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Self-identity and powerlessness /

In Self-Identity and Powerlessness, Alice Kouobová proposes a conception of human existence that does not essentially depend on the definition of self-identity. She does this by reinterpreting Heidegger's fundamental ontology and that of other authors.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Koubová, Alice
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Boston : Brill, 2013.
Colección:Studies in contemporary phenomenology ; v. 8.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Acknowledgements; Introduction; Chapter One The Principle of Identity in Heidegger's Descartes; Presumptions of the Universal Science of René Descartes; Archimedean Point; The Metaphysical Body as Res Extensa; Divided and Re-Unified Human Being; The Passions of the Soul and 'Ontological Force'; Principle of Identity in Universal Science; Chapter Two The Impossibility of a Powerless Da-sein and a Powerful World in Fundamental Ontology; Basic Concepts of Fundamental Ontology; First Approximation of the Issues of our Research; Da-sein and Non-Da-sein Beings; Affairs.
  • Authenticity and InauthenticityThe Transition from Inauthenticity to Authenticity: The Third Mode of Being; Modal Transformation via Angst, Calling of Conscience and Being-Toward-Death: Powerlessness and the Force of an Indeterminate 'It'; Leaving the Third Mode of Being, Selfhood and Resoluteness; The Unifying Function of Time and the Constancy of Selfhood; Conclusion to Heidegger's Conception; Chapter Three Paul Ricoeur: Third Mode through Narrativity; Conceptual Configuration: Between Analytical Philosophy and Phenomenology; The Project of a Hermeneutics of the Human Self.
  • Semantic IndividualizationPragmatic Individualization; From Individualization to Identification; Narrative Identification; Being is Action: Hierarchical Structuralization of Human Ontology; Narrative Identity; Ethical Action and Moral Institution; Summary and Critique of Ricoeur's Concept; Chapter Four The Powerlessness of Self-Relating and the Power of the World: Exemplification; Literary Examples; I Am Me; The Double Traitor; Note to Literary Examples; Pathology of the Normal Human Being; The Fear of Being Oneself; Tiredness of Being Oneself; Conclusion.
  • Chapter Five Happy Powerlessness, Relaxed Da-seinThe Point of Departure; Derrida's Critique of the Good Will to Understand; Merleau-Ponty's Metaphor of the Blind Spot, the Other Side and Experience Which is Outside of Itself; Powerlessness; Alternation of Da-sein and Affairs, Existence as a Relaxed Game; Power Field; The Self-Relationship of Powerless Potentiality-of-Being; Relaxed Thinking and its Improbable Answer to the Question of Identity; Bibliography; Index of Subjects; Index of Modern Authors.