Time and the Shared World: Heidegger on Social Relations

313 Pages·2013·1.295 MB·English

by  Irene McMullin

TIME AND THE SHARED WORLD
Northwestern University
Studies in Phenomenology
and
Existential Philosophy
Founding Editor †James M. Edie
General Editor Anthony J. Steinbock
Associate Editor John McCumber

T I M E A N D T H E
S H A R E D W O R L D
Heidegger on Social Relations
Irene McMullin
Northwestern University Press
Evanston, Illinois
Northwestern University Press
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Library of Congress Cataloging- in- Publication Data
McMullin, Irene.
Time and the shared world : Heidegger on social relations /
Irene McMullin.
p. cm. — (Northwestern University studies in phenomenology and
existential philosophy)
Originally presented as the author’s thesis (doctoral)—Rice University.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978- 0- 8101- 2903- 0 (cloth : alk. paper) — ISBN 978- 0- 8101- 2902- 3
(pbk. : alk. paper)
1. Heidegger, Martin, 1889–1976. 2. Time—Philosophy. 3. Intersubjectivity.
I. Title. II. Series: Northwestern University studies in phenomenology &
existential philosophy.
B3279.H49M3758 2013
193—dc23
2012046386
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To Matthew, Lucy, and Mary:
the shared world is full of joy because of you.
—time is a tree (this life one leaf)
but love is the sky and i am for you
just so long and long enough

Contents
Acknowledgments xi
List of Abbreviations xiii
Introduction: Time and the Shared World 3
1 The “Subject” of Inquiry 15
2 Mineness and the Practical First-P erson 39
3 Being and Otherness: Sartre’s Critique 58
4 Heideggerian Aprioricity and the Categories of Being 77
5 The Temporality of Care 105
6 Fürsorge: Acknowledging the Other Dasein 141
7 Authenticity, Inauthenticity, and the Extremes of Fürsorge 184
Conclusion 231
Notes 235
Bibliography 269
Index 293