Complicated Presence

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

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsAbbreviations of Heidegger’s WorksGesamtausgabeOther WorksEnglish TranslationsIntroductionThe Unity of Being at the End of MetaphysicsHeidegger as a Postmetaphysical Thinker of UnityBeing as Meaning and the History of Being: Methodological ConsiderationsOutline of the Study1. From the First Inception to the Other: Metaphysics and the Unity of BeingThe First Inception: The Unity of Being in Anaximander, Parmenides, and HeraclitusThe First End of the First Inception: Plato and the One Over ManyOntotheology: Aristotle and the Analogical Unity of BeingThe End of Metaphysics and the Transition to the Other Inception2. Being and Time: The Complicated Unity of DaseinOn the Way to Being and Time: The Situation as a Singular UnityOntothnetology: A New Exemplary BeingFundamental Ontology: From the Exemplary Being to Being and the Turn BackThe Self as an Ecstatic Unity of TimelinessThe Instant as the Ecstatic Clearing of PresenceThe Ecstatic-Horizonal Correlation of Dasein and World: Temporal SchematismFrom the Unity of the Horizonal Schemata to the Sense of Being: Complicated PresenceComplicated Presence as Differential Unity: The Ontological Difference3. The Turn and the Emergence of the FourfoldThe Turn: Complicated Presence as the Reciprocity of Dasein and BeingThe Emergence of the Fourfold: Complicated Presence as Intimate Unity4. Contributions to Philosophy: The Singular Simplicity of the EventThinking in ReverseThe Coordinates of the TransitionThe Unique Singularity of BeyngBeyng Is, Beings Are Not5. Insight Into That Which Is: From the Uniform Presence of Technicity to the Complicated Presence of the ThingThinking Being without BeingsThe Cyclic Structure of the Insight Into That Which IsThe Complicated Presence of the Thing as an Interplay of the Fourfold WorldThe Setup, the Peril, and the Turn to the Thing6. Identity and Difference: Differential Identity as the Ground of UnityThe Complicated Identity of Being and the Human BeingDischarge as the Differential Unity of Being and BeingsThe Concord between Event and Discharge: Complicated UnityConclusion: the Simplicity and Complexity of PresenceNotesBibliographyIndex

"…Complicated Presence is one of the most thought-provoking recent books on Heidegger, a complicated but essential contribution." — Gatherings: The Heidegger Circle Annual"...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