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Martin Heidegger saved my life / Grant Farred.

Title
Martin Heidegger saved my life / Grant Farred.
Author
Farred, Grant
Publication
Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, ©2015.

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Description
87 pages; 18 cm.
Summary
In Martin Heidegger Saved My Life, Grant Farred combines autobiography with philosophical rumination to offer this unusual meditation on American racism.
Series Statement
Forerunners: ideas first
Subject
  • Farred, Grant
  • Heidegger, Martin, 1889-1976 > Influence
  • 2000-2099
  • Black people > South Africa > Biography
  • College teachers > United States > Biography
  • Racism > United States
  • Thinking
  • United States > Race relations > History > 21st century
Genre/Form
Biographies
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Introduction : a statement of intent -- The question demands an answer -- The benefits of an apartheid education -- My debt to Martin Heidegger -- The Cayuga Heights dialectic -- Thoughts come to us -- "Words are wellsprings" -- "Foreign to its own spontaneity" -- The only thing essential to thinking is thinking -- Who thinks? -- The order of the voice -- The Unexceptional.
ISBN
  • 9780816699360
  • 0816699364
OCLC
  • 919107220
  • SCSB-11350945
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library