海德格尔论存在之意义

本课程由刘任翔于武汉大学开设，主题是探讨当代大陆哲学中的关键问题——存在之意义。课程将分析从康德和胡塞尔的先验探究到海德格尔的存在论的转变，关注海德格尔有关“存在的意义”的新视角及其与当代讨论的关联。阅读材料包括《存在与时间》《路标》等一手文本和最前沿的二手研究，涵盖存在之领会、无之无化、真理、本有、显隐二重性等主题。评估方式包括课堂参与、口头汇报、论文提案和最终论文，以促使学生深入理解存在问题的复杂性及其鲜活意义。

授课教师：刘任翔
授课学期：2025春
授课院校：武汉大学

课程描述

This course focuses on one of the key questions in contemporary Continental Philosophy, i.e., the meaning of being [der Sinn von Sein]. The transition from Kant and Husserl’s transcendental inquiries to Heideggerian ontology marked a new era, in which we still find ourselves. When recent thinkers like Deleuze articulate something like a “differential ontology,” they can hardly circumvent the question of being in Heidegger. Meanwhile, investigations into being were never detached from the meaning of being, lest they fall back into pre-critical metaphysics. Meaning seems to be the channel through which being announces itself to us, yet it always risks obscuring being itself, as the later Heidegger, together with Speculative Realism or Object-Oriented Ontology, tried to argue.

In this course, we will pair primary literature from Heidegger with contemporary Heideggerian discussions concerning the meaning of being. While Sein und Zeit will certainly be one of the key texts, we will also attend to how Heideggerian ontology outgrew or transformed that work. Specifically, we will trace how the notions of the nothing [das Nichts], truth, essence and the clearing [Lichtung] allowed Heidegger to view the question of the meaning of being anew, i.e., from the perspective of the unfolding of being itself [das Sein selbst] via Da-sein. This trajectory of investigation will show the continuing significance of the notion, the “meaning of being,” beyond any definite (and especially analytic) conception of “meaning.”

评估方式

  1. Class participation (10%): including attendance and contribution to discussions. Grading will unavoidably be subjective, based on the instructor’s impressions.
  2. In-class oral presentation (25%): analysis of the reading(s) of the week, picking out the basic position, key arguments, and possible points for critical discussion. Students will sign up for slots at the beginning of the semester.
  3. Term paper proposal (20%): 500 words or 1,000 Chinese characters, submit by Week 8.
  4. Cross peer-review of term paper proposals (10%).
  5. Term paper (35%): 5,000 words or 10,000 Chinese characters.

讲授内容及文本

(* = optional)

Week 1 Introduction

  • Michael Watts, The Philosophy of Heidegger, Chapter 2: The Meaning of Life: The Question of Being (pp. 13–38)
  • * Richard Polt, Heidegger on Presence, Chapter 2: The Meaning of “Being”

Week 2–3 Where it began

  • Heidegger, Being and Time, §§1–5; 18; 31; 43(c); 44(c)

Week 4 Being vs. the meaning of being

  • Thomas Sheehan, Making Sense of Heidegger, Chapter 1: Getting to the Topic (pp. 3–30)
  • Steven G. Crowell, Husserl, Heidegger, and the Space of Meaning, Chapter 11: Heidegger’s Phenomenology and the Question of Being (pp. 203–221)

Week 5 The Nothing nothings [das Nichts selbst nichtet]

  • Heidegger, “What is Metaphysics?” in Pathmarks, pp. 82–96

Week 6 Into the “Turn” [Kehre]

  • Richard Polt, “From the Understanding of Being to the Happening of Being,” in Division III of Being and Time, pp. 219–238
  • * Nian He, „Sein“ und „Sinn von Sein“, Einleitung (pp. 15–22)

Week 7 Being as a verb: truth-ing and essenc-ing

  • Heidegger, “On the Essence of Truth,” in Pathmarks, pp. 136–154
  • * Daniel O. Dahlstrom, “Truth as aletheia and the clearing of beyng,” in Martin Heidegger: Key Concepts, pp. 116–127

Week 8 Inquietude of being

  • Katherine Withy, “Being and the Sea,” in Division III of Being and Time, pp. 311–328
  • Miguel de Beistegui, Truth and Genesis, Chapter 3: Eventful Being: On Ereignis (excerpt: pp. 109–125)

Week 9–10 The loop back to Da-sein

  • Heidegger, “Letter on ‘Humanism’,” in Pathmarks, pp. 239–276
  • * Heidegger, Four Seminars, pp. 40–41
  • Richard Polt, The Emergency of Being, Chapter 3: Straits of Appropriation (pp. 139–213)
  • * Nian He, „Sein“ und „Sinn von Sein“, Kapitel 5: „Sinn von Sein“ und das Dasein (excerpt: pp. 179–206)

Week 11 Being beyond meaning?

  • Richard Capobianco, Heidegger’s Being: The Shimmering Unfolding, Chapter 3: Heidegger’s Manifold Thinking of Being (pp. 36–51)

参考书目

Braver, Lee (ed.). Division III of Heidegger’s Being and Time: The Unanswered Question of Being. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2015.

Capobianco, Richard. Heidegger’s Being: The Shimmering Unfolding. Toronto: Toronto University Press, 2022.

Crowell, Steven G. Husserl, Heidegger, and the Space of Meaning: Paths toward Transcendental Phenomenology. Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 2001.

Davis, Bret W. (ed.). Martin Heidegger: Key Concepts. Durham: Acumen, 2010.

de Beistegui, Miguel. Truth and Genesis: Philosophy as Differential Ontology. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2004.

He, Nian. „Sein“ und „Sinn von Sein“: Untersuchung zum Kernproblem der Philosophie Martin Heideggers. Baden-Baden, BW: Verlag Karl Alber, 2020.

Heidegger, Martin. Being and Time. Macquarrie, J. and Robinson, E. (trans.). New York: Harper & Row, 1962. / Sein und Zeit. Tübingen: Max Niemeyer, 1967.

Heidegger, Martin. Pathmarks. McNeill, W. (trans.) Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998. / Wegmarken (Gesamtausgabe 9). Frankfurt am Main: Vittorio Klostermann, 1967.

Heidegger, Martin. Four Seminars. Mitchell, A. and Raffoul, F. (trans.). Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2003. / Seminare (Gesamtausgabe 15). Frankfurt am Main: Vittorio Klostermann, 2005.

Polt, Richard. The Emergency of Being: On Heidegger’s Contributions of Philosophy. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2006.

Polt, Richard. Heidegger on Presence. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2025 forthcoming.

Sheehan, Thomas. Making Sense of Heidegger: A Paradigm Shift. London & New York: Rowman & Littlefield, 2015.

Watts, Michael. The Philosophy of Heidegger. Durham: Acumen, 2011.

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