Heidegger's Style : On Philosophical Anthropology and Aesthetics.
| Author/creator | Weidler, Markus |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | London : Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, 2019. |
| Description | 1 online resource (289 pages) |
| Supplemental Content | ProQuest Ebook Central |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Intro; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Works by Heidegger; Works by Other Authors; Introduction: The Decisive Decade from 1936 to 1946; Part One: Back to the 1780s; Chapter 1: Philosophical Anthropology: Herder's Pantheism as a Subtext for Heidegger's First Schelling Lecture; Situating Heidegger's first Schelling commentary; Kant, Herder, and pantheism; God as ground and God as existing; "Romantic philosophy of nature" and its detractors; Heuristic self-examination: Why start with Schelling rather than Hegel? |
| Contents | Chapter 2: Revelation: Heidegger's Second Schelling Lecture vis-à-vis Scheler and SimmelSchelling's living God; Scheler's religious phenomenology; Scheler and Heidegger contra Simmel; Simmel on life's immanent transcendence; Heidegger's second Schelling commentary as a philosophical teaser; Chapter 3: "The Origin of the Work of Art": A Critique of Schiller Incognito and the Beginning of Artisan Thinking; Strife and play in the Origin essay; From preprophetic discourse to artisan thinking; Part Two: Battleground Nietzsche |
| Contents | Chapter 4: Heidegger's Nietzsche Volumes: Nihilism, Physiological Aesthetics, and Volitional Metaphysics why Nietzschean nihilism is not "godless"; Physiological aesthetics and the meaning of "classical"; Volitional metaphysics: The will to perception; Chapter 5: Hegel and Nietzsche in Holzwege: Religious Skepticism, Witnessing, and "Subjectity"; Heidegger's different Hegels; Religious skepticism: Resisting natural consciousness; Witnessing and unconditional "subjectity"; A "torn sock"?; Nietzsche and life's perceptual appetite; Part Three: Poetics at the "Zero Hour." |
| Contents | Chapter 6: "Why Poets?": Cultural Rebirth and the Poetic Inception of Piety culture critique and the monist movement; Examining Rilke's angel; "Bodiless being" and representational thinking; Risking language; Chapter 7: The Letter on Humanism: Modulations of the German Poet in a Demonic Text; A cross section of four discourses; Dialectical twists in a demonic text; Communicative space and linguistic destiny; Three modulations of the German poet; Trust in "vital anecdotes"; CODA: Being and Time as an "Old-Fashioned" Book?; Chapter 8: Freedom for Death and Prussian Resolve |
| Abstract | "Addressing Heidegger's continuing centrality to continental thought, Markus Weidler argues that Heidegger's prickly charm is best explained in terms of his great ingenuity, crafting a novel genre of writing which promises to harness the revelatory power of artworks for the purpose of philosophical inquiry. In doing so, Heidegger challenges the reader with a provocative form of artisan thinking, which for Weidler is central to understanding the significance of Heidegger's work overall. In Vorträge und Aufsätze (Public Lectures and Essays) Heidegger declares: 'once it has become anthropology, philosophy perishes from metaphysics.' Remarks critical of 'philosophical anthropology' are scattered throughout his writings, but so far commentators have not connected these tantalizing statements in any systematic way. This book deals with his hostility by addressing what we are to make of Heidegger's frequent but elusive dismissals of philosophical anthropology as a field of study. This examination of Heidegger's complex relation to philosophical anthropology traces how pioneering thinkers like Schelling and Schiller paved the way not only for Heidegger but also for some of his potential competitors, most notably Max Scheler and Georg Simmel. Weidler argues that confronting the puzzle over Heidegger's peculiar relation to philosophical anthropology is also one of the keys to explaining his popularity as a philosopher, which has endured despite revelations of his various personal and political failings."--Bloomsbury Publishing. |
| Source of description | Print version record. |
| Issued in other form | Print version: Weidler, Markus. Heidegger's Style : On Philosophical Anthropology and Aesthetics. London : Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, ©2019 9781350083394 |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| Genre/form | Criticism, interpretation, etc. |
| ISBN | 9781350083400 |
| ISBN | 1350083402 |
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