Appropriating Heidegger

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Edited by James Faulconer and Mark Wrathall

Cambridge University Press

Due/Published December 2000, 247 pages, cloth

ISBN 0521781817

Among the philosophers who study Heidegger's work there is considerable disagreement over what might seem to be basic issues: Why is Heidegger important? What did his work do? This volume is an explicit response to these differences, and brings together representatives of many different approaches to Heidegger's philosophy. The essays discuss topics that are central to Heidegger's work, and the contributors also address the presuppositions that guide their understanding of Heidegger.

 Contents

1. Appropriating Heidegger--James E. Faulconer
Part I. Thinking Our Age
2. Philosophy, thinkers, and Heidegger's place in the history of being--Mark A. Wrathall
3. Night and day: Heidegger and Thoreau--Stanley Cavell
4. Heidegger's alleged challenge to the Nazi concepts of race--Robert Bernasconi
5. Heidegger and ethics beyond the call of duty--Albert Borgmann

Part II. Heidegger in Context
6. People of God, people of being: the theological presuppositions of Heidegger's path of thought--John D. Caputo
7. Heidegger for beginners--Simon Critchley
8. The critique of anthropologism in Heidegger's thought--Françoise Dastur

Part III. Reading Being and Time
9. In respectful contempt: Heidegger, appropriation, facticity--Rudi Visker
10. Could anything be more intelligible than everyday intelligibility: reinterpreting Division I of Being and Time in the light of Division II--Hubert L. Dreyfus
11. Another time--John Sallis
12. Intentionality, teleology, and normativity--Mark Okrent