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Author Koubová, Alice.

Title Self-identity and powerlessness / by Alice Koubová.

Publication Info. Boston : Brill, 2013.

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Series Studies in contemporary phenomenology, 1875-2470 ; v. 8
Studies in contemporary phenomenology ; v. 8.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
Contents Acknowledgements; Introduction; Chapter One The Principle of Identity in Heidegger's Descartes; Presumptions of the Universal Science of René Descartes; Archimedean Point; The Metaphysical Body as Res Extensa; Divided and Re-Unified Human Being; The Passions of the Soul and 'Ontological Force'; Principle of Identity in Universal Science; Chapter Two The Impossibility of a Powerless Da-sein and a Powerful World in Fundamental Ontology; Basic Concepts of Fundamental Ontology; First Approximation of the Issues of our Research; Da-sein and Non-Da-sein Beings; Affairs.
Authenticity and InauthenticityThe Transition from Inauthenticity to Authenticity: The Third Mode of Being; Modal Transformation via Angst, Calling of Conscience and Being-Toward-Death: Powerlessness and the Force of an Indeterminate 'It'; Leaving the Third Mode of Being, Selfhood and Resoluteness; The Unifying Function of Time and the Constancy of Selfhood; Conclusion to Heidegger's Conception; Chapter Three Paul Ricoeur: Third Mode through Narrativity; Conceptual Configuration: Between Analytical Philosophy and Phenomenology; The Project of a Hermeneutics of the Human Self.
Semantic IndividualizationPragmatic Individualization; From Individualization to Identification; Narrative Identification; Being is Action: Hierarchical Structuralization of Human Ontology; Narrative Identity; Ethical Action and Moral Institution; Summary and Critique of Ricoeur's Concept; Chapter Four The Powerlessness of Self-Relating and the Power of the World: Exemplification; Literary Examples; I Am Me; The Double Traitor; Note to Literary Examples; Pathology of the Normal Human Being; The Fear of Being Oneself; Tiredness of Being Oneself; Conclusion.
Chapter Five Happy Powerlessness, Relaxed Da-seinThe Point of Departure; Derrida's Critique of the Good Will to Understand; Merleau-Ponty's Metaphor of the Blind Spot, the Other Side and Experience Which is Outside of Itself; Powerlessness; Alternation of Da-sein and Affairs, Existence as a Relaxed Game; Power Field; The Self-Relationship of Powerless Potentiality-of-Being; Relaxed Thinking and its Improbable Answer to the Question of Identity; Bibliography; Index of Subjects; Index of Modern Authors.
Summary In Self-Identity and Powerlessness, Alice Kouobová proposes a conception of human existence that does not essentially depend on the definition of self-identity. She does this by reinterpreting Heidegger's fundamental ontology and that of other authors.
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Subject Heidegger, Martin, 1889-1976.
Heidegger, Martin, 1889-1976.
Heidegger, Martin, 1889-1976.
Identity (Philosophical concept)
Identity (Philosophical concept)
Ontology.
Ontology.
Phenomenology.
Phenomenology.
Self.
Self.
Self (Philosophy)
Self (Philosophy)
Power (Philosophy)
Power (Philosophy)
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Koubová, Alice. Self-identity and powerlessness. Boston : Brill, 2013 9789004254985 (DLC) 2013016358 (OCoLC)849801105
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