The word 'alterity' is found infrequently in Heidegger's work, yet Vallega makes the compelling case that the effort to trace the enigmatic force of alterity is at the heart of that work. Suggesting that we find in Heidegger an enactment of that enigma by looking at what he calls 'exilic grounds' in Heidegger's thought, Vallega makes an important and original contribution to Heidegger scholarship. Well written, clear in its presentation of difficult issues, precise in delineating solutions to some thorny problems which come out of Heidegger, this is a provocative and exciting book.-Dennis J. Schmidt, Penn State UniversityAs the only full-length treatment in English of spatiality in Martin Heidegger's work, this book makes an important contribution to Heidegger studies as well as to research on the history of philosophy. More generally, it advances our understanding of philosophy in terms of its "exilic" character, a sense of alterity that becomes apparent when one fully engages the temporality or finitude essential to conceptual determinations.By focusing on Heidegger's treatment of the classical difficulty of giving conceptual articulation to spatiality, the author discusses how Heidegger's thought is caught up in and enacts the temporality it uncovers in Being and Time and in his later writings. Ultimately, when understood in this manner, thought is an "exilic" experience-a determination of being that in each case comes to pass in a loss of first principles and origins and, simultaneously, as an opening to conceptual figurations yet to come. The discussion engages such main historical figures as Plato, Aristotle, Descartes, Kant, and indirectly Husserl, as well as contemporary European and American Continental thought.
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Alejandro A. Vallega was born in Santiago, Chile, in 1964. He is Visiting Lecturer in Philosophy at California State University, Stanislaus, and co-editor of A Companion to Heidegger,¿¿s Contributions to Philosophy (2001).
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Interesting but not a great introduction,
This review is from: Heidegger and the Issue of Space: Thinking on Exilic Grounds (American and European Philosophy) (Hardcover)
With a very interesting theory about "Thinking on Exilic Grounds" Vallega shows some perspectives and problems in Heideggers thoughts. While this is inspiring, this book doesn't really give you any broad overview of Heideggers thoughts on space. It focusses mostly on Sein und Zeit, and on the reason why Heidegger DOESN'T write much about space in that work. Rather I had hoped for an investigation and explanation of Heideggers later works, as these explicitely focusses on the philosophy of space. For example "Art and Space" and "Building Dwelling Thinking". Such later works are treated in only 20 pages! And again the words "exilic grounds" appear several times on each pages, as have they done all the way through the book. The interpretation somehow gets ahead of the explanation, I fell. So this book may offer an interesting point of view concerning space, in relation to Heidegger, but isn't an introduction to Heideggers philosophy of space. A work like Strökers "Investigations in Philosophy of Space" is much more systematic and broad. It explains many keynotions, that are very helpfull in further discussion and thinking about the issue of space, whereas, roughly said, Vallega only introduces one. Ströker doesn't go that much into details about Heidegger though. This critique applies even without considdering the high price for less than 200 pages (55 US $).
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exilic grounds, transcendental articulation, exilic character, concrete finitude, apophantic logos, essential sway, withdrawal operative, withdrawing aspect, mimetic tool, logos apophantikos, originary spatiality, existential spatiality, unchanging origins, concerning spatiality, ephemeral passages, philosophical logos, ideal presence, originary temporality, pure temporality, fundamental temporality, essential temporality, loss operative, engaging events, transcendental interpretation, conceptual determinations Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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