Background Practices
Essays on the Understanding of Being
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 22 June 2017
- ISBN 9780198796220
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages270 pages
- Size 238x172x20 mm
- Weight 548 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
This volume presents a selection of Hubert Dreyfus's pioneering work in bringing phenomenology and existentialism to bear on the philosophical and scientific study of the mind. He explores the 'background practices' that shape and embody our most basic understanding of ourselves and the things and situations we encounter in our world.
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This volume presents a selection of Hubert Dreyfus's pioneering work in bringing phenomenology and existentialism to bear on the philosophical and scientific study of the mind. Each of the thirteen essays interprets, develops, and extends the insights of his predecessors working in the European philosophical tradition. One of Dreyfus' central contributions to reading the historical canon of philosophy comes from his recognition that great philosophers help us to understand the "background practices" of a culture - the practices that shape and embody our most basic understanding of ourselves and the things and situations we encounter in our world. Background practices are all too often overlooked completely, or else their importance is misunderstood. Each chapter in this volume shows in one way or another how a broad range of philosophical topics can only be properly understood when we recognize how they are grounded in the background practices that shape our lives and give meaning to our activities, our tasks, our normative commitments, our aims and our goals.
This book provides, for those unfamiliar with Dreyfus' thought, a useful introduction to his core views regarding the role and nature of background practices, and at the same time offers a handy collection of some of his more important essays for those who are already familiar with his work. It is highly recommended.
Table of Contents:
Introduction: Background Practices and Understandings of Being
Part I. Authenticity and Everydayness
Interpreting Heidegger on Das Man (1995)
Could anything be more intelligible than everyday intelligibility? Reinterpreting Division I of Being and Time in the light of Division II (2000)
Forward to Time and Death (2005)
Part II. Hermeneutic Realism
Defending the Difference: The Geistes/Naturwissenschaften Distinction Revisited (1991)
Heidegger's Hermeneutic Realism (1991)
How Heidegger defends the possibility of a correspondence theory of truth with respect to the entities of natural science (2001)
Part III. Historical Worlds
On the Ordering of Things: Being and Power in Heidegger and Foucault (1989)
Heidegger's Ontology of Art (2005)
Between Techné and Technology: The Ambiguous Place of Equipment in Being and Time (1984)
Part IV. Nihilism and the Technological Age
Heidegger on the Connection between Nihilism, Technology, Art and Politics (1992)
Highway Bridges and Feasts: Heidegger and Borgmann on How to Affirm Technology (1997)
Nihilism on the Information Highway: Anonymity versus Commitment in the Present Age (2004)
Christianity without onto-theology: Kierkegaard's account of the self's movement from despair to bliss (2003)
