Heidegger and happiness dwelling on fitting and being Matthew King.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

King, Matthew (Matthew Andrew), author.

Series:

Continuum studies in Continental philosophy.

Continuum studies in Continental philosophy

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Heidegger, Martin, 1889-1976.

Heidegger, Martin.

Happiness.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (154 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London New York Continuum 2009.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

Heidegger and Happiness offers an original interpretation of Heidegger's later thought, within the context of his philosophy as a whole, to develop a new conception of human happiness. The book redeems the essential content of the Greek notion of eudaimonia and transcends recent debates concerning the 'objectivity' or 'subjectivity' of happiness. The author shows that Heidegger's thinking of being is far from arcane and abstract, and is crucially important in understanding the deepest sources of human well-being. An etymological examination of the word 'happiness' frees the word from the constraints of utilitarian ways of thinking, which suggest that 'happiness' is only peripherally related to eudaimonia. King demonstrates that a sense of fittingness is essential both to 'happiness' and to eudaimonia, and shows how deep happiness, conceived as dwelling in our fitting-together with being, can serve as a 'grounding attunement' for the thinking of being

Contents:

Acknowledgements

Glossary

Introduction

Why Heidegger and happiness?

The later Heidegger's two senses of being

Fitting and dwelling Heidegger's schemes of affective states

Being and Time: Befindlichkeit and Stimmung

Nietzsche I: Affekt, Leidenschaft, and Gefühl

What is Philosophy?: Stimmung vs. Affekt or Gefühl

Chapter One: ??da?µ???a and Happiness

?a?µ?? and e?da?µ???a

??da?µ???a and fittingness in Plato's Republic Modern happiness

Chapter Two: The Happening of Being

Turning from temporality to Ereignis Language, 'the other language', and etymology

'Happiness' and fittingness

Later Heideggerian phenomenology 'The Tuft of Flowers'

Chapter Three: The Fitting-Together of Human Being and Being Wonder

The essence of human beings

The gathered four, the divinities, and the holy

'Babette's Feast'

'Voice of Fire'

Fitting together with the being of others

Chapter Four: The History of Being

Overview of Heidegger's history of being

Seinsvergessenheit, Ge-Stell, and 'the last men'

Up the creek from Ge-Stell to f?s??

Conclusion

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [137]-142) and index

ISBN:

9786612875755

9781472546654

1472546652

9781282875753

1282875752

9781441171719

1441171711

OCLC:

680017786