Complicated presence : Heidegger and the postmetaphysical unity of being / Jussi Backman.

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Backman, Jussi, 1977- author.

Series:

• SUNY series in contemporary continental philosophy

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Heidegger, Martin, 1889-1976.
• One (The One in philosophy).
• Metaphysics.

Physical Description:

xxxii, 342 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Albany, NY : SUNY Press, [2015]

Summary:

From its Presocratic beginnings, Western philosophy concerned itself with a quest for unity both in terms of the systematization of knowledge and as a metaphysical search for a unity of being- two trends that can be regarded as converging and culminating in Hegel's system of absolute idealism. Since Hegel, however, the philosophical quest for unity has become increasingly problematic. Jussi Backman returns to that question in this book, examining the place of the unity of being in the work of Heidegger. Backman sketches a consistent picture of Heidegger as a thinker of unity who throughout his career in different ways attempted to come to terms with both Parmenides's and Aristotle's fundamental questions concerning the singularity or multiplicity of being-attempting to do so, however, in a "postmetaphysicar manner rooted in rather than above and beyond particular, situated beings. Through his analysis, Backman offers a new way of understanding the basic continuity of Heidegger's philosophical project and the interconnectedness of such key Heideggerian concepts as ecstatic temporality, the ontological difference, the turn (Kehre), the event (Ereignis), the fourfold (Geviert), and the analysis of modern technology. Book jacket.

Contents:

• 1 From the First Inception to the Other: Metaphysics and the Unity of Being 19
• The First Inception: The Unity of Being in Anaximander, Parmenides, and Heraclitus 19
• The First End of the First Inception: Plato and the One Over Many 34
• Ontotheology: Aristotle and the Analogical Unity of Being 44
• The End of Metaphysics and the Transition to the Other Inception 55
• 2 Being and Time: The Complicated Unity of Dasein 69
• On the Way to Being and Time: The Situation as a Singular Unity 69
• Ontothnetology: A New Exemplary Being 74
• Fundamental Ontology: From the Exemplary Being to Being and the Turn Back 77
• The Self as an Ecstatic Unity of Timeliness 82
• The Instant as the Ecstatic Clearing of Presence 91
• The Ecstatic-Horizonal Correlation of Dasein and World: Temporal Schematism 96
• From the Unity of the Horizonal Schemata to the Sense of Being: Complicated Presence 104
• Complicated Presence as Differential Unity: The Ontological Difference 112
• 3 The Turn and the Emergence of the Fourfold 121
• The Turn: Complicated Presence as the Reciprocity of Dasein and Being 121
• The Emergence of the Fourfold: Complicated Presence as Intimate Unity 135
• 4 Contributions to Philosophy: The Singular Simplicity of the Event 155
• Thinking in Reverse 155
• The Coordinates of the Transition 157
• The Unique Singularity of Beyng 161
• Beyng Is, Beings Are Not 174
• 5 Insight Into That Which Is: From the Uniform Presence of Technicity to the Complicated Presence of the Thing 187
• Thinking Being without Beings 187
• The Cyclic Structure of the Insight Into That Which Is 189
• The Complicated Presence of the Thing as an Interplay of the Fourfold World 190
• The Setup, the Peril, and the Turn to the Thing 202
• 6 Identity and Difference: Differential Identity as the Ground of Unity 215
• The Complicated Identity of Being and the Human Being 216
• Discharge as the Differential Unity of Being and Beings 223
• The Concord between Event and Discharge: Complicated Unity 229.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

• 9781438456492
• 1438456492

OCLC:

895728309