Heidegger and his Anglo-American Reception: A Comprehensive Approach (Contributions to Phenomenology, 119)

"This book presents both a historical overview of the absorption of Heideggers thought into English-language philosophical schools as well as a philosophical discussion of his thought provided by contemporary scholars. The text describes the ways in which a philosophical methodology and worldview seemingly so inhospitable to Anglophone academia has managed to find an unlikely home. This volume is roughly divided into two types of contributions: discussions of Heideggers reception in the English-speaking world, and outstanding examples of English-language Heidegger scholarship. The first type includes both historiographical accounts of the encounters between Heideggers thought and the Anglo-American world, as well as their philosophical expositions and critiques. The second group of chapters reveal the latest contemporary scholarship by contemporary Heideggerians writing in English. It is moreover the first volume to bring together thinkers from both genealogies of Anglo-American Heideggerianism appealing to students and researchers working in both of these camps."--Back cover Foreword Acknowledgements Introduction Historical Assessments Between the Pragmata and the Phainomena: Phenomenological, Metaphysical and Pragmatist Readings Politics and Poetry (the Empirical/Ontical) Contents Part I: Historical Assessments Heidegger Translation in the 1970s Derrida’s “Deconstruction” and Heidegger’s Reception in America Seinsvergessenheit: Heidegger and Anglophone Philosophers of Religion Resistance to Detheologization Heidegger Without Being Putting God Back into Heidegger Conclusion Among Heretics: Derridean Influences in Anglo-American Encounters with Heidegger’s Later Work Anarchy in the Name of Heidegger Part II: Between the Pragmata and the Phainomena: Phenomenological, Metaphysical, and Pragmatist Readings Heidegger’s Disavowal of Metaphysics Formal and Fundamental Ontology in Husserl and Heidegger Some Voraussetzungen Logic, Psychologism, and the Science of Being The Reduction(s) and the Science of Being: From Formal to Fundamental Ontology The Topic of Sense in Being and Time Introduction Use and Mention: Semantic and Thematic Significance Meanings and the Semantic Use of ‘Sense’ The Thematic Use of ‘Sense’ Meaningfulness, Purposefulness, and the Context of Relevance Understanding as Projection The Structures of Understanding and Interpretation The Existential Meaning of ‘Sense’ The Timely, Ontological Sense of Care Conclusion Bibliography Life and World: Heidegger’s Phenomenological Metaphyiscs and Its Discontents Prelude: Philosophy, Science, and World-View The Problem of World Transcendental Philosophy, Transcendence, and Life World-Formation as Play From Metaphysics to Metapolitics: World-View The Pragmatist Reading of Being and Time Assertions as Tools Heidegger’s Definition of Aussage Difficulties with the Pragmatist Reading of Zuhandenheit Work Cited Conscience, Its History and Being and Time: On Selfhood, Autonomy and an Experiment with Norms Puzzles to Be Solved Owning Norms Norms in Heidegger? Really?? Visions of Ownership Conscience as Knowing-with: Two Themes in the History of the Discussion of Conscience A ‘New’ Vision of Norm-Ownership and an Initial Reading of Heidegger Two Objections, and a Range of Cases ‘Dispersal’ in the They, and a ‘Summons’ to One’s ‘Ownmost Potentiality-for-Being-a-Self’ Our Puzzles Revisited The Broader Picture Autonomy, Manipulation and Reflection Selfhood and Self-Legislation Further References Death, the Brother of Sleep It Is Certain that I Shall Die It Is Not Certain When I Shall Die It Is Possible that I Shall Die at Any Moment Death Will Terminate All My Possibilities; I Cannot Do Anything After I Am Dead I Have to Do My Dying for Myself Death Is ‘Non-relational’: It Severs All My Relationships to Others That I Shall Die Is Not Merely Empirically Likely or Even Empirically Certain: Anyone Who Seems Not to Know About Death Is Really ‘Fleeing in the Face of Death’ (BT, 251) Death Confers Wholeness on Dasein Birth and Death Between Birth and Death Death, Sleep and History How Long Should a Good Life Be? Conclusion Dilthey, Heidegger and the Actualizing-Sense of History Life and History as Meaning or Sense-Contexts Pre-ontological Projections of Historicity Conclusion An Ethics of Courage and Honesty in Wittgenstein and Heidegger Bibliography Heidegger on Truth as Opening Possibilities From Kant’s Transcendental Aesthetic to Being and Time Making the Form of Being a Human Person Explicit Truth as a Moment of Being a Person Appearance, Presence, and Objectivity Generic Truths as Conceptual Conditions Accessibility Bibliography Frege and Heidegger: On Frege’s Style Part III: Politics and Poetry (the Empirical/Ontical) Heidegger on Americanism, After Carl Schmitt and Max Weber: The United States as a Figure of a Historical Transcendental Heidegger and the Metaphysical/Conceptual Understanding of Politics Carl Schmitt and the Political Foundation of Americanism Max Weber and Theological Foundation of Americanism Martin Heidegger and Metaphysical Foundation of Americanism Conclusion The Desolation of Our Time: Celan’s Struggle with Heidegger Introduction Heidegger on Poetry Language is the House of Being Language is Poetry in the Essential Sense Why Hölderlin? Celan and Heidegger Aspen Tree Nearness of Graves, Wolf’s-Bean and Tübingen, January With a Changing Key Celan’s Humanism The Bremen Speech The Meridian Heidegger’s Failure: ‘The True Devastation’ of Our Time Literature Technology, Essence, and Everyday Living Experiencing Stillness An Unexpected Interruption Stillness in Annihilation The Crisis When Heidegger Wrote the Conversations Conversation Return to Stillness Index