While brilliance and originality surely top the list of qualities shared by Brandom and Heidegger, another commonality is a tendency to treat their predecessors as partial and sometimes confused versions of themselves. Heidegger, therefore, could hardly be indignant on principle if Brandom finds a fair bit of Making it Explicit in the first division of Being and Time. Nevertheless, some details...

Section 1 establishes some key similarities between Heidegger and Georg Simmel in order to motivate the hypothesis that Simmel’s account of how society is possible can be used to give an account of das Man which reconciles the transcendentally philosophical role emphasised by Dreyfus with the ethically negative features emphasised by Olafson. Section 2 elaborates the issue addressed in Ch. 4 of...

As a student new to the study of philosophy, I found the reading of writings such as those by MerleauPonty, Husserl and Heidegger to be complex. Fortunately, through narrative writings, I was able to explore these ways of thinking, being and knowing in my doctoral programme. Our Philosophy of Nursing Science course was structured with a robust reading list, Socratic discussion of philosophical ...

It seems that complaints about Heidegger’s style of writing are common fare in secondary literature and the classroom. This paper argues that both Heidegger’s obtuseness and obscurantism work as methodological devices for effectively communicating and demonstrating his thought. By obfuscating, he forces breakdowns, which pulls the reader out of her ready-to-hand mode of reading/revealing, which...

Heidegger’s discussion of ‘Being-towards-death’ occupies a prominent position in his reflections on authenticity. But this discussion has been the target of some of his fiercest critics, 1 and poses his sympathetic readers some of their greatest challenges. This paper will offer a novel interpretation of the discussion as contributing to the articulation of a notimplausible account of self-know...

Bu makalenin temel amacı, 16.yy. Azerî sahası Divan şairlerinden Fuzûlî’nin şiir dünyasını 20. yy. Alman filozofu Martin Heidegger’in varlık düşüncesinden hareketle ele alarak dil, ve yokluk kavramları arasında bulunan ilişkiyi incelemektir. felsefi metinleri gazellerinde, arasındaki bağlantının insanın sonlu bir varoluşa sahip olması bağlamında benzer şekilde temellendirildiği görülmektedir. Ü...