayne

Paperback

Series: Suny Contemporary Continental Philosophy

Philosophy

ISBN10: 0791436985
ISBN13: 9780791436981
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: Dec 4 1997
Pages: 238
Weight: 0.69
Height: 0.54 Width: 6.01 Depth: 8.93
Language: English

This first book-length work of the prominent German philosopher Gunter Figal to appear in English offers a radical defense of metaphysical philosophy in the era of postmodern thought.

This first book-length work of the prominent German philosopher Gunter Figal to appear in English offers a radical defense of metaphysical philosophy in the era of postmodern thought. For Figal, metaphysics does not represent an anachronistic and pernicious mode of thought that ought to be overcome but rather is a type of thinking that proceeds from a recognition of the necessary coherence of everything with its opposite. It is this agonistic relationship of opposites that Figal, following Heraclitus, terms strife. Rather than regarding the conflict of opposites as necessarily resulting in the dissolution of meaning and sense, as many contemporary thinkers maintain, Figal contends that sense and meaning can only come into existence metaphysically, that is to say, as a consequence of strife. And, the context within which strife occurs is freedom. Using these concepts of strife and freedom, Figal proposes new and provocative readings of Plato, Hegel, Nietzsche, and Kierkegaard, as well as of some of the most controversial figures of twentieth-century philosophy.

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