HEIDEGGER ON BEING UNCANNY

Heidegger on Being Uncanny answers those who wonder whether human existence is fundamentally strange to itself by showing that we ca n be what we are only if we do not fully understand what it is to be us. This fundamental finitude in our self-understanding is our uncanniness. In this first dedicated interpretation of Heideggers uncanniness, Withy tracks this concept from his early analyses of angst through his later interpretations of the choral ode from Sophocless Antigone. Her interpretation uncovers a novel and robust continuity...[Read more]