Heidegger on Being and Acting From Principles to Anarchy [Paperback]

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Acknowledgments

Introduction
1. Deconstructing Action
2. Theory of the Texts

Part One
Genealogy of Principles
I. Understanding History through Its Reversals
3. The Puma-Shaped City
4. The Rise and Decline of Principles

II. Understanding Practice through the Turning
5. Practical Philosophy and the Hypothesis of Closure
6. The Closure as the Withering of the Pros Hen Relation

III. Genealogy of Principles and Anti-Humanism
7. A Threefold Break with Humanism
8. A Threefold Break with Principial Origins

Part Two
The Very Issue of Phenomenology: The Economies of Presencing

IV. Mutations of Phenomenological Transcendentialism
9. From Subjectivity to Being-There
10. From Menschentum to Thinking

V. Deconstruction of the Political
11. Deconstructing the Substantialist Patterns
12. Deconstructing the Ontic Origin

Part Three
The Origin Is Said in Many Ways

VI. Arche: The Kinetic Paradigm of Origin
13. The Causal Concept of Arche
14. The Teleocratic Concept of Arche

VII. Princeps and Principium: Time Forgotten
15. From the Principle of Essences to the Principle of Propositions
16. From the Principle of Propositions to the Epochal Principles

VIII. Anfang and Ursprung: The Temporal Difference
17. The Vocabulary
18. Original Origins, or How the New Comes About in History
19. The Originary Origin, or How Presencing Comes About

Part Four
Historical Deduction of the Categories of Presencing

IX. lÓ.