ABSTRACT

Benjamin provides new and important readings of key canonical texts in the history of philosophy in his sustained philosophical reworking of ontology. Amongst texts included are Hegel's Difference Essay and the Shorter Logic and Heidegger's Time and Being and The Question of Being. The effective presence of ontology, defined as `an original difference', will be familiar to readers of his earlier writings. This book represents his most thorough and original contribution to contemporary philosophy to date.

chapter |4 pages

Beginning

chapter |9 pages

Opening presentation

chapter |6 pages

The new again

chapter |7 pages

Furthering beginning

chapter |3 pages

Beginning again: naming beginning

chapter |16 pages

Descartes’ body of forgetting

chapter |6 pages

Descartes’ ‘thing’

chapter |18 pages

Intermezzo: conflict naming

chapter |12 pages

Hegel’s ‘need’

chapter |8 pages

Hegel’s fruit

chapter |5 pages

After fruit

chapter |14 pages

Intermezzo: necessary relations

chapter |5 pages

Opening gifts

chapter |5 pages

In Heidegger’s gift—sacrifice

chapter |14 pages

Giving again

chapter |7 pages

From here to eternity

chapter |3 pages

Approaching events again

chapter |8 pages

Working through

chapter |5 pages

Translating repeating

chapter |7 pages

Repeating—the open ended