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Genre/Form: | Electronic books |
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Additional Physical Format: | Print On Time, Being, and Hunger:Challenging the Traditional Way of Thinking Life |
Material Type: | Document |
Document Type: | Book, Computer File |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Garrido. |
OCLC Number: | 939609765 |
Notes: | Book. |
Description: | 1 online resource |
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Publisher Synopsis
A new and compelling voice in philosophy. Garrido develops aprofoundly interesting and compelling investigation of the senses ofbeing and temporality. In doing so, he moves beyond philosophies thatemphasize traditional ontology and their correlative concept of time.----Alejandro Vallega, University of Oregon "Garrido makes a real, and highlysignificant intervention in the ways we commonly think about the phenomenonof life."----Rodolphe Gasche, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York "Juan Manuel Garrido renews in an impressive way the question concerning 'life.' By the term 'life' we usually mean a sort of immediacy, a self-presence through auto-affection and transmission through self-perpetuation. Garrido, however, opens life -- simply, if I may say so -- to the infinity of a 'being-towards' and a 'hunger': this infinity is not the indefinition of a life that simply 'continues,' but the elevation of life - or its hollowing out, which is the same thing - to being-out-of-itself. This is, in one word, a philosophical revolution." -- -Jean-Luc Nancy Read more...

