Glance of the Eye

Heidegger, Aristotle, and the Ends of Theory

Inbunden, Engelska, 1999

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Argues that Heidegger's early reading of Aristotle provides him with a critical resource for addressing the problematic domination of theoretical knowledge in Western civilization.William McNeill explores the phenomenon of the Augenblick, or "glance of the eye," in Heidegger's thought, and in particular its relation to the primacy of seeing and of theoretical apprehending (theoria) both in Aristotle and in the philosophical and scientific tradition of Western thought. McNeill argues that Heidegger's early reading of Aristotle, which identifies the experience of the Augenblick at the heart of ethical and practical knowledge (phronesis), proves to be a decisive encounter for Heidegger's subsequent understanding and critique of the history of philosophy, science, and technology. It provides him with a critical resource for addressing the problematic domination of theoretical knowledge in Western civilization. Such knowledge, the author shows, always remains in a peculiar tension (itself historically determined and changing) with ethical or "protoethical" knowledge, which is bound to the finite, "ecstatic" temporality of the lived and living moment, and inevitably exposed to the presence of the sensuous.

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Utgivningsdatum1999-03-18
Mått152 x 229 x 27 mm
Vikt699 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieSUNY series in Contemporary Continental Philosophy
Antal sidor392
FörlagState University of New York Press
ISBN9780791442272

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Preface Abbreviations of Works Cited 1. Introduction: Of an Ancient Desire I. Theoria and Philosophy: Heidegger and Aristotle 2. Vision in Theory and Praxis: Heidegger's Reading of Aristotle (1924) The End of DesireThe Complication of PraxisThe Glance of the EyeAthanatizein 3. The Genesis of Theory: Being and Time (1927) The Natural Genesis of TheoryDispersions of Vision: Theory, Praxis, TechneThe Existential Genesis of TheoryThe Thematizing Projection of ThingsModification 4. Originary Praxis: The Trace of Phronesis in Being and Time Originary Praxis and AuthenticitySeeing OneselfThe Time of the AugenblickRetrospect on the 1922 Treatise on AristotleAugenblick and World 5. Theory and Praxis at the University: The Rectoral Address (1933) II. The Transformation of Theoria 6. Technovision: Modern Science and Technology The Age of the World PictureThe Contemplation of the RealGrasping ThingsMaking Progress: The Future of ScienceThe Transformation of Presence: From Science to TechnologyThe Collapse of CausalityThe End of TechnologyThe Turning of Presence at the End of Technology III. The Threshold of Representation: The Augenblick in Heidegger's Reading of Nietzsche 7. Vision and the Enigma IV. Originary Theoria 8. In the Presence of the Sensible: Vision and Ecstasis Theoria in Retrospect: Philosophy, Science, and CuriosityTheoria and Divinity: The Philosophical TurnThe Theoria of the Ancients"To Things Their Look... ": The Origin of the Work of ArtThe Look of the OtherAbsence of the BodyVision of Stillness Selected Bibliography Index of Names Index of Subjects

"What is truly remarkable in McNeill's work is the blend of impeccable scholarship and of a certain speculative audacity. The meditation on the figure of vision by reference both to the Western theoretico-philosophical heritage and to the question of temporality is a most compelling course of inquiry. With consummate skill, McNeill illuminates Heidegger's oeuvre, from his early encounter with the Greeks (Aristotle in particular), to his reading of Nietzsche, to his concern with the reduction of theorein to the horizon of technology, to 'The Origin of the Work of Art' and later writings. This is an important, long awaited work; one which situates itself in the context of the broader debates in contemporary continental philosophy concerning the issues of vision, visibility, illumination—concerning the primacy traditionally accorded to the order of the visual, the denial of the limits pertaining to it, and the disaster accompanying such privilege and such denial." — Claudia Baracchi, University of Oregon