Heidegger's Metaphysical Abyss
Between the Human and the Animal
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 4 February 2021
- ISBN 9780198865407
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages208 pages
- Size 225x150x20 mm
- Weight 390 g
- Language English 135
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Short description:
Beth Cykowski offers a fresh reading of Heidegger's discussions of animality, arguing that they point beyond received dualisms back to a more essential way of philosophising about life and the relationship to it of the human. His exploration of animality raises deep questions about the status of the human within nature.
MoreLong description:
Heidegger presented reflections on animality most extensively in his 1929-30 lecture course The Fundamental Concepts of Metaphysics. In these lectures, Heidegger poses two provocative metaphysical theses: The human, he claims, is 'world-forming'; in contrast, the animal is 'poor in world.' Contemporary secondary literature has emphatically criticised these theses on account of the objection that they forge an 'abyss of essence' between human and nonhuman organisms. The theses undermine scientific developments by breaking apart the biological continuum in order to secure the human within in its own unique category, all the while leaving the world-poor animal on the other side of the abyss. Heidegger thus reinstates an outmoded dualism that he ought, on his own terms, to renounce: human versus animal. Heidegger's Metaphysical Abyss undertakes a close examination of the lecture course in order to clarify the true meaning, scope, and significance of Heidegger's theses. Drawing on other places within Heidegger's writings where the theme of animality features, Cykowski demonstrates that Heidegger's examination of animality points beyond received dualisms back to a more essential way of philosophising about life and the human's relationship to it. Heidegger thus intended to examine and illuminate, rather than simply to repeat the orthodox metaphysical hierarchies that we have inherited, and his exploration of animality raises deep questions about the status of the human within nature that continue to be important today.
Beth Cykowski provides a novel discussion of Heidegger's views on animality.
Table of Contents:
Introduction: Heidegger and the question of the animal
The human versus the animal: A close look at Heidegger's comparative examination
The metaphysical context of Heidegger's animal analysis
The role of fundamental attunement in FCM
A journey through boredom
Life and biology: The animal world
From life to spirit: The human world
The outcome, criticisms, and legacy of Heidegger s comparative examination
Conclusion
