On Time, Being, and Hunger: Challenging the Traditional Way of Thinking Life

by Juan Manuel Garrido

Book Overview

The traditional way of understanding life, as a self-appropriating and self-organizing process of not ceasing to exist, of taking care of one's own hunger, is challenged by today's unprecedented proliferation of discourses and techniques concerning the living being. This challenge entails questioning the fundamental concepts of metaphysical thinking, namely, time, finality, and, above all, being. Garrido argues that today we are in a position to repeat...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0823239357
• ISBN13: 9780823239351
• Release Date: May 2012
• Publisher: Fordham University Press
• Length: 146 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"