The Early Heidegger's Philosophy of Life: Facticity, Being, and Language (Perspectives in Continental Philosophy)

In His Early Lecture Courses, Martin Heidegger Exhibited An Abiding Interest In Human Life. He Believed That Human Life Has Philosophical Import While It Is Actually Being Lived; Language Has Philosophical Import While It Is Being Spoken. In This Book, Scott Campbell Traces The Development Of Heidegger's Ideas About Factical Life Through His Interest In Greek Thought And Its Concern With Being. He Contends That Heidegger's Existential Concerns About Human Life And His Ontological Concernsabout The Meaning Of Being Crystallize In The Notion Of Dasein As The Being Of Factical Human Life. Emphasizing The Positive Aspects Of Everydayness, Campbell Explores The Contexts Of Meaning Embedded Within Life; The Intensity Of Average, Everyday Life; The Temporal Immediacy Of Life In Early Christianity; The Hermeneutic Pursuit Of Life's Self-alienation; Factical Spatiality; The Temporalizing Of History Within Life; The Richness Of The World; And The Facticity Of Speaking In Plato And Aristotle. He Shows How Heidegger Presents A Way Of Grasping Human Life As Riddled With Deception But Also Charged With Meaning And Open To Revelation And Insight. Science And The Originality Of Life -- Christian Facticity -- Grasping Life As A Topic -- Ruinance -- The Retrieval Of History -- Facticity And Ontology -- Factical Speaking -- Rhetoric -- Sophistry. Scott M. Campbell. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 267-276) And Index. In his early lecture courses, delivered at the University of Freiburg and the University of Marburg from 1919 to 1928, Martin Heidegger exhibited an abiding interest in human life. Focusing on the facticity of living and speaking in the early lecture courses, this book traces the development of Heidegger's ideas about factical life through his interest in Greek thought and its concern with Being. Heidegger's existential concerns about human life and his ontological concerns about the meaning of Being crystallize in the notion of Dasein in Being and Time . Dasein is the Being of factical human life. Primarily through an examination of these early lecture courses, this book investigates the interconnected relationships human life has to science, religion, history, phenomenology, hermeneutics, and ontology, as well as language, sophistry, and rhetoric in the work of Plato and Aristotle. With an emphasis on the positive aspects of everydayness, this book explores the contexts of meaning embedded within life; the intensity of average, everyday life; the temporal immediacy of life in early Christianity; the hermeneutic pursuit of life's self-alienation; factical spatiality; the temporalizing of history within life; the richness of the world; and the facticity of speaking in Plato and Aristotle In his early lecture courses, Martin Heidegger exhibited an abiding interest in human life. He believed that human life has philosophical import while it is actually being lived; language has philosophical import while it is being spoken. In this book, Scott Campbell traces the development of Heidegger's ideas about factical life through his interest in Greek thought and its concern with Being. He contends that Heidegger's existential concerns about human life and his ontological concerns about the meaning of Being crystallize in the notion of Dasein as the Being of factical human life. Emphasizing the positive aspects of everydayness, Campbell explores the contexts of meaning embedded within life; the intensity of average, everyday life; the temporal immediacy of life in early Christianity; the hermeneutic pursuit of life's self-alienation; factical spatiality; the temporalizing of history within life; the richness of the world; and the facticity of speaking in Plato and Aristotle. He shows how Heidegger presents a way of grasping human life as riddled with deception but also charged with meaning and open to revelation and insight Frontmatter List of Abbreviations (page ix) Preface (page xi) Acknowledgments (page xvii) Introduction (page 1) PART I: PHILOSOPHICAL VITALITY (1919-21) 1 Science and the Originality of Life (page 23) 2 Christican Facticity (page 46) PART II: FACTICAL LIFE (1921-22) 3 Grasping Life as a Topic (page 63) 4 Ruinance (page 83) PART III: THE HERMENEUTICS OF FACTICITY (1922-23) 5 The Retrieval of History (page 103) 6 Facticity and Ontology (page 120) PART IV: THE LANGUAGE OF LIFE (1923-25) 7 Factical Speaking (page 141) 8 Rhetoric (page 162) 9 Sophistry (page 186) Conclusion (page 211) Notes (page 225) Glossary of Greek Terms and Expressions (page 263) Bibliography (page 267) Index (page 277)