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Heidegger and Kierkegaard


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English | ISBN: 1009417479 | 2025 | 75 pages | PDF | 2 MB
The work examines the presence and significance of Kierkegaard in Heidegger’s work. After setting out the context of Heidegger’s reception of the Danish thinker and examining his likely knowledge of his writings, the work first examines key Kierkegaardian concepts that are explicitly present in Being and Time, including existence, ‘idle talk’ (Gerede), anxiety, the moment of vision, repetition, and the existential significance of death. It is seen that Heidegger regarded Kierkegaard as an essentially religious writer whose work was only indirectly relevant to Heidegger’s own project of fundamental ontology. Subsequently, the work considers the place of Kierkegaard in Heidegger’s writings from the 1930s onwards, concluding with consideration of the paper Heidegger submitted for the 1963 Paris UNESCO conference marking the 150th anniversary of Kierkegaard’s thought.

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Heidegger’s Concept of Science


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English | ISBN: 1009523538 | 2024 | 84 pages | PDF | 2 MB
This Element argues that Heidegger’s concept of science has two core features. Heidegger critiques a security-oriented concept of science, which he associates with the dominance of physics in modern science and metaphysics and with a progressive resistance among philosophers and scientists to ontological questioning. Meanwhile, Heidegger advances an access-oriented concept of science, on which science is essentially founded on ontological disclosures but also constantly open to the possibility of new revolutionary disclosures. This Element discusses how these commitments develop in Heidegger’s early and later thinking, and argues that they inform his views on the history of Western metaphysics and on the possibilities for human flourishing that modernity, and modern science specifically, affords. The Element also discusses Heidegger’s dialogue with Werner Heisenberg about quantum physics; and throughout, it highlights points of contact and divergence between Heidegger and other philosophers of science such as Karl Popper, Thomas Kuhn, Paul Feyerabend, and Helen Longino.

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Heidegger and the Issue of Space Thinking on Exilic Grounds


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English | 2003 | pages: 215 | ISBN: 0271023074, 0271028084 | PDF | 1,4 mb
As the only full-length treatment in English of spatiality in Martin Heidegger’s work, this book makes an important contribution to Heidegger studies as well as to research on the history of philosophy. More generally, it advances our understanding of philosophy in terms of its "exilic" character, a sense of alterity that becomes apparent when one fully engages the temporality or finitude essential to conceptual determinations.

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Adorno and Heidegger Philosophical Questions


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English | 2007 | ISBN: 0804756368 | PDF | pages: 231 | 12.7 mb
Adorno and Heidegger explores the conflictual history of two important traditions of twentieth-century European thought: the critical theory of Theodor W. Adorno and the ontology of Martin Heidegger. As is well known, there has been little productive engagement between these two schools of thought, in large measure due to Adorno’s sustained and unanswered critique of Heidegger. Stemming from this critique, numerous political and philosophical barriers have kept these traditions separate, such that they have rarely been submitted to scrutiny, let alone questioned. The essays making up this collection are fresh and original attempts at coming to terms with the nuances and difficulties that these two towering figures have bequeathed to the history of European thought. The volume’s authors deal with a variety of issues ranging from epistemology to esthetics, to ethics, to intellectual history and modernity, providing the reader with detailed insight into a thorny debate in the history of recent European thought.

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Heidegger’s Concept of Science


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English | ISBN: 1009523538 | 2024 | 84 pages | PDF | 2 MB
This Element argues that Heidegger’s concept of science has two core features. Heidegger critiques a security-oriented concept of science, which he associates with the dominance of physics in modern science and metaphysics and with a progressive resistance among philosophers and scientists to ontological questioning. Meanwhile, Heidegger advances an access-oriented concept of science, on which science is essentially founded on ontological disclosures but also constantly open to the possibility of new revolutionary disclosures. This Element discusses how these commitments develop in Heidegger’s early and later thinking, and argues that they inform his views on the history of Western metaphysics and on the possibilities for human flourishing that modernity, and modern science specifically, affords. The Element also discusses Heidegger’s dialogue with Werner Heisenberg about quantum physics; and throughout, it highlights points of contact and divergence between Heidegger and other philosophers of science such as Karl Popper, Thomas Kuhn, Paul Feyerabend, and Helen Longino.

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Heidegger on Poetic Thinking


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English | ISBN: 1009570552 | 2024 | 75 pages | PDF | 2 MB
One of the striking features of Heidegger’s philosophical engagement concerns his privileging of poetry and poetic thinking. In this understanding of language as fundamentally poetic, Heidegger puts forward a different way to do philosophy. In this Element, the author places Heidegger’s poetic thinking in conversation with Sophocles and Hölderlin as a way to situate his critique of global technology and instrumental thinking in the postwar years. This Element also offers a critique of Heidegger’s efforts to arrogate poetic thinking to his own aim of a destinal form of German national self-assertion through poetry. Overall, the aim here is to show how crucial poetic thinking is to the way Heidegger understands philosophy as a radical engagement with language.

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Martin Heidegger, Gesamtausgabe Abteilungen Unveroffentlichte Abhandlungen Vortrage–gedachtes


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Deutsch | 2004 | pages: 132 | ISBN: 3465033582, 3465033574 | PDF | 3,1 mb
Der Band 64 der Gesamtausgabe enthalt die bislang unveroffentlicht gebliebene hoch bedeutsame Abhandlung Der Begriff der Zeit aus dem Jahre 1924 sowie den im selben Jahr vor der Marburger Theologenschaft gehaltenen Vortrag gleichen Titels. Zum Text der Abhandlung gehoren 194 Randbemerkungen aus der Zeit der Ausarbeitung von Sein und Zeit (1924 bis 1926), die als Fussnoten wiedergegeben werden. Anlass fur die Entstehung der Abhandlung war der 1923 erschienene Briefwechsel zwischen Wilhelm Dilthey und dem Grafen Paul Yorck v. Wartenburg. Daher ist auch der I. Abschnitt Die Fragestellung Diltheys und Yorcks Grundtendenz dem Briefwechsel selbst gewidmet. Das Mittelstuck dieses Abschnitts ist unverandert in den 77 von Sein und Zeit ubernommen worden. Die folgenden drei Abschnitte (II. Die ursprunglichen Seinscharaktere des Daseins, III. Dasein und Zeitlichkeit, IV. Zeitlichkeit und Geschichtlichkeit) stehen in enger Entsprechung zum ersten und zweiten Abschnitt von Sein und Zeit und nehmen die Gedankenzuge der Ontologie des Daseins in deren Grundzugen vorweg. Da im IV. Abschnitt auch die Thematik des dritten Abschnitts Zeit und Sein aus dem ersten Teil und die Fragestellung des zweiten Teiles von Sein und Zeit, die phanomenologische Destruktion der Geschichte der Ontologie, ausgesprochen werden, kann die Abhandlung Der Begriff der Zeit aus dem Jahre 1924 mit Fug und Recht als die Urfassung von Heideggers Hauptwerk Sein und Zeit (1927) bezeichnet werden.

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