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What is Heidegger talking about when he says that being conceals itself? This is the first study to systematically address that question. Withy sorts the phenomena of concealing and concealment that Heidegger discusses into a highly structured taxonomy, thereby clarifying Heidegger's notoriously difficult discussions of being as self-concealing.
List of contents
- Acknowledgements
- Epigraph
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1.: Approaching Being as Self-Concealing
- 2.: The Taxonomy
- 3.: Phusis Kruptesthai Philei
- Plank Two: Discovering
- 4.: Lethe and Earth
- 5.: Excess
- 6.: Essential Kruptein
- 7.: The Backgrounding of World
- 8.: Contingent Kruptein, and Kruptesthai
- Plank One: Speaking
- 9.: Lethe
- 10.: How Speaking Conceals
- Plank Three: Being and Disclosing, Part I
- 11.: Disclosedness and Disclosing
- 12.: Lethe
- 13.: Un-truth and Falling
- 14.: Being Backgrounded
- 15.: The Concealing of the Whence of Thrownness
- 16.: Inauthentic Disclosing
- 17.: Being, a Ground Without Why
- Plank Four: The Ground of Being?
- 18.: The Clearing
- 19.: Temporality and das Ereignis
- 20.: The Fourth Plank
- Plank Three: Being and Disclosing, Part II
- 21.: Authentic Disclosing
- 22.: The Concealing of the Whither of Thrownness
- 23.: Rather and Other than Being
- 24.: The Self-Concealing of Being
- Conclusion
- 25.: The Possibility of Thinking Being
- Appendix: The Taxonomy of Phenomena of Concealing and Concealment in Heidegger's Work
- Bibliography
- Index
About the author
Katherine Withy is Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy at Georgetown University in Washington DC, where she has worked since 2009. Her first book, Heidegger on Being Uncanny, was published by Harvard University Press in 2015, and she has published articles and chapters in numerous journals and collections. Withy's research focuses on the nature of finitude in Heidegger's thought (including moods, concealing and concealment, and world collapse), as well as on Heidegger's interpretations of ancient Greek philosophy.
Summary
What is Heidegger talking about when he says that being conceals itself? This is the first study to systematically address that question. Withy sorts the phenomena of concealing and concealment that Heidegger discusses into a highly structured taxonomy, thereby clarifying Heidegger's notoriously difficult discussions of being as self-concealing.
