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Book SynopsisThroughout the history of Heideggerian thought - a thought which surely shapes our understanding of Being' in the 20th and 21st century (as well as the history of western metaphysics in general) - there seems to be no place for what Plato, Hegel and Marx before him called dialectics'. For Heidegger, the dialectical method was a philosophical embarrassment. Equally, for one of our more contemporary philosophers, Graham Harman, there is no appearance of the word dialectic' in his complete oeuvre.
In this relatively short book, Johns and Bensusan, in the style of Derrida, looks over the absence or spectre of the signifier dialectic' in both Heidegger and Harman's work, arguing that such a negation of the term turns out to be more of an intentional repression than any passive neglection. Rather, the editors insist that such a repression finds its way into their writing as an alternative interpretation of their core concepts. Bringing together for the first time Hegelian t
