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Free Download Heidegger Among the Sculptors: Body, Space, and the Art of Dwelling By Andrew J. Mitchell
2010 | 123 Pages | ISBN: 0804775761 | EPUB | 8 MB
In the 1950s and 60s, Martin Heidegger turned to sculpture to rethink the relationship between bodies and space and the role of art in our lives. In his texts on the subject-a catalog contribution for an Ernst Barlach exhibition, a speech at a gallery opening for Bernhard Heiliger, a lecture on bas-relief depictions of Athena, and a collaboration with Eduardo Chillida-he formulates his later aesthetic theory, a thinking of relationality. Against a traditional view of space as an empty container for discrete bodies, these writings understand the body as already beyond itself in a world of relations and conceive of space as a material medium of relational contact. Sculpture shows us how we belong to the world, a world in the midst of a technological process of uprooting and homelessness. Heidegger suggests how we can still find room to dwell therein. Filled with illustrations of works that Heidegger encountered or considered, Heidegger Among the Sculptors makes a singular contribution to the philosophy of sculpture.

Free Download Stefano Marino, "Aesthetics, Metaphysics, Language: Essays on Heidegger and Gadamer"
English | ISBN: 144387650X | 2015 | 155 pages | PDF | 593 KB
Martin Heidegger and Hans-Georg Gadamer undoubtedly belong among the most important representatives of twentieth-century phenomenological hermeneutics, which represents, in turn, one of the major traditions within so-called continental philosophy. Respectively teacher and pupil, during their long and philosophically intense lives and careers Heidegger and Gadamer greatly contributed to the development of philosophical thought in our age, providing significant and often decisive contributions in various fields of philosophical inquiry. Their main works, Being and Time (1927) and Truth and Method (1960), respectively amount to the great classics of contemporary philosophy, both being extraordinarily influential books without which the history of twentieth- and also twenty-first century philosophy as we know it would not be conceivable. This book addresses a number of problems concerning aesthetics, metaphysics, language and philosophical anthropology, by focusing on Heideggers and Gadamers specific contributions in these fields, and by establishing fruitful and original comparisons between their views and those of other relevant thinkers of our time, such as Hannah Arendt, Richard Rorty and John McDowell. The book adopts a comparative approach that portrays the complex philosophical problems and concepts at the core of this investigation from various points of view, thus broadening the philosophical horizon, generating a more comprehensive perspective, and underlining the compatibility of different philosophical views.

Free Download Norman K. Swazo, "Heidegger’s Entscheidung: "Decision" Between "Fate" and "Destiny""
English | ISBN: 0367341328 | 2020 | 188 pages | EPUB, PDF | 3 MB + 38 MB
This book critically examines the debate on Martin Heidegger’s concept of Entscheidung ("decision") and his engagement and confrontation with Nazism in terms of his broader philosophical thought. It argues that one cannot explain Heidegger’s actions without accounting for his idea of "decision" and its connection to his understanding of individual "fate" and national (and European) "destiny." The book looks at the relation of biography to philosophy and the ethical and political implications of appropriating Heidegger’s thinking in these domains of inquiry. It highlights themes such as Heidegger’s differences with the neo-Kantians in Germany; Heidegger on Kant and practical reason; and his reading of Nietzsche and Hegel. It offers a philosophical assessment grounded in Heidegger’s own texts, with reference to historical and other philosophical commentaries on the rise of National Socialism in post-Weimar Germany and the philosophical issues associated with the interpretation of Nazi genocide and ideology.

Free Download Lambert Zuidervaart, "Adorno, Heidegger, and the Politics of Truth "
English | ISBN: 1438496419 | 2024 | 219 pages | EPUB, PDF | 579 KB + 2 MB
A critical and creative reconstruction of Adorno’s conception of truth that shows its relevance for contemporary philosophy, art, and politics.

Free Download Lambert Zuidervaart, "Adorno, Heidegger, and the Politics of Truth "
English | ISBN: 1438496419 | 2024 | 219 pages | EPUB, PDF | 579 KB + 2 MB
A critical and creative reconstruction of Adorno’s conception of truth that shows its relevance for contemporary philosophy, art, and politics.

Free Download Heidegger’s Being and Time: An Introduction by Paul Gorner
English | 2007 | ISBN: 0521540720 | 204 Pages | PDF | 1.0 MB
In Being and Time Heidegger gives an account of the distinctive features of human existence, in an attempt to answer the question of the meaning of being.

Free Download Adam J. Graves, "The Phenomenology of Revelation in Heidegger, Marion, and Ricoeur "
English | ISBN: 1793640572 | 2021 | 256 pages | EPUB | 5 MB
The Phenomenology of Revelation in Heidegger, Marion, and Ricoeur provides a critical framework for understanding the phenomenology of revelation through a series of close readings that serve as the basis for an imagined dialogue between Martin Heidegger, Jean-Luc Marion, and Paul Ricoeur. Adam J. Graves distinguishes between two dominant approaches to revelation: a "radical" approach that seeks to disclose a pre-linguistic experience of revelation through a radicalization of the phenomenological reduction, and a "hermeneutical" one that characterizes revelation as an eruption of meaning arising from our encounter with concrete symbols, narratives, and texts. According to Graves, the radical approach is often driven by a misplaced concern for maintaining philosophical rigor and for avoiding theological biases, or "contaminations." This preoccupation leads to a process of "counter-contamination" in which the concept of revelation is ultimately estranged from the phenomenon’s rich historical and linguistic content. While Ricoeur’s hermeneutic phenomenology may do a better job of accommodating the concrete content of revelation, it does so at the price of having to renouncing the kind of "presuppositionlessness" generally associated with phenomenological method. Ultimately, Graves argues that a more nuanced appreciation of the complex nature of our linguistic inheritance enables us to reconceive the relationship between revelation and philosophical thought.

Free Download The Routledge Guidebook to Heidegger’s Being and Time (The Routledge Guides to the Great Books) by Stephen Mulhall
English | January 31, 2013 | ISBN: 041566442X, 0415664446 | True PDF | 240 pages | 1.3 MB
The Routledge Guidebook to Heidegger’s Being and Time examines the work of one of the most controversial thinkers of the twentieth century. Heidegger’s writings are notoriously difficult, requiring careful reading. This book analyses his first major publication, Being and Time, which to this day remains his most influential work.

Free Download The Phenomenology of Questioning: Husserl, Heidegger and Patocka by Joel Hubick
English | December 14, 2023 | ISBN: 1350358150 | True EPUB/PDF | 272 pages | 1/7.9 MB
Bringing together Edmund Husserl, Martin Heidegger and Jan Patocka, this book provides a comprehensive examination of the central role that questioning plays in phenomenology. Joel Hubick not only offers a phenomenological analysis of the activity of asking questions, but further traces the development of this form of questioning in the early stages of the phenomenology movement.

Free Download Heidegger’s Confessions: The Remains of Saint Augustine in "Being and Time" and Beyond (Religion and Postmodernism) by Ryan Coyne
English | May 4, 2015 | ISBN: 022620930X, 022641907X | True EPUB | 312 pages | 0.9 MB
Although Martin Heidegger is nearly as notorious as Friedrich Nietzsche for embracing the death of God, the philosopher himself acknowledged that Christianity accompanied him at every stage of his career. In Heidegger’s Confessions, Ryan Coyne isolates a crucially important player in this story: Saint Augustine. Uncovering the significance of Saint Augustine in Heidegger’s philosophy, he details the complex and conflicted ways in which Heidegger paradoxically sought to define himself against the Christian tradition while at the same time making use of its resources.