Broken Hegemonies [Paperback]

... a book of striking originality and depth, a brilliant and quite new interpretation of the nature and history of philosophy. John Sallis

In Broken Hegemonies, the late distinguished philosopher Reiner Sch?rmann offers a radical rethinking of the history of Western philosophy from the Greeks through Heidegger. Sch?rmann interprets the history of Western thought and action as a series of eras governed by the rise and fall of certain dominating philosophical ideas that contained the seeds of their own destruction. These eras coincided with their dominant languages: Greek, Latin, and vernacular tongues. Analyzing philosophical texts from Parmenides, Plotinus, and Cicero, through Augustine, Meister Eckhardt, and Kant, to Heidegger, Sch?rmann traces the arguments by which these ideas gained hegemony and by which their credibility was ultimately demolished. Recognizing the failure of ultimate norms, Broken Hegemonies questions how humanity today is to think and act in the absence of principles.

Translator's Remarks

VOLUME ONE
General Introduction

PART ONE
IN THE NAME OF THE ONE: THE GREEK HEGEMONIC FANTASM
I. ITS INSTITUTION: THE ONE THAT HOLDS TOGETHER (PARMENIDES)
Chapter 1. Contradictories: Their Juxtaposition and Their Confusion
Chapter 2. Contraries: The Foundation for Obligation
Chapter 3. On Power and Forces: The Normative System
Chapter 4. Henology Turned Against Itself?
Chapter 5. The Disparate: Narrative of a Journey

II. ITS DESTITUTION: THE ONE TURNED AGAINST ITSELF (PLOTINUS)
Introduction
Chapter 6. The Temporalizing Event
Chapter 7. The Singularising Contretemps

PART TWO
IN THE NAME OF NATURE:
THE HEGEMONIC LATIN FANTASM
Introduction
I. ITS INSTITUTION: THE PRINCIPLE OF TELIC CONTINUITY (CICERO AND AUGUSTINE)
Chapter 8. Concerning Singular Given Natures
Chapter 9. On the Erratic Differend
Chapter 10. On the Natural Double Bind: The Will Turned Against Itself