On Heidegger's Being and Time

by Schnrmann,Reiner; Levine,Steven

• ISBN13: 9780415775960
• ISBN10: 0415775965
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2008-08-20
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

On Heidegger's Being and Timeis an outstanding exploration of Heidegger's most important work by two major philosophers. Simon Critchley argues that we must see Being and Timeas a radicalization of Husserl's phenomenology, particularly his theories of intentionality, categorial intuition, and the phenomenological concept of the a priori. This leads to a reappraisal and defense of Heidegger's conception of phenomenology. In contrast, Reiner Schürmann urges us to read Heidegger 'backward', arguing that his later work is the key to unravelling Being and Time. Through a close reading of Being and TimeSchürmann demonstrates that this work is ultimately aporetic because the notion of Being elaborated in his later work is already at play within it. This is the first time that Schürmann's renowned lectures on Heidegger have been published. The book concludes with Critchley's reinterpretation of the importance of authenticity in Being and Time. Arguing for what he calls an 'originary inauthenticity', Critchley proposes a relational understanding of the key concepts of the second part of Being and Time: death, conscience and temporality.

Table of Contents

List of illustrations	p. vii
Contributors	p. viii
Abbreviations	p. ix
Introduction	p. 1
Notes	p. 7
Heidegger for Beginners	p. 9
Introduction	p. 9
Heidegger's double gesture	p. 10
Intentionality	p. 12
Categorial intuition	p. 17
The phenomenological a priori	p. 29
Phenomenology as renewal	p. 31
Phenomenology as tautology	p. 34
The possibility of falling	p. 37
Transforming the natural attitude-from personalistic psychology to Dasein analytic	p. 39
Doing phenomenology-neither scientism nor obscurantism	p. 44
Conclusion	p. 49
Notes	p. 50
Heidegger's Being and Time	p. 56
Introduction: situating Being and Time	p. 56
Dasein as the exemplary being for the retrieval	p. 64
The general structure of the understanding of Being	p. 83
The ontic modifications of the understanding of Being	p. 109
Notes	p. 127
Originary inauthenticity-on Heidegger's Sein und Zeit	p. 132
A clue to understanding the basic experience of Sein und Zeit	p. 133
The enigmatic a priori	p. 135
How the enigmatic a priori changes the basic experience of Sein und Zeit	p. 138
Against the heroics of authenticity: evasion, facticity, thatness	p. 141
Death-the relational character of finitude	p. 143
Conscience-undoing the self	p. 145
Temporality-the primacy of the past	p. 147
Conclusion	p. 148
Notes	p. 150
Index	p. 153
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