Question Of Being: Reversal Of Heidegger

by Stanley Rosen

In this book, Rosen enters into a debate with Heidegger in order to provide a justification for metaphysics. Rosen presents a fresh interpretation of metaphysics that opposes the traditional doctrines attacked by Heidegger, on the one hand, and by contemporary philosophers influenced by Heidegger, on the other. He refutes Heidegger's claim that metaphysics (or what Heidegger calls Platonism) is derived from the Aristotelian science of being as being. He argues indeed that metaphysics is simply the commonsensical reflection on the nature of ordinary experience and on the standards of living a better life. Rosen uses his critique of Heidegger to suggest the next step in that technical precision and speculative metaphysics be unified in what he calls a "step downward into the rich air of everyday life."

Genres: Philosophy

367 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1993

About the author

Stanley Rosen was Borden Parker Bowne Professor of Philosophy and Professor Emeritus at Boston University. His research and teaching focused on the fundamental questions of philosophy and on the most important figures of its history, from Plato to Heidegger.

Reviews

[Joe · Rating 5 out of 5]

Comment:

Excellent. Rosen opposes both Heidegger and Nietzsche (though by no means does he consider these two the same) with Plato. A Plato, however, informed (some would go so far as to say formed) by Nietzsche...

[David Haines · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book is a detailed examination of Heidegger's doctrine of Being. Rosen demonstrates an encyclopedic knowledge of Heidegger's works, and interacts easily with a number of other important philosophers such as Aristotle, Nietzsche, Hegel, Husserl and Kant. Throughout this book we get glimpses of Rosen's own ideas concerning being, as a Platonist who is looking back on a history of metaphysics.

[Kyrill · Rating 5 out of 5]

Heidegger rekt by cows