Negativity, finitude, and the leap in Heidegger’s contributions to philosophy

Keane, Niall

Abstract

This article examines Heidegger's assessment of negativity and finitude in the late 1930s and his enlargement of these issues in the name of a leap from one type of philosophy, one type of beginning, to a wholly other beginning. The guiding concerns of this article are negativity, finitude and the leap, and how these overlapping concerns coalesce around Heidegger's attempts to move towards a wholly other type of philosophy; in fact, one which no longer understands itself to be philosophy at all. The article concludes with a discussion of the role of death, sacrifice, and mourning in Heidegger's thought in the 1930s.

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Publication Date: Oct 1, 2016
• Deposit Date: Mar 23, 2023
• Journal: Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology
• Print ISSN: 0007-1773
• Electronic ISSN: 2332-0486
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis (Routledge)
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 47
• Issue: 4
• Pages: 309-328
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/00071773.2015.1122867
• Public URL: https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/10502295
• Publisher URL: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00071773.2015.1122867?journalCode=rbsp20