Heidegger on Being Self-Concealing - Hardcover
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Heidegger on Being Self-Concealing - Hardcover
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by Katherine Withy (Author)
What is Heidegger talking about when he says that being conceals itself? This is the first study to systematically address that question. Katherine Withy analyses texts from across Heidegger's philosophical career and sorts the various phenomena of concealing and concealment that Heidegger discusses into a highly-structured taxonomy. The taxonomy clarifies the relationships and differences between such phenomena as lēthē (forgottenness), the nothing, earth, excess, the backgrounding of the world, and un-truth, as well as speaking falsely, talking idly, secrets, mysteries, seeming, and inauthentic discovering. But in relating and differentiating these phenomena, the taxonomy shows that none of them is the self-concealing of being.
Having established what the self-concealing of being is not, Withy establishes what it is. She argues that being conceals itself in that it shows up to us as lacking the sorts of contrast cases that render entities determinate and intelligible. This novel and powerful interpretation of the self-concealing of being explains why the secondary literature to date has discussed it in vague and metaphorical terms, as well as why Heidegger tends to collapse being's self-concealing into the concealment of lēthē. Withy's interpretation is both a clarification of and a corrective to Heidegger's notoriously difficult and sometimes misleading discussions of being as self-concealing.Author Biography
Katherine Withy
Katherine Withy is Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy at Georgetown University in Washington DC, where she has worked since 2009. Her first book, Heidegger on Being Uncanny, was published by Harvard University Press in 2015, and she has published articles and chapters in numerous journals and collections. Withy's research focuses on the nature of finitude in Heidegger's thought (including moods, concealing and concealment, and world collapse), as well as on Heidegger's interpretations of ancient Greek philosophy.
Number of Pages: 192
Dimensions: 0.63 x 8.57 x 5.78 IN
Publication Date: October 31, 2022
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