
Critical Studies on Heidegger
The Emerging Body of Understanding
David Michael Kleinberg-Levin(Author)
State University of New York Press
Published on 1. February 2023
Book
Hardback
252 pages
978-1-4384-9181-3 (ISBN)
Description
Original reading of Heidegger suggesting what his project could mean for building an ethical way of life now and in the future.
In these boldly original studies, Heidegger's thought is carried critically and constructively beyond its original limitations, re-presenting his project in terms of an emerging body of understanding, making sense of this project not only in its historical, cultural significance but also in its bearing on the emergence of future possibilities. Continuing Heidegger's commitment to a way of thinking that is formed from reflectively lived experience, David Michael Kleinberg-Levin suggests what can be learned regarding the character of our typical and habitual ways of looking and seeing, hearing and listening, and touching, holding, handling, and gesturing. The body of ontological understanding consequently emerges as we learn how to take responsibility for the meaning of being in forming and developing the character of our relationship to all the beings in our world. In this original reading of Heidegger's thought, Kleinberg-Levin suggests what his project could mean for an ethical way of life.
In these boldly original studies, Heidegger's thought is carried critically and constructively beyond its original limitations, re-presenting his project in terms of an emerging body of understanding, making sense of this project not only in its historical, cultural significance but also in its bearing on the emergence of future possibilities. Continuing Heidegger's commitment to a way of thinking that is formed from reflectively lived experience, David Michael Kleinberg-Levin suggests what can be learned regarding the character of our typical and habitual ways of looking and seeing, hearing and listening, and touching, holding, handling, and gesturing. The body of ontological understanding consequently emerges as we learn how to take responsibility for the meaning of being in forming and developing the character of our relationship to all the beings in our world. In this original reading of Heidegger's thought, Kleinberg-Levin suggests what his project could mean for an ethical way of life.
Reviews / Votes
"Kleinberg-Levin's in-depth, ethically focused contemporary engagement with Heidegger underscores the importance of embodiment as well as the openness and universal interconnectedness of human existence." - Veronique M. Foti, author of Vision's Invisibles: Philosophical ExplorationMore details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Albany, NY
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
US School Grade: College Graduate Student and over
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 157 mm
Thickness: 19 mm
Weight
565 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4384-9181-3 (9781438491813)
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David Michael Kleinberg-Levin is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at Northwestern University. His many books include Redeeming Words: Language and the Promise of Happiness in the Stories of Doeblin and Sebald and Before the Voice of Reason: Echoes of Responsibility in Merleau-Ponty's Ecology and Levinas's Ethics, both published by SUNY Press.
Content
Introduction: The Emerging Body of Ontological Understanding
1. Thinking from Embodied Experience
2. Gestures Befitting the Measure
3. The Uncanny Vision of Kalchas
4. The Fourfold: Gathering around the Thing
5. The Incarnate Dialectic of Aesthetic Hyper-reflexivity
6. Insight into Being: On Heidegger's "Einkehr in das Ereignis"
7. A Dawning Sense of Being
Notes
Bibliography
Index
1. Thinking from Embodied Experience
2. Gestures Befitting the Measure
3. The Uncanny Vision of Kalchas
4. The Fourfold: Gathering around the Thing
5. The Incarnate Dialectic of Aesthetic Hyper-reflexivity
6. Insight into Being: On Heidegger's "Einkehr in das Ereignis"
7. A Dawning Sense of Being
Notes
Bibliography
Index