{"product_id":"positive-nihilism-my-confrontation-with-heidegger-volume-6-untimely-meditations-6-9780262534260","title":"Positive Nihilism  My Confrontation with","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA German writer's aphoristic, poetic, and difficult reflections on Heidegger's \u003ci\u003eBeing and Time\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003eThere is a beyond of reason and unreason. It is the human psyche.\u003cbr\u003e—\u003ci\u003ePositive Nihilism\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLike many German intellectuals, Hartmut Lange has long grappled with Heidegger. \u003ci\u003ePositive Nihilism\u003c\/i\u003e is the result of a lifetime of reading Being and Time and offers a series of reflections that are aphoristic, poetic, and (appropriately, considering his object of study) difficult. Lange begins with an abyss (“There is an abyss of the finite. It is temporality”) and proceeds almost immediately to extremity: “The twentieth century was governed by psychopaths. They collapsed the boundaries of moral reason and refuted Kant's analysis of consciousness.” He reflects further: “But who shall punish whom? One man's virtue is another man's crime. Thus Hitler could feel unwaveringly, as he wiped out entire populations, \u003ci\u003ethe starry sky above him a\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MIT Press Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48733467378007,"sku":"9780262534260","price":12.59,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780262534260.jpg?v=1720000185","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/positive-nihilism-my-confrontation-with-heidegger-volume-6-untimely-meditations-6-9780262534260","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}