Starting with Heidegger
By: Tom Greaves
Publisher: Continuum
Published: 2010
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 177
ISBN-13: 9781847061393; 9781847061409
Description: This is a new introduction to Heidegger, guiding the student through the overall development of his ideas. Covering all the key concepts of Heidegger's work, Starting with Heidegger provides an accessible introduction to the ideas that are embodied in his magnum opus, Being and Time . Thematically structured, the book encourages the reader to engage with Heidegger's thought, leading him or her to a more thorough understanding of the roots of his philosophical concerns. Drawing on a wide range of Heidegger's lectures and manuscripts, the book shows how Heidegger came to arrive at the existential analysis of Being and Time and how he continued to develop insights into the problems which motivated it. Crucially, contextual detail and intellectual influences, from Husserl to Nietzsche, are introduced with an eye to uncovering the basic motivations behind Heidegger's complex formulations, elucidating not only what Heidegger wrote, but how he thought philosophy should be practised. This is the ideal introduction for anyone coming to the work of this challenging thinker for the first time
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Phenomenology : the logic of appearance; title: Phenomenology without attitude; title: The root of sense and sensibility; title: Concrete sketches of experience; title: The self-evidence and elusiveness of phenomena; title: Dasein : a living question; title: Interrogating ourselves; title: Hermeneutics, philosophy, and ontological difference; title: The facts of life; title: More or less human; title: World : the event of meaning; title: Tackling the world around us; title: Environmental breakdown and recovery; title: Our world owns itself; title: Anyone and everyone; title: Already with others; title: The dictatorship of the one; title: The real and the authentic self; title: Language bears the one; title: Between our selves; title: Finding oneself in a mood; title: Where do moods belong?; title: The fundamental tone of attunement; title: Nothing to be anxious about; title: The depths of boredom and love; title: Meaning and truth; title: Laying out understanding; title: Disclosing and enclosing an horizon; title: Decisive truths; title: Excavating and sheltering the truth; title: Time and space; title: Extending our reach and making room; title: Exploding, stretching and punctuating time; title: Measuring out the dimension; title: Ways of life and death; title: The whole of life in death; title: A call to indebted freedom; title: Philosophy sacralised; title: Origin and originality; title: Original destruction; title: History repeats itself; title: Beginning again with the first beginning; title: Arts and science : poetry and thought; title: Undermining the academic divide; title: Returning the arts and sciences to themselves; title: The cult(ure) of technology; title: Two cultures in one.