Heidegger's thinking has an underlying unity, this book argues,
and has cogency for seemingly diverse domains of modern culture:
philosophy and religion, aesthetics and literary criticism,
intellectual history and social theory. "The theme of
mortality--finite human existence--pervades Heidegger's thought,"
in the author's words, "before, during, and after his magnum opus,
Being and Times, published in 1927." This theme is manifested in
Heidegger's work not "as funereal melodramatics or as despair and
destructive nihilism" but rather "as a thinking within
anxiety."
Four major subthemes in Heidegger's thinking are explored in
the book's four parts: the fundamental ontology developed in Being
and Time; the "lighting and clearing" of Being, understood as
"unconcealment"; the history of philosophy--with emphasis on
Heraclitus, Hegel, and Nietzsche--interpreted as the "destiny" of
Being; and the poetics of Being, explicated as the "fundamental
experience" of mortality.
Neither an introduction nor a survey, this book is a close
reading of a wide range of Heidegger's books, lectures, and
articles--including extensive material not yet translated into
English--informed by the author's conversations with Heidegger in
1974-76. Each of the four subthemes is treated critically. The aim
of the book is to push its interrogations of Heidegger's thought as
far as possible, in order to help the reader toward an independent
assessment of his work and to encourage novel, radically conceived
approaches to traditional philosophical problems.
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