Backman Complicated Presence

Heidegger and the Postmetaphysical Unity of Being
1. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-1-4384-5650-8
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 374 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Reihe: SUNY series in Contemporary Continental Philosophy

A synthetic assessment of Heidegger’s entire path of thinking as a radical attempt to thematize and rethink the fundamental notions of unity dominating the Western metaphysical tradition.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Backman, Jussi

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Moderne Philosophische Disziplinen Phänomenologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments

Abbreviations of Heidegger’s Works

Gesamtausgabe
Other Works
English Translations

Introduction

The Unity of Being at the End of Metaphysics
Heidegger as a Postmetaphysical Thinker of Unity
Being as Meaning and the History of Being: Methodological Considerations
Outline of the Study

1. From the First Inception to the Other: Metaphysics and the Unity of Being

The First Inception: The Unity of Being in Anaximander, Parmenides, and Heraclitus
The First End of the First Inception: Plato and the One Over Many
Ontotheology: Aristotle and the Analogical Unity of Being
The End of Metaphysics and the Transition to the Other Inception

2. Being and Time: The Complicated Unity of Dasein

On the Way to Being and Time: The Situation as a Singular Unity
Ontothnetology: A New Exemplary Being
Fundamental Ontology: From the Exemplary Being to Being and the Turn Back
The Self as an Ecstatic Unity of Timeliness
The Instant as the Ecstatic Clearing of Presence
The Ecstatic-Horizonal Correlation of Dasein and World: Temporal Schematism
From the Unity of the Horizonal Schemata to the Sense of Being: Complicated Presence
Complicated Presence as Differential Unity: The Ontological Difference

3. The Turn and the Emergence of the Fourfold

The Turn: Complicated Presence as the Reciprocity of Dasein and Being
The Emergence of the Fourfold: Complicated Presence as Intimate Unity

4. Contributions to Philosophy: The Singular Simplicity of the Event

Thinking in Reverse
The Coordinates of the Transition
The Unique Singularity of Beyng
Beyng Is, Beings Are Not

5. Insight Into That Which Is: From the Uniform Presence of Technicity to the Complicated Presence of the Thing

Thinking Being without Beings
The Cyclic Structure of the Insight Into That Which Is
The Complicated Presence of the Thing as an Interplay of the Fourfold World
The Setup, the Peril, and the Turn to the Thing

6. Identity and Difference: Differential Identity as the Ground of Unity

The Complicated Identity of Being and the Human Being
Discharge as the Differential Unity of Being and Beings
The Concord between Event and Discharge: Complicated Unity

Conclusion: the Simplicity and Complexity of Presence

Notes
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Jussi Backman is University Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland.