On the Boundary: A Life Remembered

By Fred Dallmayr and Fred Dallmayr University of Notre Dame

The book records the author's personal and intellectual maturation over a period of nine decades. This maturation was never purely self-propelled, but always occurred in response to teachings and experiences. Situated as a "being-in-the-world", the author's experiences reach from World War II via the Cold War to recent "terror wars." Intellectually, he participated in and reacted to a number of major perspectives: from phenomenology, existentialism, and critical theory to hermeneutics, postmodernism, and post-secularism. Exchanges with multiples interlocutors helped to shape his distinctive outlook or profile; which privileges self-other contacts over the ego, dialogue over monologue, and dialogical cosmopolitanism over chauvinistic power politics. Implicit in this emerging profile is a preference for potentiality over actuality and of relationality over static identity. Shunning doctrinal formulas or finished "systems", the author's life thus is shown to be simply a journey, an adventure to what comes, an itinerary (mentis in Deum).

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0761869565
• ISBN13: 9780761869566
• Release Date: August 2017
• Publisher: Hamilton Books
• Length: 142 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 8.9"