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This book presents both a historical overview of the absorption of Heidegger's thought into English-language philosophical schools as well as a philosophical discussion of his thought provided by contemporary scholars. The text describes the ways in which a philosophical methodology and worldview seemingly so inhospitable to Anglophone academia has managed to find an unlikely home.
This volume is roughly divided into two types of contributions: discussions of Heidegger's reception in the English-speaking world, and outstanding examples of English-language Heidegger scholarship. The first type includes both historiographical accounts of the encounters between Heidegger's thought and the Anglo-American world, as well as their philosophical expositions and critiques. The second group of chapters reveal the latest contemporary scholarship by contemporary Heideggerians writing in English. It is moreover the first volume to bring together thinkers from both genealogies of Anglo-American Heideggerianism appealing to students and researchers working in both of these camps.
List of contents
Preface.- 1) Introduction.- 2) Heidegger Translation in the 1970s.- 3) Heidegger Translation in the 1970s- 4) Derrida's "deconstruction" and Heidegger's reception in America.- 5)Seinsvergessenheit: Heidegger and Anglophone Philosophers of Religion.- 6)Heidegger's Disavowal of Metaphysics.- 7) The Pragmatist Reading of Being and Time.- 8)An Ethics of Courage and Honesty in Wittgenstein and Heidegger.- 9) Conscience, its History and Being and Time: On Selfhood, Autonomy and an Experiment with Norms.- 10) Death, the Brother of Sleep.- 11) Dilthey, Heidegger and the Actualizing-Sense of History.- 12) Life and World: Heidegger's Phenomenological Metaphysics and its Discontents.- 13) Logical Psychologism and the Existential Analytic of Dasein.- 14) Formal and Fundamental Ontology in Husserl and Heidegger.- 15) The Topic of Sense in Being and Time.- 16) Technology, Essence, and Everyday Living.- 17) Among Heretics: Derridean influences in Anglo-American encounters with Heidegger's later work.- 18) Anarchy in the Name of Heidegger.- 19) Heidegger and Americanism, after Carl Schmitt and Max Weber: politics, theology and metaphysics.- 20) The Desolation of our Time: Celan's Struggle with Heidegger.- 21) Heidegger on Truth as Opening Possibilities.- 22) Frege and Heidegger.
