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Nest in the bones : stories
\"Philosophically engaged and darkly moving, the twenty stories in Nest in the Bones span three decades from Antonio di Benedetto's wildly various career. From his youth in Argentina to his exile in Spain after enduring imprisonment and torture under the military dictatorship during the so-called \"dirty war\" to his return in the 1980s, Benedetto's kinetic stories move effortlessly between genres, examining civilization's subtle but violent imprint on human consciousness. A late-twentieth century master of the short form and revered by his contemporaries, Nest in the Bones is the first comprehensive volume of Benedetto's stories available in English\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Positive Nihilism
There is a beyond of reason and unreason. It is the human psyche. --Positive Nihilism
Like many German intellectuals, Hartmut Lange has long grappled with Heidegger.Positive Nihilismis 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,the starry sky above him and the moral law within him, as stipulated by Kant.\" He considers the concept of civilization (\"misleading\"; \"how should one oppose the remedies of civilization to the egomania, the murderous appetites of such outright psychopaths as Stalin or Pol Pot?\"), the act of thinking (a fata morgana), the psyche, and Heidegger's Dasein.
Positive Nihilismcan be considered a pocket companion toBeing and Time. \"Heidegger's understanding of Being is nihilistic,\" Lange writes, and then explains his assertion. He draws on Kant, Nietzsche, Kierkegaard, and Shakespeare'sOthellofor supporting arguments and illustrations. \"Everyone is possessed of the courage to have angst about death. The question is whether this courage necessarily secures those vital advantages Heidegger alleges\"--that \"self-understanding [is] the mental anticipation of death.\" Lange wrestles with Heidegger's position, calling on Tolstoy, Georg Trakl, Herman Bang, and Heinrich von Kleist to argue against it.
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Stars in his eyes
\"Ceferino Carriâon is desperate for a new life--one of opportunity, fortune, and fame. But he knows he'll never find this life in war-torn Spain. With his home country under the heel of the devastating Franco dictatorship and call-up papers on his doorstep, Cefe knows there's only one thing he can do: run.\"-- Provided by publisher.
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