David Kleinberg-Levin

Heidegger's Phenomenology of Perception (eBook, ePUB)

Learning to See and Hear Hermeneutically

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

In volume I, Kleinberg-Levin interprets five key words in Heidegger's project. In this second volume, he illuminates their significance for Heidegger's phenomenology of perception and his philosophy of history. At stake is the possibility of a new experience and understanding of being. Taking us beyond the metaphysical understanding of being, Heidegger proposes to introduce a new key word Seyn (beyng). Beyng is the Da-sein-appropriating event in which a clearing occurs as an open dimension for the time-space interplay of concealment and unconcealment, an interplay within which beings are experienced in regard to the various modes and inflections of presence and absence that the grammar of temporalities articulates. Concentrating on the appropriation of seeing and hearing as capacities and capabilities bearing promising potentialities that could be developed, Kleinberg-Levin examines seeing and hearing in the context of Heidegger's critique of the history of metaphysics, wherein vision has served as paradigm for knowledge, truth, and reality. He shows that, in Heidegger's philosophy of history, seeing and hearing are given a role in the transformation of the character of humanity, redeeming their own inherent potential. Perceptual experience has undergone accelerating processes of deformation and reification, encouraging a disposition that makes it serve technological and technocratic imperatives; but we might begin to redeem the promising potential in seeing and hearing, turning their damaged and dehumanized character, and their violence, towards the creation of a new planetary existence-what Heidegger imagines through the topology of the fourfold: earth and sky, mortals and the gods who embody our ideals. In this project, we are put in question by a responsibility that summons us, in our seeing and hearing, to the response-abilities most befitting our historically shared sense of an achieved humanity.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 380
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Januar 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781786612168
• Artikelnr.: 60592468

Autorenporträt

David Kleinberg-Levin is professor emeritus of philosophy at Northwestern University. Books: The Body's Recollection of Being (1985), The Opening of Vision (1988), The Listening Self (1989), The Philosopher's Gaze (1999), Gestures of Ethical Life: Reading Hölderlin's Question of Measure After Heidegger (2005), Before the Voice of Reason: Echoes of Responsibility in Merleau-Ponty's Ecology and Levinas's Ethics (2008), Redeeming Words and the Promise of Happiness: A Critical Theory Approach to Wallace Stevens and Vladimir Nabokov(2012),Redeeming Words: Language and the Promise of Happinessin the Stories of Döblin and Sebald (2013), Beckett's Words: The Promise of Happiness in a Time of Mourning (2015), Heidegger's Phenomenology of Perception: Introduction, vol. 1 (London: Rowman & Littlefield International, 2019), Heidegger's Phenomenology of Perception: Learning to See, Learning to Hear, volume 2 (Rowman & Littlefield International, 2020).

Inhaltsangabe

Bibliographical Abbreviations
Acknowledgements
Epigrams
Preface
Introduction
Part I. Another Humanism?
Part II. Chapter 1. Sein: What Is Being?
Part II. Chapter 2. Dasein: From Menschsein to Da-sein
Part II. Chapter 3. Ereignis: Da-sein in Appropriation, Gentlest of All
Laws
Part II. Chapter IV. Lichtung: Living in the Clearing of Worlds
Part II. Chapter V. Geschick: Toward Another Inception?
Part III. After the History of Being: Prelude and Promise
Index