On Time, Being, And Hunger : : Challenging the Traditional Way of Thinking Life / / Juan Manuel Garrido.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Fordham University Press Complete eBook-Package Pre-2014
• VerfasserIn: Garrido, Juan Manuel,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : Fordham University Press, , [2022]; ©2012
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Forms of Living
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (146 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Acknowledgments --; Introduction --; One --; Two --; Three --; Four --; Five --; Six --; Seven --; Eight --; Nine --; Ten --; Eleven --; Twelve --; Afterword --; Notes --; Bibliography --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780823292301; 9783111189604; 9783110707298
• DOI: 10.1515/9780823292301
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Juan Manuel Garrido.

The traditional way of understanding life, as a self-appropriating and self-organizing process of not ceasing to exist, of taking care of one’s own hunger, is challenged by today’s unprecedented proliferation of discourses and techniques concerning the living being. This challenge entails questioning the fundamental concepts of metaphysical thinking—namely, time, finality, and, above all, being. Garrido argues that today we are in a position to repeat Nietzsche’s assertion that there is no other representation of “being” than that of “living.” But in order to carry out this deconstruction of ontology, we need to find new ways of asking: What is life? In this study, Garrido establishes the basic elements of the question concerning life through readings of Aristotle, Nietzsche, Heidegger, and Derrida; through the discussion of scientific breakthroughs in thermodynamics and evolutionary and developmental biology; and through the reexamination of the notion of hunger in both its metaphysical and its political implications.