The Fundamental Concepts of Metaphysics : world, finitude, solitude. / txt
Martin Heidegger ; translated by William McNeill and Nicholas Walker.
- xxi, 376 p. 24 cm. book
- Studies in Continental thought ; .
Includes index.
Includes bibliographical references.
Contents: Preliminary Appraisal -- The task of the course and its fundamental orientation. Starting with a general elucidation of the title of the course -- Chapter One -- The Detours toward Determining the Essence of Philosophy ( Metaphysics ), and the Unavoidability of looking Metaphysics in the Face -- Chapter two -- Ambiguity in the Essence of Philosophy (Metaphysics) -- Chapter Three -- Justifying the Characterization of Comprehensive Questioning Concerning World Finitude, Individuation as Metaphysics. Origin and History of the Word 'Metaphysics' -- Part one: Awakening a Fundamental Attunement in Our Philosophizing -- Chapter One -- The task of Awakening a Fundamental Attunement and the Indication of a Concealed Fundamental Attunement in Our Contemporary Dasein -- Chapter Two -- The First Form of Boredom: Becoming Bored by Something -- Chapter Three -- The Second Form of Boredom: Being Bored with Something and the Passing of Time Belonging to It -- Chapter Four -- The Third Form of Boredom: Profound Boredom as 'It Is Boring for One' -- Chapter Five -- The Question Concerning a Particular Profound Boredom as the Fundamental attunement of Our Contemporary Dasein -- Part Two -- Really Asking the Metaphysical Questions to Be Developed from the Fundamental Attunement of Profound Boredom. The Question: What Is World? Chapter Two -- The Beginning of Metaphysical Questioning with the Question of World. The Path of the Investigation and Its Difficulties -- Chapter Three -- The Beginning of the Comparative Examination, Taking the Intermediate Thesis That the Animal Is Poor in World as Our Point of Departure -- Chapter Four -- Clarification of the Essence of the Animal's Poverty in World by Way of the Question Concerning the Essence of Animality, The Essence of Life in General, and the Essence of the Organism -- Chapter Five -- Unfolding the Guiding Thesis That 'the Animal Is Poor in World' on the Basis of the Interpretation of the Essence of the Organism at Which We Have Arrived -- Chapter Six -- The Thematic Exposition of the Problem of World through an Examination of the Thesis That 'Man Is World forming' --