Making sense of Heidegger : a paradigm shift / Thomas Sheehan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sheehan, Thomas, author.

Series:

New Heidegger research

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Heidegger, Martin, 1889-1976.

Heidegger, Martin.

Physical Description:

xx, 349 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

London ; Lanham, Maryland : Rowman & Littlefield International, [2015]

Summary:

Making Sense of Heidegger presents a radically new reading of Heidegger's notoriously difficult oeuvre. Clearly written and rigorously grounded in the whole of Heidegger's writings, Thomas Sheehan's latest book argues for the strict unity of Heidegger's thought on the basis of three theses: that his work was phenomenological from beginning to the end; that "being" refers to the meaningful presence of things in the world of human concerns; and that what makes such intelligibility possible is the existential structure of human being as the thrown-open or appropriated "clearing." Sheehan offers a compelling alternative to the classical paradigm that has dominated Heidegger research over the last half-century, as well as a valuable retranslation of the key terms in Heidegger's lexicon. This important book opens a new path in Heidegger research that will stimulate dialogue not only within Heidegger studies but also with philosophers outside the phenomenological tradition and scholars in theology, literary criticism, and existential psychiatry.

Contents:

Chapter 1 Getting to the Topic 3

Part 1 Aristotelian Beginnings

Chapter 2 Being in Aristotle 31

Chapter 3 Heidegger beyond Aristotle 67

Part 2 The Early Heidegger

Chapter 4 Phenomenology and the Formulation of the Question 111

Chapter 5 Ex-sistence as Openness 133

Chapter 6 Becoming Our Openness 155

Part 3 The Later Heidegger

Chapter 7 Transition: From Being and Time to the Hidden Clearing 189

Chapter 8 Appropriation and the Turn 231

Chapter 9 The History of Being 249

Conclusion

Chapter 10 Critical Reflections 271.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1783481196

9781783481187

1783481188

9781783481194

OCLC:

881208655

Publisher Number:

99961143853