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Argues that in Martin Heidegger's philosophy, Being is inherently finite because it reveals itself only through a dynamic interplay of disclosure and concealment.
The Finitude of Being offers an interpretation of Martin Heidegger's thought, revealing finitude not as a limitation to be overcome, but as the very condition that makes meaning, truth, and world possible.
Joan Stambaugh draws on her deep engagement with Heidegger's work, and informed by personal conversations with the philosopher himself, Stambaugh guides readers through some of his most challenging ideas, from concealment and unconcealment to the nature of truth, technology, and the "Open." She brings clarity to notoriously difficult texts, including Beiträge zur Philosophie (Vom Ereignis), illuminating their significance with precision and insight.
Moving seamlessly between early and later Heidegger, and engaging figures such as Schelling, The Finitude of Being uncovers a unifying thread across Heidegger's philosophy: that Being reveals itself only through a dynamic interplay of disclosure and concealment
"Finitude is clearly a central notion in Heidegger's thought, but its meaning has never been elucidated in the context of his entire work. Stambaugh tackles this difficult issue, and she does it with insight and elegance." — Fred Dallmayr, University of Notre Dame
"This book shows great insight into the main thrust of Heidegger's complex body of work, provides many clarifying examples, offers helpful parallels with the thought of other philosophers. And, perhaps most important of all, Stambaugh shows that her topic transcends narrow scholarly concerns, addressing the age-old and perennially vital question of the nature and limits of human knowledge and power.
"The author has a first-class reputation as a translator of several of Heidegger's important works, and is the author of two significant studies of Nietzsche's philosophy. She had numerous conversations with Heidegger during the last ten years of his life, in the course of which she was able to obtain detailed help from him concerning difficult aspects of his thinking and problems in translating key terms in this thinking into English. In this book, she is able to draw on this background in interpreting several of Heidegger's later and posthumous publications, focusing on an absolutely central, and very difficult, notion (the finitude of being) in Heidegger's thought. The book incorporates the first scholarly study of one of the most important of Heidegger's works, the long-awaited and posthumously published (1989) Beiträge zur Philosophie." — Joseph P. Fell, Bucknell University
Joan Stambaugh is Professor of Philosophy at Hunter College of City University of New York and The Graduate Center. She is the author of The Real is Not the Rational, also published by SUNY Press.
1. The Problem
2. Concealment as Preservation
3. Concealing as Strife with Unconcealing
4. Concealing as Distortion
5. Concealment as Process: Nihilism as the History of Being
6. Framing
7. The Open, the Opening
8. The Open in Heidegger's Conception
9. Appropriation
10. Return to the Problem
11. Schelling's Treatise on Human Freedom
12. Appropriation and Concealment: Concealment as Process and as Structure
13. The Fourfold
14. Nature
15. Mortals and the Godlike Ones
16. The Pure Draft
17. The In-finite Relation (Verhaltnis)
18. The Mirror-Play of the Fourfold
19. Beitrage
20. Conclusion
Epilogue
Notes
Index