The emergency of being : on Heidegger's Contributions to philosophy /

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Author / Creator:Polt, Richard F. H., 1964- author.
Imprint:Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 2006.
Description:1 online resource (xi, 279 pages)
Language:English
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12315031
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ISBN:9780801469954
0801469953
0801479231
9780801479236
0801437326
9780801437328
9780801479236
Notes:First printing, Cornell Paperbacks, 2013.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-273) and index.
English.
Summary:"The esoteric Contributions to Philosophy, often considered Martin Heidegger's second main work after Being and Time, is crucial to any interpretation of his thought. In it Heidegger proposes that being takes place as "appropriation." Richard Polt's independent-minded account of the Contributions interprets appropriation as an event of emergency that demands to be thought in a "future-subjunctive" mode. Polt explores the roots of appropriation in Heidegger's earlier philosophy; Heidegger's search for a way of thinking suited to appropriation; and the implications of appropriation for time, space, human existence, and beings as a whole. In his concluding chapter, Polt reflects critically on the difficulties of the radically antirationalist and antimodern thought of the Contributions." "Polt's reading neither reduces this challenging text to familiar concepts nor refutes it, but engages it in a confrontation - an encounter that respects a way of thinking by struggling with it. He describes this most private work of Heidegger's philosophy as "a dissonant symphony that imperfectly weaves together its moments into a vast fugue, under the leitmotif of appropriation. This fugue is seeded with possibilities that are waiting for us, its listeners, to develop them. Some are dead ends - viruses that can lead only to a monolithic, monotonous misunderstanding of history. Others are embryonic insights that promise to deepen our thought, and perhaps our lives, if we find the right way to make them our own.""--Jacket.
Other form:Print version: Polt, Richard. Emergency of Being : On Heidegger's Contributions to Philosophy. Ithaca : Cornell University Press, ©1900 9780801479236