Language and Deed

Rediscovering Politics through Heidegger’s Encounter with German Idealism
Erscheinungsjahr 1998
ISBN: 978-90-420-0412-2
Verlag: Brill | Rodopi

Buch, Englisch, Band 71, 235 Seiten, Format (B × H): 150 mm x 220 mm, Gewicht: 435 g

Reihe: Elementa

This book examines Heidegger's controversial relation to politics as it grows out of his understanding of his predecessors in German Idealism, most notably, Hegel. This way of developing a dialogue between Heidegger and Hegel on the issue of politics provides an important context for questioning the former's link with National Socialism. Yet the book does not simply condemn Heidegger for his Nazi involvement nor claim that his thinking is free from dangerous political implications. On the contrary, a second level of questioning asks whether Heidegger's philosophy can be appropriated in alternative contexts which permit the affirmation of democratic principles. Thus the book concludes by examining the import which Heidegger's thought has on cultivating such democratic motifs as freedom of speech and civil disobedience.
The book is especially of interest to advanced undergraduates, graduate students, and scholars in the areas of German idealism, phenomenology, social and political philosophy, and the history of philosophy.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Schalow, Frank

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction. Chapter 1 Language and the Landscape of Thought. The Worldly Site of Language. Meaning and the Limits of Logic Finitude and the Appearance of a Social Space. Chapter 2 Of Self and Society. Schelling and the Language of Love. Love and the Roots of Community. Chapter 3 Politics and the Language of Responsiveness. Morality's Tragic Stance. The Ambivalent Place of Resolve. Values and the Risks of Freedom. Chapter 4. Of Thought and Ideology. Imagination and the Thought of Ethics. Original Ethics and the Question of the Other. The Crossroads between Hegel and Heidegger. Chapter 5 The Temporality of Justice. Rethinking the Polis at the End of Modernity. Imagination, Language and the Law. Chapter 6 Saying and Doing. From Speech to Social Activism. The Dilemma of Free Speech. Notes.