Heidegger, work, and being

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ID6556496
AuthorsTodd S Mei
Year2009
Pages177
Publication date2009-01-01
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueHeidegger, work, and being (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherContinuum (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.5040/9781472546838
OpenAlexW621708305
Open LibraryOL22981884M
ISBN9781847063724, 9781472546838
GOOGLE_BOOK_IDgxoA_jEBS38C
LanguageEN
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In a world of changing work patterns and the global displacement of working lifestyles, the nature of human identity and work is put under great strain. Modern conceptions of work have been restricted to issues of utility and necessity, where aims and purposes of work are reducible to the satisfaction of immediate technical and economic needs. Left unaddressed is the larger narrative context in which humans naturally seek to understand a human contribution to and responsibility for themselves, others and being as a whole. What role does human work play in the development of the world itself? Is it merely a functional activity or does it have a metaphysical and ontological calling? Heidegger, Work, and Being elucidates Heidegger's philosophy of work, providing a novel interpretation of the Aristotelian understanding of work in relation to Heidegger's ontology and notion of thanking. Todd S. Mei employs Heidegger's hermeneutical approach to a critique and reconstruction of an understanding of work to show that work, at its core, is an activity centred on thanking and mutual recognition

1889-1976 · Aesthetics · Epistemology · Fundamental ontology · Geography · Metaphysics · Narrative · Ontology · Sociology · Work · Computer Science · Engineering · Management and Organizational Studies · Philosophy · Heidegger, Martin · martin Heidegger (1889-1976) · Psychological aspects

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