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A Conversation with Martin Heidegger Raymond Tallis A Conversation with Martin Heidegger Also by Raymond Tallis BETWEEN THE ZONES (poetry) BROCKLEHURST’S TEXTBOOK OF GERIATRIC MEDICINE AND GERONTOLOGY (co-editor with Howard Fillit and John Brocklehurst) CLINICAL NEUROLOGY OF OLD AGE (editor) ENEMIES OF HOPE: A Critique of Contemporary Pessimism EPILEPSY IN ELDERLY PEOPLE THE EXPLICIT ANIMAL: A Defence of Human Consciousness FATHERS AND SONS (poetry) INCREASING LONGEVITY: Medical, Social and Political Implications (editor) IN DEFENCE OF REALISM NEWTON’S SLEEP: Two Cultures and Two Kingdoms NOT SAUSSURE: A Critique of Post-Saussurean Literary Theory ON THE EDGE OF CERTAINTY: Philosophical Explorations PSYCHO-ELECTRONICS THE PURSUIT OF MIND(co-editor with Howard Robinson) THE RAYMOND TALLIS READER(edited by Michael Grant) THEORRHOEA AND AFTER A Conversation with Martin Heidegger Raymond Tallis Professor of Geriatric Medicine University of Manchester Consultant Physician in Health Care of the Elderly Salford © Raymond Tallis 2002 Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 2002 978-0-333-94949-8 All rights reserved.No reproduction,copy or transmission of this publication may be made without written permission. No paragraph of this publication may be reproduced,copied or transmitted save with written permission or in accordance with the provisions of the Copyright,Designs and Patents Act 1988, or under the terms of any licence permitting limited copying issued by the Copyright Licensing Agency,90 Tottenham Court Road,London W1T 4LP. Any person who does any unauthorised act in relation to this publication may be liable to criminal prosecution and civil claims for damages. The author has asserted his right to be identified as the author of this work in accordance with the Copyright,Designs and Patents Act 1988. First published 2002 by PALGRAVE Houndmills,Basingstoke,Hampshire RG21 6XS and 175 Fifth Avenue,New York,N.Y.10010 Companies and representatives throughout the world PALGRAVEis the new global academic imprint of St.Martin’s Press LLC Scholarly and Reference Division and Palgrave Publishers Ltd (formerly Macmillan Press Ltd). ISBN 978-1-349-42702-4 ISBN 978-0-230-51393-8 (eBook) DOI 10.1057/9780230513938 This book is printed on paper suitable for recycling and made from fully managed and sustained forest sources. A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Tallis,Raymond. A conversation with Martin Heidegger / Raymond Tallis. p.cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. 978- 1.Heidegger,Martin,1889–1976.I.Title. B3279.H49 T34 2001 193—dc21 2001036873 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 11 10 09 08 07 06 05 04 03 02 For Aletheia This page intentionally left blank Contents Acknowledgements ix Preface x By Way of Introduction 1 Part I In My Study: Beyond the Subject and the Object 13 A Breath of Fresh Air 36 Lichtung 36 Da-sein 39 A conversation with an empty chair 48 Magic thinking 54 Materialism’s difficulties 56 Intermezzo Wayfaring 66 Between the forest trees: concerning space, etc. 66 In the glade: truth as disclosure 76 Verklärte Nacht 88 Concerning time 95 Darkness in Todtnauberg 105 Part II Leaving You and Not Quite Leaving You 123 The search for content 123 What is the question? 138 Sunlight on My Arm 146 My ownmost place 146 I am embodied 150 Rigid staring in the sunlight 161 Existential and scientific truths 165 Stretching my arm 174 Qualia and things 177 vii viii Contents A last look at our differences 183 Thanks 186 Appendix: Some Controversies in the Interpretation ofBeing and Time in theConversation 189 Notes and References 204 Index 220 Acknowledgements I would like to express my thanks to Professor David Cooper for extending an intellectual generosity on a scale which I had thought had been killed off forever by the Research Assessment Exercise. The detailed comments he made as an anonymous reader have improved the book enormously. (I have found it necessary to add an Appendix to address some of his penetrating questions.) My thanks are also due to Filiz Peach – Jasperian and thanatologist – who read the text with great care, made perceptive comments and provided crucial reassurance that the author was not barking up too many wrong trees. I am very grate- ful to Josie Dixon and Heather Gibson at Palgrave for their enormous support and encouragement and kindness. Finally, very special thanks to Ruth Willats who as well as being a meticulous and wonderfully patient copy editor saved me from more than a few infelicities, includ- ing a dreadful pun that would have haunted me forever. All quotations in the text from Martin Heidegger’s Being and Time are reprinted by permission of The State University of New York Press and Max Niemeyer Verlag from: Being and Time: A Translation of Sein und Zeit by Martin Heidegger, translated by Joan Stambaugh, Albany: The State University of New York Press. © The State University of New York 1996. All rights reserved. ix

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