Meaning Takes Time to Unfold: Towards a Heideggerian Ontology of Temporal Differentiation
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-031-84248-1 (ISBN)
This book proposes a reconsideration of the intertwinement of time, meaning, and the piecemeal unfolding of things. It gives a phenomenological-ontological account of the time-horizon at work in each being's manifestation, explores the notion of time as a productive resistance in this manifestation, and redefines human finitude and subjectivity accordingly to enable an attentive mode of waiting for meaning. The discussion is significantly informed by but not limited to the works of Martin Heidegger and thus responds to the question of the turn in Heidegger's career by suggesting a systematic framework, centered upon a generalized finitude of Being as such, which may have consistently underlain Heidegger's thinking before and after the turn. As subjectivity receives a qualified affirmation in the book, in contrast to both subjectivist voluntarism and impersonalism, this text also opens up the possibility to think of the plurality of human beings as essential to being human.
While the book is a continuation of a few traditions in continental philosophy which takes time philosophically seriously, it is distinctive in not considering time abstractly but always situating its conceptualization in the context of what it means for a thing or an event to be. Instead of a mere measure of change, an itself invariant structure of happening, or a new metaphysical absolute, time is interpreted here as the way beings are. The interpretation comes from, and seeks to do justice to, the basic experience of time bringing about wonder, fulfillment, or disappointment. The book appeals to students and researchers working on Heidegger scholarship, phenomenology, and more generally the philosophy of time and subjectivity. It inspires a patience for meaning in mortal transience, to find dignity and beauty in what will eventually expire-that is, in life as such.
Renxiang Liu is Associate Professor at the Department of Philosophy, Wuhan University. He holds a Ph.D. from McGill University, and he worked as Shui-Mu Postdoctoral Fellow at Tsinghua University. He specializes in phenomenology, German Idealism, and contemporary French philosophy, focusing on the notions of time, finitude, difference, subjectivity, and plurality.
Chapter 1. Ontology of the Extant.- Chapter 2. Time: The Aporia between Subjectivism and Impersonalism.- Chapter 3. The Horizonal Interpretation of Time.- Chapter 4. Intrinsic and Generalized Finitude.- Chapter 5. In the Same Wave.- Chapter 6. Resurrection of Subjectivity.- Chapter 7. Flimsy Plurality.- Chapter 8. Reversal of the Turn.- Chapter 9. Waiting for Meaning and the Meaning of Waiting.
| Erscheinungsdatum | 03.04.2025 |
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| Reihe/Serie | Contributions to Phenomenology |
| Zusatzinfo | XVII, 198 p. 6 illus. |
| Verlagsort | Cham |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 155 x 235 mm |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Geschichte der Philosophie |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Metaphysik / Ontologie | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie der Neuzeit | |
| Schlagworte | being and time • dieter lohmar • Heidegger on time • Husserl Analysis of Time-Consciousness • Husserlian Phenomenology of Time • meaning and time • ontology of time • philosophy of finitude • subjectivism versus impersonalism • temporal differentiation • Temporal Experience • the fold and unfolding • Thomas Sheehan • time-horizon |
| ISBN-10 | 3-031-84248-0 / 3031842480 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-3-031-84248-1 / 9783031842481 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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