A Companion toHeidegger

Edited by

Hubert L. Dreyfus

and

Mark A. Wrathall

A Companion to Heidegger

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A Companion toHeidegger

Edited by

Hubert L. Dreyfus

and

Mark A. Wrathall

2005 by Blackwell Publishing Ltd

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Contents

v

Notes on Contributors viii

Acknowledgments xii

References xiii

1 Martin Heidegger: An Introduction to His Thought, Work, and Life 1HUBERT DREYFUS AND MARK WRATHALL

Part I EARLY HEIDEGGER: THEMES AND INFLUENCES 17

2 The Earliest Heidegger: A New Field of Research 19JOHN VAN BUREN

3 Heidegger and National Socialism 32IAIN THOMSON

4 Heidegger and Husserl: The Matter and Method of Philosophy 49STEVEN GALT CROWELL

5 Heidegger and German Idealism 65DANIEL O. DAHLSTROM

6 Early Heideggers Appropriation of Kant 80BATRICE HAN-PILE

7 Heideggers Nietzsche 102HANS SLUGA

8 Heidegger and the Greeks 121CAROL J. WHITE

9 Logic 141STEPHAN KUFER

10 Phenomenology 156EDGAR C. BOEDEKER JR

11 Heideggers Philosophy of Science 173JOSEPH ROUSE

Part II BEING AND TIME 191

12 Dasein 193THOMAS SHEEHAN

13 Heideggers Categories in Being and Time 214ROBERT BRANDOM

14 Early Heidegger on Sociality 233THEODORE R. SCHATZKI

15 Realism and Truth 248DAVID R. CERBONE

16 Hermeneutics 265CRISTINA LAFONT

17 Authenticity 285TAYLOR CARMAN

18 Human Mortality: Heidegger on How to Portray the Impossible Possibility of Dasein 297STEPHEN MULHALL

19 Temporality 311WILLIAM BLATTNER

20 Dasein and Its Time 325PIOTR HOFFMAN

Part III HEIDEGGERS LATER THOUGHT 335

21 Unconcealment 337MARK A. WRATHALL

22 Contributions to Philosophy 358HANS RUIN

23 Ereignis 375RICHARD POLT

24 The History of Being 392CHARLES GUIGNON

25 Heideggers Ontology of Art 407HUBERT L. DREYFUS

26 Technology 420ALBERT BORGMANN

CONTENTS

vi

27 Heidegger on Language 433CHARLES TAYLOR

28 The Thinging of the Thing: The Ethic of Conditionality in Heideggers Later Work 456JAMES C. EDWARDS

29 The Truth of Being and the History of Philosophy 468MARK B. OKRENT

30 Derrida and Heidegger: Iterability and Ereignis 484CHARLES SPINOSA

31 Heidegger, Contingency, and Pragmatism 511RICHARD RORTY

Index 533

CONTENTS

vii

Notes on Contributors

viii

William Blattner is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Georgetown University andthe author of Heideggers Temporal Idealism (1999).

Edgar C. Boedeker Jr received his PhD from Northwestern University. During hisgraduate studies, he spent three semesters studying Heidegger at the University ofFreiburg, Germany, with a fellowship from the German Academic Exchange Service(DAAD). He also conducted postdoctoral research at the Edmund-Husserl-Achiv inLeuven, Belgium. He is currently an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the Universityof Northern Iowa, where he teaches phenomenology, philosophy of language, historyof philosophy, and logic. His publications include Individual and community in earlyHeidegger: situating das Man, the Man-self, and self-ownership in Daseins ontologicalstructure (Inquiry, 44, 2001) and A road more or less taken (Inquiry, forthcoming).He is currently working on a book on Wittgensteins Tractatus.

Albert Borgmann has taught philosophy at the University of Montana, Missoulasince 1970. His special area is the philosophy of society and culture, with particularemphasis on technology. Among his publications are Technology and the Character ofContemporary Life (1984), Crossing the Postmodern Divide (1992), Holding on to Reality:The Nature of Information at the Turn of the Millennium (1999), and Power Failure:Christianity in the Culture of Technology (2003).

Robert Brandom is Distinguished Service Professor of Philosophy at the University ofPittsburgh, a fellow of the Center for the Philosophy of Science, and a Fellow of theAmerican Academy of Arts and Sciences. His interests center on the philosophy of lan-guage, the philosophy of mind, and the philosophy of logic. He has published more than50 articles on these and related areas.

Taylor Carman is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Barnard College, ColumbiaUniversity. He is the author of Heideggers Analytic: Interpretation, Discourse andAuthenticity in Being and Time (2003) and co-editor of The Cambridge Companion toMerleau-Ponty (2005), and has written articles on various topics in phenomenology. Heis currently writing a book on Merleau-Ponty.

David R. Cerbone is Associate Professor of Philosophy at West Virginia University. Hehas published articles on Heidegger, Wittgenstein, and the continental and analytic tra-

ditions more generally. His work has appeared in such journals as Inquiry, PhilosophicalTopics, International Journal of Philosophical Studies, and The New Yearbook forPhenomenology and Phenomenological Philosophy, and in such books as The NewWittge