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Ethics and Danger examines Heidegger's association with German National Socialism and attempts to understand both the question of politics in Heidegger's thought and the thought that gives rise to that question. It explores the contribution of Heidegger's work to issues of ethics, technology, and social theory, as well as his relationship to other thinkers such as Parmenides, Aristotle, Hegel, Husserl, Benjamin, Levinas, Rorty, Foucault, and Derrida. Finally, it addresses the more general question of the future of ethical thought within continental philosophy.
In order to engage the ethical issues surrounding Heidegger's life and thought, the authors speak of dangers such as facism and the facile, self-congratulatory moral stance that Heidegger exemplifies. The question of how to speak in the wake of Heidegger's thought takes many forms, and the answers represent a diversity of viewpoints from both American and continental thinkers.
Introduction
PART 1. HEIDEGGER AND POLITICS
Samuel IJsseling, Heidegger and Politics
2. William J. Richardson, Heidegger's Truth and Politics
3. Francoise Dastur, Three Questions to Jacques Derrida
4. John D. Caputo, Spirit and Danger
5. David Farrell Krell, Of Spirit and the Daimon: On Derrida's De l'esprit
6. Veronique M. Foti, Aletheia and Oblivion's Field: On Heidegger's Parmenides Lectures
7. Babette E. Babich, Questioning Heidegger's Silence: A Postmodern Topology
PART 2. HEIDEGGER'S THOUGHT
8. Peg Birmingham, Ever Respectfully Mine: Heidegger on Agency and Responsibility
9. Tina Chanter, Metaphysical Presence: Heidegger on Time and Eternity
10. Rebecca Comay, Framing Redemption: Aura, Origin, Technology in Benjamin and Heidegger
11. John van Buren, The Young Heidegger, Aristotle, Ethics
12. Klaus Held, The Finitude of the World: Phenomenology in Transition from Husserl to Heidegger (translated by Anthony J. Steinbock)
13. Joseoh C. Flay, Hegel, Heidegger, Derrida: Retirieval as Reconstruction, Destruction, Deconstruction
14. Robert Mugerauer, Architecture as Properly Useful Opening
PART 3. ETHICAL CURRENTS IN CONTINENTAL THOUGHT
15. Edith Wyschogrod, Does Continental Ethics Have a Future?
16. Ladelle McWhorter, Asceticism/Askesis: Foucault's Thinking Historical Subjectivity
17. Mario Moussa, Foucault and the Problem of Agency; Or, Toward a Practical Philosophy
18. Cynthia Willett, Partial Attachments: A Deconstructive Model of Responsibility
19. Roger Bell, Rorty on Derrida: A Discourse of Simulated Moderation
20. Bill Martin, Elements of a Derridean Social Theory
21. Craig R. Vasey, Faceless Women and Serious Others: Levinas, Misogyny, and Feminism
Contributors
Index