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Heidegger's Phenomenology of Perception David Kleinberg-Levin

Heidegger's Phenomenology of Perception By David Kleinberg-Levin

Heidegger's Phenomenology of Perception by David Kleinberg-Levin


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This second volume of David Kleinberg-Levin's study of Heidegger's phenomenology of perception sheds light on how Heidegger works, both critically and constructively, with seeing and hearing. The author explores how these capacities address the ills illuminated by Heidegger's critique of metaphysics and the nihilism devastating the Western world.

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Heidegger's Phenomenology of Perception: Learning to See and Hear Hermeneutically by David Kleinberg-Levin

In volume I, Kleinberg-Levin interprets five key words in Heidegger's project. In this second volume, he illuminates their significance for Heidegger's phenomenology of perception and his philosophy of history. At stake is the possibility of a new experience and understanding of being. Taking us beyond the metaphysical understanding of being, Heidegger proposes to introduce a new key word Seyn (beyng). Beyng is the Da-sein-appropriating event in which a clearing occurs as an open dimension for the time-space interplay of concealment and unconcealment, an interplay within which beings are experienced in regard to the various modes and inflections of presence and absence that the grammar of temporalities articulates. Concentrating on the appropriation of seeing and hearing as capacities and capabilities bearing promising potentialities that could be developed, Kleinberg-Levin examines seeing and hearing in the context of Heidegger's critique of the history of metaphysics, wherein vision has served as paradigm for knowledge, truth, and reality. He shows that, in Heidegger's philosophy of history, seeing and hearing are given a role in the transformation of the character of humanity, redeeming their own inherent potential. Perceptual experience has undergone accelerating processes of deformation and reification, encouraging a disposition that makes it serve technological and technocratic imperatives; but we might begin to redeem the promising potential in seeing and hearing, turning their damaged and dehumanized character, and their violence, towards the creation of a new planetary existence-what Heidegger imagines through the topology of the fourfold: earth and sky, mortals and the gods who embody our ideals. In this project, we are put in question by a responsibility that summons us, in our seeing and hearing, to the response-abilities most befitting our historically shared sense of an achieved humanity.

Heidegger's Phenomenology of Perception Reviews

In this second volume of his Heidegger's Phenomenology of Perception, David Kleinberg-Levin pursues his exploration of the ontological dimension of embodiment, in particular the modes of seeing and hearing. Developing chapters on the key words of Gestalt, Gestell,Gelassenheit and Geviert, Kleinberg-Levin offers a brilliant and original work on how Heidegger's thought contributes to a phenomenology of perception and hermeneutics.

-- Francois Raffoul, professor of philosophy and French studies, Louisiana State University

About David Kleinberg-Levin

David Kleinberg-Levin is professor emeritus of philosophy at Northwestern University. Books: The Body's Recollection of Being (1985), The Opening of Vision (1988), The Listening Self (1989), The Philosopher's Gaze (1999), Gestures of Ethical Life: Reading Hoelderlin's Question of Measure After Heidegger (2005), Before the Voice of Reason: Echoes of Responsibility in Merleau-Ponty's Ecology and Levinas's Ethics (2008), Redeeming Words and the Promise of Happiness: A Critical Theory Approach to Wallace Stevens and Vladimir Nabokov (2012), Redeeming Words: Language and the Promise of Happiness in the Stories of Doeblin and Sebald (2013), Beckett's Words: The Promise of Happiness in a Time of Mourning (2015), Heidegger's Phenomenology of Perception: Introduction, vol. 1 (London: Rowman & Littlefield International, 2019), Heidegger's Phenomenology of Perception: Learning to See, Learning to Hear, volume 2 (Rowman & Littlefield International, 2020).

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements



Introduction. Prelude and Promise.



Part I. The Ontological Dimension of Embodiment. Da-sein in the Sensible



Part II. Chapter 1. Vision as Paradigm in the Life of Thought



Part II. Chapter 2. The Gestalt. Figure and Ground, Subject and Object



Part II. Chapter 3. The Gestell. The Gestalt in a Time of the Total Imposition of Order



Part III. Chapter 1. Gelassenheit in Perception. Caring for the Truth of Being



Part III. Chapter 2. The Geviert. The Thing and Its World Redeemed



Part IV. Hearkening: Ontological Attunement



Bibliographical Abbreviations



About the Author

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NLS9781786612151
9781786612151
1786612151
Heidegger's Phenomenology of Perception: Learning to See and Hear Hermeneutically by David Kleinberg-Levin
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Rowman & Littlefield International
2021-01-06
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