03471nam 22004815 450 991080873760332120220617231314.00-8014-6994-50-8014-6995-310.7591/9780801469954(CKB)2670000000417641(OCoLC)857067003(CaPaEBR)ebrary10737051(DE-B1597)478623(OCoLC)979630677(DE-B1597)9780801469954(MiAaPQ)EBC3138500(EXLCZ)99267000000041764120190708d2013 fg 0engu||||---|||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierThe Emergency of Being On Heidegger's "Contributions to Philosophy" /Richard PoltIthaca, NY :Cornell University Press,[2013]©20061 online resource (294 p.)1-322-52293-6 0-8014-7923-1 Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-273) and index.Front matter --Contents --Acknowledgments --Abbreviations --Introduction: Thinking the Esoteric --1. Toward Appropriation --2. The Event of Thinking the Event --3. Straits of Appropriation --4. Afterthoughts --Bibliography --Index"The heart of history, for Heidegger, is not a sequence of occurrences but the eruption of significance at critical junctures that bring us into our own by making all being, including our being, into an urgent issue. In emergency, being emerges."-from The Emergency of Being 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. Here 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 original 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."PHILOSOPHY / Individual PhilosophersbisacshPHILOSOPHY / Individual Philosophers.193Polt Richard1964-554949DE-B1597DE-B1597BOOK9910808737603321The Emergency of Being4025538UNINA