Heidegger on being self-concealing /
"Heidegger on Being Self-Concealing is the first dedicated study to systematically address the question of what phenomenon Heidegger is talking about when he says that being conceals itself. It proceeds by analysing texts across Heidegger's philosophical career and sorting the various phen...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford ; New York, NY :
Oxford University Press,
2022.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | "Heidegger on Being Self-Concealing is the first dedicated study to systematically address the question of what phenomenon Heidegger is talking about when he says that being conceals itself. It proceeds by analysing texts across Heidegger's philosophical career and sorting the various phenomena of concealing and concealment discussed in them into a highly-structured taxonomy. The taxonomical structure makes it easy to determine what is and is not a self-concealing and what is and is not a self-concealing of being. Along the way, various other phenomena of concealing and concealment are identified, including speaking falsely, talking idly, secrets, mysteries, seeming, and inauthentic discovering. The self-concealing of being--or, as Heraclitus puts it, phusis's (being's) love of kruptesthai (self-hiding)--is distinguished from lēthē (forgottenness), the nothing revealed in angst, earth, excess, the backgrounding of the world, un-truth, and other closely related phenomena. Being is shown to be self-concealing in that it appears to us lacking the sorts of contrast cases that render entities determinate and intelligible for us--namely, contrasts with its ground and what it is other and rather than. This novel interpretation of the self-concealing of being explains why the secondary literature to date has discussed the phenomenon in the vague and metaphorical terms that it has, as well as why Heidegger tends to collapse being's self-concealing into the phenomenon of lēthē. The interpretation is both a clarification of and corrective to Heidegger's notoriously difficult and sometimes misleading discussions of being as self-concealing"--Publisher's description. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xii, 177 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 167-173) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780192676047 0192676040 9780192676054 0192676059 9780191953163 0191953164 |