Rowman & Littlefield Publishers Heidegger's Phenomenology of Perception: An Introduction (New Heidegger Research): VOLUME I

This important new book offers an introduction to Heidegger's phenomenology of perception, interpreting and explaining five key words, 'Sein', 'Dasein', 'Ereignis', 'Lichtung', and 'Geschick'. David Kleinberg-Levin argues that, besides preparing the ground for a major critique of metaphysics and the Western world, Heidegger's phenomenology of perception lays the groundwork for understanding perception-in particular, seeing and hearing, as capacities the historical character of which is capable of overcoming and significantly ameliorating the most menacing, most devastating features of the Western world that Heidegger subjected to critique. He proposes that the development of these capacities is not only a question of learning certain skills, but also a question of learning new character and that Heidegger's critique of the Western world suggests ways in which we might learn and develop new, more sensitive, poetic and mindful ways of relating to the perceived world. Review David Kleinberg-Levin has authored a bold and expansive inquiry into the core pillars of Heidegger's thinking. This sprawling and comprehensive analysis not only offers valuable clarification and elucidation of Heidegger's thought and terminology--it also, through its own rich phenomenological analyses, lends important insight into what it means to be human.--S. Montgomery Ewegen, Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Trinity College, USA In this two-volume project on Heidegger's phenomenology of perception, David Kleinberg-Levin seeks to establish the ontological relevance of perception, in particular in its primary modes of seeing and hearing. This first volume reveals the phenomenological grounds of five key words in Heidegger's thinking: Sein, Da-sein, Ereignis, Lichtung and Geschick. Through insightful and elegant analyses, always attentive to our embodied experience, Kleinberg-Levin allows the reader to gain access to the very heart of Heidegger's thought. This brilliant and erudite work will prove invaluable to an ontological analysis of perception and to Heidegger studies.--François Raffoul, professor of philosophy and French studies, Louisiana State University The first volume (of two) of Heidegger's Phenomenology of Perception, this is an incredibly rich and clear introduction to Martin Heidegger's phenomenological approach to inquiry more generally. Even though the title specifies perception, Kleinberg-Levin (emer., Northwestern Univ.) notes that particular issues having to do with perception will be taken up in his second volume, and that one must understand Heidegger broadly before one approaches his account of perception. Therefore, this introduction will be of great use to first-time readers of Heidegger as well as to specialists interested in perception per se. The book consists of two unequal parts. Part 1, "Another Humanism?" is only 16 pages and introduces Heidegger's thought; part 2 comprises five chapters--"Sein," "Dasein," "Ereignis," "Lichtung," "Geschick"--each devoted to a central aspect of Heidegger's work. This introduction will set the reader up to understand the concerns of perception that Kleinberg-Levin discusses in volume 2 (forthcoming). Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty.--CHOICE David Kleinberg-Levin has given us an in-depth reading of Heidegger's work from earliest to last, organized around five pivotal factors: Being, our Dasein, the Event of Propriation, the Clearing, and das Geschick (given or destiny). Kleinberg-Levin's extensive scholarship lays a basis for him to fulfill, in volume two, the promise of his exceptionally thought-provoking title: Heidegger's Phenomenology of Perception.--Wayne J. Froman, Associate Professor of Philosophy, George Mason University, USA Heidegger's Phenomenology of Perception is a bold and meticulous rereading of Heidegger's middle and later thought, a rereading that, without neglecting its vexed alliance with National Socialism, f