Dastur, Françoise

Contemporary Studies in Philosophy and the Human Sciences Ser.

"It is a real joy to be guided by Francoise Dastur in a reading of Heidegger's Being & Time, one of the greatest books of this century. With an exceptional competence, rigorous analysis, & a great clarity of expression, she first undertakes to reconstruct the very meaning of the ontological question for which the investigation of temporality provides a preliminary answer. Then, she follows the movement of analysis to which in Being & Time leads from the analysis of care to that of temporality, within which she locates the signs of finitude in the anticipation of death understood as the primordial experience of time. Finally, she seeks in the entirety of Heidegger's work evidence of the incompletion which led to the great turn; a turn from which the Ereignis would emerge. This is a clear, thorough, & most intelligent work."-Paul Ricoeur