{"product_id":"the-great-detour-heidegger-and-the-question-of-the-animal-9798855804669","title":"The Great Detour: Heidegger and the Question of the Animal","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003en in-depth and unique take on Martin Heidegger's understanding of animality, showing that the question of the animal was central to Heidegger's philosophical project from beginning to end.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Great Detour\u003c\/i\u003e offers an in-depth and unique take on Martin Heidegger's understanding of animality, showing that the \u003ci\u003equestion \u003c\/i\u003ethe animal's nature in comparison to the human was central to Heidegger's philosophical project from beginning to end. More importantly, by engaging certain key texts from across his corpus, including some of the Black Notebooks, author S. Montgomery Ewegen shows that Heidegger's understanding of animality is much more nuanced than has typically been presented. Whereas most scholars have argued that Heidegger held a somewhat dismissive and ill-informed view of animals (as \"world-poor,\" as lacking language, etc.), Ewegen argues that animals for Heidegger hold an inestimable value, serving as one of the primary ways through which the human is able to become aware of its own being and, indeed, Being itself. In short, the question of the animal was, for Heidegger, indissolubly connected with the question of the human being's relation to Being, the latter of which serves as \u003ci\u003ethe \u003c\/i\u003efocal point of Heidegger's philosophy.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eS. Montgomery Ewegen\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor of Philosophy at Trinity College. He is the author of several books, including \u003ci\u003eHeidegger and the Elements of (Human) Being\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Way of the Platonic Socrates\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003ePlato's Cratylus: The Comedy of Language\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"State University of New York Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51967146361106,"sku":"9798855804669","price":125.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_0eb620d1-e160-4dce-aec9-3c4492fc4b80.jpg?v=1768927224","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-great-detour-heidegger-and-the-question-of-the-animal-9798855804669","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}