Aletheia: The Influence of Heidegger

Tchir, Trevor

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Trevor Tchir³

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Chapter 4 explores how Heidegger’s depiction of Dasein’s disclosive relation to Being influences Arendt’s conception of action in non-teleological terms. I show the connection between Heidegger’s conception of truth as aletheia, his understanding of freedom as openness to Being, and Arendt’s own concept of non-sovereign freedom experienced through self- and world-disclosive action. I revisit Heidegger’s lectures on the Aristotelian modes of aletheia with special attention to the difference between techne (technical know-how) and phronesis (practical wisdom), the respective modes of disclosure of poiesis and praxis. Arendt transforms Heidegger’s account of authentic Dasein to emphasize the natality of action and restore the dignity of opinion in the public sphere. To conclude, I study Heidegger’s influential critique of technological enframing as the dominant modern mode of disclosure.

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Notes

1.
Taminiaux, 199.
2.
Villa, Arendt and Heidegger, 170.
3.
Heidegger, Parmenides, 12.
4.
Heidegger, Plato’s Sophist, 11.
5.
Heidegger, Being and Time, 23.
6.
Heidegger, Parmenides, 62.
7.
Wrathall, 265n.
8.
Guignon, 13–14.
9.
Taminiaux, 127.
10.
Heidegger, Plato’s Sophist, 12.
11.
Wrathall, 246–47.
12.
Heidegger, Parmenides, 51–52.
13.
Villa, Arendt and Heidegger, 124–25.
14.
Heidegger, Being and Time, 209.
15.
Ibid., 41.
16.
Heidegger, Plato’s Sophist, 11.
17.
Guignon, 19.
18.
Heidegger, Being and Time, 143.
19.
Villa, Arendt and Heidegger, 119.
20.
Arendt, “Willing” in Life of the Mind, 101.
21.
Taminiaux, 213.
22.
Ibid.
23.
Villa, Arendt and Heidegger, 11.
24.
Heidegger, Plato’s Sophist, 15.
25.
Taminiaux, 37.
26.
Heidegger, Plato’s Sophist, 15, 28–29.
27.
Taminiaux, 86. Taminiaux’s emphasis.
28.
Heidegger, Plato’s Sophist, 27.
29.
Taminiaux, 38.
30.
Heidegger, Plato’s Sophist, 34–37.
31.
Ibid., 102.
32.
Taminiaux, 39.
33.
Ibid., 38.
34.
Heidegger, Plato’s Sophist, 96.
35.
Ibid., 100–01.
36.
Ibid., 103.
37.
Jaspers, 102.
38.
Heidegger, Being and Time, 366–68.
39.
Ibid., 150.
40.
Ibid., 34, 72.
41.
Ibid., 67, 71.
42.
Arendt, Human Condition, 181–82.
43.
Guignon, 8.
44.
Heidegger, Being and Time, 84, 95, 98, 149.
45.
Ibid., 155.
46.
Ibid., 80, 191, 204.
47.
Ibid., 200.
48.
Ibid., 164.
49.
Ibid., 212.
50.
Ibid., 165.
51.
Guignon, 29.
52.
Heidegger, Being and Time, 150, 220.
53.
Villa, Arendt and Heidegger, 115.
54.
Heidegger, Being and Time, 187. Heidegger’s emphasis.
55.
Ibid., 117.
56.
Ibid., 369.
57.
Villa, Arendt and Heidegger, 138.
58.
Heidegger, Being and Time, 313–18, 341–43.
59.
Ibid., 340.
60.
Heidegger, Being and Time, 331. Heidegger’s emphasis.
61.
Ibid., 329–31.
62.
Villa, Arendt and Heidegger, 135.
63.
Heidegger, Being and Time, 236, 279–80.
64.
Hoffman, 223.
65.
Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, 14.
66.
Arendt, Human Condition, 184–86.
67.
Ibid., 178.
68.
Villa, Arendt and Heidegger, 130.
69.
Kristeva, 173.
70.
Benhabib, 111.
71.
Villa, Arendt and Heidegger, 140. Villa’s emphasis.
72.
Arendt, “What is Existential Philosophy?” in Essays in Understanding, 180–81.
73.
Taminiaux, 41.
74.
Ibid., 60.
75.
Ibid., 67.
76.
Ibid., 76.
77.
Ibid., 87.
78.
Kristeva, 74.
79.
Gendre, 31.
80.
Ibid., 32.
81.
Arendt, Human Condition, 6.
82.
Heidegger, Question Concerning Technology, 14–21.
83.
Dreyfus, 360–62.
84.
Heidegger, “The Age of the World Picture” in Question Concerning Technology, 132.
85.
Ibid., 148.
86.
Ibid., 151.
87.
Villa, Arendt and Heidegger, 192–93.
88.
Arendt, Human Condition, 156–57, 173.
89.
Ibid., 136–37. Arendt’s emphasis.

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Tchir, T. (2017). Aletheia: The Influence of Heidegger. In: Hannah Arendt's Theory of Political Action. International Political Theory. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-53438-1_4

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