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17Heidegger's topical hermeneutics: The Sophist lecturesJournal of the British Society for Phenomenology 27 (1): 53-76. 1996.
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17Being and Truth (edited book)Indiana University Press. 2010.In these lectures, delivered in 1933-1934 while he was Rector of the University of Freiburg and an active supporter of the National Socialist regime, Martin Heidegger addresses the history of metaphysics and the notion of truth from Heraclitus to Hegel. First published in German in 2001, these two lecture courses offer a sustained encounter with Heidegger's thinking during a period when he attempted to give expression to his highest ambitions for a philosophy engaged with politics and the world.…Read more
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14Review of Andrew Haas, The Irony of Heidegger (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2008 (7). 2008.
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13The Burning Cup: Or, Im Anfang war die TatInternational Journal of Žižek Studies 1 (4). 2007.Zizek is right to focus on the element of action in Heidegger's political engagement and to try to develop what I call a traumatic ontology that would supplement Heidegger's thought of the 1930s . However, I draw on Arendt's distinction between work and action to show that both Zizek and Heidegger misunderstand the nature of action. Work can be carried out by a lone, silent creator and normally requires violence; action is necessarily interpersonal and consists of speech, first and foremost. Whe…Read more
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12A Running Leap into the ThereGraduate Faculty Philosophy Journal 41 (1): 55-71. 2020.Heidegger’s 1936 notes titled “Running Notes on Being and Time” (“Laufende Anmerkungen zu Sein und Zeit”) are impatient, even irritable reactions that characterize both major and minor moments in Being and Time as “superficial” (GA82 60), “inadequate” (GA82 36), “ridiculous” (GA82 123), or “wholly off track and erroneous” (GA82 52). Among the many thoughts in the “Running Notes,” one theme emerges as paramount: what was presented in Being and Time as a phenomenology of Dasein—understood as the h…Read more
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12Review of Theodore Kisiel, Heidegger's Way of Thought: Critical and Interpretive Signposts (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2003 (2). 2003.
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12Nailing It Down: Haugeland's HeideggerGraduate Faculty Philosophy Journal 34 (2): 457-481. 2013.A survey and critique of John Haugeland's interpretations of being, Dasein, and truth.
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11The Role of Self-Knowledge in the Critique of Pure ReasonAuslegung 16 (2): 165-173. 1990.In the Critique of Pure Reason Kant attempts to solve two problems about our knowledge of the world. First, how can we know any necessary truths about the world, such as the principle that every event must have a cause? Second, how can I know that things other than I exist at all? Kant’s strategy for dealing with both these problems is to repudiate the kind of distinction that Descartes and Hume had made between self-knowledge and our knowledge of ‘outer’ things. Kant’s innovation is to dist…Read more
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9Heidegger and the NazisThe Philosophers' Magazine 14 39-40. 2001.Discussion of Heidegger's politics for a general audience.
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9Besinnung. Gesamtausgabe (review)Review of Metaphysics 54 (1): 145-146. 2000.This is the second volume to be published in Division III of Heidegger’s collected works, which is devoted to texts never before presented to the public, either in print or as lectures. The first such was volume 65, Beiträge zur Philosophie —a crucial text from 1936–8 which appeared in 1989. Besinnung dates from 1938–9, and is a sequel of sorts to the Contributions, for it is rooted in the fundamental experience described in that text: we stand at a juncture between “the first beginning” of West…Read more
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8EreignisIn Hubert L. Dreyfus & Mark A. Wrathall (eds.), A Companion to Heidegger, Blackwell. 2005.This chapter contains sections titled: 1919: My Own Event 1936–8: The Happening of Owndom 1962: The Giving of the Own The Promise of Ereignis Textual differences Appropriating Ereignis.
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4Stanley Rosen, The Question of Being: A Reversal of Heidegger Reviewed byPhilosophy in Review 14 (4): 286-288. 1994.
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Heidegger in the 1930s: Who are we?In Francois Raffoul & Eric S. Nelson (eds.), The Bloomsbury Companion to Heidegger, Bloomsbury Academic. pp. 39. 2013.
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Un-wesen : tarrying with the negative in Heidegger's black notebooksIn Gegory Fried (ed.), Confronting Heidegger: A Critical Dialogue on Politics and Philosophy, Rowman & Littlefield International. 2019.In the Black Notebooks, Heidegger portrays actual National Socialism as an Un-wesen or "distorted essence" that must be "affirmed" because it will bring about the collapse of modernity.
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Stanley Rosen, The Question of Being: A Reversal of Heidegger (review)Philosophy in Review 14 286-288. 1994.
Richard Polt
Xavier University (Cincinnati)
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Xavier University (Cincinnati)Professor
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