Heidegger has often been reproached for his alleged neglect of practical issues, specifically his ‘inability’ to propose or articulate an ethics or politics. This book investigates the extent to which Heidegger’s thought can be read as a crucial resource for practical philosophy and the articulation of an ethos for our time. Leading scholars from around the world offer a sustained and intensive focus on Heidegger’s thought of praxis, working through such motifs as freedom, the possibility of ethics, the political, responsibility, community, nihilism, technology and the contemporary ethos, among others. Ultimately, this volume reveals the practical senses of ontology, and the ontological senses of praxis by exhibiting the practicality of Being itself.
Table of Content
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Introduction
Part I. Heidegger and Practical Philosophy
1. Free Thinking
John Sallis
2. The Interpretation of Aristotle’s Notion of Aretê in Heidegger’s First Courses
Jacques Taminiaux
3. Freedom, Finitude, and the Practical Self: The Other Side of Heidegger’s Appropiation of Kant
Frank Schalow
4. Hier ist kein warum: Heidegger and Kant’s Practical Philosophy
Jacob Rogozinski
Part II. Heidegger and Ethics
5. Heidegger’s ‘Originary Ethics’
Jean-Luc Nancy
6. The Call of Conscience: The Most Intimate Alterity
Françoise Dastur
7. The ‘Play of Transcendence’ and the Question of Ethics
Jean Greisch
8. ‘Homo prudens’
Miguel de Beistegui
Part III. The Question of the Political
9. In the Middle of Heidegger’s Three Concepts of the Political
Theodore Kisiel
10. The Baby and the Bath Water: On Heidegger and Political Life
Dennis J. Schmidt
11. Heidegger’s Practical Politics: Of Time and the River
Charles E. Scott
12. Heidegger and Arendt: The Birth of Political Action and Speech
Peg Birmingham
Part IV. Responsibility, Being-With, and Community
13. Heidegger and the Origins of Responsibility
François Raffoul
14. Reading Heidegger Responsibly: Glimpses of Being in Dasein’s Development
David Wood
15. The Communit y of Those Who Are Going to Die
Walter Brogan
16. Heidegger and the Question of Empathy
Lawrence J. Hatab
Part V. Heidegger and the Contemporary Ethos
17. Nihilism and Its Discontents
Thomas Sheehan
18. Is There an Ethics for the ‘Atomic Age’?
Pierre Jacerme
19. Praxis and Gelassenheit: The ‘Practice’ of the Limit
Andrew Mitchell
20. Psychoanalytic Praxis and the Truth of Pain
William J. Richardson
Contributors
Index
About the author
François Raffoul is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Louisiana State University and the author of
Heidegger and the Subject.
David Pettigrew is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Southern Connecticut State University. Together they have translated Jean-Luc Nancy’s and Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe’s
The Title of the Letter: A Reading of Lacan and Juan-David Nasio’s
Five Lessons on the Psychoanalytic Theory of Jacques Lacan, both published by SUNY Press, and Françoise Dastur’s
Heidegger and the Question of Time. They have also coedited
Disseminating Lacan, also published by SUNY Press.
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