Heidegger and the Earth

Heidegger and the Earth
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Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Total Pages : 289
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ISBN-10 : 9780802099884
ISBN-13 : 0802099882
Rating : 4/5 (84 Downloads)

Synopsis Heidegger and the Earth by : Ladelle McWhorter

In this newly revised and greatly expanded edition of Heidegger and the Earth, the contributors approach contemporary ecological issues through the medium of Heidegger's thought.

Earth and Gods

Earth and Gods
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Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages : 339
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ISBN-10 : 9789401033596
ISBN-13 : 9401033595
Rating : 4/5 (96 Downloads)

Synopsis Earth and Gods by : V. Vycinas

Earth and Gods is an attempt to introduce the reader to Heidegger's fully developed philosophy. The title Earth and Gods gives an im pression of not being a general study of Heidegger's philosophy. However, this is not true - the earth and the gods are fundamental ontological symbols of his fully developed philosophy, namely, his third and final phase of thought. This phase repeats the problems of both preceding phases in a fuller and more developed manner; hence, it implies them. The two preceding phases are the phase of Dasein and the phase of Being. These two phases are a natural flow of fundamental problems which reach their final formation and development in the phase of earth and gods. Dasein (the first phase) leads to Being, and Being (the second phase) bursts into fundamental ontological powers of Being (Seinsmiichte) which are earth and sky, gods and mortals (the third phase). Since earth is unthinkable without sky and since gods are gods in the world of mortals - of men, the title Earth and Gods is an abbreviation of these four fundamental powers of Being. Hence, an investigation of earth and gods is an attempt to present Heidegger's philosophy as a whole. Such a presentation provides the reader with the background necessary for a more adequate and efficient understanding of the writings of Heidegger himself. Thus, Earth and Gods may rightly be considered an introduction to Hei degger's philosophy.

Passions of the Earth in Human Existence, Creativity, and Literature

Passions of the Earth in Human Existence, Creativity, and Literature
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Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages : 344
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ISBN-10 : 0792366751
ISBN-13 : 9780792366751
Rating : 4/5 (51 Downloads)

Synopsis Passions of the Earth in Human Existence, Creativity, and Literature by : International Society for Phenomenology and Literature. Congress

Literature reveals that the hidden strings of the human passional soul are the creative source of the specifically human existence. Continuing the inquiry into the elemental passions of the soul and the human creative soul pursued in several previous volumes of this series, the present volume focuses on the passions of the earth, bringing to light some of the primogenital existential threads of the innermost bonds of the Human Condition and mother earth. In the author's words, the book's purpose is to unravel the essential bond between the living human being and the earth - a bond that lies at the heart of our existence. A heightened awareness of this bond should enlighten our situation and help us find our existential bearings.

Inhabiting the Earth

Inhabiting the Earth
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Publisher : Humanities Press International
Total Pages : 232
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ISBN-10 : UOM:39015034878861
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Rating : 4/5 (61 Downloads)

Synopsis Inhabiting the Earth by : Bruce V. Foltz

This work undertakes an analysis of how Heidegger's thought can contribute to environmental ethics and to the more broadly conceived field of environmental philosophy. It looks at the status of nature and related concepts such as earth in his thought.

Heidegger and Unconcealment

Heidegger and Unconcealment
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 263
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ISBN-10 : 9781139492751
ISBN-13 : 1139492756
Rating : 4/5 (51 Downloads)

Synopsis Heidegger and Unconcealment by : Mark A. Wrathall

This book includes ten essays that trace the notion of unconcealment as it develops from Heidegger's early writings to his later work, shaping his philosophy of truth, language and history. 'Unconcealment' is the idea that what entities are depends on the conditions that allow them to manifest themselves. This concept, central to Heidegger's work, also applies to worlds in a dual sense: first, a condition of entities manifesting themselves is the existence of a world; and second, worlds themselves are disclosed. The unconcealment or disclosure of a world is the most important historical event, and Heidegger believes there have been a number of quite distinct worlds that have emerged and disappeared in history. Heidegger's thought as a whole can profitably be seen as working out the implications of the original understanding of unconcealment.

