Heidegger and the Essence of Man

Michael Haar is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Paris, Sorbonne.

• A Note on Three Capitals: Being, History, Earth Translator's Note Foreword by Hubert L. Dreyfus Preface Part One. The Self-Enabling of Dasein and Its Limits 1. Being-Towards-Death and the Limits to Totalizing One's Own Potentiality for Being Running Ahead and FreedomA Critique of Being-Towards-Death 2. The Call of Conscience, or the Limits of Dasein's Self-Appropriation of Its Possibilites 3. The Limits of Resoluteness and the Initially Latent, Then Explicit Primacy of Originary Temporality over Authentic Temporality Situating Authentic and Resolute Temporality Relative to the "Spontaneity" of Originary TemporalityThe Originary Future as Distinct from Its Two ModesOriginary Present, "Instant" and Inauthentic Making-PresentOriginary Past (Birth and Thrownness), Repetition and ForgettingAnxiety and Resolute Existence"Originary Anxiety" or Anxiety with Respect to Being Part Two. The Poverty of Homo Humanus, or Man Without Faculties The False Symmetry of the Double Relation Between Man and Being 4. Man's Relation to Being Relation and Connection: A Glance at Heidegger and HegelThinking as the Essence of Man, and the Question of the "Physical" in Man: The Treatment of PerceptionThe Deconstruction of the "Rational Animal" and the SubjectThe Dissolution of the Subject in Technology; Politics and SubjectivityThe Acts of ThoughtThought and LanguageThinking and Questioning 5. Being's Relation to Man The Possible, or the Relation of Shared DesireFreedom as a Property Little Shared by BeingNecessity, or the "Maintaining" of Man by BeingThe Limit of the Requisitioning of Man: The Absence of DistressThe Role of Man: "The Freedom of Sacrifice" Alone Can Overcome "the Misfortune of Reflection" 6. Historical Figures of Human Being Greek ManPlanetary ManThe Historiality and Nonhistoriality of Man Works Cited Index