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(2011) Phenomenologies of the stranger, New York, Fordham University Press.
The null basis-being of a nullity, or between two nothings
Heidegger’s uncanniness
Simon Critchley
pp. 145-154
At times, reading a classical philosophical text is like watching an ice floe break up during global warming. The compacted cold assurance of a coherent system begins to become liquid and great conceptual pieces break off before your eyes and begin to float free on the sea. To be a reader is to try and either keep one’s footing as the ice breaks up, or to fall in the icy water and drown.
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Critchley, S. (2011)., The null basis-being of a nullity, or between two nothings: Heidegger’s uncanniness, in R. Kearney & K. Semonovitch (eds.), Phenomenologies of the stranger, New York, Fordham University Press, pp. 145-154.