This important new book offers an introduction to Heidegger’s phenomenology of perception, interpreting and explaining five key words, ‘Sein’, ‘Dasein’, ‘Ereignis’, ‘Lichtung’, and ‘Geschick’. David Kleinberg-Levin argues that, besides preparing the ground for a major critique of metaphysics and the Western world, Heidegger’s phenomenology of perception lays the groundwork for understanding perception—in particular, seeing and hearing, as capacities the historical character of which is capable of overcoming and significantly ameliorating the most menacing, most devastating features of the Western world that Heidegger subjected to critique. He proposes that the development of these capacities is not only a question of learning certain skills, but also a question of learning new character and that Heidegger’s critique of the Western world suggests ways in which we might learn and develop new, more sensitive, poetic and mindful ways of relating to the perceived world.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2019-10-21
Mått154 x 217 x 25 mm
Vikt513 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieNew Heidegger Research
Antal sidor340
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN9781786612120

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David Kleinberg-Levin is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at Northwestern University. He is the author of ten books, most recently Beckett’s Words: The Promise of Happiness in a Time of Mourning (Bloomsbury, 2015), Redeeming Words: Language and the Promise of Happiness in the Stories of Döblin and Sebald (SUNY Press, 2013) and Redeeming Words and the Promise of Happiness: A Critical Theory Approach to Wallace Stevens and Vladimir Nabokov (Lexington Books, 2012).

Bibliographical AbbreviationsAcknowledgementsEpigramsPrefaceIntroductionPart I. Another Humanism?Part II. Chapter 1. Sein: What Is Being?Part II. Chapter 2. Dasein: From Menschsein to Da-seinPart II. Chapter 3. Ereignis: Da-sein in Appropriation, Gentlest of All LawsPart II. Chapter IV. Lichtung: Living in the Clearing of WorldsPart II. Chapter V. Geschick: Toward Another Inception? Part III. After the History of Being: Prelude and Promise Index

The first volume (of two) of Heidegger's Phenomenology of Perception, this is an incredibly rich and clear introduction to Martin Heidegger's phenomenological approach to inquiry more generally. Even though the title specifies perception, Kleinberg-Levin (emer., Northwestern Univ.) notes that particular issues having to do with perception will be taken up in his second volume, and that one must understand Heidegger broadly before one approaches his account of perception. Therefore, this introduction will be of great use to first-time readers of Heidegger as well as to specialists interested in perception per se. The book consists of two unequal parts. Part 1, "Another Humanism?" is only 16 pages and introduces Heidegger's thought; part 2 comprises five chapters—"Sein," "Dasein," "Ereignis," "Lichtung," "Geschick"—each devoted to a central aspect of Heidegger's work. This introduction will set the reader up to understand the concerns of perception that Kleinberg-Levin discusses in volume 2 (forthcoming). Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty.