Aho Heidegger's Neglect of the Body

1. Auflage 2010
ISBN: 978-1-4384-2774-4
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 192 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Reihe: SUNY series in Contemporary Continental Philosophy

Challenges conventional understandings of Heidegger’s account of the body.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Aho, Kevin A.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Moderne Philosophische Disziplinen Phänomenologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Introduction

The Body Problem
Chapter Overview

1. Heidegger’s Project

Dismantling Cartesian Metaphysics
Dasein and Everydayness
Temporality as the Meaning of Being

2. The Missing Dialogue between Heidegger and Merleau-Ponty

The Absence of the Body in Being and Time
The Body and the Problem of Spatiality
The Importance of the Zollikon Seminars
The Limits of Merleau-Ponty’s Relation to Heidegger

3. Gender and Time: On the Question of Dasein’s Neutrality

Fundamental Ontology and the Sex/Gender Divide
Gendered Dasein and Neutral Da-sein
The Gender and Neutrality of Time

4. Life, Logos, and the Poverty of Animals

Dasein’s Animal-Nature
The Question of Life in the Aristotle Lectures
Logos and the Animal Question
The Animal Lectures in Context
Prelude to a Theory of Embodiment

5. The Accelerated Body

Technological Existence
Acceleration and Boredom
Acceleration and Psychotherapy

6. Recovering Play: On Authenticity and Dwelling

Technology and Authentic Historicality
Leisure and Openness to Mystery Conclusion: Embodied Dwelling
Notes
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Kevin A. Aho is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Florida Gulf Coast University and the coauthor (with James Aho) of Body Matters: A Phenomenology of Sickness, Disease, and Illness.