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A synthetic assessment of Heidegger's entire path of thinking as a radical attempt to thematize and rethink the fundamental notions of unity dominating the Western metaphysical tradition.

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Author:   Jussi Backman
Publisher:   State University of New York Press
Imprint:   State University of New York Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.508kg
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9781438456485

ISBN 10:   1438456484
Pages:   374
Publication Date:   02 January 2016
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Format:   Paperback
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Table of Contents

List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Abbreviations of Heidegger's Works Gesamtausgabe Other Works English Translations Introduction The Unity of Being at the End of Metaphysics Heidegger as a Postmetaphysical Thinker of Unity Being as Meaning and the History of Being: Methodological Considerations Outline of the Study 1. From the First Inception to the Other: Metaphysics and the Unity of Being The First Inception: The Unity of Being in Anaximander, Parmenides, and Heraclitus The First End of the First Inception: Plato and the One Over Many Ontotheology: Aristotle and the Analogical Unity of Being The End of Metaphysics and the Transition to the Other Inception 2. Being and Time: The Complicated Unity of Dasein On the Way to Being and Time: The Situation as a Singular Unity Ontothnetology: A New Exemplary Being Fundamental Ontology: From the Exemplary Being to Being and the Turn Back The Self as an Ecstatic Unity of Timeliness The Instant as the Ecstatic Clearing of Presence The Ecstatic-Horizonal Correlation of Dasein and World: Temporal Schematism From the Unity of the Horizonal Schemata to the Sense of Being: Complicated Presence Complicated Presence as Differential Unity: The Ontological Difference 3. The Turn and the Emergence of the Fourfold The Turn: Complicated Presence as the Reciprocity of Dasein and Being The Emergence of the Fourfold: Complicated Presence as Intimate Unity 4. Contributions to Philosophy: The Singular Simplicity of the Event Thinking in Reverse The Coordinates of the Transition The Unique Singularity of Beyng Beyng Is, Beings Are Not 5. Insight Into That Which Is: From the Uniform Presence of Technicity to the Complicated Presence of the Thing Thinking Being without Beings The Cyclic Structure of the Insight Into That Which Is The Complicated Presence of the Thing as an Interplay of the Fourfold World The Setup, the Peril, and the Turn to the Thing 6. Identity and Difference: Differential Identity as the Ground of Unity The Complicated Identity of Being and the Human Being Discharge as the Differential Unity of Being and Beings The Concord between Event and Discharge: Complicated Unity Conclusion: the Simplicity and Complexity of Presence Notes Bibliography Index

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"""...an insightful, nuanced, well-written, cogently argued, and thoroughly researched interpretive account of Heidegger's philosophical pursuit of the question of Being ... a valuable and insightful read ... that deserves to be reckoned with ... Highly recommended."" - Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews"

...an insightful, nuanced, well-written, cogently argued, and thoroughly researched interpretive account of Heidegger's philosophical pursuit of the question of Being ... a valuable and insightful read ... that deserves to be reckoned with ... Highly recommended. - Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews

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Jussi Backman is University Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Jyvaskyla, Finland.

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