The Incarnality of Being : The Earth, Animals, and the Body in Heidegger's Thought (Suny series in Environmental Philosophy and Ethics)

Schalow, Frank

State University of New York Press（2007/06発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 222 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780791467367
• DDC分類 193

Full Description

A groundbreaking exploration of Heidegger and embodiment, from which a radical ethical perspective emerges.

The Incarnality of Being addresses Martin Heidegger's tendency to neglect the problem of the body, an omission that is further reflected in the field of Heidegger scholarship. By addressing the corporeal dimension of human existence, author Frank Schalow uncovers Heidegger's concern for the materiality of the world. This allows for the ecological implications of Heidegger's thought to emerge, specifically, the kinship between humans and animals and the mutual interest each has for preserving the environment and the earth. By advancing the theme of the "incarnality of being," Schalow brings Heidegger's thinking to bear on various provocative questions concerning contemporary philosophy: sexuality, the intersection of human and animal life, the precarious future of the earth we inhabit, and the significance that reclaiming our embodiment has upon ethics and politics.

Contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction


1. The Materiality of the World




Work, Exchange, and Technology
Problems Arising from Having a Body-Addiction


2. The Erotic, Sexuality, and Diversity


Sexual Differentiation
Sexuality and the Other
Eros, Imagination, and the Pornographic


3. Ethos, Embodiment, and Future Generations


The Incarnatedness of Ethical Action
The Ones to Come


4. Of Earth and Animals


Of Habitat and Dwelling
Who Speaks for the Animals?


5. The Body Politic: Terrestrial or Social?


The Polyvalency of Freedom
The Political Body


6. The Return to the Earth and the Idiom of the Body


Revisiting the Turning
Technology and the Illusion of Controlling the Earth and the Body
Revisiting the Self


Notes
Index