did-you-know? rent-now

Amazon no longer offers textbook rentals. We do!

did-you-know? rent-now

Amazon no longer offers textbook rentals. We do!

We're the #1 textbook rental company. Let us show you why.

9780802096203

Justifying Our Existence

by
  • ISBN13:

    9780802096203

  • ISBN10:

    0802096204

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2009-02-21
  • Publisher: Univ of Toronto Pr
  • Purchase Benefits
  • Free Shipping Icon Free Shipping On Orders Over $35!
    Your order must be $35 or more to qualify for free economy shipping. Bulk sales, PO's, Marketplace items, eBooks and apparel do not qualify for this offer.
  • eCampus.com Logo Get Rewarded for Ordering Your Textbooks! Enroll Now
List Price: $32.95 Save up to $5.31
  • Digital
    $27.64
    Add to Cart

    DURATION
    PRICE

Supplemental Materials

What is included with this book?

Summary

In his magnum opus Being in Time (1927), Martin Heidegger (1889-1976) argued that individuals have assumed that their existence is a given,' when in actual fact they simply have the ability to be. Justifying Our Existence examines the ways in which human beings attempt to calm their existential concerns by magnifying and proving their existence through phenomena such as self-righteousness, careerism, nationalism, and religion.Using remarkably accessible and concise writing, Graeme Nicholson provides a close reading of Heidegger's methods to indicate how his work has a practical application for existential concerns. Justifying Our Existence shows how phenomenology can be used to foreground existence, while also providing startling insights into human behaviour, the motivation behind many of our social systems, as well as one of the twentieth century's most important philosophers.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgmentsp. vii
Introductionp. 3
Life, Existence, Beingp. 4
Phenomenologyp. 8
How Our Being Concerns Usp. 12
The Ability to Bep. 19
Existencep. 20
Die Sorge: Care, Concernp. 24
The Phenomenology of Da-Sein: the Selfp. 28
The Phenomenology of Existence: Ecstasisp. 35
Being as the Ability to Bep. 39
The 'Letter on Humanism'p. 44
Excursus: 'Exist' in the Philosophical Traditionp. 45
Transition: Formalism and Applicationp. 47
Magnifying the Selfp. 50
Phenomenology and Hermeneuticsp. 53
The Meaning of Successp. 54
Failurep. 61
Achievementp. 67
Magnifying the Self and Magnifying its Beingp. 73
Justifying the Selfp. 75
Moralityp. 76
The Concept of Justificationp. 78
Inauthenticityp. 80
The Phenomenology of Inauthenticityp. 84
Shame and Remorsep. 92
Conscience and Guiltp. 95
Ascetic Autonomyp. 104
Magnifying the Communityp. 111
Existence and Communityp. 112
Magnifying the Polisp. 116
The Nation: Magnitude through Justificationp. 118
Militant Religionp. 123
Justifying the Communityp. 125
Caring for the Polisp. 126
Existence and Historyp. 130
Nation and Civilizationp. 133
A Spiritual Existencep. 141
What Is Spirit?p. 143
The Existing Spiritp. 150
The Phenomenology of Spirit: Intensityp. 154
The Problem of Groundingp. 156
God and the Selfp. 159
Forgiveness and Justificationp. 163
A Spiritual Communityp. 166
Conclusionp. 169
Heidegger's Question Concerning the Meaning of Beingp. 169
Summary of the Argumentp. 170
Notesp. 173
Indexp. 189
Table of Contents provided by Ingram. All Rights Reserved.

Supplemental Materials

What is included with this book?

The New copy of this book will include any supplemental materials advertised. Please check the title of the book to determine if it should include any access cards, study guides, lab manuals, CDs, etc.

The Used, Rental and eBook copies of this book are not guaranteed to include any supplemental materials. Typically, only the book itself is included. This is true even if the title states it includes any access cards, study guides, lab manuals, CDs, etc.

Rewards Program