The Time of Life: Heidegger and Ethos

Contents

Contents Acknowledgments ix Introduction xi Abbreviations xix Chapter One. The Phenomenon of Life: Human, Animal, and World in Heidegger’s 1929–30 Freiburg Lectures 1 The Soul, Unity of the Body 3 The Organism and its Organs 5 The Animal as Other 16 The Being of the Animal: Organism and Environment 25 The Phenomenon of World 33 The Time of Life: Self and World 42 Chapter Two. Care for the Self: Originary Ethics in Heidegger and Foucault 53 Heidegger: Selfhood and the Finitude of Time 56 Foucault: Ēthos and the Practice of Freedom 66 Care for the Self and the Task of Philosophizing 72 Chapter Three. Apportioning the Moment: Time and Ēthos in Heidegger’s Reading of Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics and Rhetoric 77 Koinønia: Ēthos and Community 79 Time and Ethical Virtue 85 Chapter Four. The Time of Action: From Phenomenology of Praxis to the Historicality of Being 95 The Moment as the Site of Human Action: Heidegger’s Reading of Aristotle and the Phenomenology of Dasein 96 The Moment as the Time of Ereignis: From Phenomenology to the History of Being 107 Chapter Five. Historical Beginnings: Moment and Rupture in Heidegger’s Work of the 1930s 115 Ēthos and Concealment: The Power of Beginnings 116 History and Origin: The Irruption of Worlds 122 Chapter Six. Ēthos and Poetic Dwelling: Inaugural Time in Heidegger’s Dialogue with Hölderlin 133 Temporality, Attunement, and the Phenomenology of World 135 Inaugural Time in Hölderlin’s Poetizing 139 Is There a Measure on Earth? Poetizing and Human Ēthos 143 The Eclipse of Experience: Exposure and Dwelling in Greek Tragedy 145 The Festival 150 Chapter Seven. The Telling of Ēthos: Heidegger, Aristotle, Sophocles 153 A “Scarcely Pondered Word”: Aristotle’s Testimony 155 Theøria and Tragedy: Aristotle’s Poetics 167 Theøria and Katharsis 178 “The Purest Poem”: Heidegger’s Antigone 192 Notes 199 Bibliography 219 Index 223 viii CONTENTS ...