The Incarnality of Being: The Earth, Animals, and the Body in Heidegger's Thought

Acknowledgments

Acknowledgments I wish to credit John van Buren for giving me the guidance and encouragement to bring this project to fruition. I also wish to thank J. Baird Callicott, the coeditor of this series, along with Jane Bunker and her staff at the State University of New York Press. I must also include Parvis Emad for his continual support of my efforts to develop new possibilities for interpreting Heidegger’s thought. During the years of composing my book, I have received direction from Daniel Dahlstrom, Todd Furman, Charles Guignon, Donald Hanks, Lawrence Hatab, Edward Johnson, George Kovacs, Susan Krantz, Michael Langlais, Eric Nelson, Gerald Nosich, Richard Polt, Dennis J. Schmidt, and Alan Soble. I would also like to express my appreciation to those who have unselfishly given of their friendship over the years: Julie Bates, Shawn Finney, Kenneth Kahn, Brittany Tucker, and Michael Verderame. Thanks also goes to the following editors for first publishing earlier versions of portions of chapters 1, 3, and 4 as the following articles: “Decision, Dilemma, and Disposition: The Incarnatedness of Ethical Action,” Existentia 22:3–4 (2002): 241–51. Gábor Ferge, ed. (ch. 3) “Everydayness and the Problem of Human Addiction,” Southwest Philosophy Review 19:2 (July 2003): 91–106. Jim Swindler, ed. (ch. 1) “Repeating Heidegger’s Analysis of Everydayness,” Philosophy Today 46:3 (Fall 2002): 275–84. David Pelleauer, ed. (ch. 1) “Who Speaks for the Animals? Heidegger and the Question of Animal Welfare,” Environmental Ethics 22 (Fall 2000): 259–72. Eugene Hargrove, ed. (ch. 4). ix ...