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"The heart of history, for Heidegger, is not a sequence of occurrences but the eruption of significance at critical junctures that bring us into our own by making all being, including our being, into an urgent issue. In emergency, being emerges."―from The Emergency of Being
The esoteric Contributions to Philosophy, often considered Martin Heidegger's second main work after Being and Time, is crucial to any interpretation of his thought. Here Heidegger proposes that being takes place as "appropriation." Richard Polt's independent-minded account of the Contributions interprets appropriation as an event of emergency that demands to be thought in a "future-subjunctive" mode. Polt explores the roots of appropriation in Heidegger's earlier philosophy; Heidegger's search for a way of thinking suited to appropriation; and the implications of appropriation for time, space, human existence, and beings as a whole. In his concluding chapter, Polt reflects critically on the difficulties of the radically antirationalist and antimodern thought of the Contributions.
Polt's original reading neither reduces this challenging text to familiar concepts nor refutes it, but engages it in a confrontation―an encounter that respects a way of thinking by struggling with it. He describes this most private work of Heidegger's philosophy as "a dissonant symphony that imperfectly weaves together its moments into a vast fugue, under the leitmotif of appropriation. This fugue is seeded with possibilities that are waiting for us, its listeners, to develop them. Some are dead ends―viruses that can lead only to a monolithic, monotonous misunderstanding of history. Others are embryonic insights that promise to deepen our thought, and perhaps our lives, if we find the right way to make them our own."
- Sales Rank: #209108 in Books
- Published on: 2013-07-02
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 8.90" h x .90" w x 6.00" l, .92 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 296 pages
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"In this lively, important book, Polt struggles with Heidegger's mid-1930s effort to invent the peculiar terms and expressions of his later thinking, beginning with his keyword Ereignis, event, appropriation, enowing, but really Heidegger's word for 'the impossibility of starting at the beginning." . . . . Highly recommended."―Choice
"Readers will be grateful for the clarity of Richard Polt's prose, for his providing a historical context for the Contributions, and for his ability to communicate with those who are not expert in Heidegger's work. Reformulating Heidegger's thought is an undertaking filled with difficulty and demands for exceptional originality; Polt meets the challenge."―Charles E. Scott, Distinguished Professor of Philosophy and Director of The Vanderbilt University Center for Ethics
"Richard Polt's book is unique: it provides an eminently accessible introduction to, and commentary on, the major themes of Heidegger's text, and does so in a philosophically sophisticated and critical way. This combination of accessibility and erudition is a most impressive accomplishment. The Emergency of Being will appeal both to students who may be approaching Heidegger's work for the first time and Heidegger specialists seeking a critical 'take' on what is even for them a difficult and largely inaccessible text. Polt's book is an indispensable introduction and companion guide to the Contributions."―William McNeill, DePaul University
From the Back Cover
"Readers will be grateful for the clarity of Richard Polt's prose, for his providing a historical context for the Contributions, and for his ability to communicate with those who are not expert in Heidegger's work. Reformulating Heidegger's thought is an undertaking filled with difficulty and demands for exceptional originality; Polt meets the challenge."—Charles E. Scott, Distinguished Professor of Philosophy and Director of�The Vanderbilt University Center for Ethics
"Richard Polt's book is unique: it provides an eminently accessible introduction to, and commentary on, the major themes of Heidegger's text, and does so in a philosophically sophisticated and critical way. This combination of accessibility and erudition is a most impressive accomplishment. The Emergency of Being will appeal both to students who may be approaching Heidegger's work for the first time and Heidegger specialists seeking a critical 'take' on what is even for them a difficult and largely inaccessible text. Polt's book is an indispensable introduction and companion guide to the Contributions."—William McNeill, DePaul University
About the Author
Richard Polt is Professor of Philosophy at Xavier University, Cincinnati. He is the author of Heidegger: An Introduction and The Emergency of Being, both from Cornell.
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11 of 13 people found the following review helpful.
So, so good...
By Brian C.
I am a graduate student in philosophy and I am just finishing up a graduate seminar on Heidegger. I decided to write a final paper on the Contributions to Philosophy despite the fact that we did not spend any time reading the Contributions in class. I immediately realized, as soon as I sat down and started digging into the Contributions, that I had bit off more than I could chew. Unfortunately it was already too late to turn back. Anyone who has tried to read the Contributions can certainly attest to the fact that it is not an easy text to read by any means. I always smile when I hear people complaining about how opaque Being and Time is because compared to Contributions, Being and Time is a walk in the park.
I was ready to give into despair when I discovered Richard Polt's book. It would not be an exaggeration to say that without Richard Polt's book my paper would have been shipwrecked before it even got started. Richard Polt does what I would have thought impossible before reading his book: he makes the Contributions accessible, understandable and philosophically compelling. This is easily one of the best books I have ever read on Heidegger, period (and it saved me from the prospect of a truly horrendous and embarrassing paper; or, at least it has given me a fighting chance; whether I wind up embarrassing myself anyways has yet to be seen).
