Sense and Finitude: Encounters at the Limits of Language Art and the Political

Sense and Finitude interrogates one of continental philosophy's central insights: the temporality or finitude of philosophical thought. Juxtaposing the views of such philosophers as Plato, Heidegger, Walter Benjamin, Gadamer, and Derrida on art, poetry, and non-Western cultures with the insights of those very artists, poets, and cultures interpreted by them, Alejandro A. Vallega elucidates a certain sensibility fundamental to philosophical thought once it has come face-to-face with its concrete finitude-in the sense that philosophical ideas are always exposed to interpretation, transformation, and loss. By addressing philosophy's exposure to experience beyond its own delimitations, Vallega shows how such investigations can enrich the philosophical enterprise. Additional ISBNs1438425090, 1438425104, 9781438425092, 9781438425108Sense and Finitude: Encounters at the Limits of Language, Art, and the Political is written by Alejandro A. Vallega and published by Suny Press. ISBNs for Sense and Finitude are 9781438424903, 1438424906 and the print ISBNs are 9781438425092, 1438425090. Additional ISBNs include 1438425090, 1438425104, 9781438425092, 9781438425108.