![]() ![]() Throughout Zimmerman sees the early influence of Bultmann being brought to bear. The book provides an unusual and perceptive look at Heidegger's early concerns, traces the concept of authenticity through Being and Time (three chapters), and reports (five chapters) on the later writings as they bear on the theme. We begin with Heidegger's early religious concerns and end with the suggestion that a basic compatability between Heidegger's [ate writings and teachings of Zen Buddhism is not only closer than Heidegger may have suspected but also points to the road beyond where Heidegger has taken us, which may yet be travelled. ![]() ![]() Intertwined as the two tracks are throughout, this is an intensely personal book one might have preferred that this personal undercurrent had been made more explicit from the start. But this book is not only a chronicle of Heidegger's journey implicitly it is of Zimmerman 's as well. To this scholarly exposition of the stages of Heidegger's way to a developed concept of personal authenticity, the author brings a mastery of much of the Heidegger corpus and an amazingly extensive familiarity with the secondary literature. The book is faithful to its subtitle: it traces the development of Heidegger 's understanding of authenticity from the beginning, through Being and Time, to the later "mystical" writings that is to say from the "resoluteness" of Being and Time to its later denouement as "releasement." As Zimmerman notes, this philosophic journey follows a dual track (judged as accordant with the journey of western thought): a theoretical-ontological concern with the nature of Being as such and a quasi-religious quest for self-understanding, wisdom, intellectualized salvation. It is really not concerned to "eclipse" the self but to defend Heidegger's notion of what might be termed "its higher reach," which is a central drive for religious thought, something the author argues Heidegger steadfastly pursues. Zimmerman, Eclipse of the Self." The Development of Heidegger's Concept of Authenticity, Athens: Ohio University Press, 1981. In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:ΔΆ68 HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY Michael E. ![]()
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