Heidegger on Being and Acting: From Principles to Anarchy (Studies in Phenomenology & Existential Philosophy) (French Edition)

Reiner Schürmann's brilliant deconstructionist analysis provides a comprehensive interpretation of Heidegger's thinking from the perspective of the question, What is to be done at the end of metaphysics? Focusing on the relationship between theory and practice m an era in which metaphysical rationality has come to an end, Schürmann examines what happens when "thinking" no longer secures a rational foundation for knowledge and "acting" no longer means conforming one's daily enterprises, public and private, to that foundation. In a retrospective reading of history, Schürmann, following Heidegger, finds that modern technology fulfills and completes a history begun with the ancient Greeks and shows that ours is the age in which epochal principles wither away Schürmann explicates an economy of presencing in which thinking can no longer be called upon to legitimize praxis by measuring it against some enduring principle or arche. Thinking and acting, he concludes, can then become an-archic. From reviews of the original French edition: "This important book on Heidegger is the most rigorous and systematic reading of his thought that has been produced to date. In addition, it draws out the consequences for practical philosophy of Heidegger's deconstruction of the history of metaphysics." -The Review of Metaphysics "A sum on the entirety of Heidegger's thinking, whose speculative and pedagogical value makes it a highly welcome publication" -Emmanuel Levinas "This book not only opens a new era in the reading of Heidegger, it inaugurates perhaps a new age in both thinking and acting." -Esprit "The most monumental effort to date to­wards an exhaustive reading of Heidegger, this book constitutes without doubt a decisive contribution in attempting to seize what is at issue in Heidegger's thinking." -Revue philosophique de Loumin Introduction §1. Deconstructing Action §2. Theory of the Texts PART ONE: Genealogy of Principles I. Understanding History through Its Reversals §3. The Puma-Shaped City §4. The Rise and Decline of Principles II. Understanding Practice through the "Turning" §5. Practical Philosophy and the Hypothesis of Closure §6. The Closure as the Withering of the Pros Hen Relation III. Genealogy of Principles and Anti-Humanism §7. A Threefold Break with "Humanism" §8. A Threefold Break with Principial Origins PART TWO: The "Very Issue" of Phenomenology: The Economies of Presencing IV. Mutations of Phenomenological Transcendentalism §9. From Subjectivity to Being-There §10. From Menschentum to "Thinking" V. Deconstruction of the Political §11. Deconstructing the Substantialist Patterns §12. Deconstructing the On tic Origin PART THREE: The Origin Is Said in Many Ways VI. Arche: The Kinetic Paradigm of Origin §13. The Causal Concept of Arche §14. The Teleocratic Concept of Arche VII. Princeps and Principium: Time Forgotten §15. From the Principle of Essences to the Principle of Propositions §16. From the Principle of Propositions to the Epochal Principles VIII. Anfang and Ursprung: The Temporal Difference §17. The Vocabulary §18. 'Original' Origins, or How the New Comes About in History §19. The 'Originary' Origin, or How Presencing Comes About PART FOUR: Historical Deduction of the Categories of Presencing IX. Table of the Categories of Presencing §20. The Categorial, the N oumenal, and the Empirical §21. A Reversal Undergone by the Puma-Shaped City X. At the Presocratic Inception: The Prospective Categories §22. Eon §23. Phusis §24. Aletheia §25. Logos §26. Hen §27. Nous XI. At the Technological End: The Retrospective Categories §28. The Will to Power §29. Nihilism §30. Justice §31. The Eternal Return of the Same §32. The Transmutation of All Values and the Death of God §33· The Overman XII. At the "Turning": The Transitional Categories §34. Ontological Difference/World and Thing §35. "There Is"/Favor §36. Unconcealment/Event §37. Epoch/Clearing §38. Nearness/Fourfold §39. Corresponding/Thinking PART FIVE: Action and Anarchy XIII. Acting, the Condition for Thinking §40. The Practical A