Demythologizing Heidegger

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"Caputo offers a compelling plea for a reinterpretation of Heidegger that will make us more humane, and more attuned to the call of justice and mercy than to the call of Being."Â —Christian Century "There is no other book that focuses on the religious significance of the many 'turnings' in Heidegger's thought, nor that addresses the question of Heidegger's politics textually rather than autobiographically." —Merold Westphal A readable chronological consideration of Heidegger's texts that assesses his achievement as a thinker, while pointing to the sources of his political and ethical failure. Caputo addresses the religious significance of Heidegger's thought. Demythologizing Heidegger Contents Acknowledgments Abbreviations Works by Heidegger Works by Derrida Introduction Demythologizing Heidegger Chapter One Aletheia and the Myth of Being Modernity and the Greeks in Being and Time A Tale of Two Beginnings Why "A-letheia" is not a Greek Word From Memorial to Critical History: Heidegger Demythologized Remythologizing Heidegger Chapter Two Heidegger's Kampf The Difficulty of Life and the Hermeneutics of Facticity The University The Categories of Factical Life The Hermeneutics of Jewgreek Facticity From Aristotle to Jünger: The Emergence of the Myth of Being The Limits of Heidegger's Jewgreek Hermeneutics Chapter Three Sorge and Kardia The Hermeneutics of Facticity and the Categories of the Heart Conclusion Chapter Four Heidegger's Responsibility The Myth of Being's Call The Vocation of Dasein The Vocation of the German University Another Responsibility Chapter Five Heidegger's Revolution The Politics of the Myth of Being The Myth of Questioning Demythologizing Questioning Chapter Six Heidegger's Essentialism The Logic of the Mythologic of Being From Facticity to Wesen Wesen and Lebewesen Chapter Seven Heidegger's Scandal Thinking and the Essence of the Victim Chapter Eight Heidegger's Poets Heidegger's Trakl: Spirit and Pain Erörterung and Allegorization Chapter Nine Heidegger's Gods From Demythologizing to Remythologizing Heidegger's Early Theological Writings1 The National Socialist Years The Later Writings Earth and Flesh: Rival Mythologies Chapter Ten Hyperbolic Justice Mythologizing Differently with Derrida and Levinas The Deconstruction of Ethics and Politics The Myth of Justice Derrida's Scandal: The Undeconstructibility of Justice Hyperbolic Justice The Im/possible Chapter Eleven Conclusion Heidegger and the Jewgreeks Notes Introduction 1. Aletheia and the Myth of Being 2. Heidegger's Kampf 3. Sorge and Kardia 4. Heidegger's Responsibility 5. Heidegger's Revolution 6. Heidegger's Essentialism 7. Heidegger's Scandal 8. Heidegger's Poets 9. Heidegger's Gods 10. Hyperbolic Justice 11. Conclusion Index A B C D E F G H I K L M N O P Q R S T U V W