Heidegger and the Will On the Way to Gelassenheit 1st Edition by Bret W Davis ISBN 0810162237 9780810162235

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ISBN 10: 0810162237 

ISBN 13: 9780810162235

Author:  Bret W. Davis

The problem of the will has long been viewed as central to Heidegger’s later thought. In the first book to focus on this problem, Bret W. Davis clarifies key issues from the philosopher’s later period—particularly his critique of the culmination of the history of metaphysics in the technological “will to will” and the possibility of Gelassenheit or “releasement” from this willful way of being in the world—but also shows that the question of will is at the very heart of Heidegger’s thinking, a pivotal issue in his path from Being and Time (1926) to “Time and Being” (1962).

Moreover, the book demonstrates why popular critical interpretations of Heidegger’s relation to the will are untenable, how his so-called “turn” is not a simple “turnaround” from voluntarism to passivism. Davis explains why the later Heidegger’s key notions of “non-willing” and “Gelassenheit” do not imply a mere abandonment of human action; rather, they are signposts in a search for an other way of being, a “higher activity” beyond the horizon of the will. While elucidating this search, his work also provides a critical look at the ambiguities, tensions, and inconsistencies of Heidegger’s project, and does so in a way that allows us to follow the inner logic of the philosopher’s struggles. As meticulous as it is bold, this comprehensive reinterpretation will change the way we think about Heidegger’s politics and about the thrust of his philosophy as a whole

Table of contents: 

1. Prologue: On Gelassenheit and Heidegger’s Path of Thought
2. The Will, Non-Willing, and the Domain of the Will: Preliminary Determinations
3. The Ambiguous Role of the Will in Being and Time
4. The Turn Through an Embrace of the Will
5. A Radically Ambivalent Onto-Theodicy of Primal Willing: On Heidegger’s Interpretations of Schelling
6. Releasement to and from God’s Will: Excursus on Meister Eckhart After Heidegger
7. The Mature Critique of the Will
8. Twisting Free of the Domain of the Will: On the Way to an Other Beginning of Non-Willing
9. Intimations of Being in the Region of Non-Willing
10. Residues of Will in Heidegger’s Thought
11. The Persistence of Ur-Willing, the Dissonant Excess of Evil, and the Enigma of Human Freedom

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