Heidegger, ethics and the practice of ontology David Webb.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Webb, David, author.

Series:

Continuum studies in Continental philosophy.

Continuum studies in Continental philosophy

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Heidegger, Martin, 1889-1976.

Heidegger, Martin.

Ethics.

Ontology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (163 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London New York Continuum 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Heidegger, Ethics and the Practice of Ontology presents an important new examination of ethics and ontology in Heidegger. There remains a basic conviction throughout Heidegger's thought that the event by which Being is given or disclosed is somehow 'prior' to our relation to the many beings we meet in our everyday lives. This priority makes it possible to talk about Being 'as such'. It also sanctions the relegation of ethics to a secondary position with respect to ontology. However, Heidegger's acknowledgement that ontology itself must remain intimately bound to concrete existence problematises the priority accorded to the ontological dimension. David Webb takes this bond as a key point of reference and goes on to develop critical perspectives that open up from within Heidegger's own thought, particularly in relation to Heidegger's debt to Aristotelian physics and ethics. Webb examines the theme of continuity and its role in the constitution of the 'as such' in Heidegger's ontology and argues that to address ontology is to engage in an ethical practice and vice versa

Contents:

Continuity and difference in Heidegger's Sophist

To think as mortals : Heidegger and the finitude of philosophical existence

The contingency of freedom : Heidegger reading Kant

Dimension and difference : from undifferentiatedness to singularity

Heidegger and Weyl on the question of continuity

The experience of language as such

Acknowledgements

Abbreviations

Introduction

1. Continuity and Difference in Heidegger's Sophist

2. To Think as Mortals: Heidegger and the Finitude of Philosophical Existence

3. The Contingency of Freedom: Heidegger Reading Kant

4. Dimension and Difference: From Undifferentiatedness to Singularity

5. Heidegger and Weyl on the Question of Continuity

6. The Experience of Language as Such

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [142]-145) and index

ISBN:

9786612875533

9781472546807

1472546806

9781282875531

1282875531

9781441167125

1441167129

OCLC:

676697386