Heidegger on Being Uncanny

Katherine Withy

Published by Harvard University Press 2015

Heidegger on Being Uncanny

Katherine Withy

https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674286771

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About this book

There are bizarre moments when we feel like strangers to ourselves. Through an investigation of Heidegger’s concept of uncanniness, Katherine Withy explores what such experiences reveal. She shows that we can be what we are only if we do not fully understand what it is to be us, and points toward what it is to live well as an uncanny human being.

Author / Editor information

Withy Katherine :

Katherine Withy is Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy at Georgetown University.

Reviews

This book is an excellent piece of philosophy and scholarship. Withy offers a more complete and compelling account of the concept of the uncanny (unheimlich) in Heidegger's thought than anything currently available in the secondary literature.
-- Taylor Carman, Barnard College

This is a superb book, remarkable simultaneously for the clarity and insight with which it guides the reader through some tangled philosophical, psychological, and literary thickets, and for its philosophical depth as a reading of Heidegger, why Heidegger matters, and how Heidegger’s work illuminates our own projects and inquiries.
-- Joseph Rouse, Wesleyan University

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Abbreviations Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	vii
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
1 Feeling Uncanny Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	12
2 Feeling Our Being Uncanny Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	48
3 Being Uncanny Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	102
4 Being the Uncanny Entity Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	149
5 The Question of the Uncanny Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	204
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Language: English
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Edition: Pilot project. eBook available to selected US libraries only
Audience: General/trade;
Pages
- Main content: 270
Illustrations
- Other: 11 line illustrations, 2 tables

eBook

Published: April 7, 2015
ISBN: 9780674286771