Get Free Shipping on orders over $0
What is a Human Being? : A Heideggerian View - No Information Available

What is a Human Being?

A Heideggerian View

By: No Information Available

Paperback | 4 December 1995

At a Glance

Paperback


RRP $73.95

$69.99

or 4 interest-free payments of $17.50 with

 or 

Ships in 15 to 25 business days

This broad, ambitious study is about human nature, but human nature treated in a way quite different from the scientific account that influences so much of contemporary philosophy. Drawing on certain basic ideas of Heidegger the author presents an alternative to the debate waged between dualists and materialists in the philosophy of mind that involves reconceiving the way we usually think about 'mental' life. Olafson argues that familiar contrasts between the 'physical' and the 'psychological' break down under closer scrutiny. They need to be replaced by a conception of human being in which we are not entities compounded out of body and mind, but unitary entities that are distinguished by 'having a world', which is very different from simply being a part of the world.
Industry Reviews
"This book will surely play a dominant role in ongoing discussions of personhood and personal identity. The importance of Olafson's work lies in the fact that it bridges the gap between a broadly analytical approach to the nature of these issues and a phenomenological approach. Due to both its wide scope and its constructive nature, this book is uniquely equipped to appeal to any philosopher with an interest in the nature of human minds and persons." Choice "This book involves an admirable attempt to find a common ground with physicalist theories of human nature by phenomonological descriptions of knowing, feeling, and acting that dissolve mentalism. At the same time, it criticizes physicalist theories via a kind of transcendental argument since such theories overlook while presupposing the phenomenon of presence. Thus it draws well on the traditions of descriptive and transcendental phenomenology." Michael Barber, the Modern Schoolman

More in Phenomenology & Existentialism

Beginning to Live : The Art of Existential Freedom - Emmy van Deurzen
Thus Spoke Zarathustra : Penguin Classics - Friedrich Nietzsche

RRP $26.99

$22.99

15%
OFF
The Myth of Sisyphus : Penguin Modern Classics - Albert Camus

RRP $26.99

$22.99

15%
OFF
The Poetics of Space : Penguin Classics - Gaston Bachelard

RRP $32.99

$23.75

28%
OFF
The Myth of Sisyphus : Vintage International - Albert Camus

RRP $35.00

$27.75

21%
OFF
Kierkegaard, Statecraft and Political Theology - Dr. Christopher B.  Barnett

RRP $170.00

$151.75

11%
OFF
Waiting for God : Routledge Classics - Simone Weil

RRP $31.99

$30.75

Nausea : Popular Penguins : Popular Penguins Ser. - Jean-Paul Sartre
Phenomenology of Spirit : Galaxy Books - G. W. F. Hegel

RRP $44.95

$29.99

33%
OFF
The Joyous Science : Penguin Classics - Friedrich Nietzsche

RRP $26.99

$22.99

15%
OFF
Fear and Trembling : Penguin Classics - Soren Kierkegaard

RRP $26.99

$22.99

15%
OFF
In Ascension : Longlisted for The Booker Prize 2023 - Martin MacInnes
The Sickness Unto Death : Penguin Classics - Soren Kierkegaard

RRP $26.99

$22.99

15%
OFF
Spell Of The Sensuous: Perceptions : Perceptions - David Abram

RRP $29.99

$24.99

17%
OFF
The Fall : Penguin Modern Classics - Albert Camus

RRP $24.99

$21.75

13%
OFF
Being and Nothingness - Jean-Paul Sartre

$43.75

The Trouble With Being Born : Penguin Modern Classics - E. M. Cioran
The Outsider : Penguin Clothbound Classics - Albert Camus

RRP $35.00

$28.75

18%
OFF
Nausea : With Introduction - Jean-Paul Sartre

RRP $24.99

$21.75

13%
OFF
The Fall : Little Clothbound Classics - Albert Camus

RRP $26.99

$22.99

15%
OFF