Heidegger: An introduction

✍ Scribed by Richard Polt

Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2004
Tongue: English
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

Heidegger is a classic introduction to Heidegger's notoriously difficult work. Truly accessible, it combines clarity of exposition with an authoritative handling of the subject-matter. Richard Polt has written a work that will become the standard text for students looking to understand one of the century's greatest minds.

✦ Table of Contents

Preface

1 The Question
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Beginnings
The roots
Theory of theory
Dilthey and Husserl
Theory and life
Heidegger the teacher
Towards Being and Time
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3 Being and Time: Introduction and Division I
The problem and the goal
§1: The mystery of Being
§2: Ourselves as the starting point
§3: Being and the sciences
§4: Being and human existence
§§5, 6 and 8: The plan of Being and Time
§7: The method of Being and Time
§§9-11: Existence and everydayness
§§12-13: Being-in-the-world and knowing
§§14-18: The world as a significant whole
§§19-21: The impoverished Cartesian "world"
§§22-24: Quantitative space and the space of appropriateness
§§25-27: Being-with and the "they"
§28: The basic features of Being-in
§§29-30: Attunement
§§31-33: Understanding, interpretation and assertion
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68CONTENTS
§34: Discourse
§§35-38: Falling
§§39-42: Anxiety and care
§§43-44: Reality and truth
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Being and Time: Division n and Beyond
§§46-53: Facing up to mortality
§§54-60: Owning up to indebtedness and responsibility
§63: Existentiell truth as the basis of existential truth
§§62, 64-65: Temporality as the key to the Being of Dasein
§66-71: Reinterpreting everydayness in terms of temporality
§§72-77: History, heritage and fate
§§78-82: Primordial temporality and the ordinary concept of time
A glimpse of Division III 85
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Later Heidegger
Signs of the turn
"What is Metaphysics?": nothingness and the disintegration
of logic
"On the Essence of Truth": unconcealment and freedom
Introduction to Metaphysics: the history of the restriction of Being
"The Origin of the Work of Art": the clash of earth and world
Contributions to Philosophy: fragments of another beginning
Machination and lived experience
Being as appropriation
Truth as sheltering
The way from beings to Being
Heidegger's politics: facts and thoughts
"Letter on Humanism": existentialism, humanism and ethics
"The Question Concerning Technology": beings as
manipulable resources
Poetry and language
The final analysis? 113
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Selected Bibliography
Index

✦ Subjects

heidegger, philosophy, continental philosophy, contemporary philosophy

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