Towards a Polemical Ethics - Gregory Fried

Towards a Polemical Ethics

Between Heidegger and Plato

(Autor)

Buch | Hardcover
320 Seiten
2021
Rowman & Littlefield International (Verlag)
978-1-78661-000-3 (ISBN)
133,40 inkl. MwSt
This book presents an original and creative enactment of a confrontation between Heidegger and Plato. Gregory Fried outlines a new approach to ethics and politics combining skeptical idealism and what he calls polemical ethics, and goes on to apply polemical ethics to the crucial questions around fascism and racism.
Martin Heidegger held Plato responsible for inaugurating the slow slide of the West into nihilism and the apocalyptic crisis of modernity. In this book, Gregory Fried defends Plato against Heidegger’s critiques. While taking seriously Heidegger’s analysis of human finitude and historicity, Fried argues that Heidegger neglects the transcending ideals that necessarily guide human life as situated in time and place. That neglect results in Heidegger’s disastrous politics, unhinged from a practical reason grounded in the philosophical search from a truth that transcends historical contingency.

Thinking both with and against Heidegger, Fried shows how Plato’s skeptical idealism provides an ethics that captures both the situatedness of finite human existence and the need for transcendent ideals. The result is a novel way of understanding politics and ethical life that Fried calls a polemical ethics, which mediates between finitude and transcendence by engaging in constructive confrontation with both traditions and other persons. The contradiction between the founding ideals of the United States and its actual history of racism and slavery provides an occasion to discuss polemical ethics in practice.

Gregory Fried is professor of philosophy at Suffolk University. With Richard Polt he has translated Heidegger’s Introduction to Metaphysics and Being and Truth, and edited A Companion to Heidegger’s “Introduction to Metaphysics” and Nature, History, State: 1933-1934.

Acknowledgements

Abbreviations and Translations

Preface: Address to the Reader

Introduction: Towards a Polemical Ethics

Chapter 1. Between Earth and Sky: The Polemics of Finitude and Transcendence

Chapter 2. Back to the Cave: From Heidegger to Plato

Chapter 3. Seeing Sun and Shadow: The Metaphorics of Vision in the Cave

Chapter 4. Breaking Down in the Cave

Chapter 5. Ideation and Reconstruction: Healing from the Bonds of the Cave

Chapter 6. The Compulsion of the Body

Chapter 7. At the Crossroads of the Cave

Chapter 8. Retrieving Phronēsis: Antigone at the Heart of Ethics

Chapter 9. Conclusion: Towards Enacting a Polemical Ethics

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie New Heidegger Research
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 161 x 230 mm
Gewicht 689 g
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ethik
Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Philosophie Altertum / Antike
Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Philosophie der Neuzeit
ISBN-10 1-78661-000-0 / 1786610000
ISBN-13 978-1-78661-000-3 / 9781786610003
Zustand Neuware
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