heidegger - Encouragement

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Anguish and Abandonment in Sartre's "Existentialism is a Humanism"

When moral rhetoric is good, there must be depth to be uncovered.

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On Witold Gombrowicz's Heidegger

Gombrowicz describes Heidegger as "creative," but with disorganized, "difficult[,] and tortured" thinking.

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Emily Dickinson, "The earth has many keys" (1775)

Everything is melody. What isn't is the "unknown peninsula," not unlike Hamlet's "undiscovered country."

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Heidegger's "The Origin of the Work of Art" and the Question of Impersonal Great Art

"Great art" all too easily leads to phrases like "Western Civilization" and "the decline of the West" being used by Neo-Nazis.

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Lesson Plan for Beginning Heidegger's Introduction to Metaphysics

Our concern is with Heidegger and political philosophy. To that end, we want to know what is at stake in questions of being.

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2025 NPSA Paper Presentation: Heidegger, Antigone, and Authenticity

Like many of you, I'm thinking and teaching about what comes next.

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Katherine Withy, "Authenticity and Heidegger's Antigone"

Heidegger calls only Sophocles' Antigone authentic.

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Onur Karamercan, "Heidegger's Antigone: The Ethos of Poetic Existence"

...authenticity, especially in this age of relentless fandom, is something we yearn for but don't realize it.

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Natalie Diaz, "From the Desire Field"

"From the Desire Field" is most certainly living in the fullest sense, a sense I want.

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Donika Kelly, "Sanctuary"

A powerful poetry reading can't be written about, probably. However, we can say "these words struck me. I should speak, too."

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Heidegger: "Philosophizing... is extra-ordinary questioning about the extra-ordinary."

Heidegger's talk of philosophy's engagement with the "extra-ordinary" is not mere provocation.

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Heidegger: "whoever engages in philosophy must know a few things"

Heidegger links philosophy and history: "philosophy either projects far beyond its own time or else binds its time back to this time's earlier and inceptive past."

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Heidegger's "Unfaith"

...I want to look at some remarks of Heidegger which concern how faith relates to the question "Why are there beings at all instead of nothing?"

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Introducing Heidegger's "Fundamental Question of Metaphysics"

...I was not convinced in the least that "Why is there anything at all?" was a good question.

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On the Prefatory Note of Heidegger's "Introduction to Metaphysics"

In my early twenties, I was assigned Heidegger's Introduction to Metaphysics for a class. I did not get very far.