Description
Book SynopsisEssays on Heidegger from notable thinkers of the 20th century
The work of Martin Heidegger significantly influenced philosophers in the 1900s. Heidegger: A Critical Reader is a collection of writings by those who studied his work, including Jean-Paul Sartre, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Jurgen Habermas, Richard Rorty, and Pierre Bourdieu. It also features essays from modern philosophers who share their own examinations of and thoughts concerning Heidegger''s approaches to the philosophy of language, mind, and action.
Table of Contents
Dasein's disclosed, John Haugeland; Heidegger's categories in "Being and Time"; the familiar and the strange - on the limits of praxis in the early Heidegger, Joseph Fell; early Heidegger on being, the clearing and realism, Theodore Schatzki; existential temporality in "Being and Time", Wiliam Blattner; work and Weltanschauung - the Heidegger controversy from a German perspective, Jurgen Habermas; history and commitment in early Heidegger, Charles Guignon; between techne and technology - the ambiguous place of equipment in "Being and Time", Hubert Dreyfus; the truth of being and the history of philosophy, Mark Okrent; who is Heidegger's Nietzsche?, Randall Havas; attunement and thinking, Michael Haar; Heidegger language and ecology, Charles Taylor; Heidegger, contingency and pragmatism, Richard Rorty; Derrida and Heidegger - iterability and "Ereignis" demystified, Charles Spinosa.
