Delimitations: Phenomenology and the End of Metaphysics

by John Sallis

Since Hegel, philosophers have declared repeatedly that metaphysics is at an end, a pronouncement that has sparked much contemporary philosophical debate. What exactly does the end, or closure, of metaphysics mean, and what are the implications of this view?

John Sallis characterizes the end of metaphysics as a limit, or horizon, both enclosing metaphysical thought and opening the field of thinking beyond it. He elaborates five areas in...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 025306483X
• ISBN13: 9780253064837
• Release Date: May 2022
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Length: 276 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher