Martin Heidegger : paths taken, paths opened / Gregory Bruce Smith.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Smith, Gregory B., 1949-

Series:

Twentieth-century political thinkers

20th century political thinkers

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Heidegger, Martin, 1889-1976.

Heidegger, Martin.

Physical Description:

xiv, 333 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, [2007]

Summary:

Martin Heidegger: Paths Taken, Paths Opened takes Heidegger's philosophy on its own terms and explores the pivotal significance of his phenomenology for political theory. Heidegger opposed, at the deepest level, everything that informs the global, technological civilization that seems to be the fate of humanity. Yet even in the liberal and technologically oriented West we cannot proceed without a confrontation with his thought. In this timely addition to the 20th Century Political Thinkers series, Gregory Bruce Smith shows Heidegger's thought to be an inescapable challenge to our current ethical habits and contemporary political institutions.

Contents:

Preface: Why Heidegger Now? vii

Introduction: Philosophy and the Issues of the Age 1

Chapter 1 Inventing a Life 15

Chapter 2 In the Beginning: The Young Heidegger 35

Chapter 3 Heidegger's Deconstruction of the Tradition 55

Chapter 4 Reinserting Being and Time 83

Chapter 5 On the Rectoratesrede 147

Chapter 6 Heidegger's Nietzsche 155

Chapter 7 On the Essence of Technology 165

Chapter 8 Art, Poetry, and Gelassenheit: Phenomenology Returns 175

Chapter 9 Transitions and Crossings: Experiments in Postmetaphysical Thinking 203

Chapter 10 Heideggerian Deflections 221

Conclusion: Beyond the End of History? 269.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 309-313) and index.

ISBN:

0742552829

0742552837

9780742552821

9780742552838

OCLC:

70707731

Publisher Number:

9780742552821

9780742552838