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Martin Heidegger Key Concepts Key Concepts Published Theodor Adorno: Key Concepts Martin Heidegger: Key Concepts Edited by Deborah Cook Edited by Bret W. Davis Pierre Bourdieu: Key Concepts Merleau-Ponty: Key Concepts Edited by Michael Grenfell Edited by Rosalyn Diprose and Jack Reynolds Gilles Deleuze: Key Concepts Edited by Charles J. Stivale Forthcoming Alain Badiou: Key Concepts Immanuel Kant: Key Concepts Edited by A. J. Bartlett and Edited by Will Dudley and Justin Clemens Kristina Engelhard Michel Foucault: Key Concepts Jacques Ranciere: Key Concepts Edited by Dianna Taylor Edited by Jean-Philippe Deranty Jürgen Habermas: Key Concepts Wittgenstein: Key Concepts Edited by Barbara Fultner Edited by Kelly Dean Jolley Martin Heidegger Key Concepts Edited by Bret W. Davis First published in 2010 by Acumen Published 2014 by Routledge 2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4RN 711 Third Avenue, New York, NY 10017, USA Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business © Editorial matter and selection, 2010 Bret W. Davis. Individual contributions, the contributors. This book is copyright under the Berne Convention. No reproduction without permission. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers. Notices Practitioners and researchers must always rely on their own experience and knowledge in evaluating and using any information, methods, compounds, or experiments described herein. 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Phenomenology: Heidegger after Husserl and t he Greeks 33 Günter Figal 3. Dasein as b eing- in- the- world 44 Timothy Stapleton 4. Care and authenticity 57 Charles E. Scott 5. Being and time 69 Richard Polt 6. The turn 82 Thomas Sheehan 7. Heidegger, National Socialism and the German People 102 Charles Bambach v MARTIN HEIDEGGER: K EY CONCEPTS 8. Truth as ale¯theia and the clearing of b eyng 116 Daniel O. Dahlstrom 9. The work of art 128 Jonathan Dronsfield 10. Ereignis: the event of a ppropriation 140 Daniela Vallega-Neu 11. The h istory of being 155 Peter Warnek 12. Will and Gelassenheit 168 Bret W. Davis 13. Ge-stell: e nframing as the essence of technology 183 Hans Ruin 14. Language and p oetry 195 John T. Lysaker 15. The f ourfold 208 Andrew J. Mitchell 16. Ontotheology and the question of god(s) 219 Ben Vedder 17. Heidegger on Christianity and divinity: a chronological compendium 231 Bret W. Davis Chronology of Heidegger’s life 260 Bibliography 266 Index 281 vi Contributors Charles Bambach is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Texas at Dallas. His books include Heidegger’s Roots: Nietzsche, National Socialism, and the Greeks (2003) and Heidegger, Dilthey, and the Crisis of Historicism (1995). He has also written variously on hermeneutics, phenomenology, e thics and the history of German philosophy. Bambach’s current book project, Doing Justice to Poetry: Heidegger, Hölderlin, C elan, and the Greek Experience of dike¯, deals with the tragic aporia between e thics and justice in modern German philosophy, specifically Heidegger’s dialogue with the p oetry of Friedrich Hölderlin (1770–1843) and Paul C elan (1920–1970). Daniel O. Dahlstrom, Professor and Chair of the Department of Phil- osophy, Boston University, is the author of Philosophical Legacies (2008), Heidegger’s Concept of Truth (2001) and Das logische Vorurteil: Untersuchungen zur Wahrheitstheorie des frühen Heidegger (1994). He is the translator of Heidegger’s first Marburg lectures, Introduction to Phenomenological Research (2005). His recent articles on Heidegger’s thought include “Transcendental Truth and the Truth that Prevails” in Transcendental Heidegger (2007) and “Feenberg on Heidegger and Marcuse” in Techne (2006). Bret W. Davis is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Loyola University Maryland. In addition to numerous journal articles and book chapters, he is the author of Heidegger and the Will: On the Way to Gelassenheit (2007), translator of Martin Heidegger, Country Path Conversations (2010), co- editor of Japanese and Continental Philosophy: Conversa- tions with the Kyoto School (with Brian Schroeder and Jason Wirth, vii MARTIN HEIDEGGER: K EY CONCEPTS 2010), and co- editor of Japanese Philosophy in the World (with Fujita Masakatsu, 2005 [in Japanese]). Jonathan Dronsfield is Reader in Theory and Philosophy of Art at the University of Reading and sits on the Executive Committee of the Forum for European Philosophy, European Institute, London School of Economics. He is currently writing a book, Derrida and the Visual, and has published mainly on art and e thics, including most recently “Between Heidegger and Deleuze There is Never any