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- The Early Heidegger's Philosophy of Life:: Facticity, Being, and Language
- Book
- 2012
- Published by: Fordham University Press
- Series: Perspectives in Continental Philosophy
summary
In his early lecture courses, Martin Heidegger exhibited an abiding interest in human life. He believed that human life has philosophical import while it is actually being lived; language has philosophical import while it is being spoken. In this book, Scott Campbell traces the development of Heidegger's ideas about factical life through his interest in Greek thought and its concern with Being. He contends that Heidegger's existential concerns about human life and his ontological concerns about the meaning of Being crystallize in the notion of Dasein as the Being of factical human life.
Emphasizing the positive aspects of everydayness, Campbell explores the contexts of meaning embedded within life; the intensity of average, everyday life; the temporal immediacy of life in early Christianity; the hermeneutic pursuit of life's self-alienation; factical spatiality; the temporalizing of history within life; the richness of the world; and the facticity of speaking in Plato and Aristotle. He shows how Heidegger presents a way of grasping human life as riddled with deception but also charged with meaning and open to revelation and insight.
Table of Contents
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- Abbreviations
- pp. ix-x
- Acknowledgments
- pp. xvii-xxi
- Introduction
- pp. 1-20
- 2. Christian Facticity
- pp. 46-59
- 3. Grasping Life as a Topic
- pp. 63-82
- 4. Ruinance
- pp. 83-99
- 5. The Retrieval of History
- pp. 103-119
- 6. Facticity and Ontology
- pp. 120-137
- 7. Factical Speaking
- pp. 141-161
- 8. Rhetoric
- pp. 162-185
- 9. Sophistry
- pp. 186-210
- Conclusion
- pp. 211-224
- Glossary of Greek Terms and Expressions
- pp. 263-266
- Bibliography
- pp. 267-276
- Perspectives in Continental Philosophy
- pp. 295-298
Additional Information
ISBN
9780823246212
Related ISBN(s)
9780823242191
MARC Record
OCLC
830023549
Pages
288
Launched on MUSE
2012-12-20
Language
English
Open Access
No