Heidegger and the place of ethics being-with in the crossing of Heidegger's thought Michael Lewis.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lewis, Michael, 1977- author.

Series:

Continuum studies in Continental philosophy.

Continuum studies in Continental philosophy

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Heidegger, Martin, 1889-1976--Ethics.

Heidegger, Martin.

Ethics, Modern--20th century.

Ethics, Modern.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (227 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London New York Continuum 2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Despite Heidegger's identifying his own thought with 'ethics' in the most original sense, his understanding of ethics has been criticised both for its supposed ignorance of the role of the other human being and for its relation to politics. This book contends that, in fact, it is Heidegger's own notion of 'being-with' -his rethinking of intersubjectivity- which demonstrates precisely what is wrong with his early work and demands that the place of ethics be rethought. Heidegger and the Place of Ethics shows how this rethinking occurs in Heidegger's own laterwork. In particular, the crossing out of the earlier work in the turn to the later allows us to think 'being-with' as essential to a Heideggerian ethics and to rethink the relationship between ethics and politics which previously issued in Heidegger's engagement with Nazism. This rethinking of ethics and politics in light of the originality of 'being-with' brings us before a hitherto unnoticed proximity between Heidegger's later work and the Lacanian political thought of Slavoj Žižek among others; it thereby opens up the possibility of a politically progressive Heideggerianism, and many unexpected encounters with thinkers generally considered to be separated from Heidegger by an abyss

Contents:

Abbreviations

Preface: Heidegger and Capitalism - Translations

Introduction: Being-with and the Place of Ethics

Part I: Being-with

1. Being-with and the Ontological Difference

2. Beyond Authenticity and Inauthenticity

Part II: Crossing

3. Death as the Origin of Ethics

4. Questioning, Void

5. Saying, Thing

Part III: Being-with, Ethics, Politics

6. The Being-with of Mortals Before the Thing

7. Politics

Conclusion

Notes

Bibliography

Acknowledgments

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [196]-205) and index

ISBN:

9786611294854

9781472546692

1472546695

9781281294852

1281294853

9781847143266

1847143261

OCLC:

290598401