| Description |
1 online resource (vi, 145 pages) |
| Series |
Continuum studies in Continental philosophy |
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Continuum studies in continental philosophy.
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| Contents |
Acknowledgements -- Glossary -- Introduction -- Why Heidegger and happiness? -- The later Heidegger's two senses of being -- Fitting and dwelling Heidegger's schemes of affective states -- Being and Time: Befindlichkeit and Stimmung -- Nietzsche I: Affekt, Leidenschaft, and Gefühl -- What is Philosophy?: Stimmung vs. Affekt or Gefühl -- Chapter One:??da?æ???a and Happiness --?a?æ?? and e?da?æ???a --??da?æ???a and fittingness in Plato's Republic Modern happiness -- Chapter Two: The Happening of Being -- Turning from temporality to Ereignis Language, 'the other language', and etymology -- 'Happiness' and fittingness -- Later Heideggerian phenomenology 'The Tuft of Flowers' -- Chapter Three: The Fitting-Together of Human Being and Being Wonder -- The essence of human beings -- The gathered four, the divinities, and the holy -- 'Babette's Feast' -- 'Voice of Fire' -- Fitting together with the being of others -- Chapter Four: The History of Being -- Overview of Heidegger's history of being -- Seinsvergessenheit, Ge-Stell, and 'the last men' -- Up the creek from Ge-Stell to f?s?? -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index |
| Summary |
Heidegger and Happiness offers an original interpretation of Heidegger's later thought, within the context of his philosophy as a whole, to develop a new conception of human happiness. The book redeems the essential content of the Greek notion of eudaimonia and transcends recent debates concerning the 'objectivity' or 'subjectivity' of happiness. The author shows that Heidegger's thinking of being is far from arcane and abstract, and is crucially important in understanding the deepest sources of human well-being. An etymological examination of the word 'happiness' frees the word from the const |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 137-142) and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Heidegger, Martin, 1889-1976
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| SUBJECT |
Heidegger, Martin, 1889-1976 fast (OCoLC)fst00032385 |
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Heidegger, Martin. swd |
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Happiness.
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PHILOSOPHY -- History & Surveys -- Modern.
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Happiness.
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Philosophische Anthropologie
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Glück
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2008036326 |
| ISBN |
9781441171719 |
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1441171711 |
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1472546652 |
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9781472546654 |
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1282875752 |
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9781282875753 |
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9786612875755 |
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6612875755 |
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