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What are the assumptions and tasks hidden in contemporary calls to overcome the metaphysical tradition? Reflecting upon the internal contradictions of the notions of tradition and finiteness, Dennis J. Schmidt offers novel insights into how philosophy must relate to its traditions if it is to retain a vital sense of the plurality of edges that constitute its finiteness. He does this through a close examination of issues found in the work of Hegel and Heidegger, two philosophers who made the ideas of both tradition and finiteness the center of their concern. Schmidt begins by asking how Heidegger can claim to have destroyed metaphysics despite Hegel's claim to have perfected its possibilities. Systematically following the development of Heidegger's critique of Hegel, Schmidt generates a dialogue between them. The topic of that dialogue is the nature of finiteness as it is articulated in time, nothing, the dialectical and hermeneutical circles, and in the notions of experience, work, technology, history, and preSocratic thought.Beginning with Heidegger's critique of Hegel in Being and Time, Schmidt's strategy is to disclose the complexities of philosophical discourse about the finite

Author

Dennis J. Schmidt

Publisher

The MIT Press

Published

1988

Language

EN

ISBN

9780262283151

Subjects

Philosophy, Science, Physics

Updated

2026-03-24