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This page intentionally left blank APPROPRIATING HEIDEGGER AlthoughMartinHeideggerisundeniablyoneofthemostinXuen- tialphilosophersofthetwentiethcentury,amongthephilosophers whostudyhisworkweWndconsiderabledisagreementoverwhat mightseemtobebasicissues:whyisHeideggerimportant?What did his work do? This volume is an explicit response to these diVerences, and is unique in bringing together representatives of many diVerent approaches to Heidegger’s philosophy. Topics covered include Heidegger’s place in the ‘‘history of being,’’ Heideggerandethics,Heideggerandtheology,andHeideggerand Naziconceptsofrace.Moregenerally,thecontributorsalsoaddress their respective visions of the nature of philosophy and the presuppositionswhich guide their understandingof Heidegger. james e. faulconer is Professor of Philosophy at Brigham Young University. He is co-editor (with Richard Williams) of ReconsideringPsychology:PerspectivesfromContemporaryContinentalPhilos- ophy (1990). mark a. wrathall is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Brigham Young University. He is co-editor (with JeV Malpas) of Heidegger,Authenticity,andModernityandHeidegger,Coping,andCognitive Science (forthcoming). MMMM APPROPRIATING HEIDEGGER edited by JAMES E. FAULCONER BrighamYoungUniversity MARK A. WRATHALL BrighamYoungUniversity CAMBRIDGEUNIVERSITYPRESS Cambridge, New York, Melbourne, Madrid, Cape Town, Singapore, São Paulo Cambridge University Press The Edinburgh Building, Cambridge CB28RU, UK Published in the United States of America by Cambridge University Press, New York www.cambridge.org Information on this title: www.cambridge.org/9780521781817 © James E. Faulconer and Mark A. Wrathall 2000 This publication is in copyright. Subject to statutory exception and to the provision of relevant collective licensing agreements, no reproduction of any part may take place without the written permission of Cambridge University Press. First published in print format 2000 ISBN-13 978-0-511-41426-8 eBook (EBL) ISBN-13 978-0-521-78181-7 hardback ISBN-13 978-0-521-07044-7 paperback Cambridge University Press has no responsibility for the persistence or accuracy of urls for external or third-party internet websites referred to in this publication, and does not guarantee that any content on such websites is, or will remain, accurate or appropriate. Everyconfrontationof. . .diVerentinterpretationsofawork. . .is inrealityamutualreXectionontheguidingpresuppositions:itisthe discussion of these presuppositions – a task which, strangely, is always tolerated only marginally and covered up with empty generalizations. MartinHeidegger,WhatIs CalledThinking? MMMM Contents List of contributors page ix Acknowledgments x 1 Appropriating Heidegger 1 James E. Faulconer part 1 thinking our age 2 Philosophy, thinkers, and Heidegger’s place in the history of being 9 Mark A. Wrathall 3 Night and day: Heidegger and Thoreau 30 Stanley Cavell 4 Heidegger’s alleged challenge to the Nazi concepts of race 50 Robert Bernasconi 5 Heidegger and ethics beyond the call of duty 68 Albert Borgmann part 2 heidegger in context 6 People of God, people of being: the theological presuppositions of Heidegger’s path of thought 85 John D. Caputo 7 Heidegger for beginners 101 Simon Critchley vii viii Contents 8 The critique of anthropologism in Heidegger’s thought 119 Fran¸coise Dastur part 3 reading beingandtime 9 In respectful contempt: Heidegger, appropriation, facticity 137 Rudi Visker 10 Could anything be more intelligible than everyday intelligibility? Reinterpreting division i of Being and Time in the light of division ii 155 Hubert L. Dreyfus 11 Another time 175 John Sallis 12 Intentionality, teleology, and normativity 191 Mark Okrent Index 207
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