Heidegger’s Birth

Heidegger Circle Proceedings ◽

10.5840/heideggercircle2016504 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 50 ◽

pp. 36-44

Author(s):

Peter Hanly ◽

Keyword(s):

Hannah Arendt ◽

Being And Time ◽

Complex Response

It is an opinion often ventured that Heidegger, having opened very briefly – in Being and Time – the question of birth, fails to properly engage the matter. It is said that, despite the thinking of historicity initiated there, and the occasional reference in later writings, the question of the natal is not properly addressed in his work. Instead, we are told, it is Hannah Arendt who picks up this neglected thread, turning it into a cornerstone of her thinking. This paper seeks to show that this story is inaccurate: that the development of a conception of ‘Anfang’ in the texts of the late 1930’s can be seen to address in a decisive manner the question of what will be called ‘natality.’ Aspects of the texts from this period, and in particular of the volume Über den Anfang (GA 70) can be read so as to reveal a rich and complex response to this problem, one that reverses many presuppositions regarding Heidegger’s work at this time, and more than filling this apparent lacuna.

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A relevância dos conceitos arendtianos para uma ética ambientalThe significance of Arendtian concepts to an environmental ethicsLa relevancia de los conceptos arendtianos para una ética ambiental

REMEA - Revista Eletrônica do Mestrado em Educação Ambiental ◽

10.14295/remea.v0i1.8570 ◽

2018 ◽

pp. 152-166

Author(s):

Isabel Cristina Dalmoro ◽

Nuno Pereira Castanheira

Keyword(s):

Martin Heidegger ◽

Environmental Ethics ◽

Hannah Arendt ◽

Being And Time ◽

Environmental Crisis ◽

Way Of Life ◽

Practical Ethics ◽

Mass Society ◽

Patterns Of Behavior ◽

The Way

O presente artigo resulta de um estudo mais alargado que teve como objetivo expor e analisar a concepção de Hannah Arendt dos conceitos de sociedade de massas e de sociedade de consumo. A análise consistiu na investigação do modo de vida dos integrantes da sociedade de massas e da sociedade de consumo, tendo em vista identificar e examinar os padrões de comportamento que impulsionam a crise ambiental e que podem, por conseguinte, servir como foco de atuação da ética ambiental, compreendida como uma das subdisciplinas da ética prática. Neste estudo, lançou-se mão de alguns elementos da obra Ser e Tempo (1927), de Martin Heidegger, com o propósito de melhor iluminar e compreender os conceitos arendtianos. The present paper is the result of a larger study whose purpose was to explore and analyze Hannah Arendt’s conception of mass society and consumers society. The analysis consisted in the research of the way of life of its members aiming to indentify and examine patterns of behavior that promote the environmental crisis and could, therefore, become the focus for environmental ethics, understood as one of the subdisciplines of practical ethics. In this study, some elements of Martin Heidegger’s the work Being and Time (1927) were used with the purpose of illuminating and understanding the Arendtian concepts. El presente documento es el resultado de un estudio más amplio cuyo objetivo fue explorar y analizar la concepción de Hannah Arendt sobre la sociedad de masas y la sociedad de consumidores. El análisis consistió en investigar el modo de vida de sus miembros con el objetivo de identificar y examinar patrones de comportamiento que promuevan la crisis ambiental y podrían, por lo tanto, convertirse en el foco de la ética ambiental, entendida como una de las subdisciplinas de la ética práctica. En este estudio, algunos elementos de la obra de Martin Heidegger Ser y Tiempo (1927) fueron utilizados con el propósito de iluminar y comprender los conceptos arendtianos.

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