1st Edition

Heidegger’s Entscheidung “Decision” Between “Fate” and “Destiny”

By Norman K. Swazo Copyright 2020
196 Pages
by Routledge India

196 Pages
by Routledge India

196 Pages
by Routledge India

This book critically examines the debate on Martin Heidegger’s concept of Entscheidung ("decision") and his engagement and confrontation with Nazism in terms of his broader philosophical thought. It argues that one cannot explain Heidegger’s actions without accounting for his idea of "decision" and its connection to his understanding of individual "fate" and national (and European) "destiny."... Read more

Preface

Introduction: The "Debate" Again

Chapter One: Heidegger's "Historical" Situation

Chapter Two: Heidegger on Kant and Practical Reason

Chapter Three: Heidegger's Intimations of Entscheidung

Chapter Four: Concluding Reflections

Bibliography

Index

Biography

Norman K. Swazo is Professor of Philosophy, Department of History and Philosophy, North South University, Dhaka, Bangladesh. He specializes in recent European philosophy, ethics in international affairs, biomedical ethics, and philosophy of religion, and has numerous publications in journals within these areas. He is the author of several books, including Crisis Theory and World Order: Heideggerian Reflections (2002), Destroying Idols: Revisioning the Meaning of ‘God’ (2019), and editor of Contemporary Moral Problems and Applied Ethics: An Anthology (2018).