Heidegger in Question - The Art of Existing

Explores in the context of Heidegger's thought and unpacks a number of questions and challenges.

List of contents

Preface
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations of Works by Heidegger
Introduction
Part I: Ethics and Politics

The Fate of the Distinction between Praxis and Poiesis

"The Double Concept of Philosophy" and the Place of Ethics in Being and Time

Justice and the Twilight Zone of Morality

Habermas, Arendt, and Levinas on the Philosopher's "Error": Tracking the Diabolical in Heidegger

Part II: Art and Literature

Literary Attestation in Philosophy: Heidegger's Footnote on Tolstoy's "The Death of Ivan Ilyich"

The Greatness of the Work of Art

Ne sutor ultra crepidam: Erasmus and Dürer at the Hands of Panofsky and Heidegger

"Poet of Poets. Poet of the Germans" Hölderlin and the Dialogue between Poets and Thinkers

Part III: History and Historiology

Descartes in the History of Being: Another Bad Novel?

Bridging the Abyss: Heidegger and Gadamer

The Transformation of Language at Another Beginning

Deconstruction and the Possibility of Ethics: Reiterating the "Letter on Humanism"

Notes
Index

About the author

Robert L. Bernasconi is Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of Philosophy at Pennsylvania State University. He is well known as a reader of Martin Heidegger and Emmanuel Levinas, and for his work on the concept of race. He has also written on the history of philosophy. His books include How to Read Sartre (2007), Heidegger in Question: The Art of Existing (1993) and, co-edited with Simon Critchley, The Cambridge Companion to Levinas (2002).

Summary

Explores in the context of Heidegger's thought and unpacks a number of questions and challenges.

Product details

• Authors: Robert Bernasconi, Bernasconi Robert
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.05.2022
• EAN: 9781538150344
• ISBN: 978-1-5381-5034-4
• No. of pages: 290
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; History of Ideas, PHILOSOPHY / Social, PHILOSOPHY / Political, PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Modern, LITERARY CRITICISM / General, PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / General, Philosophy, Social & political philosophy, social and political philosophy, Literature: history & criticism, Western philosophy from c 1800, Philosophical traditions and schools of thought, Literature: history and criticism