In his early lecture courses, Martin Heidegger exhibited an abiding interest in human life. He believed that human life has philosophical import while it is actually being lived; language has philosophical import while it is being spoken. In this book, Scott Campbell traces the development of Heidegger's ideas about factical life through his interest in Greek thought and its concern with Being. He contends that Heidegger's existential concerns about human life and his ontological concerns about the meaning of Being crystallize in the notion of Dasein as the Being of factical human life.
Emphasizing the positive aspects of everydayness, Campbell explores the contexts of meaning embedded within life; the intensity of average, everyday life; the temporal immediacy of life in early Christianity; the hermeneutic pursuit of life's self-alienation; factical spatiality; the temporalizing of history within life; the richness of the world; and the facticity of speaking in Plato and Aristotle. He shows how Heidegger presents a way of grasping human life as riddled with deception but also charged with meaning and open to revelation and insight.

Shows how Heidegger presents a way of grasping human life as riddled with deception but charged with meaning and open to revelation and insight

About the Author
Scott M. Campbell is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Nazareth College of Rochester.

Reviews
"Scott Campbell's book is an impressive piece of scholarship concerning a neglected topic, and contains insights that will prove to be of great benefit to the existing Heidegger literature." -- -Marc Lucht Alvernia University "This is a marvelous, painstaking work. Its analyses of Heidegger's lecture courses over a crucial six-year period are meticulous and insightful, and a real contribution to Heidegger scholarship." -- -Anne O'Byrne Stony Brook University



Book Information
ISBN 9780823242207
Author Scott M. Campbell
Format Paperback
Page Count 288
Imprint Fordham University Press
Publisher Fordham University Press