The Bloomsbury Companion to Heidegger (Bloomsbury Companions)

"Martin Heidegger is one of the twentieth century's most important philosophers. His ground-breaking works have had a hugely significant impact on contemporary thought through their reception, appropriation and critique. His thought has influenced philosophers as diverse as Sartre, Merleau-Ponty, Arendt, Adorno, Gadamer, Levinas, Derrida and Foucault, among others. In addition to his formative role in philosophical movements such as phenomenology, hermeneutics and existentialism, structuralism and post-structuralism, deconstruction and post-modernism, Heidegger has had a transformative effect on diverse fields of inquiry including political theory, literary criticism, theology, gender theory, technology and environmental studies. The Bloomsbury Companion to Heidegger is the definitive reference guide to Heidegger's life and work, presenting fifty-eight original essays written by an international team of leading Heidegger scholars. The volume includes comprehensive coverage of Heidegger life and contexts, sources, influences and encounters, key writings, major themes and topics, and reception and influence. This is the ideal research tool for anyone studying or working in the field of Heidegger Studies today."--Bloomsbury Publishing. Cover Half-Title Series Title Imprint Contents Acknowledgments List of Abbreviations Notes on Contributors EDITORS’ INTRODUCTION I II III PART I: LIFE AND CONTEXTS 1 HEIDEGGER AND THE QUESTION OF BIOGRAPHY 2 THE EARLY HEIDEGGER 3 THE TURN: ALL THREE OF THEM 4 HEIDEGGER IN THE 1930s: WHO ARE WE? THE PREDICAMENT OF “WHO?” GERMAN DESTINY AND THE POLITICS OF BEING SELFHOOD AND APPROPRIATION THE PERSISTENT QUESTION 5 Heidegger, Nietzsche, National Socialism: The Place of Metaphysics in the Political Debate of the 1930s 6 The Later Heidegger: The Question of the Other Beginning of Thinking 7 HEIDEGGER’S CORRESPONDENCE Martin Heidegger’s correspondence in general The letters published by Heidegger and correspondences published after his death The Martin-Heidegger-Briefausgabe PART II: SOURCES, INFLUENCES, AND ENCOUNTERS 8 HEIDEGGER AND GREEK PHILOSOPHY The Necessity of Looking Back to the Greeks The Way of Looking Back to the Greeks Conclusion 9 HEIDEGGER AND MEDIEVAL PHILOSOPHY A Forgetfulness of Medieval Thought? Christianity, Scholasticism, and the Origins of Heidegger’s Thinking Heidegger’s Habilitation on Thomas of Erfurt’s De modis significandi After his Habilitation—toward Being and Time via the Hermeneutics of Facticity Medieval Thought in Being and Time After Being and Time: Philosophy, Christian Faith, and the Metaphysical Impact of Medieval Thought Reading and discussing medieval thought—after Heidegger 10 Heidegger and Descartes 11 Heidegger and Kant: Three Guiding Questions I II III Conclusion 12 Heidegger and German Idealism Hegel and German Idealism Schelling and German Idealism The German Idealism in the History of Metaphysics and Being 13 Heidegger and Nietzsche 14 Heidegger and Dilthey: A Difference in Interpretation Introduction Life-Philosophy and Historical Life The Ontic and the Ontological RESISTANCE AND FACTICAL LIFE7 Divergent Legacies: HEIDEGGER, mISCH, AND PLESSNER12 15 Heidegger and Husserl 16 Heidegger, Neo-Kantianism, and Cassirer 17 Heidegger and Carnap: Disagreeing about Nothing? OVERLAPPING ORIGINS METAPHYSICS AND THE NOTHING LIFE, MOOD, AND MUSIC A TALE OF TWO TURNS 18 Heidegger and Arendt: The Lawful Space of Worldly Appearance Heidegger’s “The Anaximander Fragment” Arendt: On the Givenness of Worldly Appearance Heidegger and Arendt: A Right to Belong or a “Right to have Rights” 19 Heidegger and Gadamer 20 Heidegger and Marcuse: On Reification and Concrete Philosophy1 Introduction Heidegger-Marxismus Technology and Rationality PART III: KEY WRITINGS 21 Early Lecture Courses The Meaningfulness of Life Religious Experience