Critical Heidegger

Christopher Macann is Professor of Philosophy at Regent's College, London. He undertook his doctoral work under Paul Ricoeur in Paris, since which much of his professional career has been spent in America. He is the author of Kant and the Foundations of Metaphysics (1981) and Presence and Coincidence (1990), as well as Four Phenomenological Philosophers: Husserl, Heidegger, Sartre, Merleau-Ponty (1993). He also edited Martin Heidegger: Critical Assessments (1992). Four Phenomeno­logical Philosophers and the four volume Heidegger collection were both published by Routledge.

• Introduction, The mirror with the triple reflection; Dasein as praxis: the Heideggerian assimilation and radicalization of the practical philosophy of Aristotle; Heidegger and Descartes; Heidegger's Kant interpretation; Critical remarks on the Heideggerian reading of Nietzsche; Heidegger's conception of space; The ekstatico-horizonal constitution of temporality; Way and method: hermeneutic phenomenology in thinking the history of being; The end of philosophy as the commencement of thinking; Does the saving power also grow? Heidegger's last paths; Heidegger's idea of truth; Wittgenstein and Heidegger: language games and life forms; Index