Dialectic and Difference: Finitude in Modern Thought (Contemporary Studies in Philosophy and the Human Sciences) (English and French Edition)

Politics & Social Sciences

Crease, Robert

Decker, James

Taminiaux, Jacques

Philosophy

Humanities Pr

Dialectic and Difference: Modern Thought and the Sense of Human Limits (Contemporary Studies in Philosophy and the Human Sciences)

Humanities Press International, Inc.

"It is by all means a dubious thing to depend and rest on what an author himself has brought to the forefront. The important thing is rather to give attention to those things he left shrouded in silence." Such was the methodological advice, given in 1924 by Heidegger himself, that is rigorously followed in this book, Heidegger and the Project of Fundamental Ontology. The project involves the vast complex of problems that emerged around Being and Time (1927) and then continued from the time of the Marburg lecture courses (1923-1928) up to the Freiburg lectures (1928-1935), today available in the Gesamtausgabe. Heidegger's silence concerning some of his foundational sources is a fact fully recognized by those who have carefully read him. This book systematically explores and critically assesses the silences concerning Husserl, the Aristotle of Book VI of the Nicomachean Ethics, the Hegel of Phenomenology, Nietzsche, and even Descartes. What emerges is a systematic and original reinterpretation of 'fundamental ontology' focused on the self-understanding of the human Dasein as the key for understanding the various meanings of Being and the entire deconstructed history of ontology. The project culminated in the pretensions to absoluteness rampant in modern metaphysics, with its peak and paroxysm to be found in The Introduction to Metaphysics (1935). In regard to the 'Heidegger affair', this book, which was begun well before the present turmoil, shows both the ambiguity and coherence of Heidegger's involvement with the Nazis, and, for the first time, exposes the work of the young Heidegger to a rigorous and wholesome internal criticism. By delineating the origins, the shifts, and the final outcome from within his own field, phenomenology, it allows us to reflect on this difficult question at its depth and origin.

Heidegger and the Project of Fundamental Ontology (Suny Series in Contemporary Continental Philosophy)

State Univ of New York Pr

“It is by all means a dubious thing to depend and rest on what an author himself has brought to the forefront. The important thing is rather to give attention to those things he left shrouded in silence.” Such was the methodological advice, given in 1924 by Heidegger himself, that is rigorously followed in this book, Heidegger and the Project of Fundamental Ontology. The project involves the vast complex of problems that emerged around Being and Time (1927) and then continued from the time of the Marburg lecture courses (1923-1928) up to the Freiburg lectures (1928-1935), today available in the Gesamtausgabe. Heidegger’s silence concerning some of his foundational sources is a fact fully recognized by those who have carefully read him. This book systematically explores and critically assesses the silences concerning Husserl, the Aristotle of Book VI of the Nicomachean Ethics, the Hegel of Phenomenology, Nietzsche, and even Descartes. What emerges is a systematic and original reinterpretation of ‘fundamental ontology’ focused on the self-understanding of the human Dasein as the key for understanding the various meanings of Being and the entire deconstructed history of ontology. The project culminated in the pretensions to absoluteness rampant in modern metaphysics, with its peak and paroxysm to be found in The Introduction to Metaphysics (1935). In regard to the ‘Heidegger affair’, this book, which was begun well before the present turmoil, shows both the ambiguity and coherence of Heidegger’s involvement with the Nazis, and, for the first time, exposes the work of the young Heidegger to a rigorous and wholesome internal criticism. By delineating the origins, the shifts, and the final outcome from within his own field, phenomenology, it allows us to reflect on this difficult question at its depth and origin.

Heidegger and the Project of Fundamental Ontology (S U N Y Series in Contemporary Continental Philosophy)

State University of New York Press

Poetics, Speculation, and Judgment: The Shadow of the Work of Art from Kant to Phenomenology (Suny Series in Contemporary Continental Philosophy)

Preface 1. Speculation and Judgment 2. The Critique of Judgment and German Philosophy 3. Speculation and Difference 4. Between the Aesthetic Attitude and the Death of Art 5. The Nostalgia for Greece at the Dawn of Classical Germany 6. Fire and the Young Holderlin 7. Art and Truth in Schopenhauer and Nietzsche 8. The Hegelian Legacy in Heidegger's Overcoming of Aesthetics 9. The Origin of "The Origin of the Work of Art" 10. The Thinker and the Painter Index

Poetics, Speculation, and Judgment: The Shadow of the Work of Art from Kant to Phenomenology (S U N Y Series in Contemporary Continental Philosophy)

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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)

Gendre, Michael

The Thracian Maid and the Professional Thinker: Arendt and Heidegger (S U N Y Series in Contemporary Continental Philosophy) (Suny Series, Contemporary Continental Philosophy)

The Metamorphoses of Phenomenological Reduction (Aquinas Lecture)

Marquette Univ Pr

"This book is a collection of superbly crafted essays on some fundamental texts of modern and contemporary philosophy. All were first published elsewhere in French. The translation here is accurate and graceful. Typically the author comments on works in which one philosopher engages in dialogue with another: Hegel with Hobbes, Hegel and Heidegger with Kant, Heidegger with Husserl, Merleau-Ponty with Husserl. ... All of these essays repay a second or third reading, but the pieces on 'Hegel and Hobbes' and 'Heidegger and Husserl's Logical Investigations' seem to have an exceptionally evocative character." --Review of Metaphysics

Dialectical and Difference (Contemporary Studies in Philosophy and the Human Sciences)

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