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Record Nr.

UNINA9910784744503321

Autore

Lewis Michael <1977->

Titolo

Heidegger and the place of ethics : being-with in the crossing of Heidegger's thought / Michael Lewis

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; New York, : Continuum, 2005

ISBN

1-4725-4669-5

1-281-29485-3

9786611294854

1-84714-326-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (227 p.)

Collana

Continuum studies in Continental philosophy

Disciplina

171/.2

Soggetti

Ethics, Modern - 20th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages [196]-205) and index

Nota di contenuto

Abbreviations -- Preface: Heidegger and Capitalism - Translations -- Introduction: Being-with and the Place of Ethics -- Part I: Being-with -- 1. Being-with and the Ontological Difference -- 2. Beyond Authenticity and Inauthenticity -- Part II: Crossing -- 3. Death as the Origin of Ethics -- 4. Questioning, Void -- 5. Saying, Thing -- Part III: Being-with, Ethics, Politics -- 6. The Being-with of Mortals Before the Thing -- 7. Politics -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Acknowledgments -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

Despite Heidegger's identifying his own thought with 'ethics' in the most original sense, his understanding of ethics has been criticised both for its supposed ignorance of the role of the other human being and for its relation to politics. This book contends that, in fact, it is Heidegger's own notion of 'being-with' -his rethinking of intersubjectivity- which demonstrates precisely what is wrong with his early work and demands that the place of ethics be rethought. Heidegger and the Place of Ethics shows how this rethinking occurs in Heidegger's own laterwork. In particular, the crossing out of the earlier work in the turn to the later allows us to think 'being-with' as essential to a Heideggerian ethics and to rethink the relationship between ethics and politics which previously issued in Heidegger's engagement with



Nazism. This rethinking of ethics and politics in light of the originality of 'being-with' brings us before a hitherto unnoticed proximity between Heidegger's later work and the Lacanian political thought of Slavoj Žižek among others; it thereby opens up the possibility of a politically progressive Heideggerianism, and many unexpected encounters with thinkers generally considered to be separated from Heidegger by an abyss