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The Early Heidegger's Philosophy of Life by Scott M Campbell

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Part of Perspectives In Continental Philosophy series

Summary

The topic of this book is the facticity of life and language in the early work of Martin Heidegger, looking at the early lecture courses (1919 to1925). Its aim is to show that Heidegger presents a meaningful view of human life as both riddled with deception and open to insight.

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The Early Heidegger's Philosophy of Life by Scott M Campbell

In his early lecture courses, Martin Heidegger exhibited an abiding interest in human life. He believed that human life has philosophical import while it is actually being lived; language has philosophical import while it is being spoken. In this book, Scott Campbell traces the development of Heidegger's ideas about factical life through his interest in Greek thought and its concern with Being. He contends that Heidegger's existential concerns about human life and his ontological concerns about the meaning of Being crystallize in the notion of Dasein as the Being of factical human life.
Emphasizing the positive aspects of everydayness, Campbell explores the contexts of meaning embedded within life; the intensity of average, everyday life; the temporal immediacy of life in early Christianity; the hermeneutic pursuit of life's self-alienation; factical spatiality; the temporalizing of history within life; the richness of the world; and the facticity of speaking in Plato and Aristotle. He shows how Heidegger presents a way of grasping human life as riddled with deception but also charged with meaning and open to revelation and insight.

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"Scott Campbell's book is an impressive piece of scholarship concerning a neglected topic, and contains insights that will prove to be of great benefit to the existing Heidegger literature" -- -Marc Lucht Alvernia University "This is a marvelous, painstaking work. Its analyses of Heidegger's lecture courses over a crucial six-year period are meticulous and insightful, and a real contribution to Heidegger scholarship." -- -Anne O'Byrne Stony Brook University
Scott M. Campbell is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Nazareth College of Rochester.
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ISBN 13 9780823242191
ISBN 10 0823242196
Title The Early Heidegger's Philosophy of Life
Author Scott M Campbell
Series Perspectives In Continental Philosophy
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Hardback
Publisher Fordham University Press
Year published 2012-10-01
Number of pages 288
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.

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