{"product_id":"the-eclipse-of-humanity-heschel-s-critique-of-heidegger-9783110441888","title":"The Eclipse of Humanity: Heschel’s Critique of Heidegger","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt has been widely assumed that Heschel's writings are poetic inspirations devoid of philosophical analysis and unresponsive to the evil of the Holocaust. \u003cem\u003eWho Is Man?\u003c\/em\u003e (1965) contains a detailed phenomenological analyis of man and being which is directed at the main work of Martin Heidegger found primarily in \u003cem\u003eBeing and Time \u003c\/em\u003e(1927) and \u003cem\u003eLetter on Humanism \u003c\/em\u003e(1946).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWhen the analysis of \u003cem\u003eWho Is Man?\u003c\/em\u003e is unapacked in the light of these associations it is clear that Heschel rejected poetry and metaphor as a means of theological elucidation, that he offered a profound examination of the Holocaust and that the major thrust of his thinking eschews Heidegerrian deconstruction and the postmodernism that ensued in its phenomenological wake.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eWho Is Man? \u003c\/em\u003econtains direct and indirect criticisms of Heidegger's notions of 'Dasein', 'thrownness', 'facticity' and 'submission' to name a few essential Heideggerian concepts. In using his ontological connective method in opposition to Heidegger's 'ontological difference', Heschel makes the argument that the biblical notion of Adam as a being open to transcendence stands in oppostion to the philosophical tradition from Parmenides to Heidegger and is the only basis for a redemptive view of humanity.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"De Gruyter","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53516525207895,"sku":"9783110441888","price":93.1,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-eclipse-of-humanity-heschel-s-critique-of-heidegger-9783110441888","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}