Transformations

Transformations
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Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
Total Pages : 249
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ISBN-10 : 9780299215439
ISBN-13 : 0299215431
Rating : 4/5 (39 Downloads)

Synopsis Transformations by : Gail Stenstad

How are we to think and act constructively in the face of today’s environmental and political catastrophes? Gail Stenstad finds inspiring answers in the thought of German philosopher Martin Heidegger. Rather than simply describing or explaining Heidegger’s transformative way of thinking, Stenstad’s writing enacts it, bringing new insight into contemporary environmental, political, and personal issues. Readers come to understand some of Heidegger’s most challenging concepts through experiencing them. This is a truly creative scholarly work that invites all readers to carry Heidegger’s transformative thinking into their own areas of deep concern.

Inhabiting the Earth

Inhabiting the Earth
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Publisher : Humanities Press International
Total Pages : 228
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ISBN-10 : UOM:39076001647861
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 (61 Downloads)

Synopsis Inhabiting the Earth by : Bruce V. Foltz

This work undertakes an analysis of how Heidegger's thought can contribute to environmental ethics and to the more broadly conceived field of environmental philosophy. It looks at the status of nature and related concepts such as earth in his thought.

Heidegger's Topology

Heidegger's Topology
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Publisher : MIT Press
Total Pages : 425
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ISBN-10 : 9780262250337
ISBN-13 : 0262250330
Rating : 4/5 (37 Downloads)

Synopsis Heidegger's Topology by : Jeff Malpas

This groundbreaking inquiry into the centrality of place in Martin Heidegger's thinking offers not only an illuminating reading of Heidegger's thought but a detailed investigation into the way in which the concept of place relates to core philosophical issues. In Heidegger's Topology, Jeff Malpas argues that an engagement with place, explicit in Heidegger's later work, informs Heidegger's thought as a whole. What guides Heidegger's thinking, Malpas writes, is a conception of philosophy's starting point: our finding ourselves already "there," situated in the world, in "place". Heidegger's concepts of being and place, he argues, are inextricably bound together. Malpas follows the development of Heidegger's topology through three stages: the early period of the 1910s and 1920s, through Being and Time, centered on the "meaning of being"; the middle period of the 1930s into the 1940s, centered on the "truth of being"; and the late period from the mid-1940s on, when the "place of being" comes to the fore. (Malpas also challenges the widely repeated arguments that link Heidegger's notions of place and belonging to his entanglement with Nazism.) The significance of Heidegger as a thinker of place, Malpas claims, lies not only in Heidegger's own investigations but also in the way that spatial and topographic thinking has flowed from Heidegger's work into that of other key thinkers of the past 60 years.

Heidegger and the Earth

Heidegger and the Earth
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 98
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ISBN-10 : OCLC:773209526
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Rating : 4/5 (26 Downloads)

Synopsis Heidegger and the Earth by : Ladelle McWhorte

Eco-Phenomenology

Eco-Phenomenology
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Publisher : State University of New York Press
Total Pages : 278
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ISBN-10 : 9780791487280
ISBN-13 : 0791487288
Rating : 4/5 (80 Downloads)

Synopsis Eco-Phenomenology by : Charles S. Brown

This groundbreaking collection explores the intersection of phenomenology with environmental philosophy. It examines the relevance of Husserl, Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty, and Levinas for thinking through the philosophical dilemmas raised by environmental issues, and then proposes new phenomenological approaches to the natural world. The contributors demonstrate phenomenology's need to engage in an ecological self-evaluation and to root out anthropomorphic assumptions embedded in its own methodology. Calling for a reexamination of beliefs central to the Western philosophical tradition, this book shifts previously marginalized environmental concerns to the forefront and blazes a trail for a new collaboration between phenomenologists and ecologically-minded theorists.