Demythologizing Heidegger

Assesses Heidegger's achievement as a thinker while locating the source of his alleged ethical insensitivity and political blindness.--Jkt.

Main Author: Caputo, John D.
Other Authors: EBSCOhost.
Format: eBook
Language: English
Published: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [1993]
Physical Description: 1 online resource (xiii, 234 pages).
Series: Indiana series in the philosophy of religion.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Demythologizing Heidegger
  • 1. Aletheia and the Myth of Being
  • 2. Heidegger's Kampf: The Difficulty of Life and the Hermeneutics of Facticity
  • 3. Sorge and Kardia: The Hermeneutics of Facticity and the Categories of the Heart
  • 4. Heidegger's Responsibility: The Myth of Being's Call
  • 5. Heidegger's Revolution: The Politics of the Myth of Being
  • 6. Heidegger's Essentialism: The Logic of the Mythologic of Being
  • 7. Heidegger's Scandal: Thinking and the Essence of the Victim
  • 8. Heidegger's Poets
  • 9. Heidegger's Gods: From Demythologizing to Remythologizing
  • 10. Hyperbolic Justice: Mythologizing Differently with Derrida and Levinas
  • 11. Conclusion: Heidegger and the Jewgreeks.