The fragile "we" : ethical implications of Heidegger's Being and Time /
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| Author / Creator: | Vogel, Lawrence |
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| Imprint: | Evanston, Ill. : Northwestern University Press, 1994. |
| Description: | x, 138 p. ; 23 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Northwestern University studies in phenomenology & existential philosophy |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/1606578 |
| Summary: | Critics have charged that Heidegger's account of authenticity is morally nihilistic, that his fundamental ontology is either egocentric or chauvinistic; and many see Heidegger's turn to Nazism in 1933 as following logically from an indifference, and even hostility, to "otherness" in the premises of his early philosophy.<br> <br> <br> <br> In The Fragile "We": Ethical Implications of Heidegger's "Being and Time," Lawrence Vogel presents three interpretations of authentic existence--the existentialist, the historicist, and the cosmopolitan--each of which is a plausible version of the personal ideal depicted in Being and Time. He then draws parallels between these interpretations and three moments in the contemporary liberal-communitarian debate over the relationship of the "I" and the "We." His book contributes both to a diagnosis of what there is about Being and Time that invites moral nihilism and to a sense of how fundamental ontology might be recast so that "the other" is accorded an appropriate place in an account of human existence. |
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| Physical Description: | x, 138 p. ; 23 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 081011139X 0810111403 |