Challenges conventional understandings of Heidegger's account of the body.Martin Heidegger's failure to acknowledge the role of the body in his analysis of everyday human existence (Dasein) has generated a cottage industry of criticism from such prominent continental figures as Merleau-Ponty, Sartre, Derrida, and Irigaray. In Heidegger's Neglect of the Body, Kevin A. Aho suggests the critics largely fail to appreciate Heidegger's nuanced understanding of Dasein, which is not to be interpreted in terms of individual existence but in terms of a shared horizon of being that is already there. Aho further argues that Heidegger-while rarely discussing the body itself-nonetheless makes a significant contribution to theories of embodiment by means of his critique of technological existence and his hermeneutic recovery of more original ways of being that reveal our fragile interconnectedness with things.
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Challenges conventional understandings of Heidegger's account of the body.
Acknowledgments Abbreviations Introduction The Body Problem Chapter Overview 1. Heidegger’s Project Dismantling Cartesian Metaphysics Dasein and Everydayness Temporality as the Meaning of Being 2. The Missing Dialogue between Heidegger and Merleau-Ponty The Absence of the Body in Being and Time The Body and the Problem of Spatiality The Importance of the Zollikon Seminars The Limits of Merleau-Ponty’s Relation to Heidegger 3. Gender and Time: On the Question of Dasein’s Neutrality Fundamental Ontology and the Sex/Gender Divide Gendered Dasein and Neutral Da-sein The Gender and Neutrality of Time 4. Life, Logos, and the Poverty of Animals Dasein’s Animal-Nature The Question of Life in the Aristotle Lectures Logos and the Animal Question The Animal Lectures in Context Prelude to a Theory of Embodiment 5. The Accelerated Body Technological Existence Acceleration and Boredom Acceleration and Psychotherapy 6. Recovering Play: On Authenticity and Dwelling Technology and Authentic Historicality Leisure and Openness to Mystery Conclusion: Embodied Dwelling Notes Index
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Challenges conventional understandings of Heidegger's account of the body.

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ISBN
9781438427751
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2009-08-20
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State University of New York Press
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408 gr
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229 mm
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152 mm
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P, 06
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Engelsk
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192

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Kevin A. Aho is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Florida Gulf Coast University and the coauthor (with James Aho) of Body Matters: A Phenomenology of Sickness, Disease, and Illness.