The listening self: Personal growth, social change and the closure of metaphysics
- Abingdon, Oxon, Routledge: 2019.
- xxvii, 333 p. bib., note., ind. 21 cm x 14 cm
- Routledge Library editions: Metaphysics ; volume 4 .
INTRODUCTION The Gift and the Art; CHAPTER 1 The Historical Call to Our Hearing; Part I Narcissism: The Ego's Rise to Power; Part II Nihilism and the Closure of Metaphysics; Part III The Metaphysics of Presence; Part IV The Western Vision of Reason: Questioning the Enlightenment; Part V Communicative Ethics: A New Model of Rationality; Part VI Social Change: The Potential in Perception and Sensibility Part VII Developing our Capacities: Listening as a Practice of the SelfPart VIII The Listening Self: Four Stages of Self-Development; Part IX Humanism Today; CHAPTER 2 Zugehörigkeit: Our Primordial Attunement; CHAPTER 3 Everydayness: The Ego's World; CHAPTER 4 Skilful Listening; CHAPTER 5 Communicative Praxis; Part I The Body Politic; Part II States of Deafness: Listening for the Excluded Voices; Part III The Conscience of Listening: The Self as Intersubjectivity; Part IV Needs and their Interpretation: Listening to Inner Nature; Part V Sounds of Truth Part VI In the Depth of the Flesh: the Body Politic as Corporeal ImagePart VII Consensus and Difference; CHAPTER 6 Hearkening: Hearing Moved by Ontological Understanding; Part I The Ontological Appropriation of Hearing; Part II Our Natal Bonding; Part III Feminine Archetypes: Earth, Plants, Body, Feeling, Intertwining; Part IV Gelassenheit: Just Listening; Part V The Echo and the Ego; Part VI The Principle of the Ground: Setting the Double Tone; Part VII The Gathering of the Logos; Part VIII The Fourfold: A Gathering of Sound; Part IX Time and the Echo: A Gathering of Time Part X Belonging to Culture: A Gathering of HistoryNotes; Bibliography; Index
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--Critical theory--Heidegger, Martin, 1889-1976--Ontology--Philosophy Metaphysics--Social change--Critical theory (sociological concept)