TY  - BOOK
AU  - Koubová,Alice
TI  - Self-Identity and powerlessness
T2  - Studies in contemporary phenomenology
SN  - 9789004255005
AV  - BD236 .K68 2013
U1  - 128 23
PY  - 2013///
CY  - Leiden
PB  - BRILL
KW  - Heidegger, Martin,
KW  - Identity (Philosophical concept)
KW  - Phenomenology
KW  - Self
KW  - Self (Philosophy)
KW  - Power (Philosophy)
N1  - Description based upon print version of record; Preliminary Material -- Introduction -- 1. The Principle of Identity in Heidegger’s Descartes -- 2. The Impossibility of a Powerless Da-sein and a Powerful World in Fundamental Ontology -- 3. Paul Ricoeur: Third Mode through Narrativity -- 4. The Powerlessness of Self-Relating and the Power of the World: Exemplification -- 5. Happy Powerlessness, Relaxed Da-sein -- Bibliography -- Index of Subjects -- Index of Modern Authors; Available to subscribing member institutions only
N2  - In Self-Identity and Powerlessness , Alice Koubová proposes a conception of human existence that does not essentially depend on the definition of self-identity. The author shows that the philosophical stress on human identity fails to grasp essential aspects of human existence. By emphasizing the moments of Dasein’s powerlessness in Heidegger’s fundamental ontology, she develops — in her analysis of various philosophers, literary examples, and social psychology —an original phenomenology of alternation of existence and affair. How necessary is identity for thinking? Are we capable of philosophical thought even when we have neither ourselves, nor the world under our full control? Is it possible to relax, become powerless, and yet think precisely? These questions are to be answered in this book
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004255005
ER  -