After Heidegger? (New Heidegger Research) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 178660485X ISBN 13: 9781786604859

Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield, 2017

Inhaltsangabe

This unique volume collects more than 30 new essays by prominent scholars on what remains philosophically provocative in Heidegger's thought. His writings continue to invite analysis and application - ut, particularly in the light of his political affiliations, they must also be critiqued. Philosophy today takes place after Heidegger in that his views should not be accepted naively, and there are new issues that he did not address - but also in that we continue to think in the wake of important questions that he raised.

The contributors to this volume ask questions such as:
- What does it mean to think "after" Heidegger?
- What is valuable in his early work on finite existence, and in his early and late phenomenology?
- What is the root of his political errors? Are there still elements in his thought that can yield helpful political insights?
- Should we emulate his turn toward "releasement"?
- Can he help us understand the postmodern condition?

Readers will find thought-provoking echoes and points of contention among these engaging and lively essays.

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Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

Gregory Fried is Professor of Philosophy at Suffolk University, Boston, USA.

Richard Polt is Professor of Philosophy at Xavier University, Cincinnati, USA.

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After Heidegger?

By Gregory Fried, Richard Polt

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Copyright © 2018 Gregory Fried and Richard Polt
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Contents

Abbreviations, ix, 
Editors' Introduction Gregory Fried and Richard Polt, xv, 
PART I: OVERVIEWS, 1, 
1 Heidegger: Enduring Questions Drew A. Hyland, 3, 
2 On Beyond Heidegger Gregory Fried, 11, 
3 In Heidegger's Wake Daniel O. Dahlstrom, 19, 
4 The Critical Appropriation of Heidegger's Philosophy: Five Motifs Peter E. Gordon, 29, 
5 But What Comes Before the "After"? Thomas Sheehan, 41, 
PART II: AFTER THE BLACK NOTEBOOKS, 57, 
6 What Is Left of Heidegger: On the Future of a Philosopher Donatella Di Cesare, 59, 
7 Thinking-Time: Or, Why Do "We" Ask About the Future of Heidegger's Thinking? Peter Trawny, 67, 
8 Getting Ourselves on the Hook Julia A. Ireland, 77, 
9 Aftermath Babette Babich, 87, 
PART III: POLITICS AND ETHICS, 99, 
10 Heidegger: Beyond Anti-Semitism and Seinsgeschichte John McCumber, 101, 
11 Ecce Homo/Ecce Cogitatio: On Heidegger's Politics and His Philosophy Lawrence J. Hatab, 111, 
12 Thought, Action, and History: Rethinking Revolution After Heidegger Arun Iyer, 123, 
13 Ethics After Heidegger Dennis J. Schmidt, 133, 
PART IV: LIFE AND EXISTENCE, 141, 
14 Becoming Hermeneutical Before Being Philosophical: Starting Again After Heidegger Robert C. Scharff, 143, 
15 The Strangeness of Life in Heidegger's Philosophy Eric S. Nelson, 157, 
16 Alienation and Belongingness Charles Guignon and Kevin Aho, 169, 
17 Being at Issue Richard Polt, 179, 
18 Heidegger's Schematizations Lee Braver, 191, 
19 Dasein: From Existential Situation to Appropriation in the Event Theodore Kisiel, 199, 
PART V: PHENOMENOLOGY AND ONTOLOGY, 209, 
20 Of Paths and Method: Heidegger as a Phenomenologist Steven Crowell, 211, 
21 Still, the Unrest of the Question of Being Katherine Withy, 223, 
22 What Is the Meaning of the Meaning of Being? Simon Critchley, 233, 
23 The Future of Thought: Of a Phenomenology of the Inapparent François Raffoul, 239, 
PART VI: THINKING WITH LATE HEIDEGGER, 249, 
24 On the Essence and Concept of Ereignis: From Technë to Technicity William McNeill, 251, 
25 Learning to See Otherwise: The Transformative Appropriation of Vision David Kleinberg-Levin, 263, 
26 On the Meaning and Possibility of Thought Miguel de Beistegui, 273, 
27 Clearing and Space: Thinking with Heidegger and Beyond Günter Figal, 283, 
28 Thinking Bodily Time-Spaces with and Beyond Heidegger Daniela Vallega-Neu, 295, 
29 The Appeal of Things: Ethics and Relation Andrew J. Mitchell, 303, 
30 Overcoming the Subjectivisms of Our Age (or Why Heidegger Is Not a Phenomenologist) Richard Capobianco, 309, 
PART VII: OPENINGS TO OTHERS, 321, 
31 Thinking Heidegger's Postmodern Unthought: From Ontotheology to Ontological Pluralism in Technology, Education, Politics, and Art Iain Thomson, 323, 
32 East-West Dialogue After Heidegger Bret W. Davis, 335, 
33 This Is Not a Love Story: Robot Girl and das Rettende After Heidegger Trish Glazebrook, 347, 
Index, 357, 
About the Contributors, 367, 

