Making sense of heidegger: a paradigm shift/sheehan

Description Making Sense of Heidegger presents a radically new reading of Heideggers notoriously difficult oeuvre.

Clearly written and rigorously grounded in the whole of Heideggers works, Thomas Sheehans latest book argues for the unity of Heideggers thought on the basis of three theses: that his work was phenomenological from beginning to the end; that being refers to the meaningful presence of things in the world of human concerns; and that what makes such intelligibility possible is the existential structure of human being as the thrown open or appropriated clearing.

Sheehan offers a compelling alternative to the classical paradigm that has dominated Heidegger research in the last half-century, as well as a valuable retranslation of the key terms in Heideggers lexicon.

This important book opens a new path in phenomenology that will stimulate dialogue within Heidegger Studies, with philosophers outside the phenomenological tradition, and with scholars in theology, literary criticism and existential psychiatry.

About the Author Thomas Sheehan is professor of religious studies at Stanford University and professor emeritus of philosophy at Loyola University Chicago.

His many publications include Becoming Heidegger (2011) and translations of Heideggers Logic: The Question of Truth (2010) and Husserls Psychological and Transcendental Phenomenology, and the Confronataion with Heidegger (1997).