Cover -- Title -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of abbreviations -- 1 Preamble: On ethics and metaphysics -- Philosophy, politics, time -- Retrieving philosophy -- 2 Reason, grounds, technology -- The question of technology -- Retrieving Being and Time -- 3 Humanism and homelessness -- Varieties of transcendence -- What is humanism? -- 4 What is it to be human? -- Solitary speech: metaphysics as anthropology -- Elucidations of ambiguity -- Heidegger and Hölderlin: together on separate mountains -- 5 Freedom and violence -- On nature and history -- Divisions within history -- The history of philosophy -- The figure of Oedipus -- 6 Being and Time -- Disquotational metaphysics -- The analysis of Dasein -- Fundamental ontology as originary ethics -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

Heidegger and ethics is a contentious conjunction of terms. Martin Heidegger himself rejected the notion of ethics, while his endorsement of Nazism is widely seen as unethical. This major new study examines the complex and controversial issues involved in bringing them together. By working backwards through his work, from his 1964 claim that philosophy has been completed to Being and Time, his first major work, Joanna Hodge questions Heidegger's denial that his enquires were concerned with ethics. She discovers a form of ethics in Heidegger's thinking which elucidates his important distinction between metaphysics and philosophy. Against many contemporary views, she proposes therefore that ethics can be retrieved and questions the relation between ethics and metaphysics that Heidegger had made so pervasive.

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