Heidegger and Practical Philosophy: (SUNY series in Contemporary Continental Philosophy)

Leading scholars address the ethical and practical dimensions of Heidegger's thought.

Table of Contents:
Acknowledgments Abbreviations Introduction Part I. Heidegger and Practical Philosophy 1. Free Thinking John Sallis 2. The Interpretation of Aristotle's Notion of Arete in Heidegger's First Courses Jacques Taminiaux 3. Freedom, Finitude, and the Practical Self: The Other Side of Heidegger's Appropiation of Kant Frank Schalow 4. Hier ist kein warum: Heidegger and Kant's Practical Philosophy Jacob Rogozinski Part II. Heidegger and Ethics 5. Heidegger's "Originary Ethics" Jean-Luc Nancy 6. The Call of Conscience: The Most Intimate Alterity Francoise Dastur 7. The "Play of Transcendence" and the Question of Ethics Jean Greisch 8. "Homo prudens" Miguel de Beistegui Part III. The Question of the Political 9. In the Middle of Heidegger's Three Concepts of the Political Theodore Kisiel 10. The Baby and the Bath Water: On Heidegger and Political Life Dennis J. Schmidt 11. Heidegger's Practical Politics: Of Time and the River Charles E. Scott 12. Heidegger and Arendt: The Birth of Political Action and Speech Peg Birmingham Part IV. Responsibility, Being-With, and Community 13. Heidegger and the Origins of Responsibility Francois Raffoul 14. Reading Heidegger Responsibly: Glimpses of Being in Dasein's Development David Wood 15. The Communit y of Those Who Are Going to Die Walter Brogan 16. Heidegger and the Question of Empathy Lawrence J. Hatab Part V. Heidegger and the Contemporary Ethos 17. Nihilism and Its Discontents Thomas Sheehan 18. Is There an Ethics for the "Atomic Age"? Pierre Jacerme 19. Praxis and Gelassenheit: The "Practice" of the Limit Andrew Mitchell 20. Psychoanalytic Praxis and the Truth of Pain William J. Richardson Contributors Index

About the Author :
Francois Raffoul is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Louisiana State University and the author of Heidegger and the Subject. David Pettigrew is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Southern Connecticut State University. Together they have translated Jean-Luc Nancy's and Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe's The Title of the Letter: A Reading of Lacan and Juan-David Nasio's Five Lessons on the Psychoanalytic Theory of Jacques Lacan, both published by SUNY Press, and Francoise Dastur's Heidegger and the Question of Time. They have also coedited Disseminating Lacan, also published by SUNY Press.

Review :
"This is a superb collection of essays by leading Heidegger scholars, a pioneering book that will be mandatory reading for anyone interested in the practical, ethical, and political dimensions opened up by Heidegger's thought." - William McNeill, author of The Glance of the Eye: Heidegger, Aristotle, and the Ends of Theory "With the increasing attention to questions of ethics and social/political philosophy in contemporary philosophy, this volume makes a timely contribution. Moreover, one could argue that 'practical philosophy' has always been at the center of Heidegger's philosophy, yet the topic has never been explored at length in this way before now." - James Risser, editor of Heidegger toward the Turn: Essays on the Work of the 1930s "Raffoul and Pettigrew have collected excellent texts, which offer a rich variety of views on a too-neglected side of Heidegger's thought: the preparation of new ethical and practical issues appropriate to our technological age." - Dominique Janicaud, coauthor of Heidegger from Metaphysics to Thought