Frank Schalow Libri

Focusing on the existential roots of addiction, the book explores how desire, embodiment, and temporality shape the human experience in a digital age. By integrating Martin Heidegger's insights on technology, it examines the struggle to form a self amid the impulsiveness and depersonalization prevalent in contemporary society. This work presents a new narrative on addiction, framing it as a significant global epidemic that reflects broader human challenges.

A groundbreaking exploration of Heidegger and embodiment, from which a radical ethical perspective emerges.

Although there are various `religious' traces in Heidegger's philosophy, little effort has been made to show the systematic import which his thinking has for outlining a full range of religious and theological questions. Precisely because his thought is opposed to the construction of any `dogma', his vast writings provide clues to what meaning(s) the `Sacred' and the `Divine' may have in a postmodern age where the very possibility of `faith' hangs in the balance. By showing how Heidegger's own thinking can be interpreted as a struggle to come to terms with religious questions, this book undertakes a postmodern investigation of the Sacred which both draws upon and transcends various world-religions and denominations. A postmodern, non-sectarian vision of the Sacred thereby becomes possible which is open to the plurality of religious experiences on the one hand, and yet affirms on the other Heidegger's emphasis (in Beiträge zur Philosophie) on the `last god' as the displacing of all sectarian visions of god. This book will have special appeal to Heidegger scholars, as well as students interested in the overlap between phenomenology and philosophical theology.

The book explores the ecological implications of Martin Heidegger's philosophy, highlighting an "ecological turn" in his thought. It delves into how Heidegger's reflections anticipate the crises brought about by modern technology, revealing a deep concern for environmental issues within his work. Through this examination, the author sheds light on the relevance of Heidegger's ideas in contemporary ecological discussions.

Featuring over 800 cross-referenced entries, this comprehensive dictionary delves into the key developments in Martin Heidegger's life and philosophy. The third edition includes a chronology, an introduction, appendixes, and an extensive bibliography, making it an invaluable resource for understanding his complex ideas and historical context.

This book examines Heidegger's controversial relation to politics as it grows out of his understanding of his predecessors in German Idealism, most notably, Hegel. This way of developing a dialogue between Heidegger and Hegel on the issue of politics provides an important context for questioning the former's link with National Socialism. Yet the book does not simply condemn Heidegger for his Nazi involvement nor claim that his thinking is free from dangerous political implications. On the contrary, a second level of questioning asks whether Heidegger's philosophy can be appropriated in alternative contexts which permit the affirmation of democratic principles. Thus the book concludes by examining the import which Heidegger's thought has on cultivating such democratic motifs as freedom of speech and civil disobedience.The book is especially of interest to advanced undergraduates, graduate students, and scholars in the areas of German idealism, phenomenology, social and political philosophy, and the history of philosophy.

In this study, the author shows new entry points to the dialogue between Kant and Heidegger. Schalow takes up the question: “Why should a philosopher like Kant, for whom language seemed to be almost inconsequential, become the crucial counter point for a thinker like Heidegger to develop a novel way to understand and express the most perennial of all philosophical concepts, namely, ‘being’ as such?” This approach allows for addressing issues which are normally relegated to the periphery of the exchange between Heidegger and Kant, including spatiality and embodiment, nature and art, religion and politics.