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Key Concepts

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Key Concepts

Edited by Bret W. Davis

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Bret W. Davis

Theodore Kisiel

Gnter Figal

Timothy Stapleton

Charles E. Scott

Richard Polt

Thomas Sheehan

Charles Bambach

Daniel O. Dahlstrom

Jonathan Dronsfield

Daniela Vallega-Neu

Peter Warnek

Bret W. Davis

Hans Ruin

John T. Lysaker

Andrew J. Mitchell

Ben Vedder

Bret W. Davis

Charles Bambach is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Texas at Dallas. His books include Heideggers Roots: Nietzsche, National Socialism, and the Greeks (2003) and Heidegger, Dilthey, and the Crisis of Historicism (1995). He has also written variously on hermeneutics, phenomenology, ethics and the history of German philosophy. Bambachs current book project, Doing Justice to Poetry: Heidegger, Hlderlin, Celan, and the Greek Experience of dik, deals with the tragic aporia between ethics and justice in modern German philosophy, specifically Heideggers dialogue with the poetry of Friedrich Hlderlin (17701843) and Paul Celan (19201970).

Daniel O. Dahlstrom, Professor and Chair of the Department of Philosophy, Boston University, is the author of Philosophical Legacies (2008), Heideggers Concept of Truth (2001) and Das logische Vorurteil:Untersuchungen zur Wahrheitstheorie des frhen Heidegger (1994). He is the translator of Heideggers first Marburg lectures, Introduction to Phenomenological Research (2005). His recent articles on Heideggers thought include Transcendental Truth and the Truth that Prevails in Transcendental Heidegger (2007) and Feenberg on Heidegger and Marcuse in Techne (2006).

Bret W. Davis is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Loyola University Maryland. In addition to numerous journal articles and book chapters, he is the author of Heidegger and the Will: On the Way to Gelassenheit (2007), translator of Martin Heidegger, Country Path Conversations (2010), co-editor of Japanese and Continental Philosophy: Conversations with the Kyoto School (with Brian Schroeder and Jason Wirth, 2010), and co-editor of Japanese Philosophyin the World (with Fujlta Masakatsu, 2005 [in Japanese]).

Jonathan Dronsfield is Reader in Theory and Philosophy of Art at the University of Reading and sits on the Executive Committee of the Forum for European Philosophy, European Institute, London School of Economics. He is currently writing a book, Derrida and the Visual, and has published mainly on art and ethics, including most recently Between Heidegger and Deleuze There is Never any Difference, in French Interpretations of Heidegger (Raffoul & Pettigrew [eds], 2009); Philosophies of Art, in The Continuum Companion to Continental Philosophy (Mullarkey & Lord [eds], 2009); and Nowhere is Aesthetics contra Ethics: Rancire the Other Side of Lyotard in Art&Research (2008).

Gnter Figal is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Freiburg, Germany, where he holds the chair previously occupied by Martin Heidegger. His many books include The Heidegger Reader (2009), Verstehensfragen: Studien zur phnomenologisch-hermeneutischen Philosophie (2009), Zu Heidegger: Antworten und Fragen (2009), Gegenstndlichkeit (currently being translated into English) (2006), For a Philosophy of Freedom and Strife (1998), Der Sinn des Verstehens (1996), Heidegger zur Einfhrung (1992) and Martin Heidegger: Phnomenologie der Freiheit (1988).

Theodore Kisiel is Distinguished Research Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at Northern Illinois University. His books include Heideggers Way of Thought: Critical and Interpretative Essays (2002), The Genesis of Heideggers Being and Time (1993) and Phenomenology and the Natural Sciences (with Joseph Kockelmans, 1970). Editions include Becoming Heidegger: On the Trail of His Early Occasional Writings, 19101927 (with Thomas Sheehan, 2007) and Reading Heidegger from the Start:Essays in His Earliest Thought (with John van Buren, 1994). Translations include Martin Heidegger, History of the Concept of Time: Prolegomena (1985) and Werner Marx, Heidegger and the Tradition (1971).

John T. Lysaker is Professor of Philosophy at Emory University, Georgia. He is the author of Emerson and Self-Culture (2008) and You Must Change Your Life: Poetry, Philosophy, and the Birth of Sense (2002), and the co-author of Schizophrenia and the Fate of the Self (2008). Current interests include the nature of the self, the social function of art and the intersections of phenomenology, pragmatism and social theory.