Difference”, in French Interpretations of Heidegger (Raffoul & Pettigrew [eds], 2009); “Philosophies of Art”, in The Continuum Companion to Continental Philosophy (Mullarkey & Lord [eds], 2009); and “Nowhere is Aesthet- ics contra Ethics: Rancière the Other Side of Lyotard” in Art&Research (2008). Günter Figal is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Freiburg, Germany, where he holds the chair previously occupied by Martin Heidegger. His many books include The Heidegger Reader (2009), Verstehensfragen: Studien zur phänomenologisch-hermeneutischen Phi- losophie (2009), Zu Heidegger: Antworten und Fragen (2009), Gegen- ständlichkeit (currently being translated into English) (2006), For a Philosophy of Freedom and Strife (1998), Der Sinn des Vers tehens (1996), Heidegger zur Einführung (1992) and Martin Heidegger: Phänomenolo- gie der Freiheit (1988). Theodore Kisiel is Distinguished Research Professor Emeritus of Phil- osophy at Northern Illinois University. His books include Heidegger’s Way of Thought: Critical and Interpretative Essays (2002), The Genesis of Heidegger’s “Being and Time” (1993) and Phenomenology and the Natu- ral Sciences (with Joseph Kockelmans, 1970). Editions include Becoming Heidegger: On the Trail of His Early Occasional Writings, 1910–1927 (with Thomas Sheehan, 2007) and Reading Heidegger from the Start: Essays in His Earliest Thought (with John van Buren, 1994). Translations include Martin Heidegger, History of the Concept of Time: Prolegomena (1985) and Werner Marx, Heidegger and the Tradition (1971). John T. Lysaker is Professor of Philosophy at Emory University, Geor- gia. He is the author of Emerson and Self- Culture (2008) and You Must Change Your Life: Poetry, Philosophy, and the Birth of Sense (2002), and the co- author of Schizophrenia and the Fate of the Self (2008). Current interests include the nature of the self, the social function of art and the intersections of phenomenology, pragmatism and social theory. Andrew J. Mitchell is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Emory Uni- versity, Georgia. He is the author of Heidegger Among the Sculptors: viii CONTRIBUTORS Body, Space, and the Art of Dwelling (forthcoming) as well as essays on Heidegger, N ietzsche, D errida, James Joyce and Rainer Werner Fass- binder. He is currently revising a manuscript exploring the conception of things in Heidegger’s later period, entitled The Fourfold: Thing and World in Late Heidegger. He is co- editor (with Jason Winfree) of Com- munity and Communication: The Thought of Georges Bataille (2009), and co-t ranslator (with François Raffoul) of Heidegger’s Four Seminars (2003). Richard Polt is Professor of Philosophy at Xavier University, Ohio. He is the author of The Emergency of Being: On Heidegger’s “Contribu- tions to Philosophy” (2006) and Heidegger: An Introduction (1999) and editor of Heidegger’s “Being and Time”: Critical Essays (2006). With Gregory Fried, he has translated Heidegger’s Being and Truth (2010) and Introduction to Metaphysics (2000) and edited A Companion to Heidegger’s “Introduction to Metaphysics” (2001). Hans Ruin is Professor of Philosophy at Södertörn University College, Sweden. He is the author of Inledning till Heideggers Varat och tiden (2006), Herakleitos Fragment (1997) and Enigmatic Origins: Tracing the Theme of Historicity through Heidegger’s Works (1994). He is co-e ditor of The Past’s Presence (with M. Sá Cavalcante, 2006), Metaphysics, Fac- ticity, Interpretation: Phenomenology in the Nordic Countries (with D. Zahavi and S. Heinämaa, 2003) and Fenomenologiska Perspektiv (1997). He is co-f ounder of the Nordic Society for Phenomenology and co- editor of Nietzsche’s collected works in Swedish. He has also translated works by D errida, H usserl and Heidegger into Swedish. Charles E. Scott is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at Vanderbilt University, Tennessee. His recent books include Living With Indifference (2007), The Lives of Things (2002) and The Time of Memory (1999). He also co-e dited A Companion to Heidegger’s Contributions to Phil- osophy (2001). Thomas Sheehan is Professor of Religious Studies at Stanford Univer- sity and Professor of Philosophy Emeritus at Loyola University Chi- cago. Among his books and editions are his edition and translation of Heidegger’s Logic: The Question of Truth (2010); Becoming Heidegger: On the Trail of his Early Occasional Writings, 1910–1927 (with Theo- dore Kisiel, 2007); Edmund Husserl: Psychological and Transcendental Phenomenology and the Confrontation with Heidegger (1927–1931) (with Richard Palmer, 1997); Karl Rahner: The Philosophical Founda- tions (1987); and The First Coming: How the Kingdom of God Became Christianity (1986). ix