This book argues that politics must align with the promotion of self-actualization. Combining private property rights with an ethics of responsibility and drawing from the ideas of Immanuel Kant, the book opens the doors to a nonpartisan analysis of income inequality, inheritance, race relations, abortion and governance.

Aligning Values and Politics: Empowerment Versus Entitlement

Politics & Social Sciences

Sánchez, Nicolás

Gendre, Michael

Philosophy

University Press of America

Janicaud clarifies the project of “overcoming” metaphysics, a project that Heidegger himself recognized as open to innumerable misunderstandings, and Mattei inquires into the major Heideggerian texts produced between 1935 and 1969 to detect the cosmic figure of the Geviert, the initial Fourfold where “earth and sky, the divine ones and the mortals” gather. "Philosophy has come to an end" claimed Heidegger in the final posthumously published interview he granted to Der Spiegel. The goal of Janicaud's chapters ("Overcoming Metaphysics?," "Heideggeriana," "Metamorphosis of the Undecidable," and the dialogue "Heidegger in New York") first of all is to clarify the project of "overcoming" metaphysics, a project that Heidegger himself recognized as open to innumerable misunderstandings. Is it really possible to surmount metaphysics, not by transgressing it, but by means of a patient elucidation of its key concepts? In the effort to underscore the originality of his own enterprise, doesn't Heidegger tend to project too harsh a dichotomy between the forgetfulness of Being and its authentic recollection? By raising these questions, Janicaud suggests that Heidegger himself does not elude the objections that he directs toward the great metaphysical thinkers. The final recourse to dialogue in the midst of twentieth-century New York--a landscape intentionally "different" from one expectedly Heideggerian--intends to hint at another possibility than the indefinite deconstruction of metaphysical texts. It suggests new ways for thoughtful meditation and a new cast for action. At the center of the book, Mattei evokes the "Heideggerian Chiasmus or the Setting-apart of Philosophy." Through an inquiry into the major Heideggerian texts produced between 1935 and 1969 and inspired by Holderlin's poetry, Mattei gradually detects the cosmic figure of the Geviert, the initial Fourfold where "earth and sky, the divine ones and the mortals" gather. Such a community, whose meaning Heidegger is the only one to decipher in our times, silently conforms to an archaic philosophy. The cosmic game of the Geviert also evokes, for Heidegger, the path of the Tao in the Chinese tradition. In this epoch characterized by the destruction of ontology, the two paths in which East and West meet may grant us moderns the hope one day of "dwelling" in the world.

Heidegger from Metaphysics to Thought (Suny Series in Contemporary Continental Philosophy)

JANICAUD, Dominique

Mattéi, Jean-François

State Univ of New York Pr

Argues that Hannah Arendt's two major philosophical works, The Human Condition and The Life of the Mind, reveal not a dependency upon Heidegger, but rather a constant and increasing ironic debate with him. Appearing for the first time in English, this book by Jacques Taminiaux is a systematic investigation into Hannah Arendt’s intellectual relationship to Heidegger, the implications of which are indispensable to understanding the philosophical choices of our times. Beginning his investigation with Heidegger’s 1924-25 lecture course on Plato’s Sophist, wherein Heidegger originally formulated his fundamental ontology, Taminiaux focuses on the student Hannah Arendt’s first encountering “a set of problems of immediate importance and urgency.” The author shows that Arendt’s The Human Condition may be read both in its structure and in its themes―action, the world, the principle of individuation, the public realm―as a veritable retort and reply to Heidegger. Arendt is likened to the Maid from Thrace, a reference to Plato’s Theaetetus wherein the Maid laughs at the philosopher who, while walking with his gaze to the stars above, falls into a well. But Arendt’s critique of Heidegger cuts much deeper than this. While the political import of Arendt’s work has long been recognized, Taminiaux’s book systematically develops the philosophical framework which helps give shape to those political views. Thus one of the functions of The Life of the Mind, Taminiaux argues, is to reject the rigid division between the speculative thinker and the “common man”, or the vita contemplativa and the vita activa. Contrary to other recent studies on these two figures, Taminiaux claims “that Arendt’s two major works...reveal at every page not at all a dependency upon Heidegger...but rather a constant, and increasingly ironic, debate with him.” In the process, Heidegger’s philosophical work is interpreted in terms of its own political significance.

The Thracian Maid and the Professional Thinker: Arendt and Heidegger (Suny Series in Contemporary Continental Philosophy)

Taminiaux, Jacques

Notes De Cours Au College De France 1958-1959 (Studies Pheno & Existential Philosophy)

MERLEAU-PONTY, MAURICE

Northwestern Univ Pr

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