Winkler, Rafael (2007) Heidegger and the question of man's poverty in world. International Journal of Philosophical Studies, Vol.15 (No.4). pp. 521-539. doi:10.1080/09672550701654933 ISSN 0967-2559.

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Abstract

This article offers a new reading of Heidegger's thesis of the animal in The Fundamental Concepts of Metaphysics. Framing Heidegger's text through a brief analysis of Protagoras' genetic story of nature and of man's nature in Plato's eponymous dialogue, our reading brings out three key elements common to both texts: living nature as a normative rather than a physical order, the poverty of man's world in relation to the animal, and the attempted redemption of the latter through the acquisition of Weltbildung. Staying with the way Heidegger brings out man's poverty in world in the text allows us (i) to undo once for all the oft-repeated charge of Heidegger's anthropocentric interpretation of the animal, (ii) to stage the hypothesis that philosophy and the life sciences of his day draw upon a common basic experience of the autonomy of life in relation to everything human, all-toohuman, and (iii) to demonstrate the normativity and poverty of life.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Subjects:	B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion
Divisions:	Faculty of Social Sciences > Philosophy
Journal or Publication Title:	International Journal of Philosophical Studies
Publisher:	Routledge
ISSN:	0967-2559
Official Date:	December 2007
Dates:	Date Event December 2007 Published
Volume:	Vol.15
Number:	No.4
Number of Pages:	19
Page Range:	pp. 521-539
DOI:	10.1080/09672550701654933
Status:	Peer Reviewed
Publication Status:	Published
Access rights to Published version:	Restricted or Subscription Access

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