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Author: Ladelle McWhorter
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: 2009-01-01
Total Pages: 289
ISBN-13: 0802099882
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this newly revised and greatly expanded edition of Heidegger and the Earth, the contributors approach contemporary ecological issues through the medium of Heidegger's thought.
Author: V. Vycinas
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2012-12-06
Total Pages: 339
ISBN-13: 9401033595
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEarth and Gods is an attempt to introduce the reader to Heidegger's fully developed philosophy. The title Earth and Gods gives an im pression of not being a general study of Heidegger's philosophy. However, this is not true - the earth and the gods are fundamental ontological symbols of his fully developed philosophy, namely, his third and final phase of thought. This phase repeats the problems of both preceding phases in a fuller and more developed manner; hence, it implies them. The two preceding phases are the phase of Dasein and the phase of Being. These two phases are a natural flow of fundamental problems which reach their final formation and development in the phase of earth and gods. Dasein (the first phase) leads to Being, and Being (the second phase) bursts into fundamental ontological powers of Being (Seinsmiichte) which are earth and sky, gods and mortals (the third phase). Since earth is unthinkable without sky and since gods are gods in the world of mortals - of men, the title Earth and Gods is an abbreviation of these four fundamental powers of Being. Hence, an investigation of earth and gods is an attempt to present Heidegger's philosophy as a whole. Such a presentation provides the reader with the background necessary for a more adequate and efficient understanding of the writings of Heidegger himself. Thus, Earth and Gods may rightly be considered an introduction to Hei degger's philosophy.
Author: International Society for Phenomenology and Literature. Congress
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 344
ISBN-13: 9780792366751
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLiterature reveals that the hidden strings of the human passional soul are the creative source of the specifically human existence. Continuing the inquiry into the elemental passions of the soul and the human creative soul pursued in several previous volumes of this series, the present volume focuses on the passions of the earth, bringing to light some of the primogenital existential threads of the innermost bonds of the Human Condition and mother earth. In the author's words, the book's purpose is to unravel the essential bond between the living human being and the earth - a bond that lies at the heart of our existence. A heightened awareness of this bond should enlighten our situation and help us find our existential bearings.
Author: Mark A. Wrathall
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2010-11-01
Total Pages: 263
ISBN-13: 1139492756
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book includes ten essays that trace the notion of unconcealment as it develops from Heidegger's early writings to his later work, shaping his philosophy of truth, language and history. 'Unconcealment' is the idea that what entities are depends on the conditions that allow them to manifest themselves. This concept, central to Heidegger's work, also applies to worlds in a dual sense: first, a condition of entities manifesting themselves is the existence of a world; and second, worlds themselves are disclosed. The unconcealment or disclosure of a world is the most important historical event, and Heidegger believes there have been a number of quite distinct worlds that have emerged and disappeared in history. Heidegger's thought as a whole can profitably be seen as working out the implications of the original understanding of unconcealment.
Author: Bruce V. Foltz
Publisher: Humanities Press International
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 232
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis work undertakes an analysis of how Heidegger's thought can contribute to environmental ethics and to the more broadly conceived field of environmental philosophy. It looks at the status of nature and related concepts such as earth in his thought.
Author: Jeff Malpas
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 2008-08-29
Total Pages: 425
ISBN-13: 0262250330
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis groundbreaking inquiry into the centrality of place in Martin Heidegger's thinking offers not only an illuminating reading of Heidegger's thought but a detailed investigation into the way in which the concept of place relates to core philosophical issues. In Heidegger's Topology, Jeff Malpas argues that an engagement with place, explicit in Heidegger's later work, informs Heidegger's thought as a whole. What guides Heidegger's thinking, Malpas writes, is a conception of philosophy's starting point: our finding ourselves already "there," situated in the world, in "place". Heidegger's concepts of being and place, he argues, are inextricably bound together. Malpas follows the development of Heidegger's topology through three stages: the early period of the 1910s and 1920s, through Being and Time, centered on the "meaning of being"; the middle period of the 1930s into the 1940s, centered on the "truth of being"; and the late period from the mid-1940s on, when the "place of being" comes to the fore. (Malpas also challenges the widely repeated arguments that link Heidegger's notions of place and belonging to his entanglement with Nazism.) The significance of Heidegger as a thinker of place, Malpas claims, lies not only in Heidegger's own investigations but also in the way that spatial and topographic thinking has flowed from Heidegger's work into that of other key thinkers of the past 60 years.
Author: Gail Stenstad
Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press
Published: 2006-02-22
Total Pages: 249
ISBN-13: 0299215431
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHow are we to think and act constructively in the face of today’s environmental and political catastrophes? Gail Stenstad finds inspiring answers in the thought of German philosopher Martin Heidegger. Rather than simply describing or explaining Heidegger’s transformative way of thinking, Stenstad’s writing enacts it, bringing new insight into contemporary environmental, political, and personal issues. Readers come to understand some of Heidegger’s most challenging concepts through experiencing them. This is a truly creative scholarly work that invites all readers to carry Heidegger’s transformative thinking into their own areas of deep concern.
Author: Bruce V. Foltz
Publisher: Humanities Press International
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 228
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis work undertakes an analysis of how Heidegger's thought can contribute to environmental ethics and to the more broadly conceived field of environmental philosophy. It looks at the status of nature and related concepts such as earth in his thought.
Author: Ladelle McWhorte
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Published: 1992
Total Pages: 98
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Norman K. Swazo
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 2012-02-01
Total Pages: 300
ISBN-13: 0791488004
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn a call to planetary thinking, planetary building, and planetary dwelling, Norman K. Swazo discusses Heidegger's thought as it relates to issues of global politics, specifically, the domain of world order studies. In the first division of the book, Swazo provides a theoretical critique of world order studies understood in the two modes of normative and technocratic futurism. The book's second division includes a preliminary attempt to clarify what Heidegger's call for "essential thinking" entails for political thinking. This signifies a new beginning for political discourse, heralded in the possibility of "essential political thinking" that Swazo calls "autarchology."
