Király István
Death and history
CONTENTS, BLURB
Contents
CHAPTER I. HUMAN FINITUDE AND HISTORY - PROLEGOMENA TO THE POSSIBILITY OF A "PHILOSOPHY OF HISTORY" AND ONTOLOGY OF HISTORY
Heidegger's phenomenological interpretations of Aristotle
Leviathan and the "human things"
Being and Time - death and history
Excursus: The Human life on Earth
History - Freedom - Death
CHAPTER II. "HAD-BEEN-NESS" AND PAST - HISTORY AND MEMORY. AN ESSAY IN APPLIED PHILOSOPHICAL DIALOGUE WITH MARTIN HEIDEGGER
Excursus nr.1: "The Nothing"
Excursus nr.2: On the "NEVER"
A) The temporality of the "phenomenon of guilt" in Heidegger's work
B) The analysis of the "NEVER"
CHAPTER III. THE FUTURE, OR, QUESTIONINGLY DWELLS THE MORTAL MAN... QUESTION-POINTS TO TIME
The future and its coming
CHAPTER IV. HISTORIALITY - MORTALITY - FACTICITY. THE FOUNDATION OF PHILOSOPHY AND ATHEISM IN HEIDEGGER'S EARLY WORKS - PROLEGOMENA TO AN EXISTENTIAL-ONTOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVE
APPENDIX. LIFE - DEATH - SECRET - TERRORISM
Blurb
The analyses in the book investigate the possibilities and foundations of a completely new philosophy of history, although outlined in dialogue with M. Heidegger. The fundamental questions the author asks are: Why, where from is there history? Why are we humans historical? Why is there historiography? Primarily and ultimately, the response to each of these questions is: because we are MORTAL. Accordingly, the first chapter tackles the possibilities and lays the foundations of an ontology of history. Built upon these, the second chapter analyses the being of the PAST and its existential characteristics - as NOT-BEING-ANY-MORE, as HAD-BEEN-NESS. Chapter three turns towards the FUTURE and analyses its existential characteristics as NOT-YET-BEING. Chapter four is an explicit return to the dialogue with Heidegger, which surfaces the main aspects of the essential belonging together of the fundaments and origins of philosophy and history. The Appendix is an applied philosophical research related to the previous subjects which examines the interlacements of DEATH and SECRET in the phenomenon of TERRORISM.