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The glance of the eye : Heidegger, Aristotle, and the ends of theory / William McNeill.
Van Pelt Library B3279.H49 M376 1999
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- McNeill, William, 1961-
- Series:
- SUNY series in contemporary continental philosophy
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Heidegger, Martin, 1889-1976.
- Heidegger, Martin.
- Aristotle.
- Theory (Philosophy)--History--20th century.
- Theory (Philosophy).
- Aristotle--Influence.
- History.
- Philosophy of theory.
- Physical Description:
- xvii, 374 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Albany : State University of New York Press, [1999]
- Summary:
- William McNeill explores the phenomenon of the Augenblick, or "glance of the eye", in Heidegger's thought, and in particular its relation to the primacy of seeing and of theoretical apprehending (theoria) both in Aristotle and in the philosophical and scientific tradition of Western thought. McNeill argues that Heidegger's early reading of Aristotle, which identifies the experience of the Augenblick at the heart of ethical and practical knowledge (phronesis), proves to be a decisive encounter for Heiddegger's subsequent understanding and critique of the history of philosophy, science, and technology. It provides him with a critical resource for addressing the problematic domination of theoretical knowledge in Western civilization. Such knowledge, the author shows, always remains in a peculiar tension (itself historically determined and changing) with ethical or "protoethical" knowledge, which is bound to the finite, "ekstatic" temporality of the lived and living moment, and inevitably exposed to the presence of the sensuous.
- Contents:
- 1 Introduction: Of an Ancient Desire 1
- I Theoria and Philosophy: Heidegger and Aristotle
- 2 Vision in Theory and Praxis: Heidegger's Reading of Aristotle (1924) 17
- The End of Desire 24
- The Complication of Praxis 29
- The Glance of the Eye 39
- Athanatizein 47
- 3 The Genesis of Theory: Being and Time (1927) 55
- The Natural Genesis of Theory 57
- Dispersions of Vision: Theory, Praxis, Techne 63
- The Existential Genesis of Theory 72
- The Thematizing Projection of Things 81
- Modification 85
- 4 Originary Praxis: The Trace of Phronesis in Being and Time 93
- Originary Praxis and Authenticity 99
- Seeing Oneself 107
- The Time of the Augenblick 114
- Retrospect on the 1922 Treatise on Aristotle 123
- Augenblick and World 131
- 5 Theory and Praxis at the University: The Rectoral Address (1933) 137
- II The Transformation of Theoria
- 6 Technovision: Modern Science and Technology 161
- The Age of the World Picture 166
- The Contemplation of the Real 173
- Grasping Things 178
- Making Progess: The Future of Science 181
- The Transformation of Presence: From Science to Technology 187
- The Collapse of Causality 192
- The End of Technology 202
- The Turning of Presence at the End of Technology 210
- III The Threshold of Representation: The Augenblick in Heidegger's Reading of Nietzsche
- 7 Vision and the Enigma 221
- IV Originary Theoria
- 8 In the Presence of the Sensible: Vision and Ecstasis 241
- Theoria in Retrospect: Philosophy, Science, and Curiosity 242
- Theoria and Divinity: The Philosophical Turn 252
- The Theoria of the Ancients 263
- "To Things Their Look ...": The Origin of the Work of Art 279
- The Look of the Other 303
- Absence of the Body 320
- Visions of Stillness 331.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 341-347) and indexes.
- ISBN:
- 0791442276
- 0791442284
- OCLC:
- 40200595
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