Book | Chapter
The null basis-being of a nullity, or between two nothings
Heidegger’s uncanniness
pp. 145-154
Abstract
At times, reading a classical philosophical text is like watching an ice floe break up during global warming. The compacted cold assurance of a coherent system begins to become liquid and great conceptual pieces break off before your eyes and begin to float free on the sea. To be a reader is to try and either keep one’s footing as the ice breaks up, or to fall in the icy water and drown.
Publication details
Published in:
Kearney Richard, Semonovitch Kascha (2011) Phenomenologies of the stranger: Between hostility and hospitality. New York, Fordham University Press.
Pages: 145-154
Full citation:
Critchley Simon (2011) „The null basis-being of a nullity, or between two nothings: Heidegger’s uncanniness“, In: R. Kearney & K. Semonovitch (eds.), Phenomenologies of the stranger, New York, Fordham University Press, 145–154.