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Through his innovative study of language, noted Heidegger scholar
Lawrence Hatab offers a proto-phenomenological account of the lived
world, the "first" world of factical life, where pre-reflective,
immediate disclosiveness precedes and makes possible
representational models of language. Common distinctions between
mind and world, fact and value, cognition and affect miss the
meaning-laden dimension of embodied, practical existence, where
language and life are a matter of "dwelling in speech." In this
second volume, Hatab supplements and fortifies his initial analysis
by offering a detailed treatment of child development and language
acquisition, which exhibit a proto-phenomenological world in the
making. He then takes up an in-depth study of the differences
between oral and written language (particularly in the ancient
Greek world) and how the history of alphabetic literacy shows why
Western philosophy came to emphasize objective, representational
models of cognition and language, which conceal and pass over the
presentational domain of dwelling in speech. Such a study offers
significant new angles on the nature of philosophy and language.
How is it that sounds from the mouth or marks on a page-which by
themselves are nothing like things or events in the world-can be
world-disclosive in an automatic manner? In this fascinating and
important book, Lawrence J. Hatab presents a new vocabulary for
Heidegger's early phenomenology of being-in-the-world and applies
it to the question of language. He takes language to be a mode of
dwelling, in which there is an immediate, direct disclosure of
meanings, and sketches an extensive picture of proto-phenomenology,
how it revises the posture of philosophy, and how this posture
applies to the nature of language. Representational theories are
not rejected but subordinated to a presentational account of
immediate disclosure in concrete embodied life. The book critically
addresses standard theories of language, such that typical
questions in the philosophy of language are revised in a manner
that avoids binary separations of language and world, speech and
cognition, theory and practise, realism and idealism, internalism
and externalism.
How is it that sounds from the mouth or marks on a page-which by
themselves are nothing like things or events in the world-can be
world-disclosive in an automatic manner? In this fascinating and
important book, Lawrence J. Hatab presents a new vocabulary for
Heidegger's early phenomenology of being-in-the-world and applies
it to the question of language. He takes language to be a mode of
dwelling, in which there is an immediate, direct disclosure of
meanings, and sketches an extensive picture of proto-phenomenology,
how it revises the posture of philosophy, and how this posture
applies to the nature of language. Representational theories are
not rejected but subordinated to a presentational account of
immediate disclosure in concrete embodied life. The book critically
addresses standard theories of language, such that typical
questions in the philosophy of language are revised in a manner
that avoids binary separations of language and world, speech and
cognition, theory and practise, realism and idealism, internalism
and externalism.
How is it that sounds from the mouth or marks on a page-which by
themselves are nothing like things or events in the world-can be so
world-disclosive in such an automatic manner? In this fasincating
and important book, Lawrence J. Hatab presents a new vocabulary for
Heidegger's early phenomenology of being-in-the-world and applies
it to the question of language. He takes language to be a mode of
dwelling, in which there is an immediate, direct disclosure of
meanings, and sketches an extensive picture of proto-phenomenology,
how it revises the posture of philosophy, and how this posture
applies to the nature of language. Representational theories are
subordinated to a presentational account of immediate disclosure in
concrete embodied life. The book critically addresses standard
theories of language, such that standard questions in the
philosophy of language are revised in a manner that avoids binary
separations of language and world, speech and cognition, theory and
practice, realism and idealism, internalism and externalism. The
phenomenological analysis is also situated in child development,
language acquisition, and the difference between oral and written
forms of language.
What are the challenges that Nietzsche's philosophy poses for
contemporary phenomenology? Elodie Boublil, Christine Daigle, and
an international group of scholars take Nietzsche in new directions
and shed light on the sources of phenomenological method in
Nietzsche, echoes and influences of Nietzsche within modern
phenomenology, and connections between Nietzsche, phenomenology,
and ethics. Nietzsche and Phenomenology offers a historical and
systematic reconsideration of the scope of Nietzsche s
thought."
What are the challenges that Nietzsche's philosophy poses for
contemporary phenomenology? Elodie Boublil, Christine Daigle, and
an international group of scholars take Nietzsche in new directions
and shed light on the sources of phenomenological method in
Nietzsche, echoes and influences of Nietzsche within modern
phenomenology, and connections between Nietzsche, phenomenology,
and ethics. Nietzsche and Phenomenology offers a historical and
systematic reconsideration of the scope of Nietzsche's thought. --
Indiana University Press
Nietzsche's On the Genealogy of Morality (1887) is a forceful,
perplexing, important book, radical in its own time and profoundly
influential ever since. This introductory textbook offers a
comprehensive, close reading of the entire work, with a
section-by-section analysis that also aims to show how the
Genealogy holds together as an integrated whole. The Genealogy is
helpfully situated within Nietzsche s wider philosophy, and
occasional interludes examine supplementary topics that further
enhance the reader's understanding of the text. Two chapters
examine how the Genealogy relates to standard questions in moral
and political philosophy. Written in a clear, accessible style,
this book will appeal to students at every level coming to read the
Genealogy for the first time, and a wider range of readers will
also benefit from nuanced interpretations of controversial elements
in Nietzsche s work.
Nietzsche's On the Genealogy of Morality (1887) is a forceful,
perplexing, important book, radical in its own time and profoundly
influential ever since. This introductory textbook offers a
comprehensive, close reading of the entire work, with a
section-by-section analysis that also aims to show how the
Genealogy holds together as an integrated whole. The Genealogy is
helpfully situated within Nietzsche s wider philosophy, and
occasional interludes examine supplementary topics that further
enhance the reader's understanding of the text. Two chapters
examine how the Genealogy relates to standard questions in moral
and political philosophy. Written in a clear, accessible style,
this book will appeal to students at every level coming to read the
Genealogy for the first time, and a wider range of readers will
also benefit from nuanced interpretations of controversial elements
in Nietzsche s work.
Hatab's work is more than an interpretative study, inspired by
Neitzsche and Heidegger of the historical relationship between myth
and philosophy in ancient Greece. Its conclusions go beyond the
historical case study, and amount to a defence of the
intelligibility of myth against an exclusively rational or
objective view of the world. Hatab pleads for a pluralistic notion
of truth, one which permits different forms of understanding and
surrenders the supposed need for a uniform or even hierarchical
conception of truth. The historical displacement of myth by
philosopy in ancient Greece is the point of departure. According to
Hatab, rationality and science emerged as a revolutionary overthrow
of myth - but that revolution is not beyond criticism, for myth
presents a meaningful expression of the world, different from, and
not always commensurate with, the kind of understanding sought by
philosophers. The idea that philosophy has corrected the ignorance
of the past is unwarranted; furthermore philosophy continues to
exhibit elements of the mythic world from which it emerged. Hatab
offers a general analysis of myth and a specific analysis of Greek
myth. He distinguishes the different senses of truth found in
mytho-poetic and rational-scientific disclosures, and presents an
original treatment of Plato and Aristotle, challenging their
criticisms of traditional myth.
This book explores what anyone interested in ethics can draw from
Heidegger's thinking. Heidegger argues for the radical finitude of
being. But finitude is not only an ontological matter; it is also
located in ethical life. Moral matters are responses to finite
limit-conditions, and ethics itself is finite in its modes of
disclosure, appropriation, and performance. With Heidegger's help,
Lawrence Hatab argues that ethics should be understood as the
contingent engagement of basic practical questions, such as how
should human beings live? Visit our website for sample chapters
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