Heidegger's Neglect of the Body (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781438427751)

Martin Heidegger's failure to acknowledge the role of the body in his analysis of everyday human existence (Dasein) has generated a cottage industry of criticism from such prominent continental figures as Merleau-Ponty, Sartre, Derrida, and Irigaray. In Heidegger's Neglect of the Body, Kevin A. Aho suggests the critics largely fail to appreciate Heidegger's nuanced understanding of Dasein, which is not to be interpreted in terms of individual existence but in terms of a shared horizon of being that is already there. Aho further argues that Heidegger--while rarely discussing the body itself--nonetheless makes a significant contribution to theories of embodiment by means of his critique of technological existence and his hermeneutic recovery of more original ways of being that reveal our fragile interconnectedness with things.

Author: Kevin A. Aho
ISBN-10: 1438427751
ISBN-13: 9781438427751
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Language: English
Published: 08/20/2009
Pages: 176
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 9.10h x 5.90w x 0.80d

Review Citation(s):
Chronicle of Higher Education 11/13/2009 pg. 18