CHAPTER 1

Heidegger: Enduring Questions

Drew A. Hyland

I want to begin this short chapter by reaffirming the guiding assumption articulated by our two editors, that despite Heidegger's deplorable political history, there is much, very much, philosophic work that remains to be done in response to his work. As I shall argue, the question of the relation between a philosopher's political life (in the broadest sense of that phrase) and his or her philosophical writing is itself a philosophical issue, and certainly one not adequately addressed by rejecting Heidegger as a philosopher or relegating his work to the section of our libraries on the history of Nazism.

The editors have asked what are some of the most pressing and challenging issues for philosophy after — that is, in the philosophical wake of — Heidegger. I want to briefly discuss three issues: first, the centrality of the question as the core philosophical stance and speech act in Heidegger; second, and related, Heidegger's development of the distinction between "calculative" and "meditative" thinking and his call to preserve meditative thinking under the threat of the total dominance of calculative thinking; and third, as mentioned earlier, the question of the relation between a philosopher's thinking and the life lived, particularly if that philosophical thinking includes an affirmation of thinking as "beyond good and evil." I turn first to the question of the question.

Book after book of Heidegger's is titled as a question, and as if to underline the importance of this, Heidegger presses the limits of syntax to find alternative ways to formulate the question asked in his titles. Thus we find Die Frage nach dem Ding (The Question of the Thing), "Zur Seinsfrage" (On the Question of Being), Was heißt Denken? (What Is Called Thinking?), Was ist das, die Philosophie? (What Is Philosophy?), Was ist Metaphysik? (What Is Metaphysics?), among others. Even Sein und Zeit (Being and Time), though not titled as a question, makes it clear from the beginning that the whole purpose of this groundbreaking book is to raise the question of the meaning of Being. And of course, none of Heidegger's texts ask the question of the title and then answer it in the book! The point of Heidegger's thinking, that is, is not to "answer" this or that question but rather to deepen the question-worthiness of the issue at hand. One might say that the questions Heidegger asks call not for answers but for responses, where the difference would be that answers seek for a kind of closure on a given issue, whereas responses seek rather to open up that issue, to deepen our sensitivity to its nuances of meaning. In a world increasingly dominated by the kind of thinking that demands answers (more on this presently), Heidegger's thought-path tries to keep alive a kind of thinking that attempts to dwell — and it will demand a dwelling — in what we might call the open of the question. That phrase hints at an even larger issue: for the call for questioning as the fundamental speech act of philosophy occurs as a response to an open, and an open which, if Heidegger is right, will ever remain open (even if always also partially hidden), not one that will be "closed" or "solved" by any future thinker. Throughout his career, Heidegger names this open with various provocative words: Being, event of appropriation (Ereignis), that-which-regions (das Gegnet), clearing (die Lichtung), and the Open. But for me, what remains "the same" through these various pathways is what Heidegger sees as the appropriate response to them, which remains, always, questioning. One might say that whereas for almost all of philosophy since Descartes, the fundamental philosophic speech act has been the assertion — the assertion of "truths," of theories, of proofs, of conclusions, of refutations — Heidegger, by contrast, is trying to preserve for philosophy the fundamentality of that speech act which is questioning.

In this, it strikes me that there is a deep kinship with a thinker that Heidegger himself might be uncomfortable acknowledging as akin: the Platonic Socrates, and in particular, Socrates's sustaining of...

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2017
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 178660485X
• ISBN 13: 9781786604859
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 392
• Herausgeber: Fried Gregory, Polt Richard
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