Richard Polt begins with a simple principle in his Heidegger interpretation. Rather than simply repeating the Heideggerian jargon Richard Polt, in his introduction, says that he is going to try to turn his attention to the matter that Heidegger is trying to think. This simple methodological decision is almost certainly the reason that Richard Polt was able to write such a clear and philosophically rich book. It is a method that, unfortunately, very few Heidegger scholars adopt in their attempts to interpret Heidegger which is why so many Heidegger secondaries wind up being just as opaque as Heidegger himself.
This book should be the first book you read if you are attempting to make your way through Heidegger's Contributions for the first time. There are a couple of other good books that deal with the Contributions as well. Heidegger's Contributions to Philosophy: An Introduction (Studies in Continental Thought) by Daniela Vallega-Neu. I actually have not read all of this yet (even though it is very short) but the first two sections which attempt to read Being and Time in the light of the Contributions and then the summarize the new departure of Contributions are excellent and worth the price of the book. I did not find Daniela Vallega-Neu quite as accessible as Polt so I still think it would be a good idea to read Polt first but Vallega-Neu should probably be next. Truth and Genesis: Philosophy as Differential Ontology (Studies in Continental Thought) by Miguel de Beistegui is a very interesting book. It is actually about Heidegger and Deleuze but the section on Heidegger is almost entirely about the Contributions. Beistegui's analysis is dense. I also do not think that Beistegui's analysis of the Contributions is an entirely accurate account of what Heidegger is up to in the Contributions. To be fair, I am not really sure whether providing an accurate summary of Heidegger was Beistegui's intention. His intention seems to be to work out a new differential ontology using both Heidegger and Deleuze and his readings of Heidegger are heavily influenced by his readings of Deleuze. But his readings are, whether accurate or not, extremely rich and exciting philosophically speaking.
Polt, while praising and admiring Besitegui's reading in this book, also does a good job (in his footnotes mostly) of critiquing some of Beistegui's interpretations of the Contributions so the two books are good to read together. The bottom line is: no one interested in the Contributions can afford to miss this one.
3 of 4 people found the following review helpful.
Well worth the effort it took to obtain this much in demand book.
By Benedetto Ahagon
I went through a lot to get this book, not the least of which was the waiting. But after reading it, I understand why so many people are eager to read it and why it was so difficult (and expensive) to obtain.
0 of 1 people found the following review helpful.
Beyng (Be-ing) as the entitiy which reveals "reality" in a certain way
By Manuel Armenteros
I must stress that this is simply my partial interpretation of some of the central aspects of Polt's book. Opinions may differ, so take my review with a grain of salt.
Heidegger's Contributions to Philosophy are considered to be his second major work, surpassed by Being and Time, of which there is plenty of excellent material, such as Hubert Dreyfus and George Steiner's introductory works, among many other names. The Contributions, which were published much later, and only recently translated into a way that makes this book even readable makes secondary resources that much harder to find.
Heidegger's Contributions are fragmentary, dense and full of jargon which makes Being and Time seem reasonably easy in comparison. Thankfully, Richard Polt has managed to pull of the seemingly impossible (and yes, I am quite aware of the over-use of this phrase, but it more than fits in this case) and has managed to give a very good interpretation of what the Contributions is pointing at. It is important to stress the word "pointing", because Heidegger here is explicit that any attempt to say that the re-orientation of his thought it not to be explained in a "beyng" and "event" equals "X" manner.
Heidegger is urging us to think, and Polt gives excellent advice on how to try to follow Heidegger in your own, original footsteps. The much used term being is presented as "beyng" (which is spelled "be-ing" in this book, which was printed prior to the new translation of "The Contributions") which is an archaic spelling-out of the very same word, with a rather different focus. Again, I won't pretend to tell you what Heidegger and Polt are trying to say here, but I can give it a try, from my point of view.
"Being" ceases to be a project in which Dasein (human beings, which are always-already being the there) are projected into a world with the explicit goal of doing something within the horizon which is given to us by time, and also by ones own culture. It is not that Heidegger no longer thinks that this philosophical orientation is wrong, instead, Heidegger wants to go to something even prior to practical activity, which he calls "ereignis" now translated as "event" instead of the confusing "enokwing" of the previous translation, and it is here that the refined concept of "beyng" is introduced as the entity which can cause/interact with the event.
Briefly, in moments of emergency, when one feels a sense of deep despair, and is looking for some type of meaning in life, all the familiar aspects of ones life, including, no, ESPECIALLY the most obvious given things have the opportunity of appearing in a brand new way. These moments can be sought too, and the main component is curiosity of the trivial, but emergency can "quicken up the process" so to speak. All we take for granted, chairs, books, computers, walls, human behavior, politics, art, etc. all show themselves as a different potentiality which gives you an access to see the world in a different personal "paradigm" to borrow a phrase from the analytic tradition.
Although there is much more to be said of society as a whole, the second beginning and the flight of the gods, the main gist of the Contributions, according to Polt, is that (using my words), that which is mystical, the stuff that Wittgenstein in the last phrase of his Tractatus says "whereof we cannot speak, thereof we must pass over in silence", becomes, in a certain manner "understood", but becomes almost impossible to put into words.
That's what Heidegger is trying to do here, and that is the key that Richard Polt has given us, to see if the lock can open. Expect no magic transformation, but look forward to wrestling with the very stuff that allows us to be who we are in the world we live in.
Five Stars to a magnificent introduction and commentary from Richard Polt.
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