Against traditional interpretations, which claim either that Heidegger has rendered all accounts of subjectivity - and consequently of ethics - impossible, or, on the contrary, that Heidegger merely renews the modern metaphysics of subjectivity, Raffoul demonstrates how Heidegger's destruction/deconstruction of the subject opens the space for a radically non-subjectivistic formulation of human being. Raffoul reconstitutes and analyses Heidegger's debate with the great thinkers of subjectivity (Descartes, Kant, Husserl), in order to show that Heidegger's 'destructive' reading of the modern metaphysics of subjectivity is, in fact, a positive re-appropriation of the ontological foundations of the subject. Raffoul's recasting of Heidegger's work on human subjectivity should prove indispensable in future debates on the fate of the subject in the post-modern era.
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This is a first-rate and thorough analysis of Heidegger's thought of selfhood, from the early writings focusing on fundamental ontology to the last seminars in the late sixties and early seventies. Raffoul provides an in-depth treatment of Heidegger's critique of the tradition of the subject, particularly through close readings of Descartes and Kant. He then carefully unfolds Heidegger's ontological appropriation of the subject, focusing on Heidegger's thought of Dasein, of transcendence and being-in-the-world, ecstasis and reflection. The work culminates in a meditation on Heidegger's notion of 'mineness' (Jemeinigkeit), a notion that indicates that the event of being is 'each time mine,' that is, each time my own task to be. Raffoul thus argues that Heidegger's thought is not without a reflection on the proper being of human beings, and that his critique of the subject opens onto a renewed understanding of what it means to be human. This is an important work, for it engages Heidegger's texts rigorously while staying away from sterile polemics. It is both a contribution to Heidegger studies and to the task of a philosophical rethinking of selfhood.
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If we take one of the essential tasks of contemporary philosophy to be the thinking or rethinking of the question of the subject (or of what or who comes after it) and of certain related themes (selfhood, individuality, singularity, the question of the human being, etc.), then Heidegger's reflection on subjectivity cannot be ignored. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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If we take one of the essential tasks of contemporary philosophy to be the thinking or rethinking of the question of the subject (or of what or who comes after it) and of certain related themes (selfhood, individuality, singularity, the question of the human being, etc.), then Heidegger's reflection on subjectivity cannot be ignored. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Critique of Pure Reason, History of the Concept of Time, Kant's Thesis, The Metaphysical Foundations of Logic, Jean-Luc Nancy, Vom Wesen des Grundes, Henri Birault New!
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- Being and Time by Martin Heidegger on 70 pages
- The Basic Problems of Phenomenology, Revised Edition (Studies in Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy) by Martin Heidegger on 40 pages
- The Concept of Time by Martin Heidegger on 24 pages
- Critique of Pure Reason (The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Immanuel Kant) by Immanuel Kant on 15 pages
- History of the Concept of Time: Prolegomena (Studies in Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy) by Martin Heidegger on 14 pages
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- Phenomenology and Deconstruction, Volume Four: Solitude (Phenomenology and Deconstruction, Vol 4) by Robert Denoon Cumming in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Madness And Death In Philosophy (S U N Y Series in Contemporary Continental Philosophy) by Ferit Guven in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The Heidegger-Jaspers Correspondence (1920-1963) (Contemporary Studies in Philosophy and the Human Sciences.) by Martin Heidegger in Front Matter
- Heidegger's Religious Origins: Destruction and Authenticity (Indiana Series in the Philosophy of Religion) by Benjamin D. Crowe in Back Matter
- Sensation: Intelligibility in Sensibility (Contemporary Studies in Philosophy and the Human Sciences) by Alphonso Lingis in Front Matter
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