The Early Heidegger's Philosophy of Life

Facticity, Being, and Language

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ID2713782
AuthorsScott M Campbell (0000-0002-6279-4489, corresponding author)
Year2012
Pages294
Publication date2012-10-01
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueThe early Heidegger's philosophy of life (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherFordham University Press (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.5422/fordham/9780823242191.001.0001
OpenAlexW2342004451
ISBN9780823242191
Open LibraryOL25214500M
LanguageEN
Citations received9

In his early lecture courses, Martin Heidegger exhibited an abiding interest in human life. He believed that human life has philosophical import while it is actually being lived; language has philosophical import while it is being spoken. In this book, Scott Campbell traces the development of Heidegger's ideas about factical life through his interest in Greek thought and its concern with Being. He contends that Heidegger's existential concerns about human life and his ontological concernsabout the meaning of Being crystallize in the notion of Dasein as the Being of factical human life. Emphasizing the positive aspects of everydayness, Campbell explores the contexts of meaning embedded within life; the intensity of average, everyday life; the temporal immediacy of life in early Christianity; the hermeneutic pursuit of life's self-alienation; factical spatiality; the temporalizing of history within life; the richness of the world; and the facticity of speaking in Plato and Aristotle. He shows how Heidegger presents a way of grasping human life as riddled with deception but also charged with meaning and open to revelation and insight

Epistemology · Philosophy of life · Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy · Philosophy · Philosophy, Ethics, and Existentialism · Life · martin Heidegger (1889-1976) · Ontology

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