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PHILOSOPHICAL MYTHS OF THE FALL • • PRINCETON MONOGRAPHS IN PHILOSOPHY HarryFrankfurt,Editor • • ThePrincetonMonographsinPhilosophyseries offersshorthistoricalandsystematicstudies onawidevarietyofphilosophicaltopics JusticeIsConflictbySTUARTHAMPSHIRE LibertyWorththeNamebyGIDEONYAFFE Self-DeceptionUnmaskedbyALFREDR.MELE PublicGoods,PrivateGoodsbyRAYMONDGEUSS WelfareandRationalCarebySTEPHENDARWALL ADefenseofHumeonMiraclesbyROBERTJ.FOGELIN Kierkegaard’sConceptofDespairbyMICHAELTHEUNISSEN Physicalism,orSomethingNearEnoughbyJAEWONGKIM PhilosophicalMythsoftheFallbySTEPHENMULHALL FixingFregebyJOHNP.BURGESS PHILOSOPHICAL MYTHS OF THE FALL ) S M tephen ulhall PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS PRINCETON AND OXFORD Copyright©2005byPrincetonUniversityPress PublishedbyPrincetonUniversityPress,41WilliamStreet, Princeton,NewJersey08540 IntheUnitedKingdom:PrincetonUniversityPress,3MarketPlace, Woodstock,OxfordshireOX201SY AllRightsReserved Secondprinting,andfirstpaperbackprinting,2007 PaperbackISBN-13:978-0-691-13392-8 THELIBRARYOFCONGRESSHASCATALOGEDTHECLOTHEDITION OFTHISBOOKASFOLLOWS Mulhall,Stephen,1962– Philosophicalmythsofthefall/StephenMulhall. p. cm. —(Princetonmonographsinphilosophy) Includesbibliographicalreferencesandindex. ISBN0-691-12220-2(alk.paper) 1.Fallofman.2.Philosophicalanthropology. 3.Nietzsche,FriedrichWilhelm,1844–1900—Contributionsin philosophicalanthropology.4.Wittgenstein,Ludwig,1889–1951— Contributionsinphilosophyandanthropology.5.Heidegger,Martin, 1889–1976—Contributionsinphilosophicalanthropology. I.Title.II.Series. BD450.M7742005 128′.092′2—dc22 2004054931 BritishLibraryCataloging-in-PublicationDataisavailable ThisbookhasbeencomposedinJansonTextandCentaurdisplay Printedonacid-freepaper.∞ press.princeton.edu PrintedintheUnitedStatesofAmerica 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2 C ontents ) Acknowledgments vii Introduction 1 CHAPTER1 TheMadmanandtheMasters:Nietzsche 16 CHAPTER2 TheDyingManandtheDazedAnimal:Heidegger 46 CHAPTER3 TheChildandtheScapegoat:Wittgenstein 85 Conclusion 118 Index 125 This page intentionally left blank Acknowledgments ) IWOULDLIKETOTHANKPAULCORTOIS,andtheothermembers of the Institute of Philosophy and the Faculty of Theology at the Catholic University of Leuven, who kindly invited me to give a series of lectures there, as part of a larger project on religion in which they are collaborating with the Religious Studies department at Antwerp University, and thereby en- couragedmetotryoutearlyversionsofeachofthesechapters beforeanexceptionallyknowledgeableandaccommodatingau- dience. I would particularly like to thank Martin Stone, who not only made my week in Leuven outside the lecture hall a matterofrealsocialandintellectualpleasure,butalsoactedas respondent to one of my lectures; and thanks are also due to William Desmond and Rudi Visker, my other respondents, with whom I also managed to combine stimulating conversa- tion with good Belgian beer. Thanks, as always, go to Alison, Eleanor, and Matthew, for allowing me to spend the time needed to transform the text of my Leuven lectures into this book,andfordistractingmefromthattextwheneverIemerged frommystudy. Aversionofchapter1appearedinTijdschriftvoorFilosofie66/1 (March 2004). Portions of chapters 2 and 3 traverse ground that I crossed earlier in parts of my Inheritance and Originality (OxfordUniversityPress:Oxford,2001),aswellasinHeidegger viii ACKNOWLEDGMENTS andBeingandTime(Routledge:London,1996);butjuxtapos- ing my interpretations of Heidegger and Wittgenstein with a readingofNietzscheforthefirsttimeallowedmetoseeways ofmodifying,refining,andgoingonfromallthreethinkersin waysthatIcouldnototherwisehavemanaged. PHILOSOPHICAL MYTHS OF THE FALL • •
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