Heidegger and Practical Philosophy

François Raffoul is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Louisiana State University and the author of Heidegger and the Subject. David Pettigrew is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Southern Connecticut State University. Together they have translated Jean-Luc Nancy's and Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe's The Title of the Letter: A Reading of Lacan and Juan-David Nasio's Five Lessons on the Psychoanalytic Theory of Jacques Lacan, both published by SUNY Press, and Françoise Dastur's Heidegger and the Question of Time. They have also coedited Disseminating Lacan, also published by SUNY Press.

"This is a superb collection of essays by leading Heidegger scholars, a pioneering book that will be mandatory reading for anyone interested in the practical, ethical, and political dimensions opened up by Heidegger's thought." — William McNeill, author of The Glance of the Eye: Heidegger, Aristotle, and the Ends of Theory"With the increasing attention to questions of ethics and social/political philosophy in contemporary philosophy, this volume makes a timely contribution. Moreover, one could argue that 'practical philosophy' has always been at the center of Heidegger's philosophy, yet the topic has never been explored at length in this way before now." — James Risser, editor of Heidegger toward the Turn: Essays on the Work of the 1930s"Raffoul and Pettigrew have collected excellent texts, which offer a rich variety of views on a too-neglected side of Heidegger's thought: the preparation of new ethical and practical issues appropriate to our technological age." — Dominique Janicaud, coauthor of Heidegger from Metaphysics to Thought

• AcknowledgmentsAbbreviationsIntroduction Part I. Heidegger and Practical Philosophy 1. Free ThinkingJohn Sallis 2. The Interpretation of Aristotle's Notion of Aretê in Heidegger's First CoursesJacques Taminiaux 3. Freedom, Finitude, and the Practical Self: The Other Side of Heidegger's Appropiation of Kant Frank Schalow 4. Hier ist kein warum: Heidegger and Kant's Practical PhilosophyJacob Rogozinski Part II. Heidegger and Ethics 5. Heidegger's "Originary Ethics"Jean-Luc Nancy 6. The Call of Conscience: The Most Intimate AlterityFrançoise Dastur 7. The "Play of Transcendence" and the Question of EthicsJean Greisch 8. "Homo prudens" Miguel de BeisteguiPart III. The Question of the Political 9. In the Middle of Heidegger's Three Concepts of the PoliticalTheodore Kisiel 10. The Baby and the Bath Water: On Heidegger and Political LifeDennis J. Schmidt 11. Heidegger's Practical Politics: Of Time and the RiverCharles E. Scott 12. Heidegger and Arendt: The Birth of Political Action and SpeechPeg Birmingham Part IV. Responsibility, Being-With, and Community 13. Heidegger and the Origins of ResponsibilityFrançois Raffoul 14. Reading Heidegger Responsibly: Glimpses of Being in Dasein's DevelopmentDavid Wood 15. The Communit y of Those Who Are Going to DieWalter Brogan 16. Heidegger and the Question of EmpathyLawrence J. Hatab Part V. Heidegger and the Contemporary Ethos 17. Nihilism and Its DiscontentsThomas Sheehan 18. Is There an Ethics for the "Atomic Age"?Pierre Jacerme 19. Praxis and Gelassenheit: The "Practice" of the LimitAndrew Mitchell 20. Psychoanalytic Praxis and the Truth of PainWilliam J. Richardson ContributorsIndex