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Heidegger, Work, and Being

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Product Code: 9781847063724
ISBN13: 9781847063724
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Heidegger, Work, and Being

$234.47
 

In a world of changing work patterns and the global displacement of working lifestyles, the nature of human identity and work is put under great strain. Modern conceptions of work have been restricted to issues of utility and necessity, where aims and purposes of work are reducible to the satisfaction of immediate technical and economic needs. Left unaddressed is the larger narrative context in which humans naturally seek to understand a human contribution to and responsibility for themselves, others and being as a whole. What role does human work play in the development of the world itself? Is it merely a functional activity or does it have a metaphysical and ontological calling?
Heidegger, Work, and Being elucidates Heidegger's philosophy of work, providing a novel interpretation of the Aristotelian understanding of work in relation to Heidegger's ontology and notion of thanking. Todd S. Mei employs Heidegger's hermeneutical approach to a critique and reconstruction of an understanding of work to show that work, at its core, is an activity centred on thanking and mutual recognition.




Author: Todd S. Mei
Publisher: Continuum
Publication Date: Nov 01, 2009
Number of Pages: 188 pages
Binding: Hardback or Cased Book
ISBN-10: 1847063721
ISBN-13: 9781847063724
 

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