Language and the Greeks 22 Heidegger, Persuasion, and Aristotle’s Rhetoric 23 Being and Time Division One Division Two 24 The Origin of the Work of Art Originating Art Unearthing a World Designing a Rift A Moving Beauty Poetic Thinking 25 Introduction to Metaphysics “Introducing” Metaphysics Retrieving the Greeks Breaking Restrictions 26 CONTRIBUTIONS TO PHILOSOPHY The Historical Context The Structure of the Text The “Method” of the Contributions Problems of Reception 27 THE HÖLDERLIN LECTURES Contexts The First Hölderlin Lecture Course: The Hymns “Germania” and “The Rhine” (1934–5) Hölderlin Revisited: The Lectures on “Remembrance” (1941–2) The Last Hölderlin Lecture Course: “The Ister” (1942) Concluding Remarks 28 The “Letter on Humanism”: Ek-sistence, Being, and Language 29 The Bremen Lectures 30 Later Essays and Seminars Style Being The Will, Nietzsche, and Technology Nihilism and Gelassenheit PART IV: THEMES AND TOPICS 31 ART 32 BIRTH AND DEATH 33 THE BODY 34 Dasein Dasein in the Turn From Dasein to Da-sein: The Between Who are we? Dasein as Ek-static Standing-in Being Conclusion: Dasein as Topological Revolution 35 EREIGNIS EREIGNIS (APPROPRIATING EVENT) AND THE TURNING (KEHRE) IN THE EVENT Ereignis, Attunement, and History Ent-eignung (Dis-appropriation) and Ent-eignis (ex-propriation) Ereignis as Inception The full expanse of Ereignis: Da-sein, Gods and Humans (Zueignung and Übereignung), World and Earth, Beings Ereignis as the mirror play of the fourfold (enteignende Vereignung) Ge-stell as a preliminary form of Ereignis Ereignis and Geschick (the sending of history) 36 ETHICS Introduction Dasein as an Ethical Notion Ethics and the Useless Desubjectivizing Ethics: On Decision Ethics as Responsibility for being 37 THE FOURFOLD The Fourfold The Mirror-Play of Things 38 LANGUAGE Early Views: Being and Time The Origin of the Work of Art Later Heidegger: Poets and Thinkers 39 THE NOTHING THINKING NOTHING EXISTENTIALLY THINKING NOTHING PHENOMENOLOGICALLY THINKING NOTHING METAPHYSICALLY THINKING NOTHING ONTOLOGICALLY THINKING NOTHING EPIGRAPHICALLY 40 ONTOTHEOLOGY Ontotheology as the dual core of Western metaphysics Our late-modern ontotheology as the engine of nihilistic technologization Beyond ontotheology: A genuinely meaningful postmodernity God and Postmodernity beyond the fatalistic misreading 41 RELIGION AND THEOLOGY 42 SCIENCE Specialization Phenomenology12 Dwelling 43 SPACE: THE OPEN IN WHICH WE SOJOURN Lived-space Earth and Time-Space Machination and Dwelling Conclusion 44 TECHNOLOGY 45 TRUTH PART V: RECEPTION AND INFLUENCE 46 HEIDEGGER AND SARTRE: HISTORICITY, DESTINY, AND POLITICS 47 HEIDEGGER AND MERLEAU-PONTY: THOUGHT IN THE OPEN 48 HEIDEGGER AND ADORNO Layers of Critique The Critique of Abstraction Heidegger’s Response Limitations of Adorno’s Critique 49 HEIDEGGER AND LEVINAS 50 HEIDEGGER AND DERRIDA 51 HEIDEGGER AND FOUCAULT 52 HEIDEGGER AND DELEUZE1 53 HEIDEGGER’S ANGLO-AMERICAN RECEPTION 54 HEIDEGGER AND ENVIRONMENTAL PHILOSOPHY 55 HEIDEGGER AND GENDER: AN UNCANNY RETRIEVAL OF HEGEL’S ANTIGONE 56 HEIDEGGER AND POST-CARTESIAN PSYCHOANALYSIS Investigative Method Contextualism: From Mind to World From Drive to Affectivity Trauma, Anxiety, Finitude The Relationality of Finitude Expanding Heidegger’s Conception of Relationality Conclusions: The Ontical and the Ontological 57 HEIDEGGER AND ASIAN PHILOSOPHY On the Way to the Inevitable Dialogue Indications of Influence on the Way (Dao) Heidegger’s Preparation and Japanese Engagement Being: Nothing: The Same The Nothing and Mu: Resonances Mu and the Nothing: Differences 58 HEIDEGGER AND LATIN AMERICAN PHILOSOPHY APPENDIX TO THE PAPERBACK EDITION 59 Heidegger’S Black NoteBooks: National Socialism, Antisemitism, and the History of Being INTRODUCTION HEIDEGGER’S AMBIVALENCE: THE CONTEXTS OF THE BLACK NOTEBOOKS VULGAR AND SUPERIOR RACISM? FURTHER QUESTIONS CONCLUSION Index