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The Self in Exile: Heidegger's Destruction of Subjectivity

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Title The Self in Exile: Heidegger's Destruction of Subjectivity
 
Creator GEORGE, SK
 
Subject Subject
Dasein
Interiority
Humanism
Other
 
Description The modern notion of the subject as constant self-presence that conditions the truthful appearance of phenomena is brought under sustained critical scrutiny by Heidegger. More than critical scrutiny, Heidegger offered a positive sketch of what is other than the subject, Dasein. Understanding the human being as openness for the circulation and preservation of the meaning of what-is as such is posed as the negation of the self-contained closure and interiority that subjectivity is. Levinas sees materialism and the loss of interiority and freedom in Heidegger's project, inclining more towards an ethics of things rather than persons. However, Levinas's criticisms themselves are not free of the modern predilection for the human, albeit in a fresh and rich way. Conversely, it can be argued that that being which is open to the world of things and people still has a profound interior dimension because it is in each case mine. The Heideggerian notion of human agency and freedom may be appropriated as a possible response to technological nihilism and modern subjectivism.
 
Publisher SPRINGER INDIA
 
Date 2016-01-14T12:50:37Z
2016-01-14T12:50:37Z
2015
 
Type Article
 
Identifier JOURNAL OF INDIAN COUNCIL OF PHILOSOPHICAL RESEARCH, 32(2)183-197
0970-7794
2363-9962
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s40961-015-0022-x
http://dspace.library.iitb.ac.in/jspui/handle/100/17541
 
Language en