Paths in Heidegger's Later Thought

Description

If one takes Heidegger at his word then his philosophy is about pursuing different "paths" of thought rather than defining a single set of truths. This volume gathers the work of an international group of scholars to present a range of ways in which Heidegger can be read and a diversity of styles in which his thought can be continued. Despite their many approaches to Heidegger, their hermeneutic orientation brings these scholars together. The essays span themes from the ontic to the ontological, from the specific to the speculative. While the volume does not aim to present a comprehensive interpretation of Heidegger's later thought, it covers much of the terrain of his later thinking and presents new directions for how Heidegger should and should not be read today. Scholars of Heidegger's later thought will find rich and original readings that expand considerations of Heidegger's entire oeuvre.

Contents

Introduction

I. Language, lógos and Rhythm

1. Jeff Malpas / "The House of Being": Poetry, Language, Place

2. Markus Wild / Heidegger and Trakl: Language speaks in the Poet's Poem

3. Diego D'Angelo / Toward a Hermeneutic Interpretation of Greeting and Destiny in Heidegger's Thinking

4. Tristan Moyle / Later Heidegger's Naturalism

II. Heidegger's phýsis

5. Thomas Buchheim / Why is Heidegger interested in Physis?

6. Guang Yang / Being as Physis: The Belonging Together of Motion and Rest in the Greek Exprience of Physis

7. Claudia Baracchi / The End of Philosophy and the Experience of Unending Physis

8. Damir Barbarić / Thinking at the First Beginning: Heidegger's Interpretation of the early Greek Physis

III. Phenomenology, the Thing and the Fourfold

9. Günter Figal / Tautophasis: Heidegger and Parmenides

10. Jussi Backman / Radical Contextuality in Heidegger's Postmetaphysics: The Singularity of Being and the Fourfold

11. Nikola Mirkovic / The Phenomenon of Shining

12. Andrew J. Mitchell / A Brief History of Things: Heidegger and the Tradition

IV. Ground, Non-ground and Abyss

13. Hans Ruin / Heidegger, Leibniz and the Abyss of Reason

14. Sylvaine Gourdain / Ground, Abyss, and Primordial Ground: Heidegger in the wake of Schelling

15. Tobias Keiling / Erklüftung: Heidegger's Thinking of Projection in Contributions to Philosophy

Index

Sujets

• Philosophie
• Épistémologie
• Philosophie de l'esprit
• Movements
• PHILOSOPHY
• Philosophie et théologie
• Leibniz
• Jeff Malpas
• Physis
• Phenomenology
• Hermeneutics
• Parmenides
• Language
• Gottfried Leibniz
• Langage
• Yang Guang
• Georg Trakl
• Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
• Martin Heidegger

Informations

• Publié par: Indiana University Press
• Date de parution: 10 mars 2020
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9780253047229
• Langue: English

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PATHS IN HEIDEGGER S LATER THOUGHT
STUDIES IN CONTINENTAL THOUGHT
John Sallis, editor
Consulting Editors
Robert Bernasconi
John D. Caputo
David Carr
Edward S. Casey
David Farrell Krell
Lenore Langsdorf
James Risser
Dennis J. Schmidt
Calvin O. Schrag
Charles E. Scott
Daniela Vallega-Neu
David Wood
PATHS IN HEIDEGGER S LATER THOUGHT
Edited by G nter Figal, Diego D Angelo, Tobias Keiling, and Guang Yang
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Contents
Introduction

