Heidegger and a Metaphysics of Feeling

Angst and the Finitude of Being

AvSharin N. Elkholy

Inbunden, Engelska, 2008

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This is an important new monograph, focussing on the concept of Angst, a concept central to Heidegger's thought and popular among readers.The early Heidegger of "Being and Time" is generally believed to locate finitude strictly within the individual, based on an understanding that this individual will have to face its death alone and in its singularity. Facing death is characterized by the mood of Angst (anxiety), as death is not an experience one can otherwise access outside of one's own demise.In the later Heidegger, the finitude of the individual is rooted in the finitude of the world it lives in and within which it actualizes its possibilities, or Being. Against the standard reading that the early Heidegger places the emphasis on individual finitude, this important new book shows how the later model of the finitude of Being is developed in "Being and Time". Elkholy questions the role of Angst in Heidegger's discussion of death and it is at the point of transition from the nothing back to the world of projects that the author locates finitude and shows that Heidegger's later thinking of the finitude of Being is rooted in "Being and Time".

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2008-08-12
Mått:156 x 234 x 14 mm
Vikt:414 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Continuum Studies in Continental Philosophy
Antal sidor:176
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN:9780826498755

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Sharin N. Elkholy is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Houston, USA. She received her degree in Philosophy from the New School for Social Research In New York, USA.

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"Sharin N. Elkholy's Heidegger and a Metaphysics of Feeling: Angst and the Finitude of Being, provides incisive commentary on one of the most difficult thinkers of the postmodern philosophy. The renown of Heidegger's genius is matched by his often muddling, too-creative language. Elkholy successfully manages to highlight the former while clarifying the latter. Philosophical practitioners, serious readers of philosophy, and expositors on Heidegger are better for it...Upon finishing the book, one wishes that all commentary and interpretation of Heidegger would be as concise. Also of great interest to the reader and serious student of Heidegger are Elkholy's brief comments on his theory of "ontological homelessness." For the sake of philosophical practitioners at least, I hope the very capable Elkholy pursues an in-depth exposition of this timely theory." - Tim Weldon, Philosophical Practice, Vol. 3 No. 3, October 2008

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Introduction: The Yoking of Angst to Aletheia; 1. Introduction to the project and method of Being and Time; 2. Being-toward-death: Stage one of Angst; 3. Being-guilty-Stage Two of Angst; 4. Angst and Aletheia; Conclusion: Angst and Historicity.