Heidegger, Dasein, and Gender: Thinking the Unthought [Hardcover]

Heidegger, Dasein, and Gendertakes Heidegger to task on gender by assessing his views on women as thinkers and exploring what his work offers to contemporary LGBTQ+ and womens studies. Scholars come together whose Heidegger research engages bioethics, pregnancy, motherhood and maternal Dasein; whether Dasein can be gender neutral or non-binary, and what it means when neutrality and gender are defined by patriarchy rather than the spectrum of lived genders; the question of human capacity for transcendence in the immanence of flesh; and the possibility of re-imaging Dasein as gendered, i.e., born into embodiment and bound to memory, and the capacity to create new futures by transitioning the present as it slips into history. Authors ask who and what, including animals, can be Dasein and bring Heidegger to issues of sexual abuse and violence, mens experience when thrust into womens daily (and not so daily) routine, and the intersection of queerness and death. The book aims not to provide final answers, but to open possibilities for further thinking with, on, against, through and because of Heidegger.This book takes Heidegger to task on gender by assessing his views on women as thinkers and exploring what his work offers to contemporary LGBTQ+ and women's studies. The authors aim not to provide final answers, but to open possibilities for further thinking with, on, against, through, and because of Heidegger.

Tricia Glazebrookis professor in the School of Politics, Philosophy, and Public Affairs and affiliate professor in the Womens, Gender, and Sexuality Studies program at Washington State University.

Susanne Claxtonis instructor of philosophy at Southern New Hampshire University and Santa Fe Community College.

Heidegger, Dasein, and Genderpresents important, original arguments about Heideggers phenomenology, offering an impressive lineup of scholars and perspectives taking up pressing topics in contemporary life. HeidelCu