On the Boundary: A Life Remembered

di Fred Dallmayr (Autore)

University Press of America, 2017

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).

• Autore: Fred Dallmayr
• Editore: University Press of America
• Anno: 2017
• Rilegatura: Paperback / softback
• Pagine: 142 p.
• Dimensioni: 234 x 149 mm
• Peso: 240 gr.
• EAN: 9780761869566

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