Robert L. Bernasconi is Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of Philosophy at Pennsylvania State University. He is well known as a reader of Martin Heidegger and Emmanuel Levinas, and for his work on the concept of race. He has also written on the history of philosophy. His books include How to Read Sartre (2007), Heidegger in Question: The Art of Existing (1993) and, co-edited with Simon Critchley, The Cambridge Companion to Levinas (2002).
Preface
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations of Works by Heidegger
Introduction
Part I: Ethics and Politics
1. The Fate of the Distinction between Praxis and Poiesis
2. "The Double Concept of Philosophy" and the Place of Ethics in Being and
Time
3. Justice and the Twilight Zone of Morality
4. Habermas, Arendt, and Levinas on the Philosopher's "Error": Tracking the
Diabolical in Heidegger
Part II: Art and Literature
5. Literary Attestation in Philosophy: Heidegger's Footnote on Tolstoy's "The
Death of Ivan Ilyich"
6. The Greatness of the Work of Art
7. Ne sutor ultra crepidam: Erasmus and Dürer at the Hands of Panofsky and
Heidegger
8. "Poet of Poets. Poet of the Germans" Hölderlin and the Dialogue between
Poets and Thinkers
Part III: History and Historiology
9. Descartes in the History of Being: Another Bad Novel?
10. Bridging the Abyss: Heidegger and Gadamer
11. The Transformation of Language at Another Beginning
12. Deconstruction and the Possibility of Ethics: Reiterating the "Letter on
Humanism"
Notes
Index
