Death, Time and the Other Ethics at the Limit of Metaphysics
This book addresses the limits of metaphysics and the question of the possibility of ethics in this context. It is divided into six chapters, the first of which broadens readers’ understanding of difference as difference with specific reference to the wor
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Death, Time and the Other Ethics at the Limit of Metaphysics
Death, Time and the Other
Saitya Brata Das
Death, Time and the Other Ethics at the Limit of Metaphysics
Saitya Brata Das Jawaharlal Nehru University New Delhi, Delhi, India
ISBN 978-981-15-1089-2 ISBN 978-981-15-1090-8 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-1090-8
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For Franson Manjali
Foreword
It was indeed a daring moment for a young student of English literature to embark on a research project in philosophy nearly 15 years ago. Saitya Brata Das was one of a bright batch of students who finished their master’s in the first semester of the year 2000. By a happy conjunction, I had returned after a stint as a Research Fellow at the Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla, with a rather heavy baggage of (mainly photocopied) books on contemporary themes in continental philosophy. Saitya virtually grabbed them all and read most of the books from cover to cover, sentence by highlighted sentence, to acquire a philosophical formation in a short period of time. By the time he had embarked on writing his doctoral thesis, he was holding tightly to his chest works by a number of great philosophers, Nietzsche, Heidegger, Lévinas, Blanchot, Benjamin, Derrida, etc. He had imbibed much of their precious thoughts and
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