Heidegger and the Essence of Man

A Note on Three Capitals: Being, History, Earth Translator's Note Foreword by Hubert L. Dreyfus Preface Part One. The Self-Enabling of Dasein and Its Limits 1. Being-Towards-Death and the Limits to Totalizing One's Own Potentiality for Being Running Ahead and Freedom A Critique of Being-Towards-Death 2. The Call of Conscience, or the Limits of Dasein's Self-Appropriation of Its Possibilites 3. The Limits of Resoluteness and the Initially Latent, Then Explicit Primacy of Originary Temporality over Authentic Temporality Situating Authentic and Resolute Temporality Relative to the "Spontaneity" of Originary Temporality The Originary Future as Distinct from Its Two Modes Originary Present, "Instant" and Inauthentic Making-Present Originary Past (Birth and Thrownness), Repetition and Forgetting Anxiety and Resolute Existence "Originary Anxiety" or Anxiety with Respect to Being Part Two. The Poverty of Homo Humanus, or Man Without Faculties The False Symmetry of the Double Relation Between Man and Being 4. Man's Relation to Being Relation and Connection: A Glance at Heidegger and Hegel Thinking as the Essence of Man, and the Question of the "Physical" in Man: The Treatment of Perception The Deconstruction of the "Rational Animal" and the Subject The Dissolution of the Subject in Technology; Politics and Subjectivity The Acts of Thought Thought and Language Thinking and Questioning 5. Being's Relation to Man The Possible, or the Relation of Shared Desire Freedom as a Property Little Shared by Being Necessity, or the "Maintaining" of Man by Being The Limit of the Requisitioning of Man: The Absence of Distress The Role of Man: "The Freedom of Sacrifice" Alone Can Overcome "the Misfortune of Reflection" 6. Historical Figures of Human Being Greek Man Planetary Man The Historiality and Nonhistoriality of Man Works Cited Index