Re-Thinking the Sociality of the Self: The Emancipatory Project of Being and Time, Volume 1

This book is the first in a two-volume project that provides the first systematic interpretation of Martin Heidegger’s fundamental ontology as a critical social ontology. It argues that fundamental ontology is, at its core, an emancipatory enterprise in that it is animated by an intent shared with critical theory, viz. to make philosophy concrete for the sake of individual and collective freedom.

Focused on Division One of Being and Time, this volume maintains that the possibilities of indi...