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Heidegger on Death and Being: An Answer to the Seinsfrage

by Johannes Achill Niederhauser
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Book cover type: Paperback
  • ISBN13: 9783030513771
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Springer
  • Publisher Imprint: Springer
  • Publication Date:
  • Pages: 269
  • Original Price: EUR 109.99
  • Language: English
  • Edition: 2021
  • Item Weight: 450 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Movements / Phenomenology and Mind & Body

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The book is the first detailed and full exegesis of the role of death in Heidegger's philosophy and provides a decisive answer to the question of being. It is well-known that Heidegger asked the "question of being". It is equally commonplace to assume that Heidegger failed to provide a proper answer to the question. In this provocative new study Niederhauser argues that Heidegger gives a distinct response to the question of being and that the phenomenon of death is key to finding and understanding it.

The book offers challenging interpretations of crucial moments of Heidegger's philosophy such as aletheia, the history of being, time, technology, the fourfold, mortality, the meaning of existence, the event, and language. Niederhauser makes the case that any reading of Heidegger that ignores death cannot fully understand those concepts.

The book argues that death is central to Heidegger's "thinking path" from the early 1920s until his late post-war philosophy. The book thus attempts to show that there is a unity of the early and late Heidegger often ignored by other commentators. Niederhauser argues that death is the fulcrum of Heidegger's ontology and the turning point of the history of being. Death resurfaces at the most crucial moments of the "thinking path" - from beginning to end.

The book is of interest to those invested in current debates on the ethics of dying and the transhumanist project of digital human immortality. The text also shows that for Heidegger philosophy means first and foremost to learn how to die.

This volume speaks to continental and analytical philosophers and students alike as it draws on a number of diverse Heidegger interpretations and appreciates intercultural differences in reading Heidegger.


Johannes Achill Niederhauser teaches at Birkbeck College London. He holds a PhD in Philosophy from the University of Warwick. In 2015 he was a DFG funded research fellow of the leisure project in Freiburg. He has published several papers on Heidegger on death. Johannes has also published influential philosophical interviews with Michael Sandel, John Gray, Massimo Pigliucci, and Andrew Scull.

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