{"product_id":"the-emergency-of-being-richard-polt-9780801437328","title":"The Emergency of Being: On Heidegger's Contributions to Philosophy","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"The heart of history, for Heidegger, is not a sequence of occurrences but the eruption of significance at critical junctures that bring us into our own by making all being, including our being, into an urgent issue. In emergency, being emerges.\"--from \u003ci\u003eThe Emergency of Being\u003c\/i\u003eThe esoteric \u003ci\u003eContributions to Philosophy\u003c\/i\u003e, often considered Martin Heidegger's second main work after \u003ci\u003eBeing and Time\u003c\/i\u003e, is crucial to any interpretation of his thought. Here Heidegger proposes that being takes place as \"appropriation.\" Richard Polt's independent-minded account of the \u003ci\u003eContributions\u003c\/i\u003e interprets appropriation as an event of emergency that demands to be thought in a \"future-subjunctive\" mode. Polt explores the roots of appropriation in Heidegger's earlier philosophy; Heidegger's search for a way of thinking suited to appropriation; and the implications of appropriation for time, space, human existence, and beings as a whole. In his concluding chapter, Polt reflects critically on the difficulties of the radically antirationalist and antimodern thought of the \u003ci\u003eContributions\u003c\/i\u003e.Polt's original reading neither reduces this challenging text to familiar concepts nor refutes it, but engages it in a confrontation--an encounter that respects a way of thinking by struggling with it. He describes this most private work of Heidegger's philosophy as \"a dissonant symphony that imperfectly weaves together its moments into a vast fugue, under the leitmotif of appropriation. This fugue is seeded with possibilities that are waiting for us, its listeners, to develop them. Some are dead ends--viruses that can lead only to a monolithic, monotonous misunderstanding of history. Others are embryonic insights that promise to deepen our thought, and perhaps our lives, if we find the right way to make them our own.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Richard Polt\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0801437326\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780801437328\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Cornell University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/17\/2006\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 296\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.32lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.06h x 6.32w x 1.01d","brand":"Richard Polt","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43926114926847,"sku":"9780801437328","price":56.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_94b49498-87f0-48a9-8edc-61f3245231bc.jpg?v=1681081285","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-emergency-of-being-richard-polt-9780801437328","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}