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How to read Heidegger

By: Series: How to readPublication details: London : Granta Books, 2005.Description: vii, 135 pages ; 20 cmISBN:
  • 1862077665
  • 9781862077669
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • B 3279 HEI WRA
Contents:
1. Dasein and being-in-the-world -- 2. The world -- 3. The structure of being-in-the-world, part. 1: Disposedness and moods -- 4. The structure of being-in-the-world, pt. 2: Understanding and interpretation -- 5. Everydayness and the 'one' -- 6. Death and authenticity -- 7. Truth and art -- 8. Language -- 9. Technology -- 10. Our mortal dwelling with things.
Summary: "Martin Heidegger is perhaps the most influential, yet least readily understood, philosopher of the last century. Mark Wrathall guides the reader through Heidegger's early concern with the nature of human existence, to his later preoccupation with the threat that technology poses to our ability to live worthwhile lives." "Mark Wrathall pays particular attention to Heidegger's revolutionary analysis of human existence as inextricably shaped by a shared world. This leads to an exploration of his views on the banality of public life, and the possibility of authentic anticipation of death. Wrathall reviews Heidegger's scandalous involvement with National Socialism, situating it in the context of his views about the movement of world history. He also explains Heidegger's important accounts of truth, art and language. Extracts are taken from Heidegger's magnum opus, Being and Time, as well as a variety of his best known essays and lectures." -- Publisher's description.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Dasein and being-in-the-world -- 2. The world -- 3. The structure of being-in-the-world, part. 1: Disposedness and moods -- 4. The structure of being-in-the-world, pt. 2: Understanding and interpretation -- 5. Everydayness and the 'one' -- 6. Death and authenticity -- 7. Truth and art -- 8. Language -- 9. Technology -- 10. Our mortal dwelling with things.

"Martin Heidegger is perhaps the most influential, yet least readily understood, philosopher of the last century. Mark Wrathall guides the reader through Heidegger's early concern with the nature of human existence, to his later preoccupation with the threat that technology poses to our ability to live worthwhile lives." "Mark Wrathall pays particular attention to Heidegger's revolutionary analysis of human existence as inextricably shaped by a shared world. This leads to an exploration of his views on the banality of public life, and the possibility of authentic anticipation of death. Wrathall reviews Heidegger's scandalous involvement with National Socialism, situating it in the context of his views about the movement of world history. He also explains Heidegger's important accounts of truth, art and language. Extracts are taken from Heidegger's magnum opus, Being and Time, as well as a variety of his best known essays and lectures." -- Publisher's description.

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