Heidegger and the Problem of Consciousness (eBook)

Nancy J. Holland (Autor)

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2018
146 Seiten
Indiana University Press (Verlag)
9780253035967 (ISBN)

Infos

1. This work is a novel reading of Heidegger against what consciousness means for being and the animal and other-than-human world.

2. Author is part of an early wave of feminist phenomenologists.

3. This book grapples with the question of our relationship to the natural world and our consciousness, or ability to perceive and experience the world. It does Heidegger studies in a new way.

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Nancy J. Holland turns to the thought of Martin Heidegger to help understand an age-old philosophical question: Is there a split between the body and the mind? Arguing against philosophical positions that define human consciousness as an overarching phenomenon or reduce it to the brain or physicality, Holland contends that consciousness is relational and it is this relationship that allows us to inhabit and negotiate in the world. Holland forwards a complex and nuanced reading of Heidegger as she focuses on consciousness, being, and what might constitute the animal or, more broadly, other-than-human world. Holland engages with the depth and breadth of Heidegger's work as she opens space for a discussion about the uniqueness of human consciousness.

Autor

Nancy J. Holland is Professor Emerita of Philosophy at Hamline University. Her most recent books are Ontological Humility: Lord Voldemort and the Philosophers and The Madwoman's Reason: The Concept of the Appropriate in Ethical Thought.

Inhalt

Introduction: Heidegger, Nature, and Consciousness

1. The Problem of Consciousness

2. The Earliest Vision

3. The Essence of Truth

4. The Later Heidegger

5. "Something Non-Material. . .But Also Not Unmaterial"

Conclusion: " [is] Not a Soul but the Unmediated Discovery of Being"

Epilogue: Charlemagne's Monogram

Endnotes

References

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 6.7.2018
• Zusatzinfo: 1 b&w illus
• Verlagsort: Bloomington
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 150 x 150 mm
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie der Neuzeit
• Schlagworte: alethēia • animal • Animality • Aristotle • ART • Artificial Intelligence • being and time • Body • Continental Philosophy • Derrida • Dreyfus • Dualism • Environment • feminist • Gerald Edelman • machine intelligence • Max Velmans • Mind • Mind-body • Nature • Neurobiology • other-than-human • Panpsychism • Parmenides • Phenomenology • Philosophy • Physis • Plato • Psyche • Sheehan
• ISBN-13: 9780253035967 / 9780253035967