Heidegger and the issue of space : thinking on exilic grounds / Alejandro A. Vallega.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Vallega, Alejandro A.

Series:

American and European philosophy

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Heidegger, Martin, 1889-1976. Sein und Zeit.

Heidegger, Martin.

Space and time.

Other (Philosophy).

Thought and thinking--Philosophy.

Thought and thinking.

Physical Description:

xii, 202 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

University Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press, [2003]

Summary:

As the only full-length treatment in English of spatiality in Martin Heidegger's work, this book makes an important contribution to Heidegger studies as well as to research on the history of philosophy. More generally, it advances our understanding of philosophy in terms of its "exilic" character, a sense of alterity that becomes apparent when one fully engages the temporality or finitude essential to conceptual determinations. By focusing on Heidegger's treatment of the classical difficulty of giving conceptual articulation to spatiality, the author discusses how Heidegger's thought is caught up in and enacts the temporality it uncovers in Being and Time and in his later writings. Ultimately, when understood in this manner, thought is an "exilic" experience -- a determination of being that in each case comes to pass in a loss of first principles and origins and, simultaneously, as an opening to conceptual figurations yet to come. The discussion engages such main historical figures as Plato, Aristotle, Descartes, Kant, and indirectly Husserl, as well as contemporary European and American Continental thought.

Contents:

Part 1 Themes

1 Transgressions: Recalling the Alterity of Beings in Plato and Aristotle 17

2 Exilic Thoughts: Alterity and Spatiality in the Project of Being and Time 57

Part 2 Scherzi

3 Interruptions: The Twisting Free of Spatiality 93

4 Failure, Loss, Alterity: Being and Time and Spatiality 113

5 Enactments of Alterity: Heidegger's "Translation" of Spatiality 131

6 Exilic Passages: Dasein's Being-Toward-Death 147

Part 3 Fugue

7 Concrete Passages: Alterity and Exilic Thought in Heidegger's Later Work 165.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [189]-196) and index.

ISBN:

0271023074

OCLC:

51867869