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Search Without Idols

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  • © 1987

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Authors:
  1. William Horosz

    1. University of Oklahoma, USA

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Part of the book series: Martinus Nijhoff Philosophy Library (MNPL, volume 17)

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XI
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  2. Toward a new perspective on totalities

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. The dimensions and language of transcendence

      • William Horosz
      Pages 3-32

    3. Reification and the birth of totalities

      • William Horosz
      Pages 33-61

    4. The nature and meaning of the totalist

      • William Horosz
      Pages 63-96

    5. Projectivism and the finite search for wholeness

      • William Horosz
      Pages 97-129

    6. Projectivism and the dismantling of totalities

      • William Horosz
      Pages 131-167

  3. A critical look at modern totalities

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 169-169
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    2. Marxist literature

      1. Marx and history
        • William Horosz
        Pages 173-210
      2. Sociology, ontology and totality in Georg Lukacs
        • William Horosz
        Pages 211-234
      3. The critique of domination in the Frankfurt School
        • William Horosz
        Pages 235-263

    3. Totalisms in phenomenology and phenomenological ontology

      1. Husserl’s world of infinite transcendence
        • William Horosz
        Pages 267-300
      2. From Dasein to Being in Heidegger’s totality
        • William Horosz
        Pages 301-333
      3. Totalism versus subjectivism in Gadamer’s hermeneutics
        • William Horosz
        Pages 335-360
      4. Finite transcendence and its idol: infinite transcendence
        • William Horosz
        Pages 361-391

  4. Back Matter

    Pages 393-396
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About this book

Search Without Idols is a study of human transcendence in the context of human striving, projecting, surpassing, overcoming. This power is central to man's search for wholeness. Such transcendence makes reality tolerable. It provides us with ~m impressive array of human responses which enable us to cope. But it also provides the excesses that go beyond human striving. Nothing seems to be off-limits to this ubiquitous power. Such a state of surpassing limits is what we find in the relation between the human search for wholeness and the quest for external totalities which lies beyond the human context. Such soaring flights beyond the capacity of human striving are hard to control, impossible to show responsibility-for and beyond the reach of criteria. The reach exceeds both our grasp and our control. Transcendence, then, is a greatly used and much abuse~ human power. Its activities have never ceased to amaze me, its excesses have always troubled me even from the beginning of my studies. This book is not an exercise in self-clarification. I have some thoughts on the matter which I wish to share with the reader. Perhaps we can mutually appreciate the great gift without compromising our sanity. Part I will provide a new look at the meaning of transcendence.

Authors and Affiliations

  • University of Oklahoma, USA

    William Horosz

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Search Without Idols

  • Authors: William Horosz

  • Series Title: Martinus Nijhoff Philosophy Library

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-3493-1

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 1987

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-90-247-3327-9Due: 30 April 1987

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-94-010-8062-0Published: 13 November 2013

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-009-3493-1Published: 06 December 2012

  • Series ISSN: 0168-5090

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XI, 396

  • Topics: Philosophy of Man, Ethics

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