Rowman & Littlefield International
Pages: 214
Trim: 6 1/4 x 9 1/4
978-1-78660-772-0 • Hardback • December 2018 • $120.00 • (£80.00)
978-1-78660-773-7 • Paperback • December 2018 • $39.95 • (£24.95)
978-1-78660-774-4 • eBook • December 2018 • $38.00 • (£24.95)
Robert C. Scharff is Professor of Philosophy Emeritus at the University of New Hampshire and Executive Director of ITERATA, a non-profit institute for the study of interdisciplinarity in science, industry, and higher education. He is author of How History Matters to Philosophy (2015), Comte After Positivism (2002), and numerous papers on 19th and 20th century positivism, postpositivism, and continental philosophy; co-editor (with Val Dusek) of The Philosophy of Technology (2003, 2014); and former editor of Continental Philosophy Review (1994–2005).
Preface / Acknowledgments / Note on citations / Introduction / 1. Preparing to “Be” Phenomenological / Part I / 2. From Dilthey to Heidegger: Recasting the Erklären-Verstehen Debate / 3. Heidegger’s Destructive Retrieval of Dilthey’s “Standpoint of Life” / Part II / 4. From Dilthey to Husserl / 5. Heidegger’s Diltheyian Retrieval of Husserl’s “Two Sides” / Part III / 6. Continuously “Becoming” Phenomenological / References / Index
As Scharff sees it, Heidegger's way of becoming phenomenological was not Husserl's, who regarded phenomenology as a theoretical-scientific attitude of a transcendental subject expositing its intentional objects, but rather Dilthey's, who situates it in the whole of life that is always already there as an articulated historical context that mutually correlates self and world into a meaningful whole.
— Theodore Kisiel, Distinguished Research Professor Emeritus of Philosophy, Northern Illinois University
No one knows the Heidegger-Dilthey connection better than Robert Scharff, and in this revolutionary new work he pushes the reset button on the origins of Being and Time. Through a meticulous reading of the earliest courses Scharff reveals how Heidegger’s grappling with Dilthey turned him into a phenomenologist of life and eventually of Dasein, in contrast to the transcendental consciousness of Husserl. Written with clarity and verve, this book leaves the “Seinology” of later commentaries in the dust and restores to Heidegger’s work the existential vitality that is its birthright.
— Thomas Sheehan, Professor of Religious Studies, Stanford University