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Title
Heidegger on death and being : an answer to the Seinsfrage / Johannes Achill Niederhauser.
ISBN
9783030513757 (electronic bk.)
3030513750 (electronic bk.)
3030513742
9783030513740
Published
Cham, Switzerland : Springer, 2021.
Copyright
©2021
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (xxiii, 269 pages)
Other Standard Identifiers
10.1007/978-3-030-51375-7 doi
Call Number
B3279.H49 N54 2021eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
128/.5
Summary
The book is the first detailed and full exegesis of the role of death in Heidegger's philosophy and provides a decisive answer to the question of being. It is well-known that Heidegger asked the "question of being". It is equally commonplace to assume that Heidegger failed to provide a proper answer to the question. In this provocative new study Niederhauser argues that Heidegger gives a distinct response to the question of being and that the phenomenon of death is key to finding and understanding it. The book offers challenging interpretations of crucial moments of Heidegger's philosophy such as aletheia, the history of being, time, technology, the fourfold, mortality, the meaning of existence, the event, and language. Niederhauser makes the case that any reading of Heidegger that ignores death cannot fully understand those concepts. The book argues that death is central to Heidegger's "thinking path" from the early 1920s until his late post-war philosophy. The book thus attempts to show that there is a unity of the early and late Heidegger often ignored by other commentators. Niederhauser argues that death is the fulcrum of Heidegger's ontology and the turning point of the history of being. Death resurfaces at the most crucial moments of the "thinking path"--Beginning to end. The book is of interest to those invested in current debates on the ethics of dying and the transhumanist project of digital human immortality. The text also shows that for Heidegger philosophy means first and foremost to learn how to die. This volume speaks to continental and analytical philosophers and students alike as it draws on a number of diverse Heidegger interpretations and appreciates intercultural differences in reading Heidegger
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed February 9, 2021).
Available in Other Form
Print version: 9783030513740
Part I. Sum Moribundus: Death as Possibility
Death in Being and Time: Preliminary Remarks
The Necessity of the Seinsfrage
Understanding Being and Dasein's Temporality
From death as possibility to being as possibility
Dasein's historicity
Signs of the turn
Part II. The Testimony of Being: Death in the Thinking of the Event
The turn
The unfolding of Ereignis in light of death
Death and the fissuring of Beyng
Seinsgeschichte and death
Part III. Gestell and Gebirg: The Relationship of Technology and Death
Heidegger: the Luddite?
Heidegger's path to the essence of technology
Ge-Stell: the essence of technology
Death as Shrine, Sanctuary and Law
The fourfold
Part IV: Death and the Poetry of the World
The Later Heidegger on Language
The Essence of Language in View of Death
Language and Death in the Fourfold
Language and Death in the Fourfold.
