Heidegger's Concept of Truth

This major study of Heidegger is the first to examine in detail the concept of existential truth that he developed in the 1920s.

Daniel O. Dahlstrom (Author)

9780521103992, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 19 March 2009

496 pages
23 x 15.7 x 3.1 cm, 0.73 kg

"...an excellent piece of work--well written, well argued and well supported. It is a significant contribution to the increasing body of scholarly literature concerning the development of Heidegger's early thought." - International Studies in Philosophy

This major study of Heidegger is the first to examine in detail the concept of existential truth that he developed in the 1920s. Daniel O. Dahlstrom critically examines the genesis, nature and validity of Heidegger's radical attempt to rethink truth as the disclosure of time, a disclosure allegedly more basic than truths formulated in scientific judgements. The book has several distinctive and innovative features. First, it is the only study that attempts to understand the logical dimension of Heidegger's thought in its historical context. Second, no other book-length treatment explores the breadth and depth of Heidegger's confrontation with Husserl, his erstwhile mentor. Third, the book demonstrates that Heidegger's deconstruction of Western thinking occurs on three interconnected fronts: truth, being and time. Dealing with a crucial aspect of the philosophy of one of the great thinkers of the twentieth century, this book will be important to all scholars and students of Heidegger, whether in philosophy, theology or literary studies.

Introduction
1. The logical conception of truth: the logical prejudice and Lotze's concept of validity
2. The phenomenological conception of truth
3. The hermeneutic understanding of truth: the critical appropriation of Aristotle's analysis of truth and assertions
4. The timeliness of existential truth: disclosing the sense of being
5. Disclosedness, transcendental philosophy and methodological deliberations
Index.

Subject Areas: Religion: general [HRA], History of Western philosophy [HPC], Literary theory [DSA]