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.

SUNY series in Contemporary Continental Philosophy

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Heidegger, Martin, 1889-1976.

Heidegger, Martin.

One (The One in philosophy).

Metaphysics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (376 p.)

Place of Publication:

Albany, [New York] : SUNY Press, 2015.

Language Note:

English

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 "postmetaphysical" 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.

Contents:

""Contents""; ""List of Illustrations""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Abbreviations of Heidegger�s Works""; ""Gesamtausgabe""; ""Other Works""; ""English Translations""; ""Introduction""; ""The Unity of Being at the End of Metaphysics""; ""Heidegger as a Postmetaphysical Thinker of Unity""; ""Being as Meaning and the History of Being: Methodological Considerations""; ""Outline of the Study""; ""1 From the First Inception to the Other: Metaphysics and the Unity of Being""; ""The First Inception: The Unity of Being in Anaximander, Parmenides, and Heraclitus""; ""Anaximander""; ""Parmenides""

""Heraclitus""""The First End of the First Inception: Plato and the One Over Many""; ""Ontotheology: Aristotle and the Analogical Unity of Being""; ""The End of Metaphysics and the Transition to the Other Inception""; ""Hegel""; ""Nietzsche""; ""Transition""; ""2 Being and Time: The Complicated Unity of Dasein""; ""On the Way to Being and Time: The Situation as a Singular Unity""; ""Ontothnetology: A New Exemplary Being""; ""Fundamental Ontology: From the Exemplary Being to Being and the Turn Back""; ""The Self as an Ecstatic Unity of Timeliness""

""The Instant as the Ecstatic Clearing of Presence""""The Ecstatic-Horizonal Correlation of Dasein and World: Temporal Schematism""; ""From the Unity of the Horizonal Schemata to the Sense of Being: Complicated Presence""; ""Complicated Presence as Differential Unity: The Ontological Difference""; ""3 The Turn and the Emergence of the Fourfold""; ""The Turn: Complicated Presence as the Reciprocity of Dasein and Being""; ""The Emergence of the Fourfold: Complicated Presence as Intimate Unity""; ""4 Contributions to Philosophy: The Singular Simplicity of the Event""; ""Thinking in Reverse""

""The Coordinates of the Transition""""The Unique Singularity of Beyng""; ""Beyng Is, Beings Are Not""; ""5 Insight Into That Which Is: From the Uniform Presence of Technicity to the Complicated Presence of the Thing""; ""Thinking Being without Beings""; ""The Cyclic Structure of the Insight Into That Which Is""; ""The Complicated Presence of the Thing as an Interplay of the Fourfold World""; ""The Setup, the Peril, and the Turn to the Thing""; ""6 Identity and Difference: Differential Identity as the Ground of Unity""; ""The Complicated Identity of Being and the Human Being""

""Discharge as the Differential Unity of Being and Beings""""The Concord between Event and Discharge: Complicated Unity""; ""Conclusion: The Simplicity and Complexity of Presence""; ""Notes""; ""Bibliography""; ""Index""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781438456508

1438456506