Heidegger on Subjectivity and Self-Consciousness
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Peter Grove
Abstract
The article aims at a determination of Heidegger's contribution to a theory of subjectivity and self-consciousness. It does so through a discussion of Øverenget's book on this topic and in particular of his thesis that according to Heidegger the self is given “with” our consciousness of objects. Three ways are considered in which this thesis might apply on the one hand to Heidegger's argument and on the other to the phenomenon in question: with Kant as an expression of a functional conception of our self-awareness, as a determination of its epistemic structure, and as a claim of the irreducible concreteness of subjectivity. It is, among other things, argued that the first way at best does not exhaust the thesis, that the second way corresponds to Heidegger's intention, but that his argumentation does not reach such a determination, and that the third way expresses both his ultimate intention and the field of his real contribution in the theory of subjectivity. Besides, it is argued that Heidegger at these points is much closer to German idealism than he and Øverenget realize.
© Philosophia Press 2004
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- Editorial Remark
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- Review of Steen Brock: Niels Bohr's Philosophy of Quantum Physics in the Light of the Helmholtzian Tradition of Theoretical Physics, Berlin: Logos Verlag, 2003, 303 pp.
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Articles in the same Issue
- Frontmatter
- Editorial Remark
- Hermeneutic Practice and Theories of Meaning
- On the possibility of a philosophical justifi cation for universally binding principles. in an age of one-state supremacy and shrinking interstate institutions
- Mündigkeit und Tugend. – David Hume, Immanuel Kant und Adam Smith über Dispositionen zu moralischem Handeln und Strategien, sich der moralischen Verpfl ichtung zu entziehen
- Kant and Plato
- “This all but universal illusion …”. Remarks on the question: Why did Mill write On Liberty?
- A defense of the causal efficacy of dispositions
- Freedom as Satisfaction? A Critique of Frankfurt's Hierarchical Theory of Freedom
- Smilansky's Baseline Objection to Choice-Egalitarianism
- Reply to Lippert-Rasmussen On the Paradox of the Baseline
- Review Essay
- Heidegger on Subjectivity and Self-Consciousness
- Book Reviews
- Stephen Darwall, Welfare and Rational Care, Princeton Monographs in Philosophy, Princeton, N. J.: Princeton University Press, 2002. 135 pp.
- Review of Steen Brock: Niels Bohr's Philosophy of Quantum Physics in the Light of the Helmholtzian Tradition of Theoretical Physics, Berlin: Logos Verlag, 2003, 303 pp.
- Fredrik Sundqvist, Perceptual Dynamics: Theoretical Foundations and Philosophical Implications of Gestalt Psychology, Acta Philosophica Gothoburgensia 16, Göteborg: Acta Universitatis Gothoburgensis, 2003. 248 pp.
