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Heidegger on Death and Being : An Answer to the Seinsfrage by Johannes Achill Niederhauser is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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The book is the first detailed and full exegesis of the role of death in Heidegger's philosophy and provides a decisive answer to the question of being.  It is well-known that Heidegger asked the "question of being". It is equally commonplace to assume that Heidegger failed to provide a proper answer to the question. In this provocative new study Niederhauser argues that Heidegger gives a distinct response to the question of being and that the phenomenon of death is key to finding and understanding it. The book offers challenging interpretations of crucial moments of Heidegger's philosophy such as aletheia , the history of being, time, technology, the fourfold, mortality, the meaning of existence, the event, and language. Niederhauser makes the case that any reading of Heidegger that ignores death cannot fully understand those concepts. The book argues that death is central to Heidegger's "thinking path" from the early 1920s until his late post-war philosophy. The book thus attempts to show that there is a unity of the early and late Heidegger often ignored by other commentators.  Niederhauser argues that death is the fulcrum of Heidegger's ontology and the turning point of the hi

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Author

Johannes Achill Niederhauser

Publisher

Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer

Published

2021

Language

EN

ISBN

9783030513764

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Philosophy, Humanities