Heidegger and Happiness offers an original interpretation of Heidegger »s later thought, within the context of his philosophy as a whole, to develop a new conception of human happiness.
The book redeems the essential content of the Greek notion of eudaimonia and transcends recent debates concerning the »objectivity » or »subjectivity » of happiness. The author shows that Heidegger »s thinking of being is far from arcane and abstract, and is crucially important in understanding the deepest sources of human well-being. An etymological examination of the word »happiness » frees the word from the constraints of utilitarian ways of thinking, which suggest that »happiness » is only peripherally related to eudaimonia.
King demonstrates that a sense of fittingness is essential both to »happiness » and to eudaimonia, and shows how deep happiness, conceived as dwelling in our fitting-together with being, can serve as a »grounding attunement » for the thinking of being.
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