Questioning Martin Heidegger : on Western metaphysics, Bhuddhist [i.e. Buddhist] ethics, and the fate of the sentient Earth

In Questioning Martin Heidegger, Martin Heidegger's "Overcoming Metaphysics" provides the jumping-off point for a wide-ranging critique and deconstruction of Western philosophy. This book also addresses Martin Heidegger's controversial relationship with German National Socialism (Nazism) and the Holocaust, as well as with contemporary philosophers like J.F. Lyotard and Jacques Derrida.;Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; A Note to the Reader; Pretext: The Question of (Non) Being; Preface: What Is Overcoming Metaphysics?; Chapter One: The End of History, the End(s) of Man: Modernity, Post-Modernity & Overcoming Metaphysics; Chapter Two: The Question of Being: Being & Thinking & the Thinking of Being; Chapter Three: The Question of the Subject: Who (... or What? ...) is The Subject of Western Metaphysics?; Chapter Four: The Question of Technology: Gestalt & Ge-Stell. In Questioning Martin Heidegger, Martin Heidegger’s “Overcoming Metaphysics” provides the jumping-off point for a wide-ranging critique and deconstruction of Western metaphysics from the Pre-Socratics and Sophists to Descartes, Kant, Hegel, Nietzsche, and Derrida. Besides questioning Martin Heidegger’s controversial relationship with German National Socialism (Nazism) and the Holocaust, Questioning Martin Heidegger also takes off onto diverse topics like the question of being and the problem of nothingness, the birth of subjectivity and the death of God, and the Kehre and the emergence of a global ecological consciousness. Written in straightforward, jargon-free language, Questioning Martin Heidegger will be stimulating and exciting reading for professional scholars and enthusiastic laypersons, philosophy students and the general public. Table of Contents 6 Acknowledgements 8 A Note to the Reader 10 Pretext: The Question of (Non) Being 12 Preface: What Is Overcoming Metaphysics? 22 Chapter One: The End of History, the End(s) of Man: Modernity, Post-Modernity & Overcoming Metaphysics 32 Chapter Two: The Question of Being: Being & Thinking & the Thinking of Being 49 Chapter Three: The Question of the Subject: Who (... or What? ... ) is The Subject of Western Metaphysics? 87 Chapter Four: The Question of Technology: Gestalt & Ge-Stell 136 Chapter Five: The New Epistemological Starting-Point: The Standpoint of Sentience (An Imaginary Interview With The Hypothetical Author) 185 Chapter Six: Toward a New Ecological World-View: From Western Metaphysical Humanism to Sentient Biosphere Ethics 204 Postscript: Final Question(s): The Last God? 238 Bibliography 260 Index 265 In Questioning Martin Heidegger, Martin Heidegger's “Overcoming Metaphysics” provides the jumping-off point for a wide-ranging critique and deconstruction of Western philosophy. This book also addresses Martin Heidegger's controversial relationship with German National Socialism (Nazism) and the Holocaust, as well as with contemporary philosophers like J. F. Lyotard and Jacques Derrida. Eric D. Meyer. Includes Bibliographical References (pages 229-233) And Index.