Heidegger and Sartre: An Essay on Being and Place

✍ Scribed by Joseph P. Fell

• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Year: 2019
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 540
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Compares the thought of philosophers Martin Heidegger and Jean-Paul Sartre with a special focus on their theories of the real, fundamental, or essential nature of beings and of the interrelation between human and nonhuman beings.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
1. The Problem of Phenomenologicdl Ontology
I. The Quest for the Nature of Being
2. Dasein, Ground, and Time in Sein und Zeit
3. L’être-pour-soi. Ground and Time in L’être et le Néant
II. Living with Nothing
4. Nothing and World: The Need for the Turn
5. The Ethics of Play and Freedom: Conversion
6. Humanism: The Lecture and the Letter
III. The Reorientation
7. The Nature of the Place: Earth and Language
8. Mans Place in the Fourfold: Beyond Displacement
9. Heidegger’s Notion of Two Beginnings
10. Language, Action, and the Sartrean Beginning
11. Sartre’s Problem of Action Metaphysically Resolved
12. Man’s Place in the Spiral: Beyond Atomism
IV. Confrontation and Prospect
13. The Ground and Truth of Being
14. The Direction of Phenomenological Ontology
Notes
Bibliography
Index