Heidegger, metaphysics, and the univocity of being Philip Tonner.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tonner, Philip, author.

Series:

Continuum Studies in Continental Philosophy

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Heidegger, Martin, 1889-1976.

Heidegger, Martin.

Duns Scotus, John, approximately 1266-1308.

Duns Scotus, John.

Ontology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (229 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London New York Continuum 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In Heidegger, Metaphysics and the Univocity of Being, Philip Tonner presents an interpretation of the philosophy of Martin Heidegger in terms of the doctrine of the 'univocity of being'. According to the doctrine of univocity there is a fundamental concept of being that is truly predicable of everything that exists. This book explores Heidegger's engagement with the work of John Duns Scotus, who raised philosophical univocity to its historical apotheosis. Early in his career, Heidegger wrote a book-length study of what he took to be a philosophical text of Duns Scotus'. Yet, the word 'univocity' rarely features in translations of Heidegger's works. Tonner shows, by way of a comprehensive discussion of Heidegger's philosophy, that a univocal notion of being in fact plays a distinctive and crucial role in his thought. This book thus presents a novel interpretation of Heidegger's work as a whole that builds on a suggested interpretation by Gilles Deleuze in Difference and Repetition and casts a new light on Heidegger's philosophy, clearly illuminating his debt to Duns Scotus

Contents:

Introduction

The univocity of being

The modern predicament

The problem of univocity in ancient and medieval philosophy

From Heidegger to Aristotle

Medieval philosophy

Scholasticism

Heidegger, Scotus, and univocity

The question of being

Analogy, the medieval experience of life

Univocity and phenomenology

Destruction and tradition

Metaphysics

Phenomenological philosophy and aletheia

Descartes, scholasticism, and time

The presupposition of the tradition

Scholasticism, analogy, and the interpretation of Heidegger

The phenomena of beingness and time

Beyond being

The analogical interpretation of Heidegger's text

Univocity and phenomenological philosophy

Being and some other key terms

The phenomenology of being and the question of Dasein

Transcendental philosophy

Univocity from 1916 to 1927

Cartesian connections and the medieval ontology

Dasein, univocity, and the question of analogy

Univocity and fundamental ontology

Husserl and Heidegger

Phenomenology, being, and univocity

Univocity and analogy

Univocity and Heidegger's later thought

Mysticism

The present age

The later Heidegger

A-letheia, ereignis, and epochal immanence

A history of being

The tradition

The history of metaphysics

The medieval and the modern

A history of the modern : subjectivity

Univocity and the problem of history

History and civilization

Art and history

Fractured history

Language and poetry

The fate of univocity

The re-enchanted forest

Being mortal

Acknowledgements

Abbreviations

Introduction

1. The Problem of Univocity in Ancient and Medieval Philosophy

2. Heidegger, Scotus and Univocity

3. Univocity and Phenomenological Philosophy

4. Univocity and Fundamental Ontology

5. Univocity and Heidegger's Later Thought

6. Univocity and the Problem of History

Conclusion

Appendix: The Univocity of Being: Deleuze

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references

ISBN:

9786612590627

9781472546814

1472546814

9781282590625

1282590626

9781441111685

1441111689

OCLC:

600206123