The conning, the cunning of being: being a Kierkegaardian demonstration of the postmodern implosion of metaphysical sense in Aristotle and the early Heidegger

485 Pages·1990·2.06 MB·English

by  Pat Bigelow

The Conning, the Cunning of Being : Being
a Kierkegaardian Demonstration of the
title:
Postmodern Implosion of Metaphysical
Sense in Aristotle and the Early Heidegger
author: Bigelow, Pat.
publisher: University Press of Florida
isbn10 | asin: 0813009529
print isbn13: 9780813009520
ebook isbn13: 9780585235097
language: English
Ontology, Aristotle--Contributions in
subject ontology, Heidegger, Martin,--1889-1976--
Contributions in ontology.
publication date: 1990
lcc: BD311.B49 1990eb
ddc: 111/.092/2
Ontology, Aristotle--Contributions in
subject: ontology, Heidegger, Martin,--1889-1976--
Contributions in ontology.
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The Conning, The Cunning of Being
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BY THE SAME AUTHOR
Kierkegaard and the Problem of Writing
(The Florida State University Press, 1987)
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The Conning, The Cunning of Being
Being a Kierkegaardian Demonstration of the
Postmodern Implosion of Metaphysical Sense in Aristotle
and the Early Heidegger
Pat Bigelow
The Florida State University Press
Tallahassee
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Bigelow, Pat.
The conning, the cunning of being; being a Kierkegaardian
demonstration of the postmodern implosion of metaphysical
sense in Aristotle and the early Heidegger / Pat Bigelow.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographic references.
ISBN 0-8130-0952-9 (alk. paper)
1. Ontology. 2. Aristotle Contributions in ontology.
3. Heidegger, Martin, 1889-1976 Contributions in ontology.
I. Title.
BD311.B49 1990 89-36676
111'.092'2 dc20 CIP

Page v
Would that we could all become
unpublished authors
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CONTENTS
Concerning a Preface as the Occasion Might Have xi
Elicited from an Other
Abbreviations and Editions xxv
Preface xi
Part I
The Conning of Being
Aristotle's Paronymous Ontology 3
Part II
The Cunning of Being
The Amphiboly of Being in Being and Time 101
The Hermeneutic Circle as Auto-Critique 153
Postface 201
Postscript 213
Bibliography 215
Index Locorum 221
General Index 223
Page ix
Things are more like they are now than they ever have been before.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Philosophy, then, is that thinking with which one can start nothing and about
which housemaids necessarily laugh.
Martin Heidegger, What Is a Thing?
. . . there is a serious explanation and also a facetious explanation for both
these names; the serious explanation is not to be had from me, but there is no
objection to your hearing the facetious one; for the gods too love a joke.
Plato, Cratylus