The Task of Having to Be : Tradition, Place and Human Finitude in Dialogue with Japan

what precedes individual subjectivity; i.e, what grounds ontologically what we are and can be. To glimpse the conundrum that the human is entails, first and foremost, the realisation that there is always something in what we are that precedes the individuals and subjects we yearn to be. [Publisher's text]

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