{"product_id":"lyrical-and-ethical-subjects-essays-on-the-periphery-of-the-word-freedom-and-history-paperback","title":"Lyrical and Ethical Subjects: Essays on the Periphery of the Word, Freedom, and History - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eDennis J. Schmidt\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA wide-ranging attempt to develop a theory of ethical life from a hermeneutic understanding of language.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDennis J. Schmidt develops a hermeneutic theory of language that forms the starting point for thinking through the concerns of ethical life. Working from texts by Homer, Plato, Kant, Nietzsche, Heidegger, and Gadamer, this volume explores some of the ways in which we experience the fringes of language, and highlights the relation of both freedom and history to such experience. The book is also guided by the conviction that such reflections upon the limits of language can open up something decisive for the effort to address the enigmas and challenges of judgment in the realm of ethical life.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Taking seriously Kant's claim in the Third Critique that aesthetic experience opens up a basis for judging that is other than that found in the language of the concept, Schmidt pursues this claim by addressing the relation of language to poetry, to music, to silence, to script, to sign language, and to painting-those experiences of language which set themselves apart from the concept. Out of the treatment of these experiences of language at its limits, the author argues that we find an opening upon the realm of ethical life that is truly beyond the calculus of good and evil. What results is an experience of radical freedom, an experience that precedes anything like a notion of freedom finding its explanation in the agency of a subject. It is here that we find the contours of what Heidegger once described as \"original ethics,\" and experience something of the sources of ethical life.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDennis J. Schmidt \u003c\/b\u003eis Professor of Philosophy, Comparative Literature, and German at The Pennsylvania State University at University Park. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eOn Germans and Other Greeks: Tragedy and Ethical Life\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Ubiquity of the Finite: Hegel, Heidegger, and the Entitlements of Philosophy\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 239\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.49 x 8.98 x 6.44 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 25, 2005\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53301511717171,"sku":"9780791465141","price":70.18,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/kkNozaiWyo9780791465141.webp?v=1777512945","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/en-ca\/products\/lyrical-and-ethical-subjects-essays-on-the-periphery-of-the-word-freedom-and-history-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}