Phenomenological perspectives on plurality / / edited by Gert-Jan van der Heiden.

• Superior document: Studies in Contemporary Phenomenology, Volume 12
• TeilnehmendeR: Heiden, Gerrit Jan van der, 1976-
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, Netherlands : : Brill,, 2015.; ©2015
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Series: Studies in contemporary phenomenology ; Volume 12.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (224 p.)
• Notes: Includes index.

Phenomenological Perspectives on Plurality offers twelve essays that discuss how the question of plurality is thought in contemporary continental philosophy. In particular, its essays investigate how this issue influences topics in ontology, aesthetics, and social and political philosophy as well as other fields. In the wake of the critique of metaphysics as onto-theology, the question of plurality has become a central focus of philosophy today. This question does not only give rise to rethink the beginning of metaphysics as well as some of its basic concepts, such as the notion of God, but also influences the contemporary conception of art, identity and community.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material -- Thinking Plurality: An Introduction / Gert-Jan van der Heiden -- 1 Plurality and the Disintegration of Difference / John Sallis -- 2 Plurality and the Question of God / Ben Vedder -- 3 Decentered-ness: Phenomenological Explorations / Günter Figal -- 4 Reinventing the Wheel: Of Sovereignty, Autobiography, and Deconstruction / Michael Naas -- 5 Identity or Identities? The In-Between of “No Longer and Not Yet” / Sanem Yazıcıoğlu -- 6 Towards a Community of the Plural: Philosophical Pluralism, Hermeneutics, and Practice / Nicholas Davey -- 7 The Responsibility to Understand / Theodore George -- 8 Philosophy in the Plural: A View from Radical Exteriority / Alejandro A. Vallega -- 9 Origin, Freedom, and Gelassenheit: On Heidegger’s Second “Country Path Conversation” / Holger Zaborowski -- 10 The Hermeneutic Phenomenological Approach to Plurality: Arendt, Habermas, and Gadamer / Veronica Vasterling -- 11 A System of Heterogenesis: Deleuze on Plurality / Martijn Boven -- 12 Deciding on Plurality? Plato’s Parmenides between Badiou and Agamben / Gert-Jan van der Heiden -- Index.