Heidegger on Being and Acting

"... elegant and provocative ... Exhibit[s] a subtle mastery of Heidegger's works." Review of Metaphysics " ... splendidly precise study of Heidegger ... to be recommended not only to Heidegger scholars but also to those interested in the question of what philosophical thinking has as its task in the modern technological world." Religious Studies Review " ... indispensable to understanding the later Heidegger." Choice

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Deconstructing Action2. Theory of the TextsPart OneGenealogy of PrinciplesI. Understanding History through Its Reversals3. The Puma-Shaped City4. The Rise and Decline of PrinciplesII. Understanding Practice through the "Turning"5. Practical Philosophy and the Hypothesis of Closure6. The Closure as the Withering of the Pros Hen RelationIII. Genealogy of Principles and Anti-Humanism7. A Threefold Break with "Humanism"8. A Threefold Break with Principial OriginsPart TwoThe "Very Issue" of Phenomenology: The Economies of PresencingIV. Mutations of Phenomenological Transcendentialism9. From Subjectivity to Being-There10. From Menschentum to "Thinking"V. Deconstruction of the Political11. Deconstructing the Substantialist Patterns12. Deconstructing the Ontic OriginPart ThreeThe Origin Is Said in Many WaysVI. Arche: The Kinetic Paradigm of Origin13. The Causal Concept of Arche14. The Teleocratic Concept of ArcheVII. Princeps and Principium: Time Forgotten15. From the Principle of Essences to the Principle of Propositions16. From the Principle of Propositions to the Epochal PrinciplesVIII. Anfang and Ursprung: The Temporal Difference17. The Vocabulary18. 'Original' Origins, or How the New Comes About in History19. The 'Originary' Origin, or How Presencing Comes AboutPart FourHistorical Deduction of the Categories of PresencingIX. Table of the Categories of Presencing20. The Categorial, the Noumenal, and the Empirical21. A Reversal Undergone by the Puma-Shaped CityX. At the Presocratic Inception: The Prospective Categories22. Econ23. Phusis24. Aletheia25. Logos26. Hen27. NousXI. At the Technological End: The Retrospective Categories28. The Will to Power29. Nihilism30. Justice31. The Eternal Return of the Same32. The Transmutation of All values and the Death of God33. The OvermanXII. At the "Turning": The Transitional Categories34. Ontological Difference/World and Thing35. "There Is"/Favor36. Unconcealment/Event37. Epoch/Clearing38. Nearness/Fourfold39. Corresponding/ThinkingPart FiveAction and AnarchyXIII. Acting, the Condition for Thinking40. The Practical A Priori41. The Problem of the WillXIV. Anarchic Displacements42. Practical Negation of Goals43. Transmutation of Responsibility44. Protest Against "Busy-ness"45. Transmutation of "Destiny"46. From Violence to AnarchyConclusion47. Of Economic Self-Regulation and Its Loci48. Objections and AnswersA Heidegger Bibliography, with Abbreviations Used in the Notes and IndexesNotesSelected BibliographyCitations From Heidegger's Texts in GermanCitations From English TranslationsName Index