A Conversation with Martin Heidegger

238 Pages·2002·0.719 MB·English

by  Raymond Tallis (auth.)

A Conversation with
Martin Heidegger
Raymond Tallis
A Conversation with Martin Heidegger
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A Conversation with
Martin Heidegger
Raymond Tallis
Professor of Geriatric Medicine
University of Manchester
Consultant Physician in Health Care of the Elderly
Salford
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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
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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.
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