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Philosophy, Revision, Critique: Rereading Practices in Heidegger, Nietzsche, and Emerson
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PHILOSOPHY, REviSION, CRITIQUE: REREADING PRACTICES IN HEIDEGGER, NIETZSCHE, AND EMERSON. By David Wittenberg. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2001. 266 p.
David Wittenberg makes two crucial interventions in this book: one in bringing practices of "revision" radically understood, to the center of the history of philosophy, and another in further destabilizing the Berlin Wall between philosophy and literature. In the epilogue to the book, Wittenberg explicitly raises Lacoue-Labarthe's polemical question of 1979, "What if, after all, philosophy were nothing but literature?" He goes on to say, in ways his book richly substantiates, that although recognizing that the assertion of "the ...
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