Heidegger''s Concept of Truth

Klappentext This major study of Heidegger is the first to examine in detail the concept of existential truth that he developed in the 1920s. Zusammenfassung This major study of Heidegger is the first to examine in detail the concept of existential truth that he developed in the 1920s. Daniel O. Dahlstrom critically examines the genesis! nature and validity of Heidegger's radical attempt to rethink truth as the disclosure of time! a disclosure allegedly more basic than truths formulated in scientific judgements. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; 1. The logical conception of truth: the logical prejudice and Lotze's concept of validity; 2. The phenomenological conception of truth; 3. The hermeneutic understanding of truth: the critical appropriation of Aristotle's analysis of truth and assertions; 4. The timeliness of existential truth: disclosing the sense of being; 5. Disclosedness, transcendental philosophy and methodological deliberations; Index.

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• Authors: Daniel O. Dahlstrom, Daniel O. (Boston University) Dahlstrom
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 19.03.2009
• EAN: 9780521103992
• ISBN: 978-0-521-10399-2
• No. of pages: 496
• Series: Modern European Philosophy (Pa
• Subject: Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works