Transcending Reason: Heidegger on Rationality

Transcending Reason is a collection of essays that challenges the view that Martin Heidegger leaves little room for reason in philosophy and life. It explores new ways to understand Heideggers approach to the relationship between reason, normativity, and the philosophical methodology that gives us access to these issues. The volume suggests that Heideggers philosophy reconceives the relation between reason and normativity, rather than severing it.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 322 pages
Publication date: 14 December 2022
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Martin Heidegger's work is often seen as leaving little room for reason in philosophy and daily life. Critics argue that Heidegger's philosophy effectively breaks the link between reason and normativity, leaving those who adhere to his position without justifying reasons for their beliefs and actions. Transcending Reason is a collection of essays by prominent Heidegger scholars that challenges this view by exploring new ways to understand Heidegger's approach to the relationship between reason, normativity, and the philosophical methodology that gives us access to these issues. The volume highlights Heidegger's novel understanding of reason as Daseins' "transcendence," the ability to occupy the world as a space of normatively structured meanings in which we navigate our striving to be. By examining the strengths and weaknesses of this innovative take on Heidegger's philosophy, the collection considers the possibility that he does not sever but rather reconceives the relation between reason and normativity.

Martin Heidegger's work is often seen as leaving little room for reason in philosophy and daily life. Critics argue that Heidegger's philosophy effectively breaks the link between reason and normativity, leaving those who adhere to his position without justifying reasons for their beliefs and actions. Transcending Reason is a collection of essays by prominent Heidegger scholars that challenges this view by exploring new ways to understand Heidegger's approach to the relationship between reason, normativity, and the philosophical methodology that gives us access to these issues. The volume highlights Heidegger's novel understanding of reason as Daseins' "transcendence," the ability to occupy the world as a space of normatively structured meanings in which we navigate our striving to be. By examining the strengths and weaknesses of this innovative take on Heidegger's philosophy, the collection considers the possibility that he does not sever but rather reconceives the relation between reason and normativity.

Weight: 481g
Dimension: 228 x 152 x 23 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781538148204