Priori §41. The Problem of the Will XIV. Anarchic Displacements §42. Practical Negation of Goals §43. Transmutation of Responsibility §44. Protest against "Busy-ness" §45. Transmutation of "Destiny" §46. From Violence to Anarchy Conclusion §4. Of Economic Self-Regulation and Its Loci §48. Objections and Answers Acknowledgments Introduction Deconstructing Action Theory of the Texts Part One: Genealogy of Principles Understanding History through Its Reversals The Puma-Shaped City The Rise and Decline of Principles Understanding Practice through the "Turning" Practical Philosophy and the Hypothesis of Closure The Closure as the Withering of the Pros Hen Relation Genealogy of Principles and Anti-Humanism A Threefold Break with "Humanism" A Threefold Break with Principial Origins Part Two: The "Very Issue" of Phenomenology: The Economies of Presencing Mutations of Phenomenological Transcendentialism From Subjectivity to Being-There From Menschentum to "Thinking" Deconstruction of the Political Deconstructing the Substantialist Patterns Deconstructing the Ontic Origin Part Three: The Origin Is Said in Many Ways Archē: The Kinetic Paradigm of Origin The Causal Concept of Archē The Teleocratic Concept of Archē Princeps and Principium: Time Forgotten From the Principle of Essences to the Principle of Propositions From the Principle of Propositions to the Epochal Principles Anfang and Ursprung: The Temporal Difference The Vocabulary 'Original' Origins, or How the New Comes About in History The 'Originary' Origin, or How Presencing Comes About Part Four: Historical Deduction of the Categories of Presencing Table of the Categories of Presencing The Categorial, the Noumenal, and the Empirical A Reversal Undergone by the Puma-Shaped City At the Presocratic Inception: The Prospective Categories Eon Phusis Alētheia Logos Hen Nous At the Technological End: The Retrospective Categories The Will to Power Nihilism Justice The Eternal Return of the Same The Transmutation of All values and the Death of God The Overman At the "Turning": The Transitional Categories Ontological Difference/World and Thing "There Is"/Favor Unconcealment/Event Epoch/Clearing Nearness/Fourfold Corresponding/Thinking Part Five: Action and Anarchy Acting, the Condition for Thinking The Practical A Priori The Problem of the Will Anarchic Displacements Practical Negation of Goals Transmutation of Responsibility Protest Against "Busy-ness" Transmutation of "Destiny" From Violence to Anarchy Conclusion Of Economic Self-Regulation and Its Loci Objections and Answers A Heidegger Bibliography, with Abbreviations Used in the Notes and Indexes Notes Selected Bibliography Citations From Heidegger’s Texts in German Citations From English Translations Name Index What happens when "thinking" no longer secures a rational foundation for knowledge and "acting" no longer means conforming one's daily enterprises, public and private, to that foundation? In his brilliant deconstructionist analysis Reiner Schürmann provides a comprehensive interpretation of Heidegger's thinking from the perspective of this question. Focusing on the relationship between theory and practice in an era in which metaphysical rationality has come to an end, Schürmann explicates an economy of presencing in which thinking can no longer be called upon to legitimize praxis by measuring it against some enduring principle or archē. Thinking and acting, he concludes, can then become **an-archic**. (Source: [Indiana University Press](https://publish.iupress.indiana.edu/projects/heidegger-on-being-and-acting))

... Elegant And Provocative... Exhibit[s] A Subtle Mastery Of Heidegger's Works. — Review Of Metaphysics

... Splendidly Precise Study Of Heidegger... To Be Recommended Not Only To Heidegger Scholars But Also To Those Interested In The Question Of What Philosophical Thinking Has As Its Task In The Modern Technological World. — Religious Studies Review

... Indispensable To Understanding The Later Heidegger. — Choice

Reiner Schürmann ; Translated From The French By Christine-marie Gros In Collaboration With The Author. Translation Of: Le Principe D'anarchie. Includes Indexes. Bibliography: P. 387-391.