Heidegger on Being Uncanny

Informationen zum Autor Katherine Withy is Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy at Georgetown University. Klappentext There are bizarre moments when we feel like strangers to ourselves. Through an investigation of Heidegger¿s concept of uncanniness, Katherine Withy explores what such experiences reveal. She shows that we can be what we are only if we do not fully understand what it is to be us, and points toward what it is to live well as an uncanny human being. Zusammenfassung There are bizarre moments when we feel like strangers to ourselves. Through an investigation of Heidegger’s concept of uncanniness, Katherine Withy explores what such experiences reveal. She shows that we can be what we are only if we do not fully understand what it is to be us, and points toward what it is to live well as an uncanny human being.

Product details

• Authors: Withy, Katherine Withy, Withy Katherine
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 07.04.2015
• EAN: 9780674416703
• ISBN: 978-0-674-41670-3
• No. of pages: 264
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: antiquity to present day; PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Phenomenology, PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Existentialism, Phenomenology & Existentialism, Phenomenology and Existentialism