Heidegger: An Essential Guide For Complete Beginners 9781783015429, 034080324X

Table of contents :
CONTENTS
FOREWORD

PREFACE

1. THE LIFE OF HEIDEGGER

The roots

The influences of his environment

Education

Heidegger’s academic career

Heidegger and Nazism

The post-war years

2. THE MEANING OF LIFE: THE QUESTION OF BEING

The ontological ‘error’ of Western philosophy

Heidegger’s fundamental ontology

An argument against Heidegger’s approach

Heidegger’s response to nihilism

Heidegger’s vocabulary

‘Being’ and ‘being’

Ourselves as the initial subject-matter of the inquiry

Time as the horizon of Being

Being and Time

The Nothing

Why is there something rather than Nothing?

The significance of unanswerable questions

3. THE CENTRAL CONCEPTS OF BEING AND TIME

Dasein: ourselves as the starting point

The a priori structure of Dasein

The world

Dasein’s Being-in-the-world

Dasein’s ordinary, everyday existence

Ready-to-hand and present-at-hand

Heidegger’s ‘equipment totality’

Space and time

Being-with-others

Dasein’s thrownness

Inauthenticity: the ‘they-self’

Inauthenticity: falling

Moods

Understanding

Interpretation

Meaning

Anxiety

Care

4. BEING-TOWARDS-DEATH

The ‘afterlife’ issue

Heidegger’s ‘facts of life’ and death

Death as a possibility

5. CONSCIENCE, GUILT AND AUTHENTICITY

Conscience

Guilt

Authenticity

6. THE ‘TRUTH OF ALETHEIA’ AND LANGUAGE

Traditional concepts of truth

Heidegger’s truth of aletheia

Heidegger’s concept of language

The emptiness of everyday language

The language of Being

Ancient Greek and German

Talk: the basis of language

Language: our primary access to Being

The silent ‘saying’ of the world

The language of poetry

7. TAO, ZEN AND HEIDEGGER

Taoism and Heidegger

Zen and Heidegger

8. HEIDEGGER ON TECHNOLOGY

Enframing: the ‘mind-set’ of technology

Techne, poiesis and the essence of technology

Enframing: danger or source of awareness?

Heidegger’s response to technology

FURTHER READING

GLOSSARY

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