I Language, Logos , and Rhythm
1 Jeff Malpas / The House of Being : Poetry, Language, Place
2 Markus Wild / Heidegger and Trakl: Language Speaks in the Poet s Poem
3 Diego D Angelo / Toward a Hermeneutic Interpretation of Greeting and Destiny in Heidegger s Thinking
4 Tristan Moyle / Later Heidegger s Naturalism
II Heidegger s Physis
5 Thomas Buchheim / Why Is Heidegger Interested in Physis ?
6 Guang Yang / Being as Physis : The Belonging Together of Movement and Rest in the Greek Experience of Physis
7 Claudia Baracchi / The End of Philosophy and the Experience of Unending Physis
8 Damir Barbari / Thinking at the First Beginning: Heidegger s Interpretation of the Early Greek Physis
III Phenomenology, the Thing, and the Fourfold
9 G nter Figal / Taut phasis : Heidegger and Parmenides
10 Jussi Backman / Radical Contextuality in Heidegger s Postmetaphysics: The Singularity of Being and the Fourfold
11 Nikola Mirkovi / The Phenomenon of Shining
12 Andrew J. Mitchell / A Brief History of Things: Heidegger and the Tradition
IV Ground, Non-ground, and Abyss
13 Hans Ruin / Heidegger, Leibniz, and the Abyss of Reason
14 Sylvaine Gourdain / Ground, Abyss, and Primordial Ground: Heidegger in the Wake of Schelling
15 Tobias Keiling / Erkl ftung : Heidegger s Thinking of Projection in Contributions to Philosophy
Contributors
Index of Names
Index of Concepts
PATHS IN HEIDEGGER S LATER THOUGHT
Introduction
W EGE, NICHT W ERKE ( Ways, not works ). According to the report of Heidegger s personal assistant, Friedrich-Wilhelm von Herrmann, published in the first volume of the Gesamtausgabe , this is the motto Heidegger intended for his collected works. If one takes Heidegger at his word, then, his own philosophy is about pursuing different paths of thought rather than defining a single set of truths. Philosophy is a process rather than a result, a process evolving along more than one intellectual direction. How Heidegger s works have been received testifies to this idea. There is, indeed, scholarly discussion on specific questions in the interpretation of Heidegger, yet the different ways in which his philosophy is interpreted and transformed may well be more important for understanding, even in its transgression, what is genuine to Heidegger s thinking.
This proves to be the case as the publication of additional material from the Nachlass and a growing number of studies on Heidegger s thought successively engage the breadth and complexity of his oeuvre. The recent publication of the Black Notebooks makes Heidegger an all-the-more difficult case. If the Black Notebooks show how closely Heidegger s philosophy of history is intertwined with his personal and ideological prejudices, this defines, however, an additional task for Heidegger studies-namely, to understand the interaction between his philosophy and these individual prejudices. But Heidegger s philosophy of history, and the history of Being ( Seinsgeschichte ) specifically, does not absorb the entirety of his philosophical work, nor do Heidegger s commitments as a person undercut the possibility of studying his works philosophically. That Heidegger is one of the most important, and surely the most controversial of, figures of twentieth-century continental philosophy is only confirmed by the publication of the Black Notebooks.
It greatly contributes to the import of Heidegger s philosophy that it is read, translated, interpreted, and continued around the globe, interacting with local intellectual traditions and different academic cultures. As an international group of scholars educated at European universities, we intend, in gathering these essays, to present a range of ways in which Heidegger can be read and a diversity of styles in which his thought can be continued. To any one particular audience, some of these styles of thinking will appear foreign and strange. But restricting the tone and voice of thinking takes away the philosophical richness that Heidegger s thought has achieved and continues to achieve. To explore this richness, however, there is no other starting point than Heidegger s texts; it is a hermeneutical endeavor, beginning with an interpretation of his writings.
Despite the chapters diversity in approaching Heidegger, this hermeneutic orientation constitutes one of the leitmotifs in this volume: the authors contributing to it are greatly indebted to the European tradition of Heidegger studies and its hermeneutic approach to the history of philosophy. Each author attempts careful and often close readings that avoid the alternative of either blindly imitating Heidegger s style of writing or forcing his thinking into categories alien to it. Over the last decades, research in the later period of Heidegger s thought has been a prominent interest in the European (French, German, and also Italian), Continental tradition of Heidegger scholarship, while Anglo-American research on Heidegger has often focused on Being and Time and surrounding texts. This defines the specific aim of our collection: to bring to a broader, international public voices in Heidegger studies that have addressed Heidegger s later philosophy but that are not always prominently represented in the Anglo-American discourse. Rounding up the collection are also a few noted philosophers from the Anglophone tradition who, for different reasons, stand particularly close to the aforementioned hermeneutic reading of Heidegger.
Embracing the diversity of Heidegger studies in the hermeneutic tradition, we decided to concentrate on four topics, defining the arrangement of chapters in the volume: First, an inquiry into language, not so much into the human capacity to speak or to use signs but into language as a manifestation of Being itself. Second, the notion of emerging prominently in Heidegger s reception of the pre-Socratics. Third, the question of Heidegger s relation to phenomenology in his later thought, a question for which the thing ( das Ding ) and its manifestation in what Heidegger calls the fourfold ( das Geviert ) is central. Fourth, the discussion of ground and non-ground ( Grund , Ungrund ), representing a core moment in Heidegger s readings of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century authors such as Leibniz and Schelling. This is hardly an exhaustive account of the different philosophical topics Heidegger addresses, yet these fields cover much of the terrain of Heidegger s later thinking.
Setting up this collection in such a way does not only allow moving away from the question of how many Heideggers succeeded each other in the course of his writing, a question more of historical than of philosophical interest. It also has an implication for how we think Heidegger should and should not be read: Heidegger s ontological discourse, the changing ways of asking the question of Being (asking for Being, the meaning of Being, the truth of Being, or the place of Being ) pervades all of his work. Yet, rather than structuring it in its entirety, we believe it bears witness not only to chronological shifts but also, and more importantly, at least for his later writing, to thematic variations. One finds recurring arguments and descriptions that define different regions within the landscape of his thought and give one possible direction in which an engagement with the later Heidegger can be pursued. As the motto to the Gesamtausgabe indicates, Heidegger eventually came to embrace the idea that even the question of Being, rather than giving his philosophy a center, can only be pursued in an irreducible plurality of ways. We propose to consider and explore the topical variations of this questioning rather than to search for a single set of ideas defining the later Heidegger.
Nonetheless, there are some general features that, while not necessarily setting the later Heidegger apart from the early, appear in various forms in each of the four areas of Heidegger s work we identify. One fundament