Shadows of Being: Encounters with Heidegger in Political Theory and Historical R

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In a review of the work of Karl Jaspers, Martin Heidegger suggested that his philosophical orientation had skirted by the fundamental path of thought. This book delves into the philosophical sources of this influence and raises the question whether Heidegger indeed made good on the promise to reveal what is truly fundamental for thought.

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In a review of the work of Karl Jaspers composed several years before the publication of his book Being and Time, Martin Heidegger suggested that the philosophical orientations of his period had made a wrong turn and skirted by the fundamental path of thought. He suggested that instead of taking up a heritage of original questions, his contemporaries had become preoccupied with secondary issues, accepting as fundamental what was in fact only incidental. In the years that followed, Heidegger's promise to reorient philosophy in terms of the Seinsfrage, the question of Being, exercised a well-known influence on successive generations of thinkers on a global scale.The present book delves into the philosophical sources of this influence and raises the question whether Heidegger indeed made good on the promise to reveal for thought what is truly fundamental. In proposing this investigation, the author assumes that it is not sufficient to take Heidegger at his word, but that it is necessary to scrutinize what is posited as fundamental in light of its broader implications–above all for ethico-political judgment and for historical reflection. After addressing this question in the first part of the book, the second part examines the significance of Heidegger's reorientation of philosophy through the prism of its critical reception in the thought of Hannah Arendt, Emmanuel Levinas, and Paul Ricœur.

Author Biography

Jeffrey Andrew Barash is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the University of Amiens, France. He obtained his doctorate at the University of Chicago and his Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches in Philosophie at the University of Paris Ouest – Nanterre. His publications have focused on the themes of collective memory and its modern articulations, political philosophy, historicism, and modern German thought. His books include Martin Heidegger and the Problem of Historical Meaning (second, paperback edition, New York: Fordham University Press, 2003) and Collective Memory and the Historical Past (University of Chicago Press, 2016, second paperback edition, 2020). He has also edited a book entitled The Social Construction of Reality. The Legacy of Ernst Cassirer (University of Chicago Press, 2008).

Review

In Shadows of Being Jeffrey Andrew Barash investigates the highly controversial topic of the connection between Heidegger's engagement with the question of Being--beginning with Being and Time (1927)--and his ethico-political and historical orientation. Following the publication of Heidegger's Black Notebooks and the uproar it has aroused, this theme is of central contemporary interest. Whereas in the first chapters of the book Barash's analysis centers directly on Heidegger and his legacy, he shifts his perspective in the second part to focus on assessments of Heidegger's ethico-political and historical orientation elaborated by a number of his most important critics including Hannah Arendt, Ernst Cassirer, Emmanuel Levinas, and Paul Ricoeur.-- "Professor Dr. Peter Welsen, Universitt Trier"In this book Jeffrey Barash demonstrates his position as one of the most knowledgeable experts on Heidegger's philosophy. Approaching his work from a wide range of angles, historical, comparative, and critical, he forges a rich portrait of a complex, controversial, and still compelling body of philosophical writing, including the recently published Schwarze Hefte.-- "Prof. Hans Ruin, Sdertrn University, Stockholm, Sweden"

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"In Shadows of Being Jeffrey Andrew Barash investigates the highly controversial topic of the connection between Heidegger's engagement with the question of Being--beginning with Being and Time (1927)--and his ethico-political and historical orientation. Following the publication of Heidegger's Black Notebooks and the uproar it has aroused, this theme is of central contemporary interest. Whereas in the first chapters of the book Barash's analysis centers directly on Heidegger and his legacy, he shifts his perspective in the second part to focus on assessments of Heidegger's ethico-political and historical orientation elaborated by a number of his most important critics including Hannah Arendt, Ernst Cassirer, Emmanuel Levinas, and Paul Ricoeur."--Professor Dr. Peter Welsen, Universit

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In this book Jeffrey Barash demonstrates his position as one of the most knowledgeable experts on Heidegger's philosophy. Approaching his work from a wide range of angles, historical, comparative, and critical, he forges a rich portrait of a complex, controversial, and still compelling body of philosophical writing, including the recently published Schwarze Hefte .

Details ISBN3838214854 Author Donald Phillip Verene Short Title Shadows of Being Series Studies in Historical Philosophy Language English Year 2022 ISBN-10 3838214854 ISBN-13 9783838214856 Format Paperback Subtitle Encounters with Heidegger in Political Theory and Historical Reflection Publisher ibidem-Verlag, Jessica Haunschild u Christian Schon Imprint ibidem-Verlag, Jessica Haunschild u Christian Schon Place of Publication Stuttgart Country of Publication Germany Audience Professional & Vocational Pages 202 Edition Description New edition Publication Date 2022-04-19 Alternative 9783838274850 We've got this

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