Heidegger Featured Heidegger and Phenomenological Approaches to Work Today's post is the draft Introduction to a scholarly essay I'm writing for the Oxford Handbook of Philosophy and Work.
Heidegger Featured Ontology, What is it Good For? (Being and Time, §3) Heidegger's ambition to make his brand of "fundamental ontology" reign over all other fields of scientific inquiry partakes in the pretensions of old-fashioned, traditional metaphysics.
Heidegger Featured “Who’s Asking?” - Spelling out the Question of Being (Being and Time, §2) Our tendency to inquire into being is continuous with our tendency to wonder whether life has any meaning.
Heidegger Featured Strange Familiarity, Part One Traditional philosophers related to the world like it was a strangely unfamiliar kitchen.
Heidegger Featured What is Being? Indeed. Today we continue our inquiry into being. We dig into Being and Time, section 2: “The Formal Structure of the Question of Being.” We encounter Heidegger’s provisional and perplexing definition of “being” itself.
Heidegger Getting in Touch with Being (Being and Time §1) This week we focus on the first section of Being and Time, “The Necessity for Explicitly Restating the Question of Being.” This section begins to reveal that we have a sense for being that is deeper than knowledge.
Heidegger Featured What is Ontology and Why Does it Matter? Beginning with Heidegger’s Being and Time. This week, we have the first installment of our exploration of Heidegger’s Being and Time (1927). Today, we are beginning only with the first page of the book. The motto is: Welcome to Ontological Perplexity
