Heidegger and the Essence of Man
Published on 21. September 1993
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Paperback/Softback
195 pages
978-0-7914-1556-6 (ISBN)
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Michel Haar argues that Heidegger went too far in transferring all traditional properties of man to being. Haar examines what is left, after this displacement, not only of human identity, but perhaps more importantly, of nature, life, embodiment-of the flesh of human existence. This sensitive yet critical reading of Heidegger raises such issues in relation to questions of language, technology, human freedom, and history. In doing so, it provides a compelling argument for the need to rethink what it means to be human.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Albany, NY
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
US School Grade: College Graduate Student and over
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Paperback (trade)
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Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 14 mm
Weight
383 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7914-1556-6 (9780791415566)
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Michael Haar is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Paris, Sorbonne.
Content
A Note on Three Capitals: Being, History, Earth
Translator's Note
Foreword by Hubert L. Dreyfus
Preface
Part One. The Self-Enabling of Dasein and Its Limits
1. Being-Towards-Death and the Limits to Totalizing One's Own Potentiality for Being
Running Ahead and Freedom
A Critique of Being-Towards-Death
2. The Call of Conscience, or the Limits of Dasein's Self-Appropriation of Its Possibilites
3. The Limits of Resoluteness and the Initially Latent, Then Explicit Primacy of Originary Temporality over Authentic Temporality
Situating Authentic and Resolute Temporality Relative to the "Spontaneity" of Originary Temporality
The Originary Future as Distinct from Its Two Modes
Originary Present, "Instant" and Inauthentic Making-Present
Originary Past (Birth and Thrownness), Repetition and Forgetting
Anxiety and Resolute Existence
"Originary Anxiety" or Anxiety with Respect to Being
Part Two. The Poverty of Homo Humanus, or Man Without Faculties
The False Symmetry of the Double Relation Between Man and Being
4. Man's Relation to Being
Relation and Connection: A Glance at Heidegger and Hegel
Thinking as the Essence of Man, and the Question of the "Physical" in Man: The Treatment of Perception
The Deconstruction of the "Rational Animal" and the Subject
The Dissolution of the Subject in Technology; Politics and Subjectivity
The Acts of Thought
Thought and Language
Thinking and Questioning
5. Being's Relation to Man
The Possible, or the Relation of Shared Desire
Freedom as a Property Little Shared by Being
Necessity, or the "Maintaining" of Man by Being
The Limit of the Requisitioning of Man: The Absence of Distress
The Role of Man: "The Freedom of Sacrifice" Alone Can Overcome "the Misfortune of Reflection"
6. Historical Figures of Human Being
Greek Man
Planetary Man
The Historiality and Nonhistoriality of Man
Works Cited
Index
Translator's Note
Foreword by Hubert L. Dreyfus
Preface
Part One. The Self-Enabling of Dasein and Its Limits
1. Being-Towards-Death and the Limits to Totalizing One's Own Potentiality for Being
Running Ahead and Freedom
A Critique of Being-Towards-Death
2. The Call of Conscience, or the Limits of Dasein's Self-Appropriation of Its Possibilites
3. The Limits of Resoluteness and the Initially Latent, Then Explicit Primacy of Originary Temporality over Authentic Temporality
Situating Authentic and Resolute Temporality Relative to the "Spontaneity" of Originary Temporality
The Originary Future as Distinct from Its Two Modes
Originary Present, "Instant" and Inauthentic Making-Present
Originary Past (Birth and Thrownness), Repetition and Forgetting
Anxiety and Resolute Existence
"Originary Anxiety" or Anxiety with Respect to Being
Part Two. The Poverty of Homo Humanus, or Man Without Faculties
The False Symmetry of the Double Relation Between Man and Being
4. Man's Relation to Being
Relation and Connection: A Glance at Heidegger and Hegel
Thinking as the Essence of Man, and the Question of the "Physical" in Man: The Treatment of Perception
The Deconstruction of the "Rational Animal" and the Subject
The Dissolution of the Subject in Technology; Politics and Subjectivity
The Acts of Thought
Thought and Language
Thinking and Questioning
5. Being's Relation to Man
The Possible, or the Relation of Shared Desire
Freedom as a Property Little Shared by Being
Necessity, or the "Maintaining" of Man by Being
The Limit of the Requisitioning of Man: The Absence of Distress
The Role of Man: "The Freedom of Sacrifice" Alone Can Overcome "the Misfortune of Reflection"
6. Historical Figures of Human Being
Greek Man
Planetary Man
The Historiality and Nonhistoriality of Man
Works Cited
Index