Heidegger and Unconcealment: Truth, Language, and History

by Mark A. Wrathall

• ISBN13: 9780521739122
• ISBN10: 0521739128
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-11-01
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

This book includes ten essays that trace the notion of unconcealment as it develops from Heidegger's early writings to his later work, shaping his philosophy of truth, language, and history. "Unconcealment" is the idea that what entities are depends on the conditions that allow them to manifest themselves. This concept, central to Heidegger's work, also applies to worlds in a dual sense: first, a condition of entities manifesting themselves is the existence of a world; and second, worlds themselves are disclosed. The unconcealment or disclosure of a world is the most important historical event, and Heidegger believes there have been a number of quite distinct worlds that have emerged and disappeared in history. Heidegger's thought as a whole can profitably be seen as working out the implications of the original understanding of unconcealment.

Author Biography

Mark A. Wrathall received his Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of California, Berkeley, and is Currently professor of philosophy at the University of California, Riverside.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. ix
Credits	p. xi
Introduction	p. 1
Truth and Disclosure
Unconcealment	p. 11
Appendix on Tugendhat	p. 34
The Conditions of Truth in Heidegger and Davidson	p. 40
On the "Existential Positivity of Our Ability to be Deceived"	p. 57
Heidegger on Plato, Truth, and Unconcealment: The 1931-1932 Lecture on The Essence of Truth	p. 72
Language
Social Constraints on Conversational Content: Heidegger on Rede and Gerede	p. 95
Appendix	p. 116
Discourse Language, Saying, Showing	p. 118
The Revealed Word and World Disclosure: Heidegger and Pascal on the Phenomenology of Religious Faith	p. 156
Historical Worlds
Philosophers, Thinkers, and Heidegger's Place in the History of Being	p. 177
Between the Earth and the Sky: Heidegger on Life After the Death of God	p. 195
Nietzsche and the Metaphysics of Truth	p. 212
Works by Heidegger	p. 243
Index	p. 247
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