Martin Heidegger

Bio: Martin Heidegger is an academic researcher from University of Chile. The author has contributed to research in topics: Phenomenology (philosophy) & Metaphysics. The author has an hindex of 77, co-authored 474 publications receiving 50139 citations. Previous affiliations of Martin Heidegger include University of Freiburg & Pontifical Xavierian University.

Hölderlin's Hymn "The Ister"

Abstract: Translators' Foreword Part One: Poetizing the Essence of the Rivers The Isther Hymn 1. The theme of the lecture course: remarks on Holderlin's hymnal poetry 2. Hymnal poetry as poetizing the essence of the rivers Review 3. The metaphysical interpretation of art 4. Holderlin's poetry as not concerned with images in a symbolic or metaphysical sense. The concealed essence of the river 5. The river as the locality of human abode Review 6. The rivers as "vanishing" and "full of intimation" in "voice of the People" Review 7. The river as the locality of journeying and the journeying of locality 8. The questionableness of the metaphysical representation of space and time 9. Becoming homely as the care of Holderlin's poetry-the encounter between the foreign and one's own as the fundamental truth of history-Holderlin's dialogue with Pindar and Sophocles Part Two: The Greek Interpretation of Human Beings in Sophocles' Antigone 10. The human being: the uncanniest of the uncanny. (The entry song of the chorus of elders and the first stationary song) Review 11. The poetic dialogue between Holderlin and Sophocles 12. The meaning of (Explication of the commencement of the choral ode) Review 13. The uncanny as the ground of human beings. (Continued explication of Review 14. Further essential determinations of the human being Review 15. Continued explication of the essence of the 16. The expulsion of the human being as the most uncanny being. (The relation of the closing words to the introductory words of the choral song) Review 17. The introductory dialogue between Antigone and Ismene 18. The hearth as being. (Renewed meditation on the commencement of the choral ode and on the closing words) Review 19. Continued discussion of the hearth as being 20. Becoming homely in being unhomely-the ambiguity of being unhomely. The truth of the choral ode as the innermost middle of the tragedy. Part Three: Holderlin's Poetizing of the Essence of The Poet as Demigod 21. Holderlin's river poetry and the choral ode from Sophocles-a historical becoming homely in each case 22. The historically grounding spirit. Explication of the lines: "namely at home is spirit not at the commencement, not at the source. The home consumes it. Colony, and bold forgetting spirit loves. Our flowers and the shades of our woods gladden the one who languishes. The besouler would almost be scorched" 23. Poetizing the essence of poetry-the poetic spirit as the spirit of the river. The holy as that which is to be poetized 24. The rivers as the poets who found the poetic, upon whose ground human beings dwell 25. The poet as the enigmatic "sign" who lets appear that which is to be shown. The holy as the fire that ignites the poet. The meaning of naming the gods. 26. Poetizing founding builds the stairs upon which the heavenly descend Concluding Remark-"Is There a Measure on Earth? Editor's Epilogue Translators' Notes Glossary English-German German-English

Die Grundprobleme der Phänomenologie

Abstract: In der Vorlesung des Sommersemesters 1927 unter dem Titel "Die Grundprobleme der Phänomenologie" nimmt Martin Heidegger eine "Neue Ausarbeitung des 3. Abschnitts des I. Teiles von 'Sein und Zeit'" in Angriff. Der "Gesamtbestand der Grundprobleme der Phänomenologie in ihrer Systematik und Begründung" besteht in der "Diskussion der Grundfrage nach dem Sinn von Sein überhaupt und der aus ihr entspringenden Probleme". Die so gekennzeichnete Thematik von "Zeit und Sein" wird auf dem "Umweg" einer phänomenologischen Erörterung von vier geschichtlichen Thesen über das Sein behandelt. Die phänomenologisch-kritische Diskussion dieser Thesen führt zu der Einsicht, daß allem zuvor die Grundfrage nach dem Sinn von Sein überhaupt beantwortet sein muß, um die aus den vier geschichtlichen Thesen herausgeschälten vier Grundprobleme in zureichender Weise systematisch ausarbeiten zu können. Wer "Sein und Zeit" als einen Weg zur Ausarbeitung der Seinsfrage überhaupt als dem Ziel studiert, bleibt auf "Die Grundprobleme der Phänomenologie" verwiesen.

We Have Never Been Modern

Abstract: What makes us modern? This is a classic question in philosophy as well as in political science. However it is often raised without including science and technology in its definition. The argument of this book is that we are modern as long as we split our political process in two - between politics proper, and science and technology. This division allows the formidable expansion of the Western empires. However it has become more and more difficult to maintain this distance between science and politics. Hence the postmodern predicament - the feeling that the modern stance is no longer acceptable but that there is no alternative. The solution, advances one of France's leading sociologists of science, is to realize that we have never been modern to begin with. The comparative anthropology this text provides reintroduces science to the fabric of daily life and aims to make us compatible both with our past and with other cultures wrongly called pre-modern.

Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life

Abstract: Introduction Part I. The Logic of Sovereignty: 1. The paradox of sovereignty 2. 'Nomos Basileus' 3. Potentiality and law 4. Form of law Threshold Part II. Homo Sacer: 1. Homo sacer 2. The ambivalence of the sacred 3. Sacred life 4. 'Vitae Necisque Potestas' 5. Sovereign body and sacred body 6. The ban and the wolf Threshold Part III. The Camp as Biopolitical Paradigm of the Modern: 1. The politicization of life 2. Biopolitics and the rights of man 3. Life that does not deserve to live 4. 'Politics, or giving form to the life of a people' 5. VP 6. Politicizing death 7. The camp as the 'Nomos' of the modern Threshold Bibliography Index of names.

A set of principles for conducting and evaluating interpretive field studies in information systems

Abstract: This article discusses the conduct and evaluatoin of interpretive research in information systems. While the conventions for evaluating information systems case studies conducted according to the natural science model of social science are now widely accepted, this is not the case for interpretive field studies. A set of principles for the conduct and evaluation of interpretive field research in information systems is proposed, along with their philosophical rationale. The usefulness of the principles is illustrated by evaluating three published interpretive field studies drawn from the IS research literature. The intention of the paper is to further reflect and debate on the important subject of grounding interpretive research methodology.

Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis

Abstract: The aim of interpretative phenomenological analysis (IPA) is to explore in detail how participants are making sense of their personal and social world, and the main currency for an IPA study is the meanings particular experiences, events, states hold for participants. The approach is phenomenological (see Chapter 3) in that it involves detailed examination of the participant’s lifeworld; it attempts to explore personal experience and is concerned with an individual’s personal perception or account of an object or event, as opposed to an attempt to produce an objective statement of the object or event itself. At the same time, IPA also emphasizes that the research exercise is a dynamic process with an active role for the researcher in that process. One is trying to get close to the participant’s personal world, to take, in Conrad’s (1987) words, an ‘insider’s perspective’, but one cannot do this directly or completely. Access depends on, and is complicated by, the researcher’s own conceptions; indeed, these are required in order to make sense of that other personal world through a process of interpretative activity. Thus, a two-stage interpretation process, or a double hermeneutic, is involved. The participants are trying to make sense of their world; the researcher is trying to make sense of the participants trying to make sense of their world. IPA is therefore intellectually connected to hermeneutics and theories of interpretation (Packer and Addison, 1989; Palmer, 1969; Smith, in press; see also Chapter 2 this volume). Different interpretative stances are possible, and IPA combines an empathic hermeneutics with a questioning hermeneutics. Thus, consistent with its phenomenological origins, IPA is concerned with trying to understand what it is like, from the point of view of the participants, to take their side. At the same time, a detailed IPA analysis can also involve asking critical questions of the texts from participants, such as the following: What is the person trying to achieve here? Is something leaking out here that wasn’t intended? Do I have a sense of something going on here that maybe the participants themselves are less aware of?

Can the Subaltern Speak

Abstract: Some of the most radical criticism coming out of the West today is the result of an interested desire to conserve the subject of the West, or the West as Subject. The theory of pluralized ‘subject-effects’ gives an illusion of undermining subjective sovereignty while often providing a cover for this subject of knowledge. Although the history of Europe as Subject is narrativized by the law, political economy, and ideology of the West, this concealed Subject pretends it has ‘no geo-political determinations.’ The much publicized critique of the sovereign subject thus actually inaugurates a Subject. . . . This S/subject, curiously sewn together into a transparency by denega­ tions, belongs to the exploiters’ side of the international division of labor. It is impossible for contemporary French intellectuals to imagine the kind of Power and Desire that would inhabit the unnamed subject of the Other of Europe. It is not only that everything they read, critical or uncritical, is caught within the debate of the production of that Other, supporting or critiquing the constitution of the Subject as Europe. It is also that, in the constitution of that Other of Europe, great care was taken to obliterate the textual ingredients with which such a subject could cathect, could occupy (invest?) its itinerary not only by ideological and scientific production, but also by the institution of the law. ... In the face of the possibility that the intellectual is complicit in the persistent constitution of Other as the Self’s shadow, a possibility of political practice for the intel­ lectual would be to put the economic ‘under erasure,’ to see the economic factor as irreducible as it reinscribes the social text, even as it is erased, however imperfectly, when it claims to be the final determinant or the tran­ scendental signified. The clearest available example of such epistemic violence is the remotely orchestrated, far-flung, and heterogeneous project to constitute the colonial