The Remains of Being: Hermeneutic Ontology After Metaphysics

Santiago Zabala

September, 2009
Cloth, 178 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-14830-6
$40.00 / £27.50

Chapter 1: Being Destroyed: Heidegger’s Destruction of Being as Presence

1. Retrieving the Meaning of Being

2. Questioning the “Worn-Out” Being

Chapter 2:After the Destruction: The Remains of Being

3. Schürmann’s Traits of Economical Anarchies

4. Derrida’s Treasures of Traces

5. Nancy’s Copresences of Singular Plurals

6. Gadamer’s Conversations of Language

7. Tugendhat’s Meanings of Sentences

8. Vattimo’s Events of Weakness

Chapter 3: Generating Being Through Interpretation: The Hermeneutic Ontology

of Remnants

9. Logics of Discursive Continuities

10.Generating Being “from Within”

notes

bibliography

index

Related Subjects

• Continental/Feminist Philosophy

About the Author

Santiago Zabala is an Alexander von Humboldt Fellow at Potsdam University Institute of Philosophy. He is the author of The Hermeneutic Nature of Analytic Philosophy and editor of Weakening Philosophy, The Future of Religion, Nihilism and Emancipation, and Art's Claim to Truth. His forthcoming book, coauthored with Gianni Vattimo, is Hermeneutic Communism.

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