Denis McManus - Heidegger, Authenticity and the Self: Themes From Division Two of Being and Time

HEIDEGGER, AUTHENTICITY
AND THE SELF

Though Heideggers Being and Time is often cited as one of the most important philosophical works of the last hundred years, its Division Two has received relatively little attention. This collection corrects that, examining some of the central themes of Division Two and their wide-ranging and challenging implications.

An international team of leading philosophers explore the crucial notions that articulate Heideggers concept of authenticity, including death, anxiety, conscience, guilt, resolution and temporality. In doing so, they clarify the bearing of Division Twos reflections on our understanding of intentionality, normativity, responsibility, autonomy and selfhood. These discussions raise important questions about how we may need to rethink the morals of Division One of Being and Time, the broader project to which that book was devoted, the shaping influence of figures such as Aristotle and Kierkegaard, and Heideggers relationship with his contemporaries and successors.

Essential reading for students and scholars of Heideggers thought, and anyone interested in key debates in phenomenology, ethics, metaphilosophy and philosophy of mind.

Denis McManus is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Southampton, UK. He is the author of The Enchantment of Words: Wittgensteins Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (2006), Heidegger and the Measure of Truth (2012), and editor of Wittgenstein and Scepticism (Routledge, 2004).

Contributors: William Blattner, Clare Carlisle, Taylor Carman, Steven Galt Crowell, Daniel O. Dahlstrom, Sophia Dandelet, Hubert Dreyfus, Charles Guignon, Jeffrey Haynes, Stephan Kufer, Denis McManus, Stephen Mulhall, George Pattison, Peter Poellner, Katherine Withy, Mark A. Wrathall.

HEIDEGGER,
AUTHENTICITY AND
THE SELF

Themes from Division Two
of Being and Time

Edited by
Denis McManus

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CONTENTS

DENIS MCMANUS

CHARLES GUIGNON

KATHERINE WITHY

CLARE CARLISLE

GEORGE PATTISON

JEFFREY HAYNES

STEPHAN KUFER

WILLIAM BLATTNER

TAYLOR CARMAN

DANIEL O. DAHLSTROM

DENIS MCMANUS

SOPHIA DANDELET AND HUBERT DREYFUS

MARK A. WRATHALL

STEVEN GALT CROWELL

PETER POELLNER

STEPHEN MULHALL

William Blattner is Professor of Philosophy at Georgetown University and is the author of Heideggers Being and Time: A Readers Guide (2006) and Heideggers Temporal Idealism (1999).

Clare Carlisle is Lecturer in Philosophy of Religion at Kings College London. She is author of On Habit (Routledge, 2014), Kierkegaards Fear and Trembling (2010), and Kierkegaards Philosophy of Becoming (2005).

Taylor Carman is Professor of Philosophy at Barnard College, Columbia University. In addition to his published articles on topics in phenomenology, he is the author of Heideggers Analytic (2003) and Merleau-Ponty (Routledge, 2008) and is co-editor of The Cambridge Companion to Merleau-Ponty (2004).

Steven Galt Crowell is Joseph and Joanna Nazro Mullen Professor in Humanities and Professor of Philosophy at Rice University. He is the author of Husserl, Heidegger, and the Space of Meaning: Paths Toward Transcendental Phenomenology (2001) and Normativity and Phenomenology in Husserl and Heidegger (2013).

Daniel O. Dahlstrom is Silber Professor of Philosophy at Boston University. He is the author of The Heidegger Dictionary (2013), the translator of Husserls Ideas I (2014), and the editor of Gatherings, the annual journal of the Heidegger Circle.

Sophia Dandelet is a PhD student in Philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley.

Hubert Dreyfus is Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of Being-in-the-World: A Commentary on Heideggers Being and Time (1991).

Charles Guignon is Professor Emeritus at the University of South Florida, Department of Philosophy. He is the author of On Being Authentic (Routledge, 2004) and Heidegger and the Problem of Knowledge (1983), co-editor of Existentialism: Basic Writings (1995), and editor of the Cambridge Companion to Heidegger (2006).

Jeffrey Haynes is a PhD student in Philosophy at the University of Essex. His work explores the relationship between Heideggers Being and Time and Kierkegaards pseudonymous writings.

Stephan Kufer is Professor of Philosophy at Franklin and Marshall College. His Phenomenology: An Introduction, co-authored with Anthony Chemero, is forthcoming.

Denis McManus is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Southampton. He is the author of The Enchantment of Words: Wittgensteins Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (2006) and Heidegger and the Measure of Truth (2012), and editor of Wittgenstein and Scepticism (Routledge, 2004).

Stephen Mulhall is Fellow and Tutor in Philosophy at New College, Oxford. His most recent books are The Wounded Animal: J. M. Coetzee and the Difficulty of Reality in Literature and Philosophy (2009) and The Self and its Shadows: A Book of Essays on Individuality as Negation in Philosophy and the Arts (2013).

George Pattison is Professor of Divinity at the University of Glasgow. His recent books include Heidegger and Death (2013) and Kierkegaard and the Quest for Unambiguous Life (2013). He is co-editor of The Oxford Handbook of Theology and Modern European Thought (2013).

Peter Poellner is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Warwick. He is the author of Nietzsche and Metaphysics (1995) and many papers on Nietzsche, as well as papers on phenomenology (especially on Husserl, Scheler and Sartre).

Katherine Withy is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Georgetown University. Her Heidegger on Being Uncanny is forthcoming with Harvard University Press.