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Heidegger and the Measure of Truth (Hardcover)
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Heidegger and the Measure of Truth (Hardcover)
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Denis McManus presents a new interpretation of Heideggers early
vision of our subjectivity and of the world we inhabit. Heideggers
fundamental ontology allows us to understand the creature that
thinks as also one which acts, moves, even touches the world around
it, a creature at home in the same ordinary world in which we too
live our lives when outside of the philosophical closet; it also
promises to free us from seemingly intractable philosophical
problems, such as scepticism about the external world and other
minds. But many of the concepts central to that vision are elusive;
and some of the most widely accepted interpretations of Heideggers
vision harbour within themselves deep and important unclarities,
while others foist upon us hopeless species of idealism. Drawing on
an examination of Heideggers work throughout the 1920s, Heidegger
and the Measure of Truth offers a new way of understanding that
vision. Central is the proposal that propositional thought
presupposes what might be called a measure, a mastery of which only
a recognizably worldly subject can possess. McManus shows how these
ideas emerge through Heidegger's engagement with the history of
philosophy and theology, and sets out a novel reading of key
elements in the fundamental ontology, including Heidegger's concept
of Being-in-the-world, his critique of scepticism, his claim to
disavow both realism and idealism, and his difficult reflections on
the nature of truth, science, authenticity, and philosophy itself.
According to this reading, Heideggers central claims identify
genuine demands that we must meet if we are to achieve the feat of
thinking determinate thoughts about the world around us.
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