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Justifying our existence : an essay in applied phenomenology / Graeme Nicholson.
LIBRA B3279.H49 N533 2009
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Nicholson, Graeme.
- Series:
- New studies in phenomenology and hermeneutics (Toronto, Ont.)
- New studies in phenomenology and hermeneutics
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Ontology.
- Phenomenology.
- Heidegger, Martin, 1889-1976.
- Heidegger, Martin.
- Physical Description:
- vi, 191 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2009]
- Contents:
- 1 Introduction 3
- Life, Existence, Being 4
- Phenomenology 8
- How Our Being Concerns Us 12
- 2 The Ability to Be 19
- Existence 20
- Die Sorge: Care, Concern 24
- The Phenomenology of Da-Sein: the Self 28
- The Phenomenology of Existence: Ecstasis 35
- Being as the Ability to Be 39
- The 'Letter on Humanism' 44
- Excursus: 'Exist' in the Philosophical Tradition 45
- Transition: Formalism and Application 47
- 3 Magnifying the Self 50
- Phenomenology and Hermeneutics 53
- The Meaning of Success 54
- Failure 61
- Achievement 67
- Magnifying the Self and Magnifying its Being 73
- 4 Justifying the Self 75
- Morality 76
- The Concept of Justification 78
- Inauthenticity 80
- The Phenomenology of Inauthenticity 84
- Shame and Remorse 92
- Conscience and Guilt 95
- Ascetic Autonomy 104
- 5 Magnifying the Community 111
- Existence and Community 112
- Magnifying the Polis 116
- The Nation: Magnitude through Justification 118
- Militant Religion 123
- 6 Justifying the Community 125
- Caring for the Polis 126
- Existence and History 130
- Nation and Civilization 133
- 7 A Spiritual Existence 141
- What Is Spirit? 143
- The Existing Spirit 150
- The Phenomenology of Spirit: Intensity 154
- The Problem of Grounding 156
- God and the Self 159
- Forgiveness and Justification 163
- A Spiritual Community 166
- 8 Conclusion 169
- Heidegger's Question Concerning the Meaning of Being 169
- Summary of the Argument 170.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780802099297
- 0802099297
- 9780802096203
- 0802096204
- OCLC:
- 259246824
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