Introducing Heidegger

Title Page
Copyright
Contents
Beginning with a Question ...
What is Being ?
Which Heidegger?
Against Heidegger
For Heidegger
A Social Heidegger
A Future Heidegger
Heidegger and Nazism
Existence in a World of Things
Strange Moments
Natural Attitudes
Beings and Being
Obedient Piety: Beginnings in Theology
Pious Disobedience
Meanings of “Being”
The Rule of Substance
Scholasticism
Modern Philosophy
The Legacy of Descartes
Phenomenology
The First World War
Towards Pure Consciousness
Objects in Consciousness
Solipsism
The Transcendental Ego
Heidegger and Phenomenology
Limits of Phenomenology
The Practical World
Aristotle’s Phronesis
Heidegger’s “Destruction”
Factical Life
The Hermeneutics of Facticity
Dasein
Being and Time
The Analysis of Dasein
1. Being-in-the-World
Presence-at-Hand
Understanding
States of Mind
Descartes’ Amnesia
IN-the-World ...
... and IN-ness
The World’s Places
2. Being-with-Others
Them
The Dictatorship of the Others
Mass Society
Industrial Misery, Commercial Happiness
Pop Culture and They
Averageness
Fallenness
Thrownness and Projective Possibility
Care
Philosophies of Time
Linear Time
Bergson’s Time
Husserl’s Time-Consciousness
Time All At Once
Time and Care
Mortality
Death Within Life
Time and History
Heidegger’s Museum of Household Utensils
Authenticity
Philosophers of Existence
Adventures in Humanism
Critique of Subjectivity
Ethics and Values
Heidegger’s Theology
The Mistress and the Handmaid
Theology Demythologized
Decision and Action
Politics and Philosophy
The Nazi Agenda
The Politics of Renewal
Crisis and Nation
Germanness and Ruralism
Rural Myths
Philosophy in the Inglenook
Primordial Language
Nation, Crisis and Being
Political Controversies
Conservative Revolution
Questioning the Silence
The Truth of Being
Two Roads to Truth
The Truth of Truths
Disclosures: from Husserl to Heidegger
The Clearing
Opening, Lighting and Presencing
Concealment in Unconcealment
Limits of Disclosure
The Hiding Light
The Ruins of Logic
Towards “Thinking”
Heidegger on Art
The Nazi Attack on “Degenerate Art”
Realms of Being
Essential Strife
Pre-Socratic Thinking
Heraclitus
The Work of Art
What Do Shoes Disclose
The Temple
Art at Work
The Names of Poetry
Legacies of Hölderlin
Remembrance of the Poet
The Journey
The Homecoming
The Four-Fold
Attunement and Gathering
Departing From the West ?
The Jewel Net of the God Indra
The Principle of Reason
Reason and Being
The Play of Being
Words and Writing
Technology and Modernity
The Lost Meanings of Techne
Technological Disclosure
The Danger of Technology
Saving Power
Ecology and Essential Thinking
The History of Being
The Essential Question
Heidegger’s Influence
Some Post-Structuralists
Heidegger’s Deconstruction
Demythologizing Heidegger
Heidegger’s Question
Bibliography
Acknowledgements
Index