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## Critically reconstructs Heidegger’s concept of event – the most fundamental concept in Heidegger’s later philosophy * Critically examines Heidegger’s concept of ‘Ereignis’ or ‘event’ and his arguments for the view that ‘being’ should be reconceptualised as ‘event’ * Proposes a new methodology for reconstructing Heidegger’s philosophy: diagenic analysis * Argues that we find __two__ important concepts of event in Heidegger’s philosophy, not merely one as most commentators have held * Shows how these concepts of event offer a framework for better understanding and responding to human alienation in the contemporary world * Argues that Heidegger’s theory of events supports a form of ontological realism, not an anti-realist ‘correlationism’ as suggested by Meillassoux and Sheehan James Bahoh proposes a new methodology for explaining Heidegger’s philosophy: diagenic analysis. This approach solves a set of interpretive problems that have stymied previous approaches to his difficult later work and led to substantial inconsistencies in the available scholarship. Using it, Bahoh reconstructs Heidegger’s concept of event in relation to his theories of history, truth, difference, ground and

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Author

Bahoh James Bahoh

Publisher

Edinburgh University Press

Published

2020

Language

EN

ISBN

9781474443685

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Philosophy, History, Humanities