Heidegger and Authenticity

Mahon O'Brien

ISBN 10: 1441111182 / ISBN 13: 9781441111180

Published by Continuum, 2011

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Heidegger and Authenticity
• Publisher: Continuum
• Publication Date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1441111182
• ISBN 13: 9781441111180
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Very Good
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  • Philosophy

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Synopsis

Heidegger's thinking in the decades following the publication of Being and Time is often deemed irreconcilable with that work. Critics contrast the notion of "resoluteness" in Being and Time with Heidegger's post-war account of "releasement" in an attempt to establish a discrepancy between the allegedly voluntarist humanism of his early work and the supposedly 'anti-humanist' thinking of his later work. By contrast, Mahon O'Brien argues for the structural and thematic coherence of Heidegger's movement from authenticity to the search for an authentic free relation to the world - as captured by the term "releasement". By demonstrating the structural and thematic unity of Heidegger's thought in its entirety, O'Brien paves the way for a more measured and philosophically grounded understanding of the issues at stake in the Heidegger controversy.
Heidegger's thinking in the decades following the publication of Being and Time is often deemed irreconcilable with that work. Critics contrast the notion of "resoluteness" in Being and Time with Heidegger's post-war account of "releasement" in an attempt to establish a discrepancy between the allegedly voluntarist humanism of his early work and the supposedly 'anti-humanist' thinking of his later work. By contrast, Mahon O'Brien argues for the structural and thematic coherence of Heidegger's movement from authenticity to the search for an authentic free relation to the world - as captured by the term "releasement". By demonstrating the structural and thematic unity of Heidegger's thought in its entirety, O'Brien paves the way for a more measured and philosophically grounded understanding of the issues at stake in the Heidegger controversy.

About the Author

Mahon O'Brien is Postdoctoral Fellow at University College Dublin, Ireland, and has taught Philosophy at Suffolk University, Boston, USA, and Boston University, USA.