Rethinking Facticity

François Raffoul is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Louisiana State University. His many books include Heidegger and Practical Philosophy (coedited with David Pettigrew), also published by SUNY Press. Eric Sean Nelson is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Massachusetts at Lowell and coeditor (with Antje Kapust and Kent Still) of Addressing Levinas.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction Part I. Phenomenology and Facticity 1. From Phenomenological Immortality to NatalityAnthony J. Steinbock 2. On the Genesis of Heidegger's Formally Indicative Hermeneutics of FacticityTheodore Kisiel 3. Factical Life and the Need for PhilosophyFrançois Raffoul Part II. Heidegger and the Hermeneutics of Facticity 4. The Passion of FacticityGiorgio Agamben 5. The Being-with of the Being-ThereJean-Luc Nancy 6. Heidegger and the Ethics of FacticityEric Sean Nelson 7. Intransitive Facticity? A Question to HeideggerRudi Visker Part III. Race, Embodiment, and the Unconscious 8. Can Race Be Thought in Terms of Facticity?A Reconsideration of Sartre's and Fanon's Existential Theories of RaceRobert Bernasconi 9. Merleau-Ponty on Fact and EssenceBernard Flynn 10. The Chiasm and the Remainder (How Does Touching Touch Itself?)Jacob Rogozinski 11. The Unconscious Body in the Psychoanalytic Theory of J. D. Nasio: A Lacanian PerspectiveDavid Pettigrew Part IV. Contemporary Perspectives 12. Keeping Art to its EdgeEd Casey 13. Existence Authoritarian: Compulsion, Facticity, and the Philosophy of IdentityNamita Goswami 14. Primordial Attunement, Hardening, and BearingPatricia Huntington 15. Re: Thinking FacticityGregory Schufreider Contributors InformationIndex

"Rarely have I read a collection so rich in implicit intersection and contestation, and thus so able to stimulate fresh thought." — John T. Lysaker, author of You Must Change Your Life: Poetry, Philosophy, and the Birth of Sense"This fine collection shows that Heidegger's work does open many rich paths for engaging experience. Each essay contributes to a dialogue between today's driving concerns in continental philosophy and Heidegger's thought. Furthermore, the volume shows how facticity can be given new and constructive impulses for today's philosophical work." — Alejandro A. Vallega, author of Heidegger and the Issue of Space: Thinking on Exilic GroundsContributors include Giorgio Agamben, Robert Bernasconi, Ed Casey, Bernard Flynn, Namita Goswami, Patricia Huntington, Theodore Kisiel, Jean-Luc Nancy, Eric Sean Nelson, David Pettigrew, François Raffoul, Jacob Rogozinski, Gregory Schufreider, Anthony J. Steinbock, and Rudi Visker.