Despite Heidegger's identifying his own thought with 'ethics' in the
most original sense, his understanding of ethics has been criticised
both for its supposed ignorance of the role of the other human being
and for its relation to politics. This book contends that, in fact, it
is Heidegger's own notion of 'being-with' -his rethinking of
intersubjectivity- which demonstrates precisely what is wrong with his
early work and demands that the place of ethics be rethought.
Heidegger and the Place of Ethics shows how this rethinking occurs in
Heidegger's own laterwork. In particular, the crossing out of the
earlier work in the turn to the later allows us to think 'being-with'
as essential to a Heideggerian ethics and to rethink the relationship
between ethics and politics which previously issued in Heidegger's
engagement with Nazism. This rethinking of ethics and politics in
light of the originality of 'being-with' brings us before a hitherto
unnoticed proximity between Heidegger's later work and the Lacanian
political thought of Slavoj Žižek among others; it thereby opens up
the possibility of a politically progressive Heideggerianism, and many
unexpected encounters with thinkers generally considered to be
separated from Heidegger by an abyss.
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ISBN
9781847143266
Publisert
2015
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Utgiver
Bloomsbury UK
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Product language
Engelsk
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Digital bok
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