Heidegger and Ethics

by Joanna Hodge

Overview

Heidegger and ethics is a contentious conjunction of terms. Martin Heidegger himself rejected the notion of ethics, while his endorsement of Nazism is widely seen as unethical. This major new study examines the complex and controversial issues involved in bringing them together.

By working backwards through his work, from his 1964 claim that philosophy has been completed to Being and Time, his first major work, Joanna Hodge questions Heidegger's denial that his enquires were concerned with ethics. She discovers a form of ethics in Heidegger's thinking which elucidates his important distinction between metaphysics and philosophy. Against many contemporary views, she proposes therefore that ethics can be retrieved and questions the relation between ethics and metaphysics that Heidegger had made so pervasive.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781134863761
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	09/10/2012
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	240
File size:	390 KB

About the Author

Joanna Hodge

Table of Contents

Section 1 Preamble: On ethics and metaphysics:; Section 01-01-01 Philosophy, politics, time; Section 01-01-02 Retrieving philosophy; Section 02 2 Reason, grounds, technology:; Section 02-01-01 The question of technology; Section 02-01-02 Retrieving Being and Time; Section 03 3 Humanism and homelessness:; Section 03-01-01 Varieties of transcendence; Section 03-01-02 What is humanism?; Section 04 4 What is it to be human?; Section 04-01-01 Solitary speech: metaphysics as anthropology; Section 04-01-02 Elucidations of ambiguity; Section 04-01-03 Heidegger and Hölderlin: together on separate mountains; Section 05 5 Freedom and violence; Section 05-01-01 On nature and history; Section 05-01-02 Divisions within history; Section 05-01-03 The history of philosophy; Section 05-01-04 The figure of Oedipus; Section 06 6 Being and Time; Section 06-01-01 Disquotational metaphysics; Section 06-01-02 The analysis of Dasein; Section 06-01-03 Fundamental ontology as originary ethics; Notes; Bibliography; Index;

Editorial Reviews

'This is a courageous book which, in many ways, breaks new ground. Hodge is bold enough to reach into the hornet's nest of political recriminations and to retrieve the 'Heidegger case' for reflective inquiry.' - Political Studies

'An invaluable contribution to Heidegger scholarship.' - Womens Philosophy Review

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