Heidegger

by Richardson; John

• ISBN13: 9780415350716
• ISBN10: 0415350719
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2012-04-19
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Martin Heidegger ranks alongside Wittgenstein as one of the twentieth century'¬"s most influential yet cryptic and controversial philosophers. A towering figure in the schools of phenomenology and existential, his work inspired Sartre, Merleau-Ponty and Derrida. This introduction covers the whole of Heidegger's work and is ideal for anyone coming to his work for the first time. John Richardson centres his introduction around the two topics that characterise Heidegger's work as a whole and that form the title of his most importnt work: being and time. Beginning with an overview of Heidegger's life and work, he explains the development of Heidgger's thought up to the publication of Being and Time.He then introduces and assesses the key arguments of Being and Time under three key headings: pragmatism; existentialism; and the themes of time and being. He also explains how Heidegger departed from Husserl's understanding of phenomenology itself. Subsequent chapters introduce Heidegger's later philosophy, in particular his turn towards an historicized account of being; his influential writings on art, poetry and language and his view that art and literature are essential to an evolving, cultural understanding of human being; and his theory that being is expressed above all in technology and science which problematically 'enframes' much of our understanding and action. The final chapter considers Heidegger's profound influence on a number of different intellectual movements from existentialism to postmodernism and how his work was taken up and criticised by subsequent philosophers. A much-needed and refreshing introduction to this major figure, Heidegger is ideal reading for anyone coming to his work for the first time and will interest and stimulate students and scholars alike.

Author Biography

John Richardson is Professor of Philosophy at New York University, USA. His books include Existential Epistemology: A Heideggerian Critique of the Cartesian Project (1986), and Nietzsche's New Darwinism (2004). He is co-editor (with Brian Leiter) of Nietzsche (2001).

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. xi
A note on translations	p. xii
Abbreviations for Heidegger's works	p. xiii
Chronology	p. xxi
Introduction	p. 1
Truth	p. 7
Being	p. 15
Summary	p. 22
Further reading	p. 23
Life and works	p. 24
Summary	p. 44
Further reading	p. 44
Early development	p. 45
Summary	p. 54
Further reading	p. 54
Being and Time: phenomenology	p. 55
Studying intentionality	p. 59
Adapting the method	p. 67
A method for being and truth	p. 80
Summary	p. 84
Further readinq	p. 85
Being and Time: pragmatism	p. 86
Concern vs. theory	p. 89
Studying concern	p. 95
Understanding and its world	p. 98
Self-finding in feeling; thrownness	p. 106
Talk and das Man	p. 111
Summary	p. 121
Further reading	p. 123
Being and Time: existentialism	p. 124
Das Man and falling	p. 130
Anxiety	p. 138
Existential concerns	p. 144
Authenticity	p. 158
Summary	p. 172
Further reading	p. 174
Being and Time: time and being	p. 175
Temporality	p. 177
Historicality	p. 190
From temporality to time and being	p. 197
Summary	p. 202
Further reading	p. 203
Heidegger's turning	p. 204
Character of the turn	p. 207
The history of being	p. 213
Being in itself	p. 238
The oblivion of being	p. 244
The truth of being	p. 250
Summary	p. 273
Further reading	p. 275
Language and art	p. 276
Language as the house of being	p. 279
Metaphysical language	p. 287
Poetic language	p. 293
Thinking's language	p. 311
Summary	p. 321
Further reading	p. 323
Technology and god	p. 324
The critique of technology	p. 326
The withdrawal and absence of gods	p. 337
Beyond Nietzsche	p. 342
Gods' return	p. 349
Summary	p. 359
Further reading	p. 360
Heidegger's influences	p. 361
Summary	p. 368
Further reading	p. 369
Glossary	p. 370
Notes	p. 374
Bibliography	p. 396
Topic index	p. 401
Name index	p. 405
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