The foundation of this book is the work of Jean-Luc Marion, who writes
at length about the problems of vanity and nihilism and offers an
answer in love, specifically Christian love. A complication that
arises, however, is that Marion argues that love is absent in the
respective responses to nihilism of Friedrich Nietzsche and Martin
Heidegger—two figures who play a key role in the development of his
thought, and who also have their own notions of love. In Marion, Love,
and Nihilism, Matthew C. Kruger explores this series of questions by
providing first an overview of the responses to nihilism found in
these figures, then a close reading of Marion’s thoughts on the
matter before moving to accounts of the concept of love in Nietzsche
and Heidegger. The book then finishes with a further critique of
Marion’s work, relying on the thought of Nishitani Keiji. Kruger
argues that, while Marion correctly identifies an answer in love (as
did Heidegger, Nietzsche, and Nishitani, in their own ways),
Marion’s thought ends in world-denial and thus fails find a complete
answer to nihilism.
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A Dialogue with Nietzsche, Heidegger, and Nishitani
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ISBN
9781666959543
Publisert
2024
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Lexington Books
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Engelsk
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Digital bok
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