Abstract

In this challenging, integrative work, Steven Rosen explores the roots of the crisis of postmodernity: the widespread “fragmentation of human culture.” In doing so, he attempts to rethink space, time and individuality “from the ground up.” He asks us to turn around and withdraw the projections of Cartesian and Einsteinian space–time, so that we may embrace the “embodied fusion of subject and object that constitutes the paradox of apeiron” — of the limitless, the boundless, the indeterminate. Developing Martin Heidegger’s meditations on early Greek thinking, Rosen invites us to reverse our most basic assumptions. This involves questioning the peculiarly modern Western markers for the self–world relation: our subjective inclination to create meaning through quantification and measurement and our technologically driven possessive object orientation. In order to suspend the classical epistemological assumptions of “object-in-space-before-subject,” we must abandon our quest for self-contained “egoic unity,” what we might call our “idiocy” . We need to learn — as Parmenides said at the dawn of philosophy — the untrembling heart of unconcealment