Unavailable
Unavailable
Unavailable
Ebook428 pages6 hours
Heidegger: The Question of Being and History
Rating: 2 out of 5 stars
2/5
()
Currently unavailable
Currently unavailable
About this ebook
Few philosophers held greater fascination for Jacques Derrida than Martin Heidegger, and in this book we get an extended look at Derrida’s first real encounters with him. Delivered over nine sessions in 1964 and 1965 at the École Normale Supérieure, these lectures offer a glimpse of the young Derrida first coming to terms with the German philosopher and his magnum opus, Being and Time. They provide not only crucial insight into the gestation of some of Derrida’s primary conceptual concerns—indeed, it is here that he first uses, with some hesitation, the word “deconstruction”—but an analysis of Being and Time that is of extraordinary value to readers of Heidegger or anyone interested in modern philosophy.
Derrida performs an almost surgical reading of the notoriously difficult text, marrying pedagogical clarity with patient rigor and acting as a lucid guide through the thickets of Heidegger’s prose. At this time in intellectual history, Heidegger was still somewhat unfamiliar to French readers, and Being and Time had only been partially translated into French. Here Derrida mostly uses his own translations, giving his own reading of Heidegger that directly challenges the French existential reception initiated earlier by Sartre. He focuses especially on Heidegger’s Destruktion (which Derrida would translate both into “solicitation” and “deconstruction”) of the history of ontology, and indeed of ontology as such, concentrating on passages that call for a rethinking of the place of history in the question of being, and developing a radical account of the place of metaphoricity in Heidegger’s thinking.
This is a rare window onto Derrida’s formative years, and in it we can already see the philosopher we’ve come to recognize—one characterized by a bravura of exegesis and an inventiveness of thought that are particularly and singularly his.
Derrida performs an almost surgical reading of the notoriously difficult text, marrying pedagogical clarity with patient rigor and acting as a lucid guide through the thickets of Heidegger’s prose. At this time in intellectual history, Heidegger was still somewhat unfamiliar to French readers, and Being and Time had only been partially translated into French. Here Derrida mostly uses his own translations, giving his own reading of Heidegger that directly challenges the French existential reception initiated earlier by Sartre. He focuses especially on Heidegger’s Destruktion (which Derrida would translate both into “solicitation” and “deconstruction”) of the history of ontology, and indeed of ontology as such, concentrating on passages that call for a rethinking of the place of history in the question of being, and developing a radical account of the place of metaphoricity in Heidegger’s thinking.
This is a rare window onto Derrida’s formative years, and in it we can already see the philosopher we’ve come to recognize—one characterized by a bravura of exegesis and an inventiveness of thought that are particularly and singularly his.
Unavailable
Author
Jacques Derrida
Christopher Small (1927–2011) was a senior lecturer at Ealing College of Higher Education in London until 1986 and lived in Sitges, Spain, until his death.
Read more from Jacques Derrida
Writing and Difference Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Gift of Death, Second Edition & Literature in Secret Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Heidegger, Philosophy, and Politics: The Heidelberg Conference Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Animal That Therefore I Am Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsFor Strasbourg: Conversations of Friendship and Philosophy Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsDissemination Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Politics of Friendship Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Copy, Archive, Signature: A Conversation on Photography Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThinking Out of Sight: Writings on the Arts of the Visible Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsGeschlecht III: Sex, Race, Nation, Humanity Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Christopher Small Reader Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Problem of Genesis in Husserl's Philosophy Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Music, Society, Education Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5
Related to Heidegger
Related ebooks
The Problem of Genesis in Husserl's Philosophy Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5About the Beginning of the Hermeneutics of the Self: Lectures at Dartmouth College, 1980 Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Wittgenstein and Modernism Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Four Seminars Rating: 1 out of 5 stars1/5Logic: The Question of Truth Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5Transcendence and the Concrete: Selected Writings Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsDerrida From Now On Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsTime, Memory, Institution: Merleau-Ponty's New Ontology of Self Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsIntimations of Mortality: Time, Truth, and Finitude in Heidegger's Thinking of Being Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsClass Acts: Derrida on the Public Stage Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsMerleau-Ponty's Poetic of the World: Philosophy and Literature Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsQuestions of Phenomenology: Language, Alterity, Temporality, Finitude Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsConcept and Form, Volume 1: Selections from the Cahiers pour l'Analyse Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsContributions to Philosophy: (Of the Event) Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Ponderings II–VI: Black Notebooks 1931–1938 Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The History of Beyng Rating: 1 out of 5 stars1/5Kant and the Problem of Metaphysics, Fifth Edition, Enlarged Rating: 1 out of 5 stars1/5Geschlecht III: Sex, Race, Nation, Humanity Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsHistory of the Concept of Time: Prolegomena Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Event Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5On Descartes’ Passive Thought: The Myth of Cartesian Dualism Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Phenomenological Interpretations of Aristotle: Initiation into Phenomenological Research Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Thinking Out of Sight: Writings on the Arts of the Visible Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsBremen and Freiburg Lectures: Insight Into That Which Is and Basic Principles of Thinking Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Ontology—The Hermeneutics of Facticity Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Phenomenological Interpretation of Kant's Critique of Pure Reason Rating: 1 out of 5 stars1/5"What Is an Apparatus?" and Other Essays Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Ponderings VII–XI: Black Notebooks 1938–1939 Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Hölderlin's Hymn "Remembrance" Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsHegel, Heidegger, and the Ground of History Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5
Philosophy For You
Bhagavad Gita (in English): The Authentic English Translation for Accurate and Unbiased Understanding Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5A Course in Miracles: Text, Workbook for Students, Manual for Teachers Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Egyptian Book of the Dead: The Complete Papyrus of Ani Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Buddha's Guide to Gratitude: The Life-changing Power of Everyday Mindfulness Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Little Book of Stoicism: Timeless Wisdom to Gain Resilience, Confidence, and Calmness Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Daily Stoic: A Daily Journal On Meditation, Stoicism, Wisdom and Philosophy to Improve Your Life Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Inward Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Be Here Now Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Experiencing God (2021 Edition): Knowing and Doing the Will of God Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Lessons of History Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Sun Tzu's The Art of War: Bilingual Edition Complete Chinese and English Text Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5How to Be Perfect: The Correct Answer to Every Moral Question Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Art of Loving Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Mindfulness in Plain English: 20th Anniversary Edition Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Republic by Plato Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Bhagavad Gita Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Art of Living: Peace and Freedom in the Here and Now Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Four Loves Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Art of War Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Lying Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Tao Te Ching: Six Translations Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Denial of Death Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Courage to Be Happy: Discover the Power of Positive Psychology and Choose Happiness Every Day Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Tao Te Ching: A New English Version Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Plato and a Platypus Walk Into a Bar...: Understanding Philosophy Through Jokes Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5
Reviews for Heidegger
Rating: 2 out of 5 stars
2/5
1 rating1 review
- Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5This book is a bound translation of loose lecture notes that Derrida made for himself. They stand quite poorly as an independent work, since there's no specific background asked of the reader nor any specific problems or questions the seminar is trying to work through. Although it's clear what theses Derrida thinks are important (e.g., that the being of beings is not itself a being, that in some contexts we need to reconcile ourselves to silence), it is unclear why Derrida wants to emphasize these. The focus of his seminar seems to be reading through Heidegger's “Being and Time”, but the exposition was abstruse and therefore tedious for me.
1